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American action-mystery-comedy-medical crime drama television serial (1993-2001)

Diagnosis: Murder
Title screen used in seasons i and 2
Likewise known as	Diagnosis Murder
Genre	Criminal offence Drama Mystery
Created by	Joyce Burditt
Starring	Dick Van Dyke Barry Van Dyke Victoria Rowell Charlie Schlatter Catherine Ann George
Theme music composer	Richard "Dick" DeBenedictis Joel Goldsmith (Flavour 6)
Country of origin	United states of america
Original linguistic communication	English
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	178 + v TV movies + Pilot (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Catherine Ann George Dick Van Dyke Lee Goldberg Chris Abbott William Rabkin Michael Gleason Tom Chehak Gerald Sanoff Joel Steiger
Product locations	Denver Los Angeles
Running fourth dimension	45 minutes
Production companies	Catherine Ann George Company Viacom Productions Dean Hargrove
Distributor	CBS Boob tube Distribution
Release
Original network	CBS
Motion-picture show format	Color
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	October 29, 1993 (1993-ten-29) – May 11, 2001 (2001-05-11)
Chronology
Preceded by	Mission: Impossible Mannix Matlock
Related shows	Jake and the Fatman Walker, Texas Ranger

Diagnosis: Murder is an American activity-comedy-mystery-medical offense drama goggle box series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son Steve, a homicide detective played past Van Dyke's real-life son Barry. The serial began as a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman (Dr. Marking Sloan made his get-go appearance in episode four.19 "It Never Entered My Mind"), became a series of 3 television receiver films, and so a weekly television series that debuted on CBS on October 29, 1993. Joyce Burditt wrote the episode in Jake and the Fatman and is listed here every bit the creator of the spin off series.

The serial struggled at first and was almost canceled at the stop of the second season, but it returned as a midseason replacement in the 3rd season, and was regularly renewed thereafter. 178 episodes were fabricated and aired in the show'southward eight seasons on the CBS network in the Us and 2 more TV movies aired after the serial' cancellation on May xi, 2001. The show was produced by Catherine Ann George Company and is currently distributed by CBS Television Distribution.

In the Jake and the Fatman episode, Dr. Mark Sloan was a widower with no sons. Dr. Amanda Bentley is played by Cynthia Gibb in the Goggle box movies and, finally, by Victoria Rowell in the Telly series. Stephen Caffrey played Dr. Jack Parker in the movies, a part that went to Scott Baio as Dr. Jack Stewart in the weekly serial (showtime two seasons).

The first two Telly movies were shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the third was shot in Denver, Colorado. The first 8 episodes of the serial were also shot (and set) in Denver, before apace (and without explanation) shifting to Los Angeles for the rest of the show'southward run. Since 1997, reruns of the show have been shown in syndication and on Freeform (formerly ABC Family unit and originally CBN Satellite Service), Ion Tv set (formerly PAX-TV), Authentication Channel, 10 Bold, CBS Action and MeTV.

Plot [edit]

The plot centered around Dr. Mark Sloan (Dick Van Dyke), a former The states Army doctor who served in a MASH unit. After his service ended, Dr. Sloan became a renowned dr. and consults with the local police force, and can't resist a good mystery or a friend in need. Cases often involved his son, Detective Steve Sloan (Barry Van Dyke), and the elder Sloan's friend Norman Briggs (Michael Tucci in seasons in i–four), a hospital administrator. Also profitable Dr. Sloan are his colleagues, medical examiner/pathology Dr. Amanda Bentley (Victoria Rowell) and Dr. Jack Stewart (Scott Baio in the showtime two seasons), who is afterwards replaced by a new resident, Dr. Jesse Travis (Charlie Schlatter from season three onward).^[1]

Episodes [edit]

Diagnosis: Murder had a full of eight seasons and 178 episodes which were broadcast on CBS between 1993 and 2001.

