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6/18/2010 9:24:07 AM
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The Editors
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Perhaps the most famous father-son detecting team -- and the obvious favorite around our offices -- is Ellery Queen and his father, Inspector Richard Queen. Who are some other great father-son or father-daughter teams?
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6/18/2010 12:18:24 PM
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Allan Kalupar
Posts 27
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Jim Rockford and his dad Rocky.
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6/19/2010 12:20:57 AM
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Yoshinori Todo
Posts 232
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Father Dowling and Sister Stephanie Oskowski! (Never read the novels, but I used to love the TV-series--are the novels any good?)
But anyway, that's not the kind of father we're talking about here, I guess . . .
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Josh
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6/19/2010 7:54:29 AM
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Tog
Posts 146
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From my youth, there was Encyclopedia Brown and his father, the police chief.
"Matlock" worked with his daughter.
There was also a TV show called "Crazy Like a Fox" that had a father son team.
I also recall a show called "Blacke's Magic" with Hal Lindon and Harry Morgan as a father-son team. They were actually magicians, but darned if dead people didn't keep popping up (for three total episodes). It was a s good as it sounds.
To twist the question a bit, "Diagnosis Murder" had a father son team in the form of Dick and Barry Van Dyke. A father and son playing father and son. Wow, that show made it 178 episodes? I saw one and thought it was crap. I'd seen better stories on Scooby-Doo.
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6/19/2010 10:45:38 AM
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Jon L. Breen
Posts 67
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Robert Irvine's Salt Lake City private eye Moroni Traveler and his father Martin.
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6/19/2010 12:01:17 PM
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Yoshinori Todo
Posts 232
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Tog wrote:
"Matlock" worked with his daughter.
Speaking of Matlock, isn't the opening theme of this show one of the best pieces ever written? Didn't watch Matlock regularly, but I always loved this theme! So jazzy and exuberantly catchy, in a kind of Dixieland-style. If I am not mistaken, it was composed by veteran TV-composer Dick DeBenedictis, who also scored many later Columbo specials.
I could listen to this all day, and indeed, I have it on my MP3-player. (Hey, don't judge me!) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3N0f6zlRAs&feature=related
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Josh
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6/19/2010 7:01:55 PM
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K.J.
Posts 17
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The Matlock theme is great, but not as great as Park Avenue Beat.
I'm also adding Veronica and Keith Mars to the list of father-daughter detective teams. It seems to be a more common device on TV, n'est ce pas?
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6/20/2010 7:54:44 AM
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Yoshinori Todo
Posts 232
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What's this Park Avenue Beat?! It's the Perry Mason theme! Yes, another one of my all-time favorites (show and opening theme).
Coincidentally, when Perry Mason returned to TV in 1985, the aforementioned Dick DeBenedictis rearranged the old Fred Steiner theme. This new version may not sound all that different, and yet IMHO it is quite improved. See if you don't agree!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VAH3mS65Uc&feature=related
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Josh
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6/20/2010 8:04:20 AM
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Yoshinori Todo
Posts 232
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Hey, but nothing beats this theme! So relentlessly industrious and cheerful! (I'm not sure that I am kidding.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWz9lpxv3NM&feature=related
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Josh
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6/20/2010 10:29:33 AM
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lisad
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EDMUND BUTT is one of the most effective crime-mystery TV and movie music writers of our time IMO, I discovered him watching a BBC series Murphy's Law, series 2, years ago. The background music was so impressive, I could not get enough... The series was excellent of course, broadcast by Showcase, when Showcase had decent programming....
The theme music for Perry Mason gives me a warm fuzzy feeling, it was my favorite show in 1961. Perhaps the beginning of my love affair with this genre.
edited by lisad on 6/20/2010
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6/20/2010 3:08:02 PM
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stanbrown
Posts 16
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Father/son detectives: Fenton Hardy with Frank and Joe. Admittedly, the boys usually were searching for their father, who had disappeared and was being held somewhere by crooks, but he did occasionally, between abductions, mentor the boys! And his partner was Sam Radley--this always reminded me of Slam Bradley, a comic book detective from the Golden Age days of DC comics. Then, of course, there is the movie version of Charlie Chan and his Number One Son and Number Two Son who helped him at various times.
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6/21/2010 12:38:39 AM
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K.J.
Posts 17
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Yoshinori Todo wrote:
What's this Park Avenue Beat?! It's the Perry Mason theme! Yes, another one of my all-time favorites (show and opening theme).
Coincidentally, when Perry Mason returned to TV in 1985, the aforementioned Dick DeBenedictis rearranged the old Fred Steiner theme. This new version may not sound all that different, and yet IMHO it is quite improved. See if you don't agree!
The title of the song is Park Avenue Beat! If I had a time machine, I would make Fred Steiner change its name to "Theme from Perry Mason" just to prevent moments like this. The theme from the 80's sounds smoother to me. They actually changed the arrangement twice during the run of the original series, btw. The first theme played for seasons one and two, the second for seasons three through eight, and the third for the final season.
I am a wellspring of Perry Mason trivia. Remember that if you're ever preparing to go on a quiz show.
Yoshinori Todo wrote:
Hey, but nothing beats this theme! So relentlessly industrious and cheerful!
Murder, She Wrote?! No! Now it's stuck in my head!
I can only try to replace it with more awesome themes. Like this one. Or this one.
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6/21/2010 4:47:33 AM
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Tog
Posts 146
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I was going suggest Peter Gunn. Also Simon & Simon and Magnum PI had good songs. So did Monk for season or two.
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6/29/2010 10:54:37 PM
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Jeff Baker
Posts 132
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Just the thought of "Crazy Like A Fox" makes me smile! I can hear the theme now! ("What could possibly happen?")
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