# Richard Diamond, PI **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-diamond-pi/777514 "2017-01-19T01:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-diamond-pi/777514/1 "2017-01-19T01:41:32Z")
Dr. McCoy played a sheriff who shot Mister D. I goil gave him a ride. Shades of _The Fugitive_. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-diamond-pi/777514/2 "2017-01-19T04:49:30Z")
If you mean the old TV series, it was “Richard Diamond, Private Detective.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-diamond-pi/777514/3 "2017-01-19T04:53:20Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > If you mean the old TV series, it was “Richard Diamond, Private Detective.” Yeah, _Richard Diamond, PI_ sounds irrational and like it would drag on forever. ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-diamond-pi/777514/4 "2017-01-19T10:11:57Z")
Is this the one with Mary Tyler Moore’s legs? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-diamond-pi/777514/5 "2017-01-19T10:17:22Z")
MTM’s legs on Dee Kelley? Wow, space medicine _is_ advanced. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-diamond-pi/777514/6 "2017-01-19T13:58:15Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yeah, _Richard Diamond, PI_ sounds irrational and like it would drag on forever. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-diamond-pi/777514/7 "2017-01-19T14:14:58Z")
It started out as a radio series in 1949. It had a very light touch, with him singing at the end. It lasted four years on radio, then moved to TV The secretary who you only saw the legs of didn’t come in until the third TV season, and Marty Tyler Moore only played her for a year before being replaced. (Well, it was only legs, after all. And a voice) > **[Richard Diamond, Private Detective](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Diamond,_Private_Detective)** > > Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960. > Dick Powell starred in the Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series as a wisecracking former police officer turned private detective. Episodes typically open with a client visiting or calling cash-strapped Diamond's office and agreeing to his fee of $100 a day plus expenses, or Diamond taking on a case at the behest of hi... ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/richard-diamond-pi/777514/8 "2017-01-19T14:19:06Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The secretary who you only saw the legs of didn’t come in until the third TV season, and Marty Tyler Moore only played her for a year before being replaced. Did Marty have to shave his legs for the role?