Cast [edit]

Main [edit]

Character	Played by	Occupation	Seasons
Character	Played by	Occupation	Movies (1992–93)	one	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Movies (2002)
Marker Sloan	Dick Van Dyke	Doctor	Master
Amanda Bentley	Cynthia Gibb	Doctor	Main	Does not announced
Amanda Bentley	Victoria Rowell	Doctor	Does not appear	Main
Jack Parker	Stephen Caffrey	Doctor	Main	Does not announced
Steve Sloan	Barry Van Dyke	Police detective/lieutenant	Chief
Jack Stewart	Scott Baio	Md	Does non appear	Main		Does not appear
Norman Briggs	Michael Tucci	Administrator	Does not announced	Principal				Does not appear
Delores Mitchell	Delores Hall	Secretarial assistant	Does not appear	Chief		Does not appear
Jesse Travis	Charlie Schlatter	Md	Does non appear			Principal

The cast, 1993–1995: Victoria Rowell, Michael Tucci, Barry Van Dyke, Scott Baio, and Delores Hall, with Dick Van Dyke in the centre

Dr. Mark Sloan (played past Dick Van Dyke), Erstwhile army doctor and Principal of Internal Medicine at Community General Hospital, and protagonist of the series. Son of a police force officer and male parent of another, in whose cases he often gets involved. He is a medical consultant to the LAPD. Dick Van Dyke was considered for the lead role after the positive reviews he received from his dramatic part in the 1990 movie Dick Tracy ^{[ commendation needed ]} (although the character he played in the movie was villain and very dissimilar from the role of Mark Sloan). In the pilot the character had interests in tap dance and clarinet playing; yet, these were considered distracting and were toned down and eventually removed from the character as the series developed.
Lieutenant Detective Steve Sloan (played past Barry Van Dyke), a detective sergeant (subsequently lieutenant from season two onward) in the Robbery/Homicide Sectionalization of the LAPD and Dr. Mark Sloan'south son. Afterwards an convulsion destroyed his flat, he lived in a separate apartment in his begetter's beach house in Malibu, California. Steve often uses his "patented" dive to apprehend criminals.^[2]
Dr. Amanda Bentley (played by Cynthia Gibb in the TV Movies set up before the series), later Bentley-Livingston (played there by Victoria Rowell), resident Pathology at Community General Infirmary and banana Canton Medical Examiner, who is also Dr. Mark Sloan'southward double act and medical partner, involving in each of Marker'due south & Steve's cases, after the accident. Every bit a favorable graphic symbol of the show, she also dated Jack and was later Jesse's best friend. During the series, she married a military homo, and had a son named C.J. Depending on the episode, she divorced him or he was killed in an airplane crash. Afterwards in the series, she adopted another boy, Deon.
Dr. Jack Stewart (played by Stephen Caffrey in the TV movies, Scott Baio in the series from 1993 to 1995, seasons 1–2), a md at Community General Hospital and Steve'due south all-time friend, whom he often helped in his cases. He left to open his own family medicine in Colorado. Jack Stewart does reappear in a couple of Lee Goldberg's Diagnosis Murder books, "The Silent Partner" and "The Terminal Discussion". In the first three TV Movies his name was Jack Parker.
Dr. Jesse Travis (played by Charlie Schlatter, 1995–2001, seasons 3–eight), a residency and handsome student at Community General Hospital who Marker took nether his fly and who became best friends with Amanda. Some other favorable/list of breakout characters of the series, he oft got involved in Marker and Steve'southward cases, with good intentions only not always adept results. In the crossover double episode "Murder Two", he himself became the prime doubtable of a rival doctor's killing, hence he badgered Marker to call his sometime friend Ben Matlock (played by Dick's existent-life best friend Andy Griffith) for assistance. The hospital staff thought he wrote the tell-all book "Big City Hospital" equally Dr. Anonymous but later found out it was written past someone else. Jason Tucker was a character in the book who sounded exactly like Jesse, which is why the hospital staff thought it was him.
Norman Briggs (played by Michael Tucci, 1993–1997, seasons 1–4), business administration at Customs General Infirmary and a close friend of Dr. Marking Sloan, fifty-fifty though he is often exasperated by him.
Delores Mitchell (played by Delores Hall, 1993–1995, seasons 1–2), Dr. Sloan's lively secretary.

