Buddy Faro (CBS 1998 with Dennis Farina and Frank Whaley)

USA / CBS – Spelling Television – McNamara Paper Product in association with Warner Bros. Television / 8×60 minute episodes / Broadcast 1998

Creator: Mark Frost / Writers: Mark Frost, E.M. Cosin, Kim Costello, Jon Hotchkiss, Barry Pullman / Executive Producer Charles Haid

Crime drama series with a twist in that hip 1960’s private detective Buddy Faro returns to practice again after two decades as a recluse. Buddy (in an Austin Powers kind of way) still acted as if it was the 1960’s.

cast
Dennis Farina as Buddy Faro
Frank Whaley as Bob Jones
Allison Smith as Julie Barber
Charlie Robinson as El Jefe

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