Original title
Butch Patterson: Private Dick
Released
2/27/1999
Origin country
CA
Genre
Comedy
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
39
Butch Patterson: Private Dick is a Canadian serial comedy television series centering around the seedy exploits of a self-described premature ejaculating, alcoholic, kleptomaniac, sexually deviant private detective played by Canadian actor/comedian Greg Lawrence. The series had a three season run, airing on The Comedy Network. Although the show was not a critical or commercial success, it maintains a small cult following. After the series' initial run, reruns were featured on the now defunct CBC Country Canada. Since then, all three original seasons have been released on DVD.
Blanche duMaurier and Debbie Hitler strike a deal but Debbie double-double crosses Blanche. Tommy gets into the drug running business and Butch steals a new suit.
Butch is celebrating closing his latest case when a new femme fatale shows up. After a spirited drinking contest butch agrees to take her case. Butch is set up by his Mom and she collects his back rent.
Butch cons Blanche into being his dance partner so he can expose the seedy steroid and drug fueled underbelly of dance marathon competitions being rigged by Tommy Rubella.
Butch plays pool for booze and has the unfortunate luck of stumbling across Frank the man whose life he has ruined by endless crank calls over the past decade. Frank chases Butch around the city trying to kill him.
Tommy Rubella has been fixing the reading drive and Butch is hired by a concerned parent. Butch goes undercover as a French foreign exchange student in a grade five public school class. Pt. 1
Vance returns from the dead to expose Tommy for double crossing Debbie who was double crossing Blanche who was being set-up by Butch who was double crossing Tommy. Then Vance dies again.
All the major players except for Butch and Blanche meet to discuss Simons money, while Mona secretly listens in. Blanche learns from her editor that The Swede works for Tommy and Debbie.
Blanche bails Butch out of jail and they spend most of the night drinking in a motel bar.
Butch takes a case finding two missing porn stars. Jasmine convinces Vance to implicate Debbie instead of Tommy.
The case against Tommy's is thrown out since Vance recanted his testimony. The cop protecting Vance gives him the idea to write a book about Tommy and Debbie's criminal empire. Tommy files for divorce from Debbie, and Butch loses a kidney in a poker game.
Butch takes on a new case. It's missing person sort of thing, kind of.
Butch hires a co-op student who reluctantly helps him with a case.
Butch remembers where Simon's cabin is, but he and Blanche are taken hostage by a fugitive on the way.
Butch agrees to help Mike prove his innocence.
To solve a murder case, Butch must enter a modeling contest.
Butch is hired my a canadian soap opera star to save her job.
Vance hires Butch to get his manuscript back from Tommy.
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