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- A retired Intelligence Agent turned private detective helps various threatened clients to equalize the odds.
- A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.
- Once a successful corporate lawyer at a prestigious Philadelphia law firm, Jack Shannon lost his marriage and his job, due in part to a compulsive gambling habit. While Shannon maintains a good relationship with his daughter, his professional career has hit rock bottom. He becomes a general practioner of law, gaining a loyal secretary in Lucy Acosta when he manages to free her boyfriend from jail. Shannon also gains an unlikely investigator in Wilmer Slade, a verbose enforcer for one of the many loan sharks to whom Jack is in debt. Although he has sworn off gambling, Shannon continues to use his skill as a cardplayer to help him work out his cases, and he always tries to work out deals for his clients without having to go to court.
- African-American private eye Harry Tenafly was a happily married, middle-class family man who had given up being a cop to work for a better paying position at a big L.A. detective agency. One of the few TV detectives who relied more on brains and solid legwork, Tenafly had no interest in gunfights, fisticuffs, or chasing beautiful women. Nevertheless, trouble seemed to find him anyway.
- A mild-mannered mystery writer has become so immersed in his material that his character constantly appears to him as a hallucination. Intent on getting rid of him, the writer finds himself embroiled in a mystery all his own.
- When one member of a mystery writing team wants to break from his less talented partner, he becomes the victim in a real-life murder mystery.
- Senatorial candidate Nelson Hayward murders his domineering campaign manager, staging it to appear that Hayward himself was the intended victim of a mob hit gone wrong.
- A police commissioner provides a false alibi for a wife killer, but then expects an alibi in return.
- Five time-tossed 1890's cowboys find themselves in the 1980's and start a detective agency.
- Hastings renews his friendship with Poirot and involves him in the mysterious poisoning of the mistress of a manor house married to a man twenty years her junior.
- A dead cop condemned to Hell makes a deal with the Devil to recover 113 escaped souls, now loose on Earth, and earn a second chance at life on Earth. His first bounty is a deranged priest who sacrifices altar boys in a perverted attempt to prevent the Apocalypse.
- Mike's gay brother Richard, an English professor, gives some much-needed help to Grant in writing a speech. In the process, they become fast friends, leading some to wonder about the nature of their relationship. Meanwhile, Mike, Abe and Deirdre have trouble resisting a medical salesman's pitch.
- A gang of bank-robbing Santas are double-crossed by their own getaway driver, who plans to give the ultimate gift to his son. Meanwhile, amid lineups of countless department store Santas at the station, Fraser receives help from an unexpected source.
- Struggling artist Harry Field is found murdered and thrown off an overpass but recent rains and a dry body lead Morse to conclude he was killed over a week earlier.
- Karen has trouble writing her report on the apprehension of a fugitive for several reasons: A) a sore chest from a gunshot to her Kevlar vest; B) subsequent memory loss surrounding the events of that night; C) an overeager partner; D) a dead fugitive. Even an attempt to enjoy her medical leave goes sour when the FBI inform her that the friendly charter fisherman she's dating might also be a bank robber. But with help from her father, a P.I. working a possible insurance scam, and a mysterious new marshal in town, Karen may yet recover her memory and get her man.
- With only six months to go on their prison term, the not-too bright Salchek brothers are duped into escaping from jail, and stealing a baseball worth millions from mob boss Charlie Lucre. Then they'll finally be able to buy a double-wide trailer for their loving mother. Having caught them once before, Karen must race against Lucre, his hit men, and an overzealous FBI agent to find them and put them back behind bars.
- On the run, a con artist chances upon her ex-husband and former partner, now working as a TV producer, and soon gets his consumer affairs show involved in a plea for help from a private mental hospital.