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Burke's Law

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Burke's Law	comment	A Lighter and Softer, slightly Campy Detective Drama that ran for three seasons from 1963 to 1965 (sort of; see below) on ABC, Burke's Law followed the adventures of Amos Burke (Gene Barry), a snarky and debonaire LAPD captain who also happened to be a multimillionaire. Accompanied by his sidekicks, the youthful rookie Detective Tim Tilson (Gary Conway) and the world-weary veteran Sergeant Les Hart (Regis Toomey), Burke would ride between crime scenes in a Rolls Royce limo driven by his faithful chauffeur Henry (Leon Lontoc) and investigate lurid murders among the Hollywood glitterati with his trademark wit and style.The character had originated in "Who Killed Julie Greer?", a 1961 episode of the anthology series The Dick Powell Show, with Powell himself playing Burke, and character actor John Damler playing Hart. Leon Lontoc was the only actor to reprise his role for the series. The episode boasted an all-star guest cast including Nick Adams, Ralph Bellamy, Edgar Bergen, Lloyd Bridges, Jack Carson, Carolyn Jones, Dean Jones, Edward Platt, future US president Ronald Reagan, Mickey Rooney and Kay Thompson.Although quite popular in its first two seasons, the show fell victim to Executive Meddling just prior to its third. Network executives at ABC, hoping to cash in on the super-spy craze touched off by by the James Bond films and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., demanded a Genre Shift. Over the heated objections of Barry and producer Aaron Spelling, the show was retitled Amos Burke, Secret Agent, the entire main cast was fired except for Barry, and Burke became a jetsetting spy on the payroll of the federal government. The sweeping changes went over like a lead balloon with audiences and the show was canceled 17 episodes into the season.In 1994, a Revival (also produced by Spelling) was broadcast on CBS, with Barry reprising his role as Burke, now a widower and the Chief of Police who solved crimes in tandem with his grown son, Detective Peter Burke (Peter Barton). The new series was canceled after two seasons comprising 27 episodes.
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Burke's Law / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Burke's Law / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Both Burke and Tim Tilson. Peter Burke in the revival, with a frequent Girl of the Week to prove it.
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Burke's Law / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
Burke's Law / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Invoked in several episodes by a suspect who points out that they would stand to lose a lot more money with the victim dead than if they were alive. "Who Killed The Motor Car Maverick?" has Burke figuring out the killer of a car CEO was the only one who didn't own stock in his company so he wouldn't have lost as much if the guy was killed in his new electric car.
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Burke's Law / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Burke's Law / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Aaron Spelling, who produced both the original and revived Burke's Law, appears uncredited in "Who Killed Julian Buck?" from the original series, as a character named Harry Penn. David Niven appeared as Harvey Cleeve, the World's Greatest Juggler, in "Who Killed Billy Jo?", making him the only one of the actors who founded Four Star Television to appear on Burke's Law.
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Burke's Law / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Burke's Law / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: In the original series, we see murder victims based on Ernest Hemingway ("Who Killed Julian Buck?"), Hugh Hefner ("Who Killed Alex Debbs?"; interestingly, the real Hefner made a cameo as a Bunny Club manager in a second-season episode "Who Killed the Grand Piano?") and Elvis Presley ("Who Killed Billy Jo?"). The revival series saw episodes with murder victims based on Wolfgang Puck ("Who Killed the World's Greatest Chef?"), Roger Corman ("Who Killed the Movie Mogul?") and John McEnroe ("Who Killed the Tennis Ace?").
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Burke's Law / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
Burke's Law / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: A standard twist to lead in to the second commercial break, but never more faithfully done than in "Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?", in which the victim was revealed to have been shot, stabbed, and poisoned before finally being impaled.
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Burke's Law / int_17b30e42	type	Pro Wrestling Episode
Burke's Law / int_17b30e42	comment	Pro Wrestling Episode: "Who Killed the Strangler?", in which the titular character, a professional wrestler, is killed by a poison dart that could only have come from one of five people sitting in special ringside seats.
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Burke's Law / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Burke's Law / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: We never find out anything about Mrs. Burke, who Burke married, produced Peter with, and died between the original and revival. All we really know is that Burke and Peter adored her, and she died before Peter graduated high school. One episode ends with Amos and Peter visiting her grave, and we see that her name was Sarah.
