1973: 'Barnaby Jones' Starts Solving Mysteries
January 28, 2021
| By TV WW
On this day in 1973, CBS introduced the mid-season replacement, Barnaby Jones. The series starred former Beverly Hillbillies patriarch Buddy Ebsen as a retired private detective who gets back into the business when his son, also a P.I., is murdered. Lee Meriwether co-starred as Barnaby's widowed daughter-in-law and eventual business partner.
The series ran eight seasons.