DICK VAN DYKE MYSTERIES" SHOOTING PRODUCTION SCRIPT USED DURING PRINCIPLE PHOTO.

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Dick VAN DYKE MYSTERIES"  ORIGINAL PRODUCTION SCRIPT "A TWIST OF THE KNIFE" USED BY SOUND DEPT This script  was used during production of this show It has all colored revision sheets.
Diagnosis Murder
is an American action-comedy-mystery-medical crime drama television series starring
Dick Van Dyke
as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son Steve, a homicide detective played by Van Dyke's real-life son
Barry
. The series began as a
spin-off
of
Jake and the Fatman
(Dr. Mark Sloan made his first appearance in episode 4.19 "It Never Entered My Mind"), became a series of three TV movies, and then a weekly television series that debuted on
CBS
on October 29, 1993.
Joyce Burditt
wrote the episode in
Jake and the Fatman
and is listed here as the creator of the spin off series.
The series struggled at first and was almost canceled at the end of the second season, but it returned as a
midseason replacement
in the third season, and was regularly renewed thereafter.
178 episodes
were made and aired in the show's eight seasons on the CBS network in the United States and two more TV movies aired after the series' cancellation on May 11, 2001. The show was produced by The
Fred Silverman
Company and
Dean Hargrove
Productions in association with
Viacom Productions
and is currently distributed by
CBS Television Distribution
.
In the
Jake and the Fatman
episode, Dr. Mark Sloan was a widower with no sons. Dr. Amanda Bentley is played by
Cynthia Gibb
in the TV movies and, finally, by
Victoria Rowell
in the TV series.
Stephen Caffrey
played Dr. Jack Parker in the movies, a role that went to
Scott Baio
as Dr. Jack Stewart in the weekly series (first two seasons).
The first two TV movies were shot in Vancouver,
British Columbia
, and the third was shot in
Denver
,
Colorado
. The first few episodes of the series were also shot (and set) in Denver, before quickly (and without explanation) shifting to Los Angeles for the remainder of the show's run. Since 1997, reruns of the show have been shown in syndication and on
Freeform
(formerly ABC Family and originally CBN Satellite Service),
Ion Television
(formerly PAX-TV),
Hallmark Channel
,
10 Bold
,
CBS Action
and
MeTV
.