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B.L. Stryker (1989)

B.L. Stryker poster
Genre
detective fiction
Country
United States
Length
2 seasons, 12 episodes
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A retired private detective in Florida takes on new cases. He works with his friends and deals with local criminals.

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What happens

B.L. Stryker is an American detective drama that aired on ABC from February 13, 1989, to May 5, 1990, as part of the ABC Mystery Movie umbrella group, along with Columbo, Gideon Oliver, and Kojak. Tom Selleck was one of the series' executive producers. The series starred Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Dana Kaminski and Rita Moreno. Reynolds also directed several of the episodes. Each B.L. Stryker episode was two hours long, and took approximately a month to film. The first season of B.L. Stryker was seven two-hour episodes that aired every three weeks, broadcast on Monday nights from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., on ABC. In the second season, the show was aired on Saturday nights. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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