• 1987
  • 1h
J.J. Starbuck

Summary Billionaire J.J. Starbuck realizes his mistakes after loss. He senses lies, solves murders impacting his life. With manager Charlie and niece Jill, he aids those in need, crossing paths with con man Tenspeed Turner who joins them. View more details

  • 1987
  • 1h

J.J. Starbuck

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Shawn Weatherly Dale Robertson Jimmy Dean Ben Vereen

All cast & crew

7.2

Details

Genres : Adventure

Release date : Sep 25, 1987

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Production companies : Stephen J. Cannell Productions

Summary Billionaire J.J. Starbuck realizes his mistakes after loss. He senses lies, solves murders impacting his life. With manager Charlie and niece Jill, he aids those in need, crossing paths with con man Tenspeed Turner who joins them. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure

Release date : Sep 25, 1987

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Production companies : Stephen J. Cannell Productions

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Episode 1 • Sep 25, 1987
Pilot
A man kills his wealthy wife and the police investigate. And they think they have enough to arrest him and they do. But it's after he'd been charged that someone claims that he killed his wife accidentally. J.J. Starbuck, a millionaire businessman from Texas learns about it and decides to go look into it. When he gets there, he learns the man chooses not to bear any responsibility for his wife's son. J.J. befriends they boy. He goes to the police and tells them he thinks the man engineered the whole thing right down to the man who claims to be the one who killed his wife, so that they would charge him with murder but when they dropped the charges he was assured of not being arrested again because he can't according to the law. But J.J. thinks there's another charge they file against him thing is proving it. . But when the man learns of J.J.'s snooping he frames him and has him arrested.
Episode 2 • Sep 28, 1987
A Killing in the Market
Big businessman Corbett Cook (played by Robert Conrad), convinces a business owner to take his company private and then destroys it. Daughter, Karen Whittaker, goes to work for Cook seeking evidence of Cook's fraud.
Episode 3 • Oct 19, 1987
Murder in E Minor
An arrogant pianist murders a judge in a music contest. J.J., who was a friend of the judge, catches onto the pianist but cannot prove how the murder was committed as the man has an airtight alibi.
Episode 4 • Oct 26, 1987
The Blimpy Who Yelled Blue
The author of a popular children's book series kills the man who illustrates the book who is the actual writer and who was planning to retire, so that be the sole recipient of the books' royalties. J.J. upon hearing of his plans to retire finds it strange and goes to see him and finds his attitude very peculiar especially when he turns a woman from a foundation away.
Episode 5 • Nov 02, 1987
First You've Got to Go to the Picnic
J.J. takes a young convict to a small town in Iowa where local football team made all the wrong headlines for losing 265 consecutive games. Upon arrival they learn not everyone associated with the team wants a change least of all when J.J. introduces a new head coach.
Episode 6 • Nov 09, 1987
Incident at Sam September
When some of J.J.'s people have been taken hostage. Some people from the government offer their assistance. The kidnapper demands that he turn one of his freighters to him. J.J. learns that the government was using his freighter to transport arms and that there are agents on board who will stop anyone from diverting it. He then decides to make a Trojan Horse by using a similar freighter only problem, the owner is a man whom J.J. has not a good relationship with.
Episode 7 • Dec 04, 1987
Gold from the Rainbow
Episode 8 • Dec 14, 1987
Graveyard Shift
A story-telling hobo tries to convince J.J. that a certain funeral home owner committed murder to solve a blackmail problem. However there's no body found where it was supposed to be buried so J.J. has to figure out whether a murder was even committed in first place.
Episode 9 • Dec 25, 1987
The 6% Solution
A Realtor who uses underhanded tactics to keep his 6% commission flowing, kills one of his clients and a former employee when they were going to blow the whistle on him and makes it appear like a murder suicide. It appears that his employee had a affair with his client's wife. J.J. a friend of the client shows and up and after talking to the wife and meeting with the Realtor he has a funny feeling about him. But it seems the man has a solid alibi.
Episode 10 • Jan 15, 1988
The Circle Unbroken
Congressman tries to rescue his daughter from a religious cult but ends up murdered with all the evidence pointing to the young woman being the killer. J.J. joins the cult to prove her innocence and learns the religious leader has financial trouble but also a circle of devoted followers who could have committed the murder in his name.
Episode 11 • Jan 22, 1988
Murder by Design
Son of an electrician is electrocuted in his Chicago home and J.J. suspects foul play even before connecting his death to an advertising feature in an interior design magazine. Investigation leads into a blackmail plot and another dead body.
Episode 12 • Feb 12, 1988
Cactus Jack's Last Call
J.J. goes to meet a friend, Cactus Jack who's a gambler. While they're out driving, someone runs into them. Cactus Jack is killed, J.J. is injured and ends up in the hospital. Later a man posing as a priest enters J.J.'s room and sees him going through his things. He later meets him again at his friend's memorial and learns he's conman Tenspeed Turner, who's also a friend of Cactus Jack. They set out to find why was he killed. When a man whom Cactus Jack made a wager with also has a brush with death, they think it might have something to do with the wager.
Episode 13 • Feb 19, 1988
A Song from the Sequel
J.J.'s in L.A. to finalize a charitable project. He then meets a young man who appears to be homeless and curious as to how someone so young ended up like that. He approaches him and talks to him. Eventually he finds out that his father was the head of a movie studio who was murdered and he was the prime suspect cause they had antagonistic relationship especially when it came to his step-mother whom he pegged as a gold digger. He thinks she did it but she had what appeared to be a solid alibi. So the focus turned to him but when the murder weapon was not found the D.A. couldn't press charges against him. But she managed to get him black balled which is how he ended up on the streets. J.J. offers to help him prove she did kill his father.
Episode 14 • Feb 26, 1988
Permanent Hiatus
A friend of J.J.'s who has a TV show on a TV station J.J. owns, is facing the possibility of cancellation. So he tries to eliminate his competition by framing her for killing her assistant, he was trying to lure away from her. He even uses J.J. as an alibi. J.J. decides to help the woman and he has Tenspeed check out things at the station.
Episode 15 • Apr 18, 1988
Rag Doll
Jill goes undercover to investigate her high school friend's drug-related suicide in Los Angeles. J.J. and Tenspeed follow her trail and discover a famous movie director's associate might be responsible for the young woman's death all along.
Episode 16 • Jun 27, 1988
The Rise and Fall of Joe Piermont
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