Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Richard Diamond is a suave private investigator who at first walks the mean streets of New York City, then later packs up and moves to Los Angeles, California, where he tools around in a convertible with a car phone. His sexy receptionist Sam, whose face is never shown, minds the office while Diamond solves his cases.
- 1956-1960
- 4 seasons
- CBS
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
Richard Diamond is a suave private investigator who at first walks the mean streets of New York City, then later packs up and moves to Los Angeles, California, where he tools around in a convertible with a car phone. His sexy receptionist Sam, whose face is never shown, minds the office while Diamond solves his cases.
Season 4 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 1960
Episode 1
The Popskull
Tue, Jun 28, 1960 30 mins
A successful bar owner is forced to sell illegal alcohol. The bar owner goes along with it in fear that harm will come to his family. His wife decides to hire Richard Diamond without her husband's knowledge. She wants Diamond to find out who the bootleggers are so she can go to the police in hopes that her husband won't get in trouble with the federal authorities.
Episode 2
And Whose Little Baby Are You?
Tue, Jul 5, 1960 30 mins
Someone abandons a baby in Diamond's apartment, putting the detective in the middle of a custody battle.
Episode 3
Fallen Star
Tue, Jul 19, 1960 30 mins
A night club singer is declared dead by suicide by a coroner but her fiancé, an entertainment magazine editor, doesn't buy it. He wants his friend Richard Diamond to investigate. Diamond was the one who introduced the singer to his friend. Diamond finds out that maybe Dorothy wasn't as sweet as she seemed.
Episode 4
Coat of Arms
Tue, Aug 2, 1960 30 mins
An Italian immigrant hires Diamond to find the man who beat and threatened her over the possessions of a late tenant.
Episode 5
Double Trouble
Tue, Aug 9, 1960 30 mins
A night club owner removes a picture of his featured singer from a billboard and burns it, while a thug tells the piano player to forget that she ever existed. A man then hires Richard Diamond to find this singer. He had been writing her every week but the most recent letter was "returned to sender." She's his fiancee, she's missing and he's worried about her.
Episode 6
The Lovely Fraud
Tue, Aug 16, 1960 30 mins
Richard Diamond is hired by an insurance company when a dancer who insured her legs for $200,000 is injured in a car accident and paralyzed. Before paying out on the claim, the insurance company wants to investigate to make sure there's no fraud involved. Diamond pays a visit to the dancer and her father.
Episode 7
Accent on Murder
Tue, Aug 23, 1960 30 mins
The detective gets a surprise when he discovers that the young lady he's been hired to protect is a poodle.
Episode 8
East of Danger
Tue, Aug 30, 1960 30 mins
Diamond investigates when an antique dealers discovers that his warehouse is being used to store heroin.
Episode 9
Running Scared
Tue, Sep 6, 1960 30 mins
Diamond is hired by a man who suspects his daughter-in-law of wanting to commit suicide. He finds her only to discover that she has hired someone to kill her.
Episode 10
The Mouse
Tue, Sep 13, 1960 30 mins
Diamond is hired by a woman who is being threatened by a man she saw die 15 years earlier.