Notable guest stars [edit]

One unique aspect of the series was that it oft appropriated characters from diverse archetype telly series, or featured veteran actors playing characters inspired by or like to their classic roles.

Rob Petrie (played by Van Dyke himself in The Dick Van Dyke Bear witness) features in a cameo in the episode "Obsession, Part ii" where Dr. Sloan is in a radio station, and walks past a studio where (through use of CGI), Rob is trying his hand at radio Disc jockey. The footage of Rob as a DJ is taken from the Dick Van Dyke Show episode "One Hundred Terrible Hours". This scene moves Diagnosis: Murder into the realm of fantasy as Petrie is shown in black and white (with Sloan visible in a color insert behind him), after which Sloan breaks the fourth wall and looks at the audience before the story continues.
Mike Connors reprised his titular grapheme of Mannix in the season iv episode "Hard-Boiled Murder." The episode's story was a sequel to the Mannix episode "Piddling Girl Lost."
Andy Griffith reprised his titular office of Ben Matlock from Dean Hargrove'southward Matlock series in Season 4 two-parter "Murder Ii" (1997). In a sense, this brought Diagnosis: Murder full circumvolve, as its parent series, Jake and the Fatman, was inspired by a Season 1 episode of Matlock in 1986.
Barbara Bain reprised her role of Cinnamon Carter of Mission: Impossible in season 5 episode "Discards."
Peter Graves, who starred alongside Barbara Bain on Mission: Impossible as Jim Phelps did not return every bit his character, but did make a very brief cameo in "Must Kill TV" and the aforementioned scene is seen in part ane of the Series vi episode Trash TV Part one as "Dr. Sloane" [sic] in a Mission: Impossible-style illusion of his first TV pilot of "Doc Danger," later replaced during the show.
Robert Culp likewise guest starred in the episode "Discards" as Dane Travis, a retired espionage, tennis professional, and Dr. Travis' father. The character was like to his Kelly Robinson character from I Spy, though Travis was said to have worked with the Impossible Missions Strength (also seen on Mission: Impossible).
"Discards" besides featured appearances by former Tv spies Patrick Macnee (The Avengers), Robert Vaughn (The Human being from U.N.C.L.E.) and Phil Morris (the 1988 version of Mission: Incommunicable), though they did not play their original characters.
Jack Klugman too guest starred in season four episode "Physician, Murder Thyself," as a character very similar to his famous role on Quincy, M.E.. He guest-starred again, in season half-dozen episode "Voices Carry" as police detective Harry Trumble, the erstwhile fiance of Dr. Mark Sloan's late wife. Trumble reappeared in Lee Goldberg's Diagnosis Murder novel "The Past Tense."
George Takei, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett, Wil Wheaton, and Grace Lee Whitney (all from Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation), as well as Bill Mumy (from Lost in Space), were invitee stars in "Alienated!" one sixth season episode, which involved an apparent extraterrestrial life alien abduction and coverup.
The episode "Drill for Decease" included appearances by several actors associated with the M*A*S*H franchise: Elliott Gould and Sally Kellerman from the original movie; Jamie Farr, Loretta Swit and William Christopher from the tv series; and Christopher Norris from the sequel series Trapper John, Grand.D..
Randolph Mantooth and Robert Fuller, who worked together on NBC's Emergency! appeared together in a 1997 episode virtually the Malibu, California brushfires.
The episode "Must Kill TV" features a number of small cameos by television personalities such equally Erik Estrada and Dr. Joyce Brothers playing themselves and a larger one from Stephen J. Cannell every bit an over-the-superlative producer of action Tv set. The role is reprised in the two-parter "Trash Television."
The episode "Food Fight" (1998) features Erin Moran, Pat Morita, Don Most, David Lander, Leslie Easterbrook and Conrad Janis. All of these actors starred aslope Scott Baio in Happy Days or its spin-offs, Laverne & Shirley, Joanie Loves Chachi and Mork & Mindy.
The episode "Promises to Keep" (1998) features characters introduced in the Promised State (a spin-off of Touched past an Angel) episode "Full Security" (1998) crossover into the testify.
A somewhat special case is the appearance of Jennifer Ringley (the internet's first web-based lifecaster with her pioneering JenniCam website from 1996 to 2003) in the 1998's episode "Rear Windows '98", where she played a fictionalized version of herself (with a website chosen "Joannecam") who is killed in the commencement minute.

