| Jigsaw | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Crime drama |
| Written by | Walter Doniger Jerrold Freedman David Friedkin Ken Pettus Mark Rodgers Leigh Vance |
| Directed by | Marc Daniels Walter Grauman Barry Shear |
| Starring | James Wainwright Pernell Roberts |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Stanley Kallis Harry Tatelman |
| Running time | 60 mins. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | October 12, 1972 – March 3, 1973 |
Jigsaw is a short-lived television crime drama program, aired on the ABC network as an element of the wheel series The Men as part of its 1972-73 lineup. It is the only element of The Men not to be produced by Warner Bros. Television (instead, Universal Television produced this element; they had also produced the series which inspired The Men: The NBC Mystery Movie).
The program starred James Wainwright as Lt. Frank Dain, who worked as an investigator for the California State Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons. Dain was a rebel who chafed at standard police procedures and techniques, but was always effective in finding the person for whom he was searching. He pieced each case together as if it were a jigsaw puzzle.The show was supposedly based on Det. Sgt. John "Jigsaw" St. John (at that time, the longest-serving member of the Los Angeles Police Department, who retired after just over fifty years on the force).
There was a spin-off Jigsaw Annual, which is now rare enough to change hands for over one thousand dollars on the collectors' market.
| Ep # | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Hard Time" | October 12, 1972 |
| 2 | "The Bradley Affair" | November 2, 1972 |
| 3 | "To Stalk the Night" | November 30, 1972 |
| 4 | "Finder's Fee" | December 21, 1972 |
| 5 | "Kiss the Dream Goodbye" | February 17, 1973 |
| 6 | "Girl on the Run" | February 24, 1973 |
| 7 | "In Case of Emergency, Notifly Clint Eastwood" | March 3, 1973 |