All Episodes of J.J. Starbuck

Season 1

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  7.5/109 votes

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  Pilot

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1987

  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.

  Director: Corey Allen

  Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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  NaN/100 votes

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  A Killing in the Market

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1987

  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.

  Director: Larry Shaw

  Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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  NaN/100 votes

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  Murder In E Minor

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1987

  No description available

  Director: Kim Manners

  Writer: Babs Greyhosky

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  NaN/100 votes

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  The Blimpy Who Yelled Blue

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1987

  No description available

  Director: Bill Corcoran

  Writer: Randall Wallace

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  Incident at Sam September

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/1987

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

  Director: Bill Corcoran

  Writer: N/A

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  NaN/100 votes

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  Gold from the Rainbow

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/5/1987

  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

  Director: Neill Fearnley

  Writer: N/A

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  Graveyard Shift

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/15/1987

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

  Director: N/A

  Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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  NaN/100 votes

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  The Circle Unbroken

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/22/1987

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

  Director: Kim Manners

  Writer: Randall Wallace

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  The 6% Solution

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/26/1987

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

  Director: Zale Dalen, James Whitmore Jr.

  Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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  Murder by Design

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/23/1988

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

  Director: Kim Manners

  Writer: Randall Wallace

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  Cactus Jack's Last Call

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/13/1988

  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.

  Director: Zale Dalen

  Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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  7.0/106 votes

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  A Song from the Sequel

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/20/1988

  No description available

  Director: James Whitmore Jr.

  Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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  First You've Got To Go To The Picnic

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/27/1988

  No description available

  Director: Bruce Kessler

  Writer: Babs Greyhosky

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  Permanent Hiatus

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/27/1988

  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

  Director: Neill Fearnley, Zale Dalen

  Writer: Carol Mendelsohn

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  6.6/106 votes

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  Rag Doll

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/19/1988

  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.

  Director: William A. Fraker

  Writer: Randall Wallace

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  NaN/100 votes

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  The Rise And Fall Of Joe Piermont

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 6/28/1988

  No description available

  Director: N/A

  Writer: Carol Mendelsohn