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Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Burke's Law Season 3 Episode 11 - Whatever Happend to Adriana, and Why Won't She Stay Dead?
    6.5/10(30 votes)

    #1 - Whatever Happend to Adriana, and Why Won't She Stay Dead?

    S3:E11

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Burke's Law Season 3 Episode 13 - Or No Tomorrow
    6.5/10(29 votes)

    #2 - Or No Tomorrow

    S3:E13

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Burke's Law Season 1 Episode 31 - Who Killed Don Pablo?
    6.6/10(46 votes)

    #3 - Who Killed Don Pablo?

    S1:E31

    Don Pablo Ortega's skewered corpse replaces the wax figure in a museum during a Spanish festival. The historic plaza is in danger of being demolished for ""progress"" and suspects (pro and con in the matter) include the guide at the museum, a fiery female matador, the head of the rival clan, Don Pablo's old-world mother (who reveals many secrets to Les but hides many others) and Don Pablo's aggressive business partner. With the help of a flirtatious librarian and an elderly monk, Burke uncovers centuries-old secrets (not to mention a secret passage) that lead him to the killer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Burke's Law Season 3 Episode 15 - A Very Important Russian is Missing
    6.8/10(23 votes)

    #4 - A Very Important Russian is Missing

    S3:E15

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Burke's Law Season 3 Episode 1 - Balance of Terror
    6.9/10(49 votes)

    #5 - Balance of Terror

    S3:E1

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Burke's Law Season 2 Episode 18 - Who Killed the Toy Soldier?
    7.0/10(27 votes)

    #6 - Who Killed the Toy Soldier?

    S2:E18

    Granny Grabber, the not-so-nice head of a toy firm, is blown sky high by a bomb placed in his giant toy soldier cigar lighter. The killer had to be one of five people who were photographed coming into his office that day (Granny was paranoid about industrial espionage). The victim's sultry secretary, the company's military adviser on all war toys, an aeronautical scientist, a ""James Bond"" wannabe, and the head of a school for juvenile delinquents all come under suspicion. When one of the suspects discovers a vital clue and is murdered, Burke discovers that Granny had plans to make millions by NOT producing a toy!

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Lorenzo Semple Jr.

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  7. Burke's Law Season 3 Episode 14 - A Little Gift for Cairo
    7.0/10(22 votes)

    #7 - A Little Gift for Cairo

    S3:E14

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    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Burke's Law Season 3 Episode 4 - Password to Death
    7.1/10(26 votes)

    #8 - Password to Death

    S3:E4

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Burke's Law Season 3 Episode 5 - The Man with the Power
    7.1/10(19 votes)

    #9 - The Man with the Power

    S3:E5

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Burke's Law Season 3 Episode 10 - Deadlier Than the Male
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    #10 - Deadlier Than the Male

    S3:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Burke's Law Season 1 Episode 18 - Who Killed Madison Cooper?
    7.2/10(52 votes)

    #11 - Who Killed Madison Cooper?

    S1:E18

    Hotshot lawyer Madison Cooper calls Burke as he dies in a seedy part of town of stab wounds inflicted elsewhere. He had just put a large amount of cash into a newspaper vending booth and Burke finds that Cooper was dying and had been trying to contact former clients whom he had wronged in the past. With the help of Cooper's executive secretary, Burke investigates the old cases, including a murder trial, an prison sentence that resulted in death, embezzlement, and a paternity scandal.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Burke's Law Season 1 Episode 23 - Who Killed Avery Lord?
    7.2/10(46 votes)

    #12 - Who Killed Avery Lord?

    S1:E23

    Burke follows a mournful song, an odd-looking key and an elusive young girl in white, after industrial designer Avery Lord is stabbed to death. The suspects are all his current clients: a playgirl whose compact is found at the crime scene, a hot-headed health food producer, a dishonest building contractor, and an auto manufacturer who dotes on his ""ferocious"" pet. Burke is knocked unconscious while chasing the girl in white through the fog one night outside Lord's mansion, or did he just imagine her? A distinctive piece of jewelry helps solve the case.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Burke's Law Season 3 Episode 12 - The Man's Men
    7.2/10(21 votes)

    #13 - The Man's Men

    S3:E12

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    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Burke's Law Season 1 Episode 15 - Who Killed Jason Shaw?
    7.3/10(81 votes)

    #14 - Who Killed Jason Shaw?