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Burke's Law / int_20779065	type	Marry Them All
Burke's Law / int_20779065	comment	Marry Them All: When Burke ends up with two girls of the week in "Who Killed Cassandra Cass?", he simply goes out on a date with both of them.
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Burke's Law / int_24400cfe	type	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon
Burke's Law / int_24400cfe	comment	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon: Used in "Who Killed the Starlet?". A woman is the bath while listening to some music, when a killer sneaks in and drops her boombox into the bathtub, killing her. It turns out that the killer and lady are merely actors on a movie set, and they're filming a murder scene. Then it turns out the boombox had been plugged into a live outlet by an unknown party, and the actress in the bathtub really is dead. then subverted, as it turns out that the actual murder weapon was the bathwater; it had been laced with a poison the victim absorbed trough her skin.
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Burke's Law / int_253c1204	type	Obfuscating Postmortem Wounds
Burke's Law / int_253c1204	comment	Obfuscating Postmortem Wounds: Used in "Who Killed the Starlet?". A woman is in the bath while listening to some music, when a killer sneaks in and drops her boombox into the bathtub, killing her. It turns out that the killer and lady are merely actors on a movie set, and they're filming a murder scene. Then it turns out the boombox had been plugged into a live outlet by an unknown party, and the actress in the bathtub really is dead. The special effects man is the first suspect, and protests that the voltage was kept too low to hurt anyone, as a matter of safety, which is standard procedure for filming this sort of thing in real life. It turns out that the water was poisoned with nicotine. The special effects man did so believing that the non-lethal voltage would clear him of suspicion.
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Burke's Law / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Burke's Law / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To Gene Barry's previous star vehicle, Bat Masterson, which was also about a wealthy, urbane, and snarky lawman, except set in the Wild West rather than present day Los Angeles.
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Burke's Law / int_31d55275	type	Tuxedo and Martini
Burke's Law / int_31d55275	comment	Tuxedo and Martini: The Amos Burke, Secret Agent episodes.
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Burke's Law / int_323fd510	type	Everyone Is a Suspect
Burke's Law / int_323fd510	comment	Everyone Is a Suspect: Every episode, and sometimes playfully exaggerated. In "Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?", the trope reaches its natural extreme when the suspects who aren't booked for the murder end up getting booked for attempted murder instead. In "Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World?", meanwhile, the killer invited all of the victim's other enemies to be present and even paid their way just to be sure there'd be a lot of suspects cluttering up the investigation.
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Burke's Law / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
Burke's Law / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly Disguised Pilot: "Who Killed the Jackpot?" was one of these for Honey West.
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Burke's Law / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Burke's Law / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Invoked in the revival's "Who Killed Good time Charlie" when Burke chases a suspect on a horse. In an episode of the original series, "Who Killed Mr. Colby in Ladies' Lingerie?", Sgt. Ames goes undercover as a tourist on a Hollywood tour bus to speak to the driver, whose car was parked near the scene of the murder. The driver fancies himself as an impressionist, and as he passes by the star's houses, he does impressions of them, like James Cagney and Kirk Douglas. A little old lady on the bus tells him that she took the tour with another driver who told her that the house he claimed was Douglas's belonged to Edd Byrnes. The driver responds, "Yeah, Lady, but I don't do Edd Byrnes!" The actor playing the driver? Who else but...Edd Byrnes! In an episode of the original series, "Who Killer Eleanora Davis?", Burke is poking around Professor Kingston's Western Museum (where the murder took place) looking for clues. He does a comic double-take upon seeing a tombstone that reads "He called Bat Masterson a liar". The revival's first episode featured Poison frontman Bret Michaels asa hard rock musician named Roger Rose - a reference to Poison's classic song 'Every rose has it's thorn'.
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Burke's Law / int_43dc74d0	type	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man
Burke's Law / int_43dc74d0	comment	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Tim Tilson and Les Hart, respectively.
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Burke's Law / int_448559dd	type	Gentleman Detective
Burke's Law / int_448559dd	comment	Gentleman Detective/Gentleman Snarker: Burke on both counts.
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Burke's Law / int_44ba9580	type	The Snark Knight
Burke's Law / int_44ba9580	comment	The Snark Knight: Les Hart often filled this role.
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Burke's Law / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Burke's Law / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Burke's is pretty swanky, befitting his wealth. Most of the victims, suspects and killers also have fairly sprawling estates.