Over the run of the evidence, various episodes invitee starred at to the lowest degree eight different members of the Van Dyke family unit:

Dick Van Dyke and son Barry Van Dyke in the pb roles.
Dick's brother, Jerry Van Dyke.
Ane of Dick'south daughters, Stacy Van Dyke.
Barry'southward children: Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke, Wes Van Dyke and Taryn Van Dyke.

Smaller recurring roles [edit]

Joanna Cassidy (Season 7) plays Madison Wesley, a doctor friend of Mark Sloan, and Dean of Community General's Medical School. She is in 8 episodes.
Kim Little (Seasons 5 and 6) plays Susan Hillard, Jesse's longtime girlfriend, for 10 episodes. In the season 7 episode "Bringing Up Barbie" It is mentioned that she left Jesse to go to Oregon with a male Chiropractor. Only in the Diagnosis Murder books which have place after Season 6, she appears in most every book and Jesse and Susan become Married in the book "The Dead Letter".
Susan Gibney (Seasons 5–seven) plays Detective Tanis Archer, Steve's partner in 4 episodes. Susan Gibney was also in 3 other episodes as two unlike characters.
Charmin Lee (Seasons 7–8) is Steve'southward second partner Detective Cheryl Brooks, who is in eleven episodes between seasons 7 and eight.
Martin Kove (Seasons 6–vii) is Helm Newman, for 3 episodes.
Shane Van Dyke (Seasons 4–8) is Alex Smith, a third twelvemonth medical schoolhouse, who appears in xiv episodes during seasons seven and 8. He is also seen as a battle educatee in Never Say Dice and an actor in Frontier Dad. (Both these episodes star the rest of Barry Van Dyke's children likewise.)
Carey Van Dyke (Seasons iv–8) plays diverse characters: Mr. Kelso, Terry Marshall, Kyle Lewis, Brendan Kelly, Carl Simpson, and Craig Wilson. In the Boob tube movie "A Town without Pity he plays a graphic symbol named "Billy".
Kevin McNally 2 (Seasons 3–eight) as the ubiquitous Emergency Medicial Technician in 19 episodes.
Tim Conway plays Tim Conrad, an quondam friend of Marker'due south and a comedian, in 2 episodes. Conway and Van Dyke had previously worked together on The Carol Burnett Testify.
Harry Lennix (Seasons v–6) plays FBI Amanuensis Ron Wagner and Amanda's love involvement in half-dozen episodes.
Fred Dryer (Season v) plays Constabulary Chief Masters in 3 episodes.
Nancy Youngblut (seasons 4–5) plays Nurse Nancy Rush in two episodes.
Mariette Hartley (1st and 2nd Telly movies only) plays Kate Hamilton the Administrator at Customs General Hospital.
Vernee Watson-Johnson (1st and 2d TV movies simply) plays Esther Wiggins Dr. Mark Sloan'south Secretary.
Kimberly Quinn (episode "Dance of Danger" and the TV movie "Without Alarm") plays Ellen Abrupt, a tabloid news reporter who Steve Sloan is interested in. Steve proposes to her in the Idiot box Moving-picture show "Without Warning" and she says yep.
Robert Bailey Jr. (Flavor 7) plays Colin Jesse or C.J. for short is Amanda Bentley'southward son. He was built-in in Season Three of the show and is played by Robert Bailey Jr. in 3 of the episodes he appeared in. C.J. appeared in a few more episodes before Season 7 as a different kid actor.
Aaron Meeks (Season 7) plays Deon a boy who Dr. Amanda Bentley adopts. He appears in 3 episodes.

