Season 8 • Episode 22
LatestBarnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".
Acting
Buddy Ebsen makes 70 look like the new 40.
Production
LA locations frozen in 1973 amber.
Creator
Edward Hume
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Buddy Ebsen was 64 when the show started and did many of his own stunts, outliving the series by 26 years.
Barnaby Jones pioneered the 'elderly action hero' trope that would later fuel everything from Taken to The Equalizer.
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