Diagnosis: Murder is a mystery/medical/crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son, a homicide detective played by his real-life son Barry Van Dyke. The series began as a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman , became a series of three TV movies, and then a weekly television series that debuted on CBS on October 29, 1993. The series struggled at first and was almost canceled at the end of the second season, it returned as a midseason replacement in the third season, and was regularly renewed thereafter. 178... episodes were made and aired in the show's eight seasons on the CBS network in the United States and two more TV movies aired after the series' cancellation on May 11, 2001. Since 1997, the show aired in reruns on ABC Family and on the Hallmark Channel. in America, weekdays on the Hallmark Channel , Alibi and BBC One in the United Kingdom and weekdays on Foxtel's TV1 channel in Australia.
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| On the air: | October 29, 1993-May 11, 2001 |
| Number of seasons: | 8 |
| Network: | CBS |
| Writers: | Vance DeGeneres, Dean Hargrove, Burt Prelutsky |
| Producer: | Fred Silverman, Dean Hargrove, Lee Goldberg |