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Burke's Law / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Burke's Law / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Subverted in "Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World?" Everyone seems to know how the victim died.
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Burke's Law / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
Burke's Law / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: The Episode Title Card for "Who Killed The Surf Broad?" reads "Who Killed The Surf Board?" with "Board" crossed out and "Broad" written beneath it in a different font.
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Burke's Law / int_4df647d9	type	Billed Above the Title
Burke's Law / int_4df647d9	comment	Billed Above the Title: In the original series: Gene Barry in...Burke's Law.
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Burke's Law / int_50f848cc	type	Technology Porn
Burke's Law / int_50f848cc	comment	Technology Porn: The car phone in Burke's Rolls was featured prominently.
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Burke's Law / int_518de95b	type	Always Murder
Burke's Law / int_518de95b	comment	Always Murder: Well, he is the captain of the Homicide Squad.
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Burke's Law / int_54ee15f9	type	Always Gets His Man
Burke's Law / int_54ee15f9	comment	Always Gets His Man: Burke, all the way.
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Burke's Law / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Burke's Law / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: One of the victims in "Who Killed Everybody?"
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Burke's Law / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Burke's Law / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: The source of Burke's wealth. In one episode, an IRS agent presses him to explain how he can afford his lavish lifestyle. He snarks that he's an avid coupon clipper.
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Burke's Law / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
Burke's Law / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: A murder was committed to prevent this. The killer of a wealthy country club member is the mother of a young woman the man was dating. When the daughter demands to know why her mother "killed the man I loved," the mother replies "that man was your father!" She'd had a one night stand with him 25 years earlier when he was a poor plumber, only learning she was pregnant later. When the man arrived at the club as a member, the woman saw her daughter getting close to him and killed him rather than simply tell the truth about the girl's origins.
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Burke's Law / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Burke's Law / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: In "Who Killed the Highest Bidder?", the killer might well have gotten away with it thanks to his "airtight" alibi of having been on video in Paris when the murder was committed. But Burke hears a police siren echoing in the background which is not what a French police car sounds like and thus figures out the guy was actually in Los Angeles and faked the video call.
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Burke's Law / int_679d07f9	type	Unmanly Secret
Burke's Law / int_679d07f9	comment	Unmanly Secret: The revival episode "Who Killed The Toymaker" features General Prescott, a toy company's military consultant. Prescott collects stuffed animals, saying it started in The Korean War when he carried a teddy bear to remind him of his childhood amidst all that death. He's a bit self-conscious about his hobby and tells his coworkers that the toys are gifts for his nonexistent granddaughter.
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Burke's Law / int_6d7981e5	type	Take Me Out at the Ball Game
Burke's Law / int_6d7981e5	comment	Take Me Out At The Ballgame: In "Who Killed the Man on the White Horse?", a cowboy star falls off his horse at a rodeo, dead of a broken neck — sustained before he went out into the arena. Similarly, "Who Killed Wimbledon Hastings?" had a tennis pro killed by an exploding ball during a charity match.
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Burke's Law / int_6dc99d2a	type	Deadly Delivery
Burke's Law / int_6dc99d2a	comment	Deadly Delivery: Subverted in "Who Killed Molly?"
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Burke's Law / int_6fdd991c	type	Overt Operative
Burke's Law / int_6fdd991c	comment	Overt Operative: Even after he became a secret agent for the government, Burke kept the fancy tailored suits and the silver Rolls Royce. He also never bothered with false names or disguises.
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Burke's Law / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
Burke's Law / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: In "Who Killed Jason Shaw?," "Give 'Em Away" Murphy is a Motor Mouth who owns several prosperous used car dealerships and once spent six months in jail for lying about the engine of a car he sold.
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Burke's Law / int_71598ac8	type	Internal Affairs
Burke's Law / int_71598ac8	comment	Internal Affairs: Captain Metcalfe in "Who Killed the Horne of Plenty?"
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Burke's Law / int_71bc0919	type	Burn Baby Burn
Burke's Law / int_71bc0919	comment	Burn Baby Burn: In "Who Killed the Movie Mogul," the Burkes question Leo Barnett's main starlet and reluctant mistress as she puts everything Leo ever gave her into a car (which he also gave her). She then uses some of the studio's equipment to blow the car up.
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Burke's Law / int_7230cfe	type	Shoe Phone
Burke's Law / int_7230cfe	comment	Shoe Phone: During the Amos Burke, Secret Agent era, Burke had quite a few of these, like a pen that unfolded the stairs in his private jet.
