Overview of 'Burke's Law' Season 1

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Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

Writing:

Ivan Goff
Ernest Kinoy
Frank D. Gilroy

Stars:

Release Date: 1963-09-20
Seasons: 1 2 3

6.0/10

Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 60

Season 1 Episode List

Episode 1 - Who Killed Holly Howard?
Release Date: 1963-09-20
A top fashion model is found at a construction site, apparently shot to death. When it is discovered that she was drowned before she was shot, Burke tracks the case back to her ditzy landlady, and th... more
Episode 2 - Who Killed Mr. X?
Release Date: 1963-09-27
When a body is discovered dumped alongside the merry-go-round at an amusement park, clues (including a phone number on an old matchbook cover) lead back to the elusive millionaire Emory Flood. Burke ... more
Episode 3 - Who Killed Cable Roberts?
Release Date: 1963-10-04
When big-game hunter Cable Roberts is found shot by one of his own rifles and ""mounted"" in his trophy room, the suspects include both Roberts' current wife (a predatory animal herself), his ex, an a... more
Episode 4 - Who Killed Harris Crown?
Release Date: 1963-10-11
Promoter Harris Crown is killed when the car he is driving goes off a cliff. Burke soon discovers that all the brake fluid had been drained and that the car belonged to Crown's wife (a race car enthu... more
Episode 5 - Who Killed Julian Buck?
Release Date: 1963-10-18
Hemingwayesque novelist Julian Buck is found dead and Burke checks out the guests at his funeral: his publisher, a former boxer, an ex-lover (who he ""traded"" for a plot), a bartender, a crippled un... more
Episode 6 - Who Killed Alex Debbs?
Release Date: 1963-10-25
At the opening of The Debonair Key Club, a Playboy-like nightclub/restaurant, Debonair Magazine founder Alex Debbs is found stabbed. The suspects are all connected in some way with the Debonair empir... more
Episode 7 - Who Killed Sweet Betsy?
Release Date: 1963-11-01
Betsy Richards drinks a lethal martini and Burke investigates the Richards mansion, Betsy's three identical sisters (who may look alike, but who have decidedly different personalities), her wheelchair... more
Episode 8 - Who Killed Billy Jo?
Release Date: 1963-11-08
Pop recording star Billy Jo Tate is slain in front of all his guests at a party celebrating his latest hit. A ""good-ol' boy"", Billy Jo is surrounded by users and people he used - his agent, his ""b... more
Episode 9 - Who Killed Wade Walker?
Release Date: 1963-11-15
When millionaire Wade Walker's plane explodes mid-air, Burke confronts Walker's business partner, secretary (whom Tim has an eye for), and the four women in his life (a model and beauty pageant queen,... more
Episode 10 - Who Killed the Kind Doctor?
Release Date: 1963-11-29
Psychiatrist Eric Techman calls Burke to report that he fears one of his patients is a homicidal maniac who plans to kill him. Before he can identify the person in question, he is shot in the back. ... more
Episode 11 - Who Killed Purity Mather?
Release Date: 1963-12-06
A self-proclaimed witch sends Burke a record predicting her murder, along with a list of suspects. When her body is discovered after a fire, she has been disfigured by acid, leaving only a clue of a ... more
Episode 12 - Who Killed Cynthia Royal?
Release Date: 1963-12-13
A missing Siamese cat named Deborah is Burke's prime clue to the killing of Cynthia Royal. The murder victim had just arrived in town from Chicago trying to reunite with her estranged husband. The h... more
Episode 13 - Who Killed Eleanora Davis?
Release Date: 1963-12-20
When an unidentified brunette is discovered in a fake electric chair at a run-down amusement park/sideshow run by ""Professor"" Kingston, Burke has to track several elusive clues back to a modeling ag... more
Episode 14 - Who Killed Beau Sparrow?
Release Date: 1963-12-27
Burke is attending a pool party at tycoon Victor Haggerty's mansion when dashing Beau Sparrow is thrown into the pool by a faulty diving apparatus and dies. The apparatus doesn't seem to have been ta... more
Episode 15 - Who Killed Jason Shaw?
Release Date: 1964-01-03
When a shady businessman is found dead, fully clothed, in a hotel shower, surrounded by burned thousand dollar bills, Burke is confronted with a group of men who seem to have absolutely nothing in com... more
Episode 16 - Who Killed Snookie Martinelli?
Release Date: 1964-01-10
