Burke's Law in the time it lasted had some great stories and well cast episodes with name guest star. The guests were usually the suspect in the murder that
Captain Amos Burke caught the case for.
The gimmick for this show is that the homicide captain was wealthy. He drove
to every crime scene in a Rolls-Royce with chauffeur Leon Lontoc and a roomy
back seat complete with full bar.
Gene Barry was the elegant Burke and his associates were Gary Conway and
Regis Toomey. Conway seemed always to be nonplussed around Barry but
Toomey took it all in stride.
For reasons known only to God, the producers took the successful formula that
worked, took Burke out of the LAPD and made him a secret agent. The show
folded like a napkin.
30 years later Burke's Law was revived with widowed senior citizen,Barry back
with the LAPD now solving cases with son Peter Barton. It only lasted a season.
But Burke's Law was memorable.