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Burke's Law / int_735e71c2	type	Recursive Canon
Burke's Law / int_735e71c2	comment	Recursive Canon: In The Stinger for "Who Killed Purity Mather?" the Girl of the Week watches an episode of Burke's Law on our hero's limo TV.
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Burke's Law / int_76c02df6	type	Hero's Classic Car
Burke's Law / int_76c02df6	comment	Hero's Classic Car: Burke drives a 1962 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II during his police investigations. While not actually an example during the original 1963 series, it certainly fits when it appears in the 1994 revival.
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Burke's Law / int_790b1e6	type	Nasty Party
Burke's Law / int_790b1e6	comment	Nasty Party: In "Who Killed Cassandra Cass?", the victim made it a habit to invite all of her Blackmail victims to an annual dinner party.
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Burke's Law / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
Burke's Law / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Burke always dressed to the nines.
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Burke's Law / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Burke's Law / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Burke's 1962 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud II. It had a prominently featured car phone and, during the show's Spy Fiction phase, bulletproofing.
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Burke's Law / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
Burke's Law / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: Burke's Irish Uncle Pat ("Who Killed The Grand Piano?") is played by Gene Barry with a blonde wig and moustache.
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Burke's Law / int_8e00db94	type	Mystery of the Week
Burke's Law / int_8e00db94	comment	Mystery of the Week
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Burke's Law / int_8e92e125	type	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
Burke's Law / int_8e92e125	comment	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: When Anne Francis guested on the revival as Honey West (whose series was spun off from an episode of the original), the character had to be called Honey Best since Spelling Entertainment didn't have the rights (unlike Capt. Burke, Honey came from a series of novels by Skip and Gloria Fickling).
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Burke's Law / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Burke's Law / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Usually, in order to make it believable that Everyone Is a Suspect.
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Burke's Law / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Burke's Law / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Happens to a few victims. One of the best would have to be an ambulance-chasing lawyer run down by a stolen ambulance. Every suspect openly notes how "the killer had a sense of humor." A tennis player named Spider is killed by a tarantula. Burke has to admire "a spider killed Spider."
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Burke's Law / int_926c5119	type	Detective Patsy
Burke's Law / int_926c5119	comment	Detective Patsy: Tilson in "Who Killed the Horne of Plenty?"
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Burke's Law / int_943b920b	type	Electrified Bathtub
Burke's Law / int_943b920b	comment	Electrified Bathtub: Used in "Who Killed the Starlet?" A woman is the bath while listening to some music, when a killer sneaks in and drops her boombox into the bathtub, killing her. It turns out that the killer and lady are merely actors on a movie set, and they're filming a murder scene. Then it turns out the boombox had been plugged into a live outlet by an unknown party, and the actress in the bathtub really is dead. As it turns out, the actress wasn't killed by electrocution, but by an organic poison leeched into the bathwater, whose symptoms mimic those of electrocution.
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Burke's Law / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Burke's Law / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: In "Who Killed Mr. Colby in Ladies' Lingerie?", Burke is in Chicago to speak at a police convention, so Les and Tim have to solve the murder without his input. In "Who Killed Good Time Charlie?", Amos, who usually reveals the killer, defers to Peter for the reveal, as the dead man was his old college buddy.
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Burke's Law / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Burke's Law / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: In "Who Killed the Toymaker," the victim's affection for his wife (the model for a toy line) plummeted when she got an MBA and went to work at his company.
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Burke's Law / int_9df1477	type	The Exotic Detective
Burke's Law / int_9df1477	comment	The Exotic Detective: Burke has an incredible amount of dough but he still is out on the streets investigating crimes in his limo. The fact he is rich even has helped him regularly by letting him into VIP places a regular cop wouldn't enter without having to get rough.
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Burke's Law / int_a2484b0e	type	The Beautiful Elite
Burke's Law / int_a2484b0e	comment	The Beautiful Elite: The usual milieu of the investigation. The victim was almost always a celebrity of some variety, and thus so would the suspects be.
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Burke's Law / int_a3556278	type	Jail Bake
Burke's Law / int_a3556278	comment	Jail Bake: Attempted in "Who Killed Cassandra Cass?"