At a jet-set party, it appears to Tim and Les that the victim of a fatal shooting is - - - - Burke! Was Burke really the victim and who was the shooter among the party guests: a wrestler, a racecar ... more
Episode 17 - Who Killed What's His Name?
Release Date: 1964-01-17
When the president of a bank is shot during a robbery, the only description Burke can get of the killer is that he was ""just ordinary"". Burke interviews a man who passed out during the robbery, and... more
Episode 18 - Who Killed Madison Cooper?
Release Date: 1964-01-24
Hotshot lawyer Madison Cooper calls Burke as he dies in a seedy part of town of stab wounds inflicted elsewhere. He had just put a large amount of cash into a newspaper vending booth and Burke finds ... more
Episode 19 - Who Killed April?
Release Date: 1964-01-31
Tim's mother is in town for a visit and provides several vital clues that solve the murder of April Adams. Tracking the victim to a carhop-style restaurant, Burke narrows the suspects to April's erra... more
Episode 20 - Who Killed Carrie Cornell?
Release Date: 1964-02-14
A group of ""junior cadets"" discover the body of a bikini-clad girl wrapped in chains, lying in the surf. The victim, a singer and sometime ""model"", has been linked to a oil tycoon, who is away on... more
Episode 21 - Who Killed His Royal Highness?
Release Date: 1964-02-21
The Grand Duke, Maximilian Karol Alexandrei Kadarian, collapses at a banquet. The Grand Duke was famous locally as phony royalty, who owned a fabulous emerald necklace, now missing. The suspects inc... more
Episode 22 - Who Killed Marty Kelso?
Release Date: 1964-02-28
After a party celebrating his marriage to an Italian movie starlet, producer Marty Kelso falls down a flight of stairs and gets a letter opener stuck in his neck. His bodyguard/manservant calls the p... more
Episode 23 - Who Killed Avery Lord?
Release Date: 1964-03-06
Burke follows a mournful song, an odd-looking key and an elusive young girl in white, after industrial designer Avery Lord is stabbed to death. The suspects are all his current clients: a playgirl w... more
Episode 24 - Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?
Release Date: 1964-03-13
When pop artist Andy Zygmunt is discovered impaled on one of his works, Burke finds that several of Zygmunt's paintings contain materials used in a blackmail scheme. A vicious practical joker, the vi... more
Episode 25 - Who Killed the Paper Dragon?
Release Date: 1964-03-20
During Chinese New Year celebrations, a car crashes into a street full of revelers. After the Chinese woman behind the wheel flees the scene with a little girl, leaving behind her shoe, a tourist dis... more
Episode 26 - Who Killed Molly?
Release Date: 1964-03-27
A rose-covered cottage is the scene for the death of a seemingly ordinary housewife. Burke and Tim (who is contemplating settling down with his current girlfriend) soon discover that all is not what ... more
Episode 27 - Who Killed WHO IV?
Release Date: 1964-04-03
One of the riders at a fashionable fox hunt must have bludgeoned wealthy W. H. O. IV (pronounced ""Who Four"") to death with a horseshoe. The suspects in the Hunt Club include an old flame of Burke's... more
Episode 28 - Who Killed Annie Foran?
Release Date: 1964-04-10
When Annie Foran's body is discovered in the back seat of a car parked at a fashionable night spot, suspicion falls on baseball star Eddie Dineen. As evidence mounts against the man, Burke wonders if... more
Episode 29 - Who Killed My Girl?
Release Date: 1964-04-17
When an old flame of Burke's is gunned down, he uncovers the darker side of her relationship with several men. The former chauffeur for the victim's father, an old friend of the family, an philanderi... more
Episode 30 - Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World?
Release Date: 1964-04-24
A notorious homewrecker is discovered dead in a mud bath at a fashionable spa. Burke soon learns that every other guest at the spa, including the owner, had a strong motive for murder. The strongest... more
Episode 31 - Who Killed Don Pablo?
Release Date: 1964-05-01
Don Pablo Ortega's skewered corpse replaces the wax figure in a museum during a Spanish festival. The historic plaza is in danger of being demolished for ""progress"" and suspects (pro and con in the... more
Episode 32 - Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee?
Release Date: 1964-05-08
The co-owner of a fashion house is killed in an elevator collapse that may not have been an accident. Les is convinced that it is the work of a madman, since no one could have determined who would be... more