Jigsaw (U.S. TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Jigsaw


caption =
genre = Crime drama
writer = Walter Doniger
Jerrold Freedman
David Friedkin
Ken Pettus
Mark Rodgers
Leigh Vance
director = Marc Daniels
Walter Grauman
Barry Shear
starring = James Wainwright
Pernell Roberts
country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 7
producer = Stanley Kallis
Harry Tatelman
runtime = 60 mins.
channel = ABC
first_aired = October 12, 1972
last_aired = March 3, 1973

"Jigsaw" is a short-lived television crime drama program, aired on the ABC network as an element of the wheel series "The Men" as part of its 1972-73 lineup.

Overview

The program starred James Wainwright as Lt. Frank Dain, who worked as an investigator for the California State Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons. Dain was a rebel who chafed at standard police procedures and techniques, but was always effective in finding the person for whom he was searching. He pieced each case together as if it were a jigsaw puzzle.The show was actually based on Det. Sgt. John "Jigsaw" St. John (at that time, the longest-serving member of the Los Angeles Police Department, who retired after just over fifty years on the force).

There was a spin-off "Jigsaw Annual", which is now rare enough to change hands for over one thousand dollars on the collectors' market.

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