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Burke's Law / int_a431b0e6	type	The Butler Did It
Burke's Law / int_a431b0e6	comment	The Butler Did It: Hart is convinced this is the case in "Who Killed Cassandra Cass?" Turns out, he's right.
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Burke's Law / int_a4f81481	type	Circus Episode
Burke's Law / int_a4f81481	comment	Circus Episode: "Who Killed the 13th Clown?", where the murder occurs when all the clowns are riding in a clown car at the circus. To top it off, Burke and the killer get into a car chase where both men are driving clown cars on L.A. streets!
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Burke's Law / int_a66b0789	type	Fingertip Drug Analysis
Burke's Law / int_a66b0789	comment	Fingertip Drug Analysis: Burke does this in "Who Killed Marty Kelso?" Mind-bogglingly, he does this knowing that the drug he's tasting was probably used to poison the victim. to be fair the 'drug' was Baking Soda (antacid) and the 'poison' was a mass does of sleeping Pills, so a finger taste would hardly be troublesome
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Burke's Law / int_a6fa41b	type	Recycled Premise
Burke's Law / int_a6fa41b	comment	Recycled Premise: The original's "Who Killed The Toy Soldier?" led to the revival's "Who Killed The Toy Maker?" The original series episode "Who Killed Merlin the Great?" was remade for the revival as "Who Killed Alexander the Great?" In between those two episodes, original episode writers Richard Levinson and William Link remade it as the pilot for their short-lived Blacke's Magic series.
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Burke's Law / int_aa3d3d1a	type	Motive Misidentification
Burke's Law / int_aa3d3d1a	comment	Motive Misidentification: Happens a few times as the real reason for the murder isn't as obvious as it seems. "Who Killed Good Time Charlie" has Burke assuming the killer was paying back the victim for a bad business deal. It turns out that the man had discovered how, years before, the victim (an infamous prankster) had put a snake in the guy's car. But the person driving it was the man's girlfriend who got into a fatal accident. He'd finally realized the snake startled her to cause the accident and was out for revenge on losing the woman he loved over a stupid prank. "Who Killed the Motorcar Maverick" ends with the suspect having two great motives: Not only was the car CEO victim responsible for the accident that ruined his racing career but he was sleeping with the guy's wife. The man snaps the real reason was that the CEO refused to accept how his new car model was highly dangerous and would have caused numerous deaths if produced so the murderer killed him to save the lives of hundreds of drivers.
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Burke's Law / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Burke's Law / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: For the first two seasons and the revival, each episode was entitled "Who Killed [Weekly Victim's Name/Occupation]?" When the show underwent its Genre Shift in Season 3, this was dropped, too.
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Burke's Law / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Burke's Law / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase/Title Drop: After delivering a witty aphorism, Burke dubs it "Burke's Law."
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Burke's Law / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Burke's Law / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head/Waking Up Elsewhere: Burke falls victim to both in "Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World?"
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Burke's Law / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Burke's Law / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: A few times as the victim.
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Burke's Law / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Burke's Law / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Burke. The only time he ever loses at anything is when the other person cheats.
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Burke's Law / int_b892dd2d	type	Girl of the Week
Burke's Law / int_b892dd2d	comment	In "Who Killed My Girl?" from the original series, the Girl of the Week is also the murder victim...Burke's former girlfriend, whom he went to dinner with. She was killed right after he dropped her off at home.
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Burke's Law / int_b89ab683	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Burke's Law / int_b89ab683	comment	Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Burke is the Great Detective of the show, but his subordinate Tim is a keen-eyed investigator. When Burke asks him to procure a piece of evidence, Tim has generally anticipated that request and already gotten started on it.
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Burke's Law / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Burke's Law / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: In "Who Killed the Rest?", Burke is accused of two murders while vacationing in Mexico. In "Who Killed the Horne of Plenty?", Tim Tilson is not only accused of possible impropriety (a model who's a suspect claims that he got her a modeling job in exchange for information in a previous case), he's also accused of murder when said model is herself killed.
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Burke's Law / int_bc867843	type	Jumping Out of a Cake
Burke's Law / int_bc867843	comment	Jumping Out of a Cake: A girl who does this at a stag party where all the guests were murdered becomes a particularly irritating (and clingy) witness in "Who Killed Everybody?". In the revival series episode, "Who Killed the World's Greatest Chef?", a girl jumps out of a cake and fires two guns, one shoots out a flag that says "BANG!", the other a real pistol that takes out the victim of the week.
