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(Change Layout)J.J. Starbuck  
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Season 1
1 :01x01 - Pilot (Sep/26/1987)
Dale Robertson plays eccentric Texas billionaire JJ Starbuck who pokes his nose into other people's business in the name of justice. In the opener, JJ travels to Beverly Hills where a wealthy businessman is suddenly cleared of his wife's murder by a bodybuilder, who claims the death was the accidental result of a lovers' quarrel.
Guest Stars: Bill Bixby as Donald Iskin, Luke Andreas as Fred, Michael Laskin as Fred Hack, Stephen Anthony Henry as bailiff, Michael Muntz as Louis, Amy Yasbeck as Doreen, Patrick Cronin as Harold Smythe, Lee Lucas as Boy, Eric Server as Sgt. Marchall, Carolyne Barry (1) as Miss Sheff, Donna Mitchell as Charlotte Iskin, Glynn Turman (1) as Lieutenant Caspersons, Jay Underwood as Charles Winslow, Patty Duke as Verna McKidden, David Huddleston as Charlie Bullets, Don Shanklin as Koy Steel, Lora Staley as Gail Stoltz
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
 
2 :01x02 - A Killing in the Market (Sep/29/1987)
Robert Conrad plays Corbett Cook, a Wall Street wizard, whose overtures to J.J. about a shady business deal become secondary when J.J. crowds him with questions about the apparent suicide of his assistant.
Guest Stars: Karen Elizabeth Austin (1) as Unknown, Kim Johnston Ulrich as Daphne, Christine Haber as Karen Whitaker, Trent Dolan as Shane Smith, Tracey Olson as Todd Tipton, Christianne Hirt (1) as Marci Tipton, Robert Conrad as Corbett Cook
Director: Larry Shaw
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
 
3 :01x03 - Murder In E Minor (Oct/20/1987)
J.J. interrogates Pierce Morgan, a pianist, about the apparent suicide of a competition judge who was disapproving of the pianist's style.
Guest Stars: Rebecca Toolan as Unknown, Eric Christmas (1) as Albert, Bruce Harwood as Unknown, William Buck as Wickman, Don Hood as Lieutenant Arden, Peggy McCay as Theresa, Kelsey Grammer as Pierce Morgan
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
 
4 :01x04 - The Blimpy Who Yelled Blue (Oct/27/1987)
J.J. calls into question the "accidental" demise of a children's-book illustrator when the dead man's collaborator and heir refuses to continue his partner's charitable work.
Guest Stars: Kaj-Erik Eriksen as Unknown, William Frankfather as Nelson, Sherry Hursey as Julie, Richard Mulligan as Professor Potts
Director: Bill Corcoran
Writer: Burt Pearl
 
5 :01x05 - Incident at Sam September (Nov/10/1987)
The military notifies J.J. that he's on his own if he goes up against the terrorist holding executives hostage at J.J.'s Middle Eastern oil refinery.
Guest Stars: Kent McCord as Lt. Col. Joseph Martin, Wolf Muser as Krueger, Nehemiah Persoff as Batulik, J. Patrick McNamara (1) as Jannel, James Louis Watkins (3) as Rimler, Ty Haller as Sam Miller
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
 
6 :01x06 - Gold from the Rainbow (Dec/05/1987)
After J.J.'s car stalls, a Greek bearing gifts of room and board assists J.J., who tries to repay his host by helping him fight a development company.
Guest Stars: Paul Provenza as Unknown, Raye Birk (1) as Phil Macey, Christine Anton as Katrina, Paul Regina as Andy Case, Telly Savalas as The Greek
Director: John Peter Kousakis
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
 
7 :01x07 - Graveyard Shift (Dec/15/1987)
Starbuck buys into a movie studio to uncover clues a decades old-murder case.
Guest Stars: Geoffrey Lewis (1) as Slydel Toomes, John Schuck as Powell Umber
Director: Bob Bralver
Writer: Randall Wallace
 
