Richard Diamond, Private Detective Richard Diamond had been a wildly popular radio show before it hit TV screens in 1957. While the radio dramas had starred an urbane Dick Powell, the TV series was headlined by a relative newcomer, David Janssen. Trivia buffs know that Diamond’s secretary, ‘Sam’, was played by another newcomer, Mary Tyler Moore, who quit the show after one season as only her voice and long legs were used on camera.
	The Saint Leslie Charteris’ sleuth, Simon Templar a.k.a. The Saint, was unique in that the show was one of the first British television shows to appear in America. The Saint had been popular in books since the ‘20’s but the show debuted on the small screen in 1962 starring the debonair Roger Moore in the role of an amateur sleuth and crime-stopper.
	77 Sunset Strip Breaking ground as the first hour-length P.I. show on television, 77 Sunset Strip’s detectives were as popular with teens as they were with all ages of TV viewers. Suave Stu Bailey and his young partner, Jeff Spencer, solved Hollywood crimes, often assisted by ‘Kookie’, a hipster wannabe P.I., and ‘Roscoe’ the neighborhood bookie.
	Surfside 6 Another in the stable of detective shows from Warner Bros. in the early ‘60’s, Surfside 6 starred Van Williams, Lee Patterson, Troy Donahue, Diane McBain and spicy Latina actress Margarita Sierra. Scripted to attract a young audience, the three detectives shared digs and worked cases out of a houseboat in Miami. Their neighbor at the marina was an heiress and the sleuths were often helped out by ‘Cha Cha’, a lounge singer at the Fontainebleu Hotel.