Locations and administrators [edit]

Denver, Colorado, location [edit]

The first season's filming commenced in July 1993 in Denver, Colorado. Much of the cast as well every bit the production company personnel from Viacom stayed in the (then) Embassy Suites Hotel in downtown, located at 19th Street between Curtis and Arapahoe. Amidst the reasons that product of Diagnosis: Murder was located in Denver was because the same production people had already been working there since most 1990 filming the new Perry Mason made for TV movies.

At that same time, Raymond Burr and his associates were busily filming their episodes for Perry Bricklayer. In and around the Diplomatic mission Suites Hotel at that fourth dimension, it was not unusual to see several semi-trailers parked street-side in support of the production at various office or exterior locations in and effectually downtown Denver.

Both serial were produced by the Hargrove, Silverman team with Viacom. Therefore, the business decision to combine both productions at the same location was evident. While the Perry Mason series was often filmed in a special courtroom constructed for the production inside The Denver City and Canton Building, Diagnosis: Murder was temporarily set at the and so recently closed St. Luke's Infirmary on 19th Street just due east of downtown.

When Raymond Burr became terminally ill afterwards that summer, he no longer was seen at the hotel after having filmed his last episode, The Case of the Killer Kiss. (1993) In fact, upon his demise, Paul Sorvino was seen entering the hotel building to brainstorm filming what was to be the last Perry Bricklayer episode ever filmed in Denver, – A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives (1993). Upon completion of that filming, Viacom and the unabridged production company left Denver in late September, early October 1993, including that of Diagnosis: Murder. Thus, just the Diagnosis: Murder episodes filmed from mid-July through September 1993 were shot in Denver, after which production shifted permanently to Los Angeles.

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Community General Hospital is the master prepare for the testify. It is 6 to vii floors depending on the episode. It holds nearly 400 beds, with 3 trauma rooms, ii psych wards, and one Intensive Intendance Unit. Dr. Marker Sloan is Chief of Internal Medicine. The Marriott Hotels & Resorts in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, was used as the outside of Community General Hospital in the last three seasons of the testify (it was besides used equally a casino in the airplane pilot of CSI).

Listing of Administrators at Community Full general Infirmary

Russell Havilland (was The Administrator at Clairemont Hospital in the Pilot of Diagnosis: Murder, "Information technology Never Entered My Mind". He was murdered and Dr. Mark Sloan was framed for his murder.)
Kate Hamilton (was The Administrator at Community Full general Hospital in The 1st and 2nd Diagnosis: Murder TV Movies. It was said in the Diagnosis: Murder volume "The Shooting Script" that Kate Hamilton decided to sell her home and utilize the proceeds to open a nonprofit food depository financial institution in the inner city.
Norman Briggs (was The Administrator of Community Full general Infirmary for the beginning 4 seasons of Diagnosis: Murder. According to the book "The Shooting Script" it sounds similar Norman was fired past the new owners Healthcorp International.)
Harold Lomax (he appeared in a few episodes like "Do No Harm" and "Today is The Final Day of the Remainder of My Life". In the volume "The Shooting Script" When Customs General Hospital was sold to Healthcorp International they brought in General Harold Lomax who'd spent ten years running battlefield medical operations for the U.S. Marine Corps. Harold Lomax later resigned with an Extreme case of Irritable Bowel syndrome and left behind a hospital literally in ruins, decimated by a series bomber "Catlin Sweeney" who was stalking Marking for putting her brother "Carter Sweeney" in prison.
Noah Paring (he appeared in the books "The Shooting Script" and "The Concluding Word". He ended up beingness hired by the new owners of the infirmary "Hollywood International" and had a personal vendetta confronting Mark Sloan for Catching "Tanya" who murdered a rapist who raped her and killed a homeless State of war Veteran who saw her kill him. He ended up firing Mark, Amanda, and Jesse's girlfriend Susan. Jesse ended upwards finding out and blackmailed him into giving anybody dorsum their jobs. He ended up leaving Community General Hospital.
Janet Dorcott (she appeared in the book "The Terminal Word". She ended up firing Jesse and Susan Travis, afterwards being framed for Murder and Amanda Bentley was also fired for selling torso parts from dead bodies and fired Mark because she blamed him for all the scandal effectually Customs General Hospital.

