Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee
Meriwether (seen above) as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private
detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS-TV until April 3, 1980,
when it was cancelled due to low ratings among young viewers.
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BARNABY JONES PREMIERED ON THIS DATE IN 1973
BARETTA PREMIERED ON THIS DATE IN 1975
The ABC-TV police series ran until 1978 and starred former child actor Robert Blake as police detective Tony Baretta.
Robert Blake with “Fred” the Cockatoo
Michael D. Roberts (above) played “Rooster”, a streetwise pimp and
Tony’s favorite informant.
ROBERT STACK ~ JANUARY 13, 1919–MAY 14, 2003
Robert Stack as Eliot Ness in The Untouchables on
ABC-TV from 1959 – 1963.
Robert Stack,right, with Lloyd Bridges in the 1980 comedy
film Airplane.
NORTHWEST HIJACKING ON THIS DATE IN 1971
Hijacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a Northwest Airlines
727 over Washington State with $200,000 in ransom. His
whereabouts remains a mystery. The bulk of the money
has never been recovered. The F.B.I. believes Cooper
did not survive the Jump.
The Northwest 727 jet sits at the airport in Seattle during
the hijacking.
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