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Barnaby Jones (1973)

Meriwether earned both Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her portrayal of Barnaby’s daughter-in-law, Betty Jones.

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When Buddy Ebsen began cutting back on his workload in the show’s latter seasons, Betty and J.R. (Mark Shera) took on bigger roles in his cases, and the audience didn’t seem to find. The Quinn Martin detective shows of the ’70s are certainly prime Comfort TV, and viewers liked this one enough to keep it around for 178 episodes.

Lee was wonderful on Barnaby Jones. I sort of liked it in later seasons when she had the star role. My favorite is Academy of Evil when Betty goes undercover in an all girls school. Very Charlie's Angels. Betty investigates a girls club gone bad.