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Diagnosis: Murder, on CBS
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This began as a spin-off of Jake & the Fatman, when the character Dr. Mark Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) appeared in one episode, in 1991. The character later appeared in a few TV movies of his own, in 1992-93. It then became a regular series, which ran for eight seasons, from 1993-2001. There were then two more TV movies, in 2002. Anyway, I don't even remember whether I saw any of the TV movies, or the episode from Jake and the Fatman, but I may have. And I'm not sure how much of the series I saw, but I expect I thought it was kind of fun, if a bit corny. Dr. Sloan became an amateur sleuth in homicide investigations, I guess. Costars included Van Dyke's son, Barry, as Mark's son, police detective Steve Sloan; and Dr. Amanda Bentley (played by Victoria Rowell, whom I knew from having watched a bit of "The Young & the Restless"); and Dr. Jack Stewart (Scott Baio, who I must have known from "Happy Days" and "Charles in Charge"). And, um, I don't know what else to say.


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