    S1:E15

    When a shady businessman is found dead, fully clothed, in a hotel shower, surrounded by burned thousand dollar bills, Burke is confronted with a group of men who seem to have absolutely nothing in common - a shipbuilder with a musical hobby, a haughty wine connoisseur, a loud-mouthed used-car salesman, and a man who breeds carnivorous plants. The dizzy blonde who discovered the body (and who seems to always be hungry) may or may not be just a pawn in a scheme. While Tim becomes interested in the dead man's secretary, Burke has his eye on a lovely sculptor, who may be trying to steer him away from her father, one of the suspects.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Burke's Law Season 2 Episode 25 - Who Killed the Rest?
    7.3/10(21 votes)

    #15 - Who Killed the Rest?

    S2:E25

    Burke's vacation south of the border is anything but restful when he is jailed for the murder of a gossip columnist and a popular local fisherman. With the help of his vacation date and the ever-faithful Henry, Burke escapes from prison, but can he outwit the local police chief after all his ID has been stolen? He needs to find out whether the killer is the Nazi, the anthropologist turned voodoo priestess, the novelist, or the sexy sailor gal, before the angry mob catches up with him. When one of the locals is poisoned, Burke knows who the killer is.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Lorenzo Semple Jr.

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  16. Burke's Law Season 3 Episode 6 - Nightmare in the Sun
    7.3/10(22 votes)

    #16 - Nightmare in the Sun

    S3:E6

    No description available

    Director:James Goldstone
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Burke's Law Season 1 Episode 8 - Who Killed Billy Jo?
    7.4/10(63 votes)

    #17 - Who Killed Billy Jo?

    S1:E8

    Pop recording star Billy Jo Tate is slain in front of all his guests at a party celebrating his latest hit. A ""good-ol' boy"", Billy Jo is surrounded by users and people he used - his agent, his ""best buddy"", a smarmy astrologer, a jive arranger, Tate's showgirl sister, the woman who discovered him, and a female (and married) admirer. When Tim spots a shady character at Billy Jo's funeral, Burke confronts the man and learns what prompted the singer's murder.

    Director:Hy Averback
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Burke's Law Season 1 Episode 20 - Who Killed Carrie Cornell?
    7.4/10(56 votes)

    #18 - Who Killed Carrie Cornell?

    S1:E20

    A group of ""junior cadets"" discover the body of a bikini-clad girl wrapped in chains, lying in the surf. The victim, a singer and sometime ""model"", has been linked to a oil tycoon, who is away on business, according to his alcoholic wife. While the tycoon is busy with young girls, his wife is supporting male artists. One of these, a sculptor, comes under suspicion, along with his studio mate, a health freak. Other suspects include the owner of a beachfront club, a guitar maker and a folk singer. Two more bodies turn up before Burke can solve the case.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jay Dratler

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  19. Burke's Law Season 2 Episode 6 - Who Killed Mr. Cartwheel?
    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #19 - Who Killed Mr. Cartwheel?

    S2:E6

    Burke goes cowboy at a tourist-style Old West town, after the hanging of Emerson Cartwheel at a coin auction. The clue is a valuable rare coin used to kill the victim, but before Burke can investigate, he's tossed in the hoosegow by the local honorary (and very lovely) female sheriff of Epitaph Flats. After a dramatic jail break, with an assist from Henry, Burke and his crew question the town drunk, one of the ""gunslingers"" in the Wild West tourist show, the victim's business rival, the lady blacksmith and a very Brooklynese ""Native American"". Soon real bullets start flying and the whole case ends in a barroom free-for-all.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Burke's Law Season 2 Episode 10 - Who Killed the Tall One in the Middle?
    7.4/10(25 votes)

    #20 - Who Killed the Tall One in the Middle?

