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Season 1

  • S01E01 Starbuck (Pilot)

    • September 26, 1987
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E02 A Killing in the Market

    • September 29, 1987
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E03 Murder In E Minor

    • October 20, 1987
    • NBC

  • S01E04 The Blimpy Who Yelled Blue

    • October 27, 1987
    • NBC

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

  • S01E05 First You've Got To Go To The Picnic

    • November 3, 1987
    • NBC

  • S01E06 Incident At Sam September

    • November 10, 1987
    • NBC

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

  • S01E07 Gold From The Rainbow

    • December 5, 1987
    • NBC

  • S01E08 Graveyard Shift

    • December 15, 1987
    • NBC

  • S01E09 The 6% Solution

    • December 26, 1987
    • NBC

    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

  • S01E10 The Circle Unbroken

    • January 16, 1988
    • NBC

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

  • S01E11 Murder By Design

    • January 23, 1988
    • NBC

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

  • S01E12 Cactus Jack's Last Call

    • February 13, 1988
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E13 A Song From The Sequel

    • February 20, 1988
    • NBC

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

  • S01E14 Permanent Hiatus

    • February 27, 1988
    • NBC

    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

  • S01E15 Rag Doll

    • April 19, 1988
    • NBC

    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.

  • S01E16 The Rise And Fall Of Joe Piermont

    • June 28, 1988
    • NBC

  • S01E17 That Old Black Magic

    • NBC

  • S01E18 Everyone's A Critic

    • NBC