7.5/109 votes#1 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#2 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Murder In E Minor
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1987
No description available
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - The Blimpy Who Yelled Blue
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1987
No description available
Director: Bill Corcoran
Writer: Randall Wallace
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.0/106 votes
#12 - A Song from the Sequel
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/20/1988
No description available
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - 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
- 6.6/106 votes
#15 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - The Rise And Fall Of Joe Piermont
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 6/28/1988
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - That Old Black Magic
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired Unknown
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Everyone's a Critic
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired Unknown
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of J.J. Starbuck Season 1
Every episode of J.J. Starbuck Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of J.J. Starbuck Season 1!
J.J. Starbuck is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from September 1987 to June 1988. The series follows cornpone-spouting Jerome Jeremiah "J.J."...
Genre:Drama
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "J.J. Starbuck" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Corey Allen and written by Stephen J. Cannell, it aired on 9/26/1987. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "A Killing in the Market".