List of Burke's Law episodes

Model Holly Howard is found murdered, and the only clues seem to link a trio of wealthy Texans to her death.

A body turns up at a merry-go-round. There are no identifying papers and the labels have been removed from the man's clothing. The few clues available point Burke toward an actress under exclusive contract to Flood, a rarely seen industrialist. Burke discovers a number of women are under such exclusive contracts. Then, the detective discovers the dead man was Flood himself.

Cable Roberts, a legendary writer, documentary filmmaker, and hunter in the Hemingway mold, is found murdered in his study. There are three significant clues: he was killed with one of his own rifles, he was shot twice big-game style, and his body was propped against a wall alongside his many hunting trophies.

Burke's investigation of the murder of Harris Crown is complicated by the fact that Mrs. Crown is pregnant... and not by her husband.

Julian Buck, respected author, is found stabbed to death in his study. The manuscript for his latest novel is missing, but one curious item is found: an extra rubber cap for the feet of his typewriter stand.

The publisher of a girlie magazine is murdered at one of his own key clubs.

One of four identical sisters with odd personalities is poisoned with cyanide at the residence of a beach bum. Burke and Tilson uncover a family history of suspicious deaths.

A recording star is murdered. Was the killer his agent, his sister, his music arranger, or someone else?

Wealthy Wade Walker' plane blows up in mid-air. Who killed him, his partner or one of his four prospective brides?

Dr. Eric Techman, a fashionable LA psychiatrist, telephones Burke to warn him of an impending murder — his own — by one of his patients. But Techman is gunned down before he can name the killer.

Prior to her apparent murder, a practicing witch sends Amos a message predicting her murder with a list of five suspects from the occult arts.

Missing Siamese cat Deborah is Burke's prime clue to Cynthia Royal's murder. The victim had just arrived from Chicago to reunite with her estranged husband. The husband had been wooing a nightclub singer... which leads Burke to the nightclub's owner/comic and his attorney. The trail leads to two beatniks, the return of Deborah and the solution of the case.

"Professor" Kingston's sideshow-style 'museum' includes a supposedly genuine electric chair - but someone replaced the dummy with a real body.

Burke attends a pool party at tycoon Victor Haggerty's mansion when dashing Beau Sparrow is thrown into the pool by a faulty diving apparatus, and dies. Who or what killed him? Was the killer the tycoon, his spoiled pampered wife, her paid companion, the countess who was Beau's current flame, the tough-as-nails secretary, or the blowhard businessman?

A strange girl named Lucy Brewer finds a corpse in the shower. Burke's suspects include an old friend, a cultivator of unusual plants, a wine snob and a famous used car salesman... but what did they all have in common? (Scheduled to air on Nov. 22, 1963, this episode was postponed following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.)

Has Amos Burke himself been murdered? No, but it's definitely a dead ringer.

A bank robbery ends with the unprovoked shooting death of its owner, financier Victor S. Barrows. The key to the mystery: one of perpetrators is a man so average, no one can describe him.

A shady attorney carrying a lot of money dies after calling Burke - to say he's been murdered.

Carhop waitress April Adams is found murdered in an automobile scrapyard. The discovery that she had over $40,000 in the bank indicates that she had a second income that was both lucrative and illicit.

Carrie Cornell, singer and model, is found murdered on a beach. A photograph of her in Girlicue magazine links her to sleazy millionaire Martin Van Martin - who has disappeared.

A man claiming to be an exiled Russian prince — not that anyone ever believed it — is murdered.

Ruthless Hollywood agent Marty Kelso is murdered and leaves behind a plethora of suspects, including one new and three ex-wives.

Burke and his team investigate the murder of a wealthy industrial designer.

Pop artist Andy Zygmunt is fatally impaled on the spikes of one of his creations. The discovery that he blackmailed people into buying his works provides a motive and five suspects: his last four customers and the possessor of a missing fifth.

During Chinese New Year celebrations, a body is found concealed in a car.

Brunette housewife Molly Brown is found dead in her shower, the apparent victim of a fall and drowning. But the autopsy shows that she was strangled, and the discovery of blond wig hairs on four of her dresses is the first indication of her very busy secret life.

Socialite equestrian William Henry Otis IV, nicknamed WHO IV ("Who Four"), is beaten to death in his stable with a horseshoe from a riding trophy. The suspects are the regulars in his weekly fox hunts, among them Burke's old flame Jennifer and her husband St. John ("Sinjin") Carlisle, and, of course, the butler.

Party girl Annie Foran is found strangled in the back seat of a customer's car at the exclusive restaurant Club Nova. Suspicion falls on her ex-boyfriend, baseball sensation Eddie Dineen, who was there at the time in the company of his mentor, the acerbic columnist Whitman Saunders, and Saunder's assistant, Milo Morgan.

Using a silenced .38 revolver, someone murders heiress Diana Mercer in her bedroom after she's been dropped off by that night's date — her old flame, Amos Burke. As he investigates, he discovers the murdered woman was not the one he knew and loved years earlier.

Nirvana, an upscale health spa for women only, is disrupted when husband-stealing socialite Celia Bannerman is found murdered in the mud bath. Suspicion centers on the five women who shared her bungalow. (Trivia: sign on electrician's truck in opening scene reads "Weis Electric," director's name.)

A waxwork museum also turns out to contain a corpse.

Unpleasant Benjamin Glory, one half partner of the Glory Lee fashion house, is found dead in a crashed elevator. But he was dead before he ever entered it, killed by "a sharp and blunt instrument."

Rising actress and beach queen Tina Romaine surfs a difficult wave, walks a few steps, and drops dead. A bullet grazed her right temple, but the wound was superficial and the autopsy finds that she was killed by an archaic poison. Posing as a beach bum, Tim goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing crowd.

The burlesque comedy team of Witt, Watt and Who (now an accountant, a desk clerk and a bartender with a dark secret), a professor of the striptease, a tap dancer, the manager of a hotel for showfolk, a unicyclist — any one of them may have "killed vaudeville," but one of them certainly poisoned baggy pants clown Rags McGuire, who was about to be featured in an event at the Hollywood Bowl. Burke corners the killer at the Bowl and almost brings the house down.

While the water for her before-dinner bath is being drawn, high society blackmailer Cassandra Cass is gunned down in her bedroom in her mansion. The prime suspects are her four victims, all of whom had been invited to dinner that evening. And, of course, there's the butler.

While hosting a garden party on a sunny Sunday afternoon, modeling mogul Charles Lee Horne telephones the homicide squad and asks for Burke. A single rifle shot ends both the call and Horne's life. The investigation takes an unexpected and disturbing twist when one of Horne's models, Felice Knight, files an internal affairs complaint alleging that Tim helped her to blackmail the victim.

Four poker buddies celebrate the first anniversary of their weekly games with a private party at the Hillsdale Country Club. The festivities end when all four men are killed by a bottle of poisoned wine. There is no shortage of suspects. Besides having four unhappy wives, the men had incurred the ire of Butterfield, the club's historian, baseball coach, and busybody.