J.J. Starbuck

5.0
1987

Billionaire Texan J.J. Starbuck travels the country getting involved in criminal investigations. He uses his wealth and unconventional methods to help solve cases.

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Seasons

18 Episodes • Premiered 1987

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1. Pilot

Dale Robertson plays eccentric Texas billionaire JJ Starbuck who pokes his nose into other people's business in the name of justice. In the opener, JJ travels to Beverly Hills where a wealthy businessman is suddenly cleared of his wife's murder by a bodybuilder, who claims the death was the accidental result of a lovers' quarrel.

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2. A Killing in the Market

Robert Conrad plays a Wall Street wizard whose overtures to J.J. (Dale Robertson) about a shady business deal become secondary when J.J. crowds him with questions about the apparent suicide of his assistant.

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3. Murder In E Minor

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4. The Blimpy Who Yelled Blue

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5. First You've Got to Go to the Picnic

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6. Incident at Sam September

Starbuck attempts to prove That a phony children's book author murdered his ghostwriter.

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7. Gold from the Rainbow

A sleazy TV talk show host kill his competitor's assistant in order to frame her for murder. J.J. comes to the aid of the lady

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8. Graveyard Shift

Starbuck attempts to free American executives who are being held hostage aboard a Persian Gulf oil rig.

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9. The Circle Broken

Starbuck investigates a scheming interior design editor (Jessica Walter) who seems to have committed the perfect murder.

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10. The 6% Solution

An ex-convict becomes the coach of a college football team on a 20-year losing streak

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11. Murder by Design

A shifty spiritual leader (Alan Rachins) tries to frame a senator's daughter for her father's murder.

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12. Cactus Jack's Last Call

J.J. was with an old friend when someone tried to run them over; J.J. was injured while his friend was killed. An old friend of his friend, E.L. ""Tenspeed"" Turner, tries to find out what happened. With J.J.'s help, they discover that a bet he convince his friend to make is the motive behind the murder.

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13. A Song from the Sequel

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14. Permanent Hiatus

A realtor finds success in selling houses to a couple, getting his 6% commission, then ordering one of his agents to seduce one member of the couple to break up their marriage. After the break up, the couple sells their house and the realtor gets his 6% again; then he sells each of member of the couple another place and gets another 6% from those sales. When one of his disgruntled clients and one of his former agents plan to report his activities, the realtor decides to take them out. His plan involves getting the agent to go to the client's house and on the night of a party, he goes there via helicopter and he programs his phone to forward a call from a client to the man's house. When he gets there he shoots the client and afterwards the client calls him and after speaking to him the realtor arrives and he shoots him, making it appear like a murder-suicide. J.J. who is a friend of the client arrives for the funeral and comforts the wife and he can't help but wonder why the realtor is

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15. Rag Doll

J.J.'s niece goes undercover in Los Angeles to investigate the ""suicide"" of one of her high school friends who left to become a star and became involved in oil wrestling, counterfeit films, and drugs.

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16. The Rise and Fall of Joe Piermont

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17. That Old Black Magic

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18. Everyone's a Critic

Cast

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Dale Robertson

J.J. Starbuck

Photo of Shawn Weatherly

Shawn Weatherly

Jill Starbuck

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Jimmy Dean

Charlie Bullets

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Ben Vereen

Tenspeed Turner

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