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J.J. Starbuck
1987 - 1988 5.0 (1 votes) 1 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
NBC
Created By
Stephen J. Cannell
Lawrence Hertzog

J.J. Starbuck

Overview

J.J. Starbuck is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from September 1987 to June 1988. The series follows cornpone-spouting Jerome Jeremiah "J.J." Starbuck, a billionaire Texan who wears ten-gallon hats, cowboy boots and fancy western shirts. He drives a flashy limousine with steer horns on the hood and a horn that plays "The Eyes of Texas," and spouts a steady stream of folksy homilies.

Top Cast

Dale Robertson
Dale Robertson

Jerome Jeremiah Starbuck

Shawn Weatherly
Shawn Weatherly

Jill Starbuck

Jimmy Dean
Jimmy Dean

Charlie Bullets

Ben Vereen
Ben Vereen

E.L. "Tenspeed" Turner

Seasons

Season 1 (1987)

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18 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
1987-09-26

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.

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Episode 2: A Killing in the Market
1987-09-29

Robert Conrad plays a Wall Street wizard whose overtures to J.J. (Dale Robertson) about a shady business deal become secondary when J.J. crowds him with questions about the apparent suicide of his assistant.

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Episode 3: Murder In E Minor
1987-10-20

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Episode 4: The Blimpy Who Yelled Blue
1987-10-27

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Episode 6: Incident at Sam September
1987-11-10

Starbuck attempts to prove That a phony children's book author murdered his ghostwriter.

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Episode 7: Gold from the Rainbow
1987-12-05

A sleazy TV talk show host kill his competitor's assistant in order to frame her for murder. J.J. comes to the aid of the lady

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Episode 8: Graveyard Shift
1987-12-15

Starbuck attempts to free American executives who are being held hostage aboard a Persian Gulf oil rig.

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Episode 9: The Circle Broken
1987-12-22

Starbuck investigates a scheming interior design editor (Jessica Walter) who seems to have committed the perfect murder.

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Episode 10: The 6% Solution
1987-12-26

An ex-convict becomes the coach of a college football team on a 20-year losing streak

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Episode 11: Murder by Design
1988-01-23

A shifty spiritual leader (Alan Rachins) tries to frame a senator's daughter for her father's murder.

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Episode 12: Cactus Jack's Last Call
1988-02-13

J.J. was with an old friend when someone tried to run them over; J.J. was injured while his friend was killed. An old friend of his friend, E.L. ""Tenspeed"" Turner, tries to find out what happened. With J.J.'s help, they discover that a bet he convince his friend to make is the motive behind the murder.

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Episode 13: A Song from the Sequel
1988-02-20

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Episode 5: First You've Got to Go to the Picnic
1987-11-03

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Episode 14: Permanent Hiatus
1988-02-27

A realtor 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 break up, 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. When one of his disgruntled clients and one of his former agents plan to report his activities, the realtor decides to take them out. His plan involves getting the agent to go to the client's house and on the night of a party, he goes there via helicopter and he programs his phone to forward a call from a client to the man's house. When he gets there he shoots the client and afterwards the client calls him and after speaking to him the realtor arrives and he shoots him, making it appear like a murder-suicide. J.J. who is a friend of the client arrives for the funeral and comforts the wife and he can't help but wonder why the realtor is

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Episode 15: Rag Doll
1988-04-19

J.J.'s niece goes undercover in Los Angeles to investigate the ""suicide"" of one of her high school friends who left to become a star and became involved in oil wrestling, counterfeit films, and drugs.

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Episode 16: The Rise and Fall of Joe Piermont
1988-06-28

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Episode 17: That Old Black Magic

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Episode 18: Everyone's a Critic

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Videos

NBC promo J.J. Starbuck 1987

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