BBQ Bob's [edit]

BBQ Bob'south is a restaurant that Jesse Travis and Steve Sloan co-own starting in the 6th season. Mark Sloan is too a silent partner. It is located in a small strip mall very close to Community General Infirmary. Other stores around it include a jewelry shop, travel agency and a bank. It is oft frequented by the infirmary staff as an culling to the hospital cafeteria. All staff members get discounts. The exterior of BBQ Bob's was based on a storefront at the Whizin's Center in Agoura, California, where exterior scenes of BBQ Bob's were occasionally filmed.

Mark's firm [edit]

In the outset two seasons of the show Mark Sloan lived in a house in Denver, Colorado. No caption is given when the evidence shifts to California for all the remaining episodes.

The Sloans' beach house [edit]

Starting in the third flavor, Marker and Steve Sloan live in a beach house at 3231 Beach Drive, Malibu, with Steve in the basement. The basement was often redressed to act every bit other sets. The bodily house is on Wide Embankment Road in Malibu, CA.

Airplane pilot and Boob tube movies [edit]

Pilot [edit]

The pilot episode was called "It Never Entered My Heed" from Jake and The Fatman. Mark Sloan was a widower with no sons. The hospital is chosen Clairemont Hospital instead of Community Full general Hospital, and in that location is no Jack or Amanda. His friends who helped him clear his name are

Richard (Steven Eckholdt)
Josie (Marry Walker)
Thad (Kristoff St. John)

TV movies [edit]

Diagnosis: Murder had five TV movies betwixt 1992 and 2002, 3 of which aired prior to the TV series.

Diagnosis of Murder, the start Television moving picture was filmed in July 1991 and aired before the regular series, January 5, 1992, on CBS.
The Business firm on Sycamore Street, the second TV movie, aired before the regular series, May 1, 1992, on CBS.
A Twist of the Knife, the third TV motion-picture show, aired before the regular serial, Feb thirteen, 1993, on CBS.
A Boondocks Without Compassion, the quaternary Tv set picture, aired later on the finish of the regular series, February 6, 2002, on CBS.
Without Warning, the fifth and final Goggle box movie, aired afterwards the cease of the regular series, April 26, 2002, on CBS.

Backdoor pilots [edit]

Fred Silverman insisted that every season the series devote one episode equally a boob tube airplane pilot. The following are known backdoor pilots.

Season 1 [edit]

Sis Michael Wants You – Delta Burke starred equally Sis Michael, a crime solving nun.^[3]

Season Ii [edit]

How to Murder Your Lawyer – Mitchell Whitfield and Leah Remini starred as offense solving lawyers Arnold Baskin and Agnes Benedetto.
Georgia on My Mind – A possible backdoor airplane pilot^{[ commendation needed ]} well-nigh a female person private investigator, Georgia (Daphne Ashbrook).

Season Iv [edit]

An Explosive Murder – Starred Tracey Gilt as an cloak-and-dagger officer Amy Dawson.

Season Five [edit]

A Mime is a Terrible Affair to Waste – An unsold backdoor pilot for an untitled series. Rachel York played Randy Wolfe who's apparently an expert at everything.
Retribution Parts One and 2 – "Retribution" was a backdoor airplane pilot for a spinoff called The Principal that would take starred Fred Dryer equally Police force Main Masters.