    S2:E10

    The lead singer in a sister trio act is poisoned. Both the surviving sisters hated the victim, but others had motive as well: the nightclub owner, the trio's former arranger, the girls' agent, their stepfather, and a real estate agent who had been involved with two of the sisters. After one of the suspects is attacked and brutally beaten, Tim is nearly run down by a speeding car and another suspect is murdered. Burke finally discovers the solution to the crime at a sanitorium.

    Director:Don Weis
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Burke's Law Season 2 Episode 20 - Who Killed Wimbledon Hastings?
    7.4/10(30 votes)

    #21 - Who Killed Wimbledon Hastings?

    S2:E20

    An ace shot by a tennis star blows up in his face at a charity event, after one of his tennis balls has been loaded with explosives. Burke scours the local country club for clues while trying to avoid the ""help"" of an eager ball boy, who claims he can solve the case for Burke. The victim's pessimistic manager, his fiancee and her jealous sister (a dentist), his ex-wife, and a tennis rival all had access to the club room and could have tampered with the equipment. Finally, a nightclub singer who knew the victim well gives Tim some valuable information. When Burke figures out the relevance of a casual bit of trivia, he corners the killer, who still has a few ""bomb balls"" to spare. The case comes to an explosive finish.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Leigh Chapman

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  22. Burke's Law Season 1 Episode 28 - Who Killed Annie Foran?
    7.5/10(60 votes)

    #22 - Who Killed Annie Foran?

    S1:E28

    When Annie Foran's body is discovered in the back seat of a car parked at a fashionable night spot, suspicion falls on baseball star Eddie Dineen. As evidence mounts against the man, Burke wonders if Eddie is really guilty. Perhaps he should pay more attention to the slimy gossip columnist and his assistant, the wealthy socialite who has more than a passing interest in Eddie, the ball club manager, or the shifty hotel clerk. One thing is for sure, the nervous owner of the car in which the body was found is not the killer.

    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Burke's Law Season 2 Episode 3 - Who Killed Cassandra Cass?
    7.5/10(57 votes)

    #23 - Who Killed Cassandra Cass?

    S2:E3

    After Cassandra Cass is shot in her bed (by a mysterious hooded figure) while her butler draws her bath, it is revealed that she has been blackmailing subscribers to her society Blue Book. One after another of the suspects (a deposed Balkan King, a banker, a drugged out socialite and the head of a ""psychodrama"" society) more or less confesses to the crime, but each of their descriptions of the event varies slightly from the known facts. Meanwhile, Les keeps insisting that ""the butler did it"". With the help of Cassandra's sexy secretary and a health fanatic, Burke concocts a plan to trap the real killer.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Lorenzo Semple Jr.

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  24. Burke's Law Season 2 Episode 12 - Who Killed 711?
    7.5/10(37 votes)

    #24 - Who Killed 711?

    S2:E12

    This victim was scheduled to go before a grand jury but was slain in a hotel elevator before he could testify. The solution to the crime must be in his hotel room, 711, but in order to solve the case, Burke goes undercover as a maitre d'. Tim and Les, meanwhile, are recruited as waiters, much to the dismay of the hotel manager. All the clues seem to point directly to the victim's befuddled bookkeeper, but this may be a frame-up. The others who have been subpoenaed, and who have good reason to want the victim dead, include a businesswoman with a fiery temper, the victim's attorney, his sexy assistant, and a shady rival businessman. Burke just narrowly misses being shot in a dark alley as he finds the clue that solves it all.

    Director:Sidney Lanfield
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Burke's Law Season 3 Episode 2 - Operation Long Shadow
    7.5/10(45 votes)

    #25 - Operation Long Shadow

    S3:E2

    No description available

    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Whatever Happend to Adriana, and Why Won't She Stay Dead?" is the worst rated episode of "Burke's Law". It scored 6.5/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/1/1965. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Or No Tomorrow".