Detective School

Detective School (a.k.a. Detective School – One Flight Up) is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC for four months in 1979, for a total of 13 episodes.

Detective School
Also known as	Detective School – One Flight Up
Genre	Situation comedy
Written by	Jeff Harris Bernie Kukoff
Directed by	Bob LaHendro Jeff Harris Bernie Kukoff Walter C. Miller
Starring	James Gregory Douglas Fowley Randolph Mantooth Melinda Naud Taylor Negron LaWanda Page Pat Proft
Composer	Peter Matz
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producers	Jeff Harris Bernie Kukoff Caryn Sneider
Producer	Hank Bradford
Running time	30 min.
Production company	Kukoff-Harris Partnership
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	July 31 (1979-07-31) – November 24, 1979 (1979-11-24)

The show was about an assortment of students who went to night school to learn basic detective skills, but who kept being caught up in real criminal cases and getting themselves and their teacher (an inept private investigator) into trouble.

This show was written, directed and produced by Jeff Harris and Bernie Kukoff, the creators of Diff'rent Strokes.

Cast and characters

• James Gregory as Nick Hannigan, the inept P.I. who teaches the class.
• Douglas Fowley as Robert Redford, an elderly student who just happens to have the same name as the actor.
• Randolph Mantooth as salesman Eddie Dawkins.
• Melinda Naud as lingerie model Maggie Ferguson.
• Taylor Negron as disco-dancing Silvio Galindez.
• LaWanda Page as loudmouthed housewife Charlene Jenkins.
• Pat Proft as door-to-door salesman Leo Frick.

Episodes

Season 1: summer 1979

Nº	Ep	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Air date
1	1	"A Bier on the House"	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	July 31, 1979 (1979-07-31)
Private eye Nick Harrigan teaches eager aspiring gumshoes who become suspicious when they notice ice cream trucks making regular deliveries to a funeral home.
2	2	"Oh, How We Danced"	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	August 7, 1979 (1979-08-07)
Nick's gun turns up missing — right after Charlene goes off to confront her cheating spouse.
3	3	"Lucy in the Sky with Pizza"	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	August 14, 1979 (1979-08-14)
Nick and his students investigate a diamond-stealing racket in a pizza parlor.

Season 2: autumn 1979

Nº	Ep	Title	Directed by:	Written by:	Air date
4	1	"Hooray for Bulgaria"	Ralph Levy	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	September 15, 1979 (1979-09-15)
The class poses as caterers at an embassy party to rescue a Bulgarian ballet dancer.
5	2	"Nick Is Smitten"	Walter C. Miller	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	September 22, 1979 (1979-09-22)
Nick's eagerness to help an attractive woman lands him in a trap set by a vengeful racketeer.
6	3	"Ice"	Walter C. Miller	Bernard Dilbert	September 28, 1979 (1979-09-28)
Nick and the gang bodyguard a rich woman as she attends a fancy party wearing a priceless diamond.
7	4	"The Runaway"	Walter C. Miller	Ellen Guylas	October 6, 1979 (1979-10-06)
The class goes undercover as a motorcycle gang to retrieve Nick's runaway niece.
8	5	"The Jewel Heist"	Bob LaHendro	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	October 13, 1979 (1979-10-13)
Nick's students break into the wrong hotel room while on an assignment to retrieve stolen jewelry.
9	6	"One Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures"	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	Tucker Wiard, Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	October 20, 1979 (1979-10-20)
Nick tries to catch a blackmailer while the class searches her apartment for the incriminating photographs.
10	7	"Masseuse in the Cold, Cold Ground"	Bob LaHendro	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	October 27, 1979 (1979-10-27)
Nick and the students investigate a massage parlor to catch a killer.
11	8	"The Killer-Diller Lingerie Caper"	Bob LaHendro	Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris	November 3, 1979 (1979-11-03)
Silvio witnesses a murder — but does not recognize the investigating officer as the killer.
12	9	"Farewell, My Miss Glendale"	Bob LaHendro	Toni Sherohman, Pat Proft	November 17, 1979 (1979-11-17)
The students search for a bomb while Nick judges a beauty pageant.
13	10	"The Bank Job"	Bob LaHendro	Hank Bradford	November 24, 1979 (1979-11-24)
Bank robbers take Nick and his students hostage.

External links

• Detective School at IMDb