Season Vi [edit]

Blood Ties – Starred ii vice unit detectives, Detective Amy Devlin (Kathy Evison) and Detective Taylor Lucas (Zoe McLellan). It was a backdoor pilot for a Goggle box series that would have been named Whistlers.

International [edit]

Australia: 10 Assuming
Canada: CTV Goggle box Network and BOOK goggle box
Czech republic: Prima televize
Republic of estonia: TV3.
French republic: France two
Finland: Yle.
Germany: ProSieben, Kabel eins and Sat.1 Gold.
Hungary: Viasat 3 and Duna.
Republic of ireland: RTÉ2.
Italy: Rete 4 and Canale 5.
Nippon: NHK and Super! drama Television.
Philippines: TV5
Slovenia: Popular and TV3 Slovenia.
Spain: Telecinco
Sweden: Kanal 5 and Kanal ix
United Kingdom: BBC 1 (until November 2011), BBC Two (until March 2007), Excuse, the Hallmark Channel and Channel 5 since January 2014. Now being repeated on CBS Justice since March 2017.
United states of america: CBS (original run) Ion Goggle box ran reruns of the show from the summertime of 2003 to the spring of 2005. Hallmark Channel (ran reruns until the fall of 2008), Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (movies and ii-parts only). Currently airing on Starz Encore Suspense weeknights at 10pm ET and weekdays at 11 am ET on MeTV
Turkey: TNT Turkey.

Habitation media [edit]

On September 12, 2006, CBS Dwelling Entertainment (with distribution by Paramount Pictures) released the complete Season ane of Diagnosis: Murder on Region ane DVD. The prepare included the Jake and the Fatman episode four.19, "Information technology Never Entered My Listen," which introduced the graphic symbol of Dr. Marker Sloan. It did not even so, include the Television movies that were made prior to the show'southward premiere. Seasons ii and three are also now bachelor.^[4] ^[five] ^[6] Later on 2 years since the release of the starting time season on Region i DVD, a Region 2 DVD of Diagnosis: Murder – Serial one was released on May 5, 2008, co-ordinate to Amazon.co.britain ^[7]

On June 26, 2012, Visual Entertainment released "Diagnosis Murder – The Movie Collection" on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time.^[8] In the US, the release was distributed by Alchemy. The 3-disc set featured all three Television movies that aired in 1992/1993 and spawned the weekly Tv set serial as well as the two TV movies that aired subsequently the series ended.

On December 31, 2012, it was announced that VEI had acquired the rights to the series (via their sublicensing deal with CBS) and planned on releasing the remaining seasons on DVD in 2013.^[9] They subsequently released the 4th and 5th seasons both as 2-role volumes and as a consummate set on Baronial 27, 2013.^[10] The sixth flavor was released on Nov 12, 2013,^[eleven] in Canada while it was released in the US on November 26, 2013. The 7th flavor was released on November nineteen, 2013, in Canada and in the US on February 11, 2014; the 8th and final flavour on November 19, 2013, in Canada and in the US on May 27, 2014.^[12] ^[13] VEI also released The Complete Collection On Nov 12, 2013. Information technology includes all 178 episodes, all v of the TV Movies, The "Jake And The Fatman" Episode "It Never Entered My Listen", and an episode of "Mannix" Called "Lilliputian Girl Lost" which was A Prequel to the Episode "Hard Boiled Murder" on a 51 Disc gear up. Information technology also has an exclusive to The Complete Collection a prune of Van Dyke every bit Rob Petrie In Obsession Part 2.^[14]

In Australia, Region 4, Season 1 was released on May xv, 2008 and Season 2 on November 6, 2008, no further releases were released. These two releases were distributed by Paramount. On Oct 14, 2015 Flavor i^[15] and ii^[xvi] were re-released along with Season three.^[17] Season 4 followed on April twenty, 2016^[18] and Flavor 5 on July 20, 2016.^[19] These were distributed by Madman Entertainment. Flavor half-dozen was released on May 3, 2017,^[20] Flavour 7 on June seven, 2017^[21] and Flavour 8 on July five, 2017.^[22] These were distributed by Via Vision Amusement. The Motion-picture show Collection was released on August vii, 2019.^[23]

