Original title
Diamonds
Released
9/29/1987
Origin country
US, CA
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
45
Diamonds is a Canadian television series, which aired from 1987 to 1989. The show starred Nicholas Campbell as Mike Devitt and Peggy Smithhart as Christina Towne, a divorced couple who continued to work together as private investigators. Devitt and Towne had originally met as television stars who played married private investigators on a TV series called Two of Diamonds. The show was frequently compared to the American series Moonlighting. In a direct nod to the comparison, one episode actually featured an encounter with a character who mistook Devitt and Towne for Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd. The cast also included Roland Magdane, Geraint Wyn Davies and Tony Rosato. Campbell was also an occasional writer for the series. The series aired on Global in Canada, and in a late night slot on CBS in the United States, as well as on the USA Network. It was one of several Canadian-produced drama series to air in the CBS Late Night block of crime dramas. Others included Adderly, Night Heat and Hot Shots.
Two former husband-and-wife TV-detective actors take a chance with the real thing following the cancellation of their series. But will their skills gained from fiction be enough to solve real crimes?
Mike and Chris become involved in a blackmail sceme after being hired by a man to investigate his wife.
A mysterious man hires Mike and Christina to find for a priceless diamond which has fallen into the hands of a fence.
A distillery owner assumes his son is on a drunken binge but learns he has been abducted. Can the Diamond agency help?
An unscrupulous insurance agent seduces a client, sells her a policy on her husband's life and then offers to help eliminate him. Talk about customer service!
Christina and Mike run across a funeral director with mob ties while searching for the missing corpse of a female friend's husband.
The maid, an obsessed fan of Mike's, decides to kill Christina to have him all to herself.
A woman, hires the pair to find a daughter she gave up for adoption years before, believing Christina to be the long lost girl!
International intrigue engulfs Mike and Christina when an intelligence agent abandons a tiny baby on their doorstep.
The opposing sides in a marital dispute each hire Mike and Christina individually.
A lucrative offer makes Christina contemplate returning to show business while Mike investigates the odd murder of a young journalism student.
Mike and Christina can't distinguish between twins, one a murder suspect and the other a psychiatric patient. And which twin pays the bill?
Mike and Christina find themselves with a long list of suspects when their former Hollywood agent says that someone is trying to kill him.
To catch a hairdresser whose blackmail threat she believes triggered his former lover's suicide, Christina poses as an amorous new customer.
Mike is investigated after shooting a man who appeared to have robbed a supermarket.
When a former fan bequeaths a million dollars to Mike and Christina with the stipulation that they remarry and have a child, they give full consideration to the idea until the money turns up missing.
Mike and Lou investigate when their old high school classmate, an engineer with a development project, is murdered.
Their investigation of a writer friend's murder leads Mike and Christina to a dangerous love triangle.
Mike's old girlfriend, whose son needs a kidney transplant, asks him to locate her estranged husband, who is in the federal witness protection program.
Stranded in their old cabin with a pregnant woman, while there's a killer at large, Mike and Christina experience flashbacks of their previous cases.
When an old friend from Christina's acting class invites them to her millionaire husband's birthday party at his country estate, Christina and Mike run into a blackmail plot and a double murder.
Mike bets Christina's criminal-investigation instructor that he can solve a 40-year-old murder case mentioned in class. Unfortunately, what he has bet is his half of the detective agency.
Mike and Christina's night at the ballet turns to international intrigue when two Soviet dancers decide to defect.
Trying to locate a missing bookie, Mike and Christina uncover a stockbroker's embezzlement scheme.
Christina witnesses a murder, but Mike is busy with his new job as host of a daytime talk show.
Mike and Christina are trailed by a sleazy reporter as they try to locate the runaway son of a hockey player formerly married to a movie star.
Mike is suspicious of his father's new fiancee when his father appears to have won the lottery but then the ticket goes missing.
Mike and Christina fly to Paris and run into smugglers after getting a call for help from their friend Rene, who's gone abroad to work on a French film.
Mike and Christina fly to Paris and run into smugglers after getting a call for help from their friend Rene, who's gone abroad to work on a French film. Part 2 of a special two part episode which was shown at least once as the complete two hour episode.
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