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Burke's Law / int_bdd4c302	type	Perky Goth
Burke's Law / int_bdd4c302	comment	Perky Goth: Downplayed with Leona Barnett in "Who Killed the Movie Mogul." She's a dark-clad woman who owns a horror movie memorabilia shop and is obsessed with the dark side of life. However, she shows a more friendly and cheerful side during the few moments where she isn't interacting with her emotionally distant father or being accused of his murder by the police (both of which provide some justification for an unhappy attitude).
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Burke's Law / int_be23e9f6	type	Millionaire Playboy
Burke's Law / int_be23e9f6	comment	Millionaire Playboy: Burke had a day job, of course, but otherwise he fit this to a tee.
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Burke's Law / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Burke's Law / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Tim Tilson, for which he was often the subject of Burke's good-natured ribbing.
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Burke's Law / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Burke's Law / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The quiz show "Hangman" in "Who Killed Mr. Game Show?"
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Burke's Law / int_c2c15b23	type	Bait-and-Switch Comment
Burke's Law / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: Burke loves doing this (especially in the 1994 revival). In the climax when all the suspects are together, Burke will go to each one, making a comment that sounds as if they're about to be arrested for the murder...then say it's just something much better. "I think you're about to get just what you deserve...the money the victim owed you just cleared the legal channels." "You should be ashamed of yourself...your attitude is horrible." "You won't need to worry about money where you're going...that cushy new job of yours." "Expect a visit from the police...about those unpaid tickets of yours." "Now Mr. Ripley, I'm afraid you've directed your last vampire film ... I read this morning that you just signed to direct a big-budget Western. Happy trails, partner. Occasionally Burke would do a double version by making a comment to let someone think they were off the hook, then turn back later to reveal they're the killer after all. Nicely played with in "Who Killed the Hollywood Headshrinker" as Burke does this to the suspects...then arrests all of them as Everbody Did It.
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Burke's Law / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Burke's Law / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: In the original series: Also starring Gary Conway, with Regis Toomey and Leon Lontoc.
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Burke's Law / int_c59c953e	type	You Just Ruined the Shot
Burke's Law / int_c59c953e	comment	You Just Ruined the Shot: In the premiere episode of the revived series, "Who Killed the Starlet?", Burke goes to visit rock singer Roger Rose (Bret Michaels) on the set of his band's video (the song for the video is Poison's "Unskinny Bop"). The video features a group of guys in suits dancing around, and Burke, who's wearing a suit, gets dragged into the video and is getting into the dancing when Rose notices him and has a freak-out.
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Burke's Law / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Burke's Law / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In "Who Killed Lenore Wingfield?", Burke and Tim pay a visit to businessman Jim Clover to speak to him about his involvement with the dead woman. They arrive at Clover Industries and ride up in a special elevator to Clover's penthouse office, an elevator equipped with a fancy couch and a P.A. system that delivers a spiel about Clover Industries. Upon exiting, Burke quips, "On the way down, Charles Boyer gives us a reading from Don Juan In Hell!" Boyer, who was indeed starring in that very play at that time, was one of the actors who founded Four Star Television, the original series' production company. In "Who Killed Mr. Game Show?", the game show shout-outs are fast and furious. Upon learning that the dead man was at odds with his wife, Burke vows to pay her a visit and 'find out more about this...Family Feud!'. He and Peter also drop in on the show's slick host, to 'see if he knows how to...Tell the Truth!". And when all the suspects are brought together for the reveal of the killer(s), he prefaces it by saying, "Welcome to our version of Final Jeopardy!".
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Burke's Law / int_c76f81b8	type	Non-Idle Rich
Burke's Law / int_c76f81b8	comment	Non-Idle Rich: Burke, of course.
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Burke's Law / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Burke's Law / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: "The Man," Burke's mysterious boss when he became a secret agent.
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Burke's Law / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Burke's Law / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer
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Burke's Law / int_d143edf2	type	Everybody Did It
Burke's Law / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: "Who Killed the Hollywood Headshrinker" has this as the solution.
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Burke's Law / int_d7a8fdeb	type	Intimate Telecommunications
Burke's Law / int_d7a8fdeb	comment	Intimate Telecommunications: In "Who Killed the Movie Mogul?," one suspect is an aspiring actress who gets Stage Fright but has no problem putting on a dominatrix persona for clients over the phone.
