Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards (Peter Gunn, The Pink Panther). Richard Diamond is an Ex-New York City policeman who quit the force to become a private detective. A suave private eye who, at first, walks the mean streets of New York, Richard Diamond (David Jannsen) later packs up and moves to Los Angeles. Solving a myriad of cases from, kidnapping to murder in his convertible with a car phone. While his mysterious, sexy, receptionist Sam (first by Mary Tyler Moore then by Roxane Brooks), whose face we never see, minds the office. This half hour action/crime drama originally ran on CBS from 1957-1959 and NBC for its fourth season in 1959-1960. The show was also broadcast under the title of, "Call Mr. D." during its rerun syndication.

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TheTVDB.com Series ID 70454
Status Ended
First Aired July 1, 1957
Recent September 13, 1960
Network CBS
Average Runtime 25 minutes
Genres Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Country United States of America
Original Language English
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Season	From	To	Episodes
All Seasons
Specials			0
Season 1	July 1957	September 1957	12
Season 2	January 1958	June 1958	21
Season 3	February 1959	June 1959	18
Season 4	October 1959	September 1960	26
Unassigned Episodes			0

Season	From	To	Episodes
Unassigned Episodes			77

Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.

Season	From	To	Episodes
Season 1			0
Unassigned Episodes			77

Regis Toomey
as Lt. McGough

David Janssen
as Richard Diamond

Barbara Bain
as Karen Wells

Mary Tyler Moore
as
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Hillary Brooke
as Sam
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Russ Conway
as
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Roxanne Brooks
as
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Richard Devon
as
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Name	Number of Episodes	Dates
Thomas Carr	16	05/31/1959 - 09/13/1960
Don McDougall	12	06/14/1959 - 08/23/1960
Tom Gries	6	07/08/1957 - 07/05/1960
Mark Sandrich Jr.	6	08/19/1957 - 06/21/1959
Richard Whorf	6	03/06/1958 - 03/22/1959
Leigh Jason	4	01/02/1958 - 02/06/1958
John Peyser	3	02/22/1959 - 04/19/1959
John Rich	3	02/27/1958 - 04/24/1958
Alvin Ganzer	3	02/15/1959 - 04/12/1959
Oscar Rudolph	3	07/29/1957 - 08/12/1957
Joe Biroc	2	03/15/1959 - 03/22/1959
Roy Del Ruth	2	07/01/1957 - 09/23/1957
Stuart Rosenberg	2	03/29/1959 - 05/10/1959
Ted Post	2	05/01/1958 - 05/08/1958
Hollingsworth Morse	2	03/27/1958 - 04/10/1958
Bernard L. Kowalski	2	08/26/1957 - 09/09/1957
Lamont Johnson	1	05/03/1959
Andrew McCullough	1	03/08/1959
James Sheldon	1	02/20/1958
Arthur Hilton	1	08/09/1960
R.G. Springsteen	1	05/24/1959

Name	Number of Episodes	Dates
Ed Adamson	12	05/31/1959 - 09/06/1960
John Robinson	9	10/05/1959 - 09/13/1960
David T. Chantler	8	07/29/1957 - 05/10/1959
Ellis Kadison	6	08/05/1957 - 05/01/1958
Donn Mullally	6	04/17/1958 - 04/19/1959
Richard Carr	5	07/01/1957 - 02/15/1959
Sidney Michaels	4	03/06/1958 - 06/12/1958
Gene Levitt	3	08/26/1957 - 05/03/1959
Don Brinkley	3	12/28/1959 - 08/02/1960
Ellis Marcus	2	07/08/1957 - 02/20/1958
Albert Ruben	2	03/08/1959 - 03/29/1959
Lee Erwin	2	03/01/1959 - 04/19/1959
Philip MacDonald	2	07/22/1957 - 08/19/1957
Edmund Morris	2	07/15/1957 - 01/23/1958
Charles Beaumont	1	08/30/1960
Gene Lesser	1	03/13/1958
Peter Barry	1	03/15/1959
Fred Freiberger	1	08/09/1960
Ed Waters	1	02/06/1958
William L. Stuart	1	05/08/1958
Richard Levinson	1	01/18/1960
Daniel B. Ullman	1	04/05/1959
John Tomerlin	1	08/30/1960
Russ Leadabrand	1	02/06/1958
George Worthing Yates	1	09/16/1957
Robert Blees	1	03/22/1959
Jack Kelsey	1	03/08/1959
William Link	1	01/18/1960
Herbert Abbott Spiro	1	08/16/1960
Philip Saltzman	1	04/24/1958
Barry Trivers	1	03/29/1959
Elliot West	1	05/24/1959
P.K. Palmer	1	04/12/1959