8 :01x08 - The Circle Unbroken (Dec/22/1987)
A shifty spiritual leader tries to frame a senator's daughter for her father's murder.
Guest Stars: Alan Rachins as Pasban Bapu
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Randall Wallace
 
9 :01x09 - The 6% Solution (Dec/26/1987)
An estate agent finds success in selling houses to a couple, getting his 6% commission, then ordering one of his agents to seduce one member of the couple to break up their marriage. After the divorce, the couple sells their house and the realtor gets his 6% again; then he sells each of member of the couple another place and gets another 6% from those sales.
Guest Stars: Patrick O'Neal as Don Chadway, Bibi Besch as Unknown, Robert Hooks as Lt. Lavelle Caspersons
Director: Zale Dalen
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
 
10 :01x10 - Murder by Design (Jan/23/1988)
Starbuck investigates Brin Coltan, a scheming interior design editor, who seems to have committed the perfect murder.
Guest Stars: Jack Elam as Esco Tokay, Jessica Walter as Brin Coltan
Director: Charles Picerni
Writer: Randall Wallace
 
11 :01x11 - Cactus Jack's Last Call (Feb/13/1988)
Con man E.L. "Tenspeed" Turner unwillingly accepts to help J.J. find the killer of their mutual friend, Cactus Jack, a gambler.
Guest Stars: Imbert Orchard as Justice Murphy, Adam Yawrenko as Bozarth, Dakin Matthews as Lemay, Stuart Whitman as Arnold Bass, Pat Corley as Cactus Jack/Cain
Director: Zale Dalen
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
 
12 :01x12 - A Song from the Sequel (Feb/20/1988)
J.J. runs across a man who was framed for the murder of his father, a studio executive killed 10 years earlier.
Guest Stars: Jerry Wasserman as Jean Claude, Joe Regalbuto as Steve Capstone, John Ireland as Samuel Capstone, Jill St. John as Rachel, Silvana Gallardo as Carmelita
Director: James Whitmore, Jr.
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
 
13 :01x13 - First You've Got To Go To The Picnic (Feb/27/1988)
J.J. makes plans for a paroled felon to coach a college-football team that hasn't won its last 265 games.
Guest Stars: Joshua Bryant as Billy D. Watkins, Mykelti Williamson as Calvin Leeds, Don Michael Paul as Tommy Watkins, Roy Brocksmith as Tennyson
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
 
14 :01x14 - Permanent Hiatus (Feb/27/1988)
Ted Fuller, J.J.'s Army buddy, now a talk-show host at a station J.J. owns, adds his own change to the phrase "killing the competition."
Guest Stars: Jackson Davies as Unknown, Moira Walley as Hanna, Melody Rogers as Rosalind, Ed Nelson as Ted Fuller
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell, Lawrence Hertzog
 
15 :01x15 - Rag Doll (Apr/19/1988)
Jill, J.J.'s niece inquires into the apparent suicide of a friend who was looking for stardom.
Guest Stars: Michael Des Barres as Benny Bijou, Raymond O'Connor as Dicky Rich, Caryn West as Sugar
Director: William Fraker (1)
Writer: Randall Wallace
 
16 :01x16 - The Rise And Fall Of Joe Piermont (Jun/28/1988)
J.J. has a sneaking suspicion that the collapse of a building is behind the reluctance of construction magnate Joe Piermont's son to run for governor.
Guest Stars: Barry Nelson as Joe Piermont Sr., Joseph Hacker as Joe Piermont Jr., Sean Morgan (1) as Paine, Phyllis Hamlin as Unknown, Coby Scheldt as Avery
Director: Bob Bralver
Writer: Carol Mendelsohn
 
17 :01x17 - That Old Black Magic (Unaired)
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Writer: Steven L. Sears
 
18 :01x18 - Everyone's a Critic (Unaired)
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Writer: Steven L. Sears
 
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