DVD Release		Episodes	Originally aired	Release date
DVD Release		Episodes	Originally aired	Region i	Region 2
	Telly Movie Collection	5 TV Movies	1992–2002	June 26, 2012	Northward\A
	The Consummate Start Season	nineteen + Pilot	1993-94	September 12, 2006	May 5, 2008
	The Complete Second Season	22	1994-95	June 12, 2007	Feb 9, 2009
	The Consummate Third Season	xviii	1995-96	December four, 2007	July xiii, 2009
	The Fourth Season	23	1996-97	August 27, 2013 (Canada) February 18, 2014 (USA)	TBA
	The Fifth Flavour	24	1997-98	Baronial 27, 2013 (Canada) Oct 1, 2013 (Usa)	TBA
	The Sixth Flavor	xx	1998-99	Nov 12, 2013 (Canada) Nov 26, 2013 (USA)	TBA
	The Seventh Flavor	22	1999–2000	November 19, 2013 (Canada) February xi, 2014^[24] (USA)	TBA
	The Final Season	21	2000-01	Nov 19, 2013 (Canada) May 27, 2014 (USA)	TBA
	The Complete Collection	169 Episodes + Pilot + The 5 Tv set Movies + Little Girl Lost + Bonus Scene	1991–2002	November 12, 2013^[fourteen]	TBA

Novels [edit]

Between 2003 and 2007, viii original novels were published based on the Television set series. All of them were written by Lee Goldberg, a former executive producer and writer on the Telly series. According to his website,^[25] there volition be no more than books based on the show. The books are, in order:

Diagnosis Murder: The Silent Partner
Diagnosis Murder: The Death Merchant
Diagnosis Murder: The Shooting Script
Diagnosis Murder: The Waking Nightmare
Diagnosis Murder: The Past Tense
Diagnosis Murder: The Dead Letter
Diagnosis Murder: The Double Life
Diagnosis Murder: The Last Give-and-take

The Past Tense is a prequel to the episode "Voices Comport", which guest-starred Jack Klugman as Harry Trumble, and chronicles Dr. Marking Sloan's first homicide investigation. The terminal volume in the serial, The Terminal Word, is a sequel of sorts to the episodes "Obsession" and "Resurrection" and features the return of Carter Sweeney, who was played by Arye Gross in the Tv series.

Crossover with Monk [edit]

Ii of the characters in The Death Merchant afterwards reappeared in Lee Goldberg'southward serial of novels based on the television series Monk:

Lt. Ben Keoloha appears in Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii as the Kauai police lieutenant that Adrian Monk and Natalie Teeger assist in solving several unsolved cases on the isle.
Ian Ludlow appears in Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants as the private consultant for the Los Angeles Police force Department. In the course of that novel, Ludlow frames several people such every bit Natalie, Monk'south first assistant Sharona Fleming, and Sharona'southward ex-husband Trevor Howe, for a series of baroque murders. Later Monk proves that Ludlow committed all the crimes himself.

References [edit]

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^ Terrace, Vincent (2013). Encyclopedia of Tv set Pilots, 1937–2012. McFarland. ISBN9780786474455 . Retrieved February 21, 2018.
^ "Diagnosis Murder – Complete 1st Season : DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video". Dvdtalk.com. Retrieved November 23, 2012.
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External links [edit]

Diagnosis Murder at IMDb
Diagnosis: Murder at epguides.com
Lee Goldberg's Diagnosis Murder novels site
Diagnosis Murder Episode Guide at Television receiver Gems

Boob tube movies [edit]

Diagnosis: Murder (1992 Tv movie) at IMDb
Diagnosis: Murder (1975 movie) at IMDb
The House on Sycamore Street (1992) at IMDb
A Twist of the Pocketknife (1993) at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis:_Murder