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Burke's Law / int_da06866e	type	Old Cop, Young Cop
Burke's Law / int_da06866e	comment	Old Cop, Young Cop: Burke's two main assistants are a weathered old detective with good instincts and a sharply dressed younger one who excels at gathering evidence.
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Burke's Law / int_db015585	type	False Confession
Burke's Law / int_db015585	comment	False Confession: In "Who Killed Cassandra Cass?" each suspect confesses to being the murderer, but Burke thinks some (or all) of them are lying because each confession has the victim saying something different just before she is killed. Turns out they were all telling the truth because the butler had recorded the victim and then played different recordings for each person before they shot a dummy of the victim.
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Burke's Law / int_dc3d9a68	type	Orgy of Evidence
Burke's Law / int_dc3d9a68	comment	Orgy of Evidence: In "Who Killed Marty Kelso?", the murderer plants a cufflink at the scene to implicate an innocent man. After the police fail to find it, she plants its mate. When Burke finds both of them, he figures that one cufflink is a clue and two is an obvious frameup.
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Burke's Law / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
Burke's Law / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: In "Who Killed Everybody?"
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Burke's Law / int_e540d1e6	type	Camp
Burke's Law / int_e540d1e6	comment	Camp: Both series had their moments, but the 90's revival in particular turned the camp up and then ripped out the knob.
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Burke's Law / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Burke's Law / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Effie Mae Porter in "Who Killed Lenore Wingfield?" is one for The Beverly Hillbillies' Elly May Clampett. A Painted-On Pants-wearing Friend to All Living Things okay,Almost All Living Things. she's the killer. In "Who Killed Supersleuth?, there are expies for Sherlock Holmes (Inspector House of Scotland Yard), Hercule Poirot (Bascule Doirot) and Mr. Moto (Mr. Toto).
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Burke's Law / int_f2d29e14	type	Evil Brit
Burke's Law / int_f2d29e14	comment	Evil Brit: "Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World?" and "Who Killed Davidian Jonas?", and also "Who Killed the Highest Bidder?" from the revival.
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Burke's Law / int_f44ad3e1	type	Twin Switch
Burke's Law / int_f44ad3e1	comment	Twin Switch: "Who Killed the Movie Mogul" has a wicked producer killed. At his funeral, everyone is shocked when his identical twin brother shows up and passes a lie detector test on not killing "Leo." But Burke notes that the man's glasses are just clear, not actually working. It turns out this is the "victim" who tricked his twin into swapping places to kill him before he could force Leo out of the studio and then posed as the twin to continue running his studio.
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Burke's Law / int_f54a4264	type	Disability Alibi
Burke's Law / int_f54a4264	comment	Disability Alibi: An animal version occurs in "Who Killed the Highest Bidder." The victim is fatally clawed with a jaguar's paw. The detectives are initially unsure if the claws belongs to a live jaguar or was taken from a taxidermy exhibit. They accuse an animal trainer who is sleeping with the victim's widow of using his jaguar as an Animal Assassin, but it turns out that the animal was declawed two years ago.
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Burke's Law / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Burke's Law / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: One of the suspects is having one as Burke and Tilson question her in "Who Killed Cassandra Cass?"
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Burke's Law / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Burke's Law / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: "Who Killed Purity Mather?" is more like "Who Did Purity Mather Kill And Make People Believe It Was Her Who Bought It?" Also, in the revival episode 'Who Killed the Movie Mogul?', it turns out that the movie mogul himself was the killer, the victim was his twin brother who had been trying to force him out of the movie company, and the mogul was impersonating the twin over the course of the episode.
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Burke's Law / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Burke's Law / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Amos Burke, Secret Agent's "Peace, It's A Gasser."
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Burke's Law	hasFeature	Cool Car / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Dead Person Impersonation / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Deadly Bath / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Deceptive Legacy / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Electrified Bathtub / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Gentleman Detective / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Hero's Classic Car / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Instrumental Theme Tune / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Intimate Telecommunications / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Mandela Effect / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Millionaire Playboy / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Non-Idle Rich / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Obfuscating Postmortem Wounds / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Old Cop, Young Cop / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Orgy of Evidence / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Perky Goth / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Questioning Title? / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Recursive Canon / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Surprise Incest / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Take Me Out at the Ball Game / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	The Exotic Detective / int_14915e81
Burke's Law	hasFeature	Unmanly Secret / int_14915e81

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