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A Frame for Murder

Episode Number: 138    Season Num: 7    First Aired: Thursday November 16, 1978    Prod Code: 7810
During a restaurant date with Drew Barber, the daughter of Barnaby's client, J.R.'s coffee is drugged, and he passes out on the drive home. He awakes in a strange room and is arrested with accusation of rape. Released on bail, he searches for the man who drugged him, but his attempts to speak with his accuser gets his bail revoked, and he finds himself on the run. Barnaby investigates Barber's past and links him to a murder in Cleveland and the reason for the frame of J.R.

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Writer: Dallas L. Barnes
Director: Leo Penn
Star: Mark Shera (Jedediah Romano (J.R.) Jones (1976-1980)),  Buddy Ebsen (Barnaby Jones),  Lee Meriwether (Betty Jones)
Guest Star: Tom Pittman (police officer),  Nancy Adrian (waitress),  Robert Ackerman (bartender),  Charles Howerton (Pete Heyward),  Mary McCusker (Connie Parks),  Meshach Taylor (parking lot attendant),  Aubri Martin (Det. Sgt. Sharon Ann Marsh),  John Karlen (Johnny Alban),  Mark Goddard (Tony Klinger),  Biff McGuire (Mason Barber),  Karen Purcill (Drew Barber),  David M. Cohen (businessman)

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This is a J.R. episode with a small amount of Barnaby and Betty. (edit)
Meshach Taylor played "Anthony" on "Designing Women". (edit)
Mark Goddard was on numerous "Barnaby Jones" episodes and is also known for the role of "Major West" on "Lost in Space" (edit)

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Barnaby :What kind of lawyer do you expect to become if you don't trust the system?

J.R. : That is a good question, Barnaby. Maybe it is just easier to have faith with someone else's neck in the ringer.
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J.R. on top of guy who has framed him twisting the guy's arm behind his back.

Barnaby : Let him up, Jedediah.

J.R. :I was just beginning to enjoy myself Barnaby. (edit)

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