Dr. Amanda Bentley
| Tanis Archer | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Retribution Part 1 |
| Last appearance | Down Among The Dead Men |
| Portrayed by | Susan Gibney |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Police Detective |
| Amanda Bentley | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Diagnosis of Murder |
| Last appearance | Without Warning |
| Portrayed by |
Cynthia Gibb (First 3 TV movies) Victoria Rowell (TV series, last 2 TV movies) |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Medical examiner/pathologist for Community General Hospital Chief of Pathology |
| Norman Briggs | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Miracle Cure |
| Last appearance | The Murder Of Mark Sloan |
| Portrayed by | Michael Tucci |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Head of Administration for Community General Hospital |
| Cheryl | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | "Jake's Women" |
| Last appearance | "On The Beach" |
| Portrayed by | Charmin Lee |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Police Detective |
| Kate Hamilton | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Diagnosis Of Murder |
| Last appearance | The House On Sycamore Street |
| Portrayed by | Mariette Hartley |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Head of Administration for Community General Hospital |
| Susan Hillard | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Drill for Death |
| Last appearance | "Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of My Life" |
| Portrayed by | Kim Little |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Nurse for Community General Hospital |
| Josie | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | "It Never Entered My Mind" from "Jake and The Fatman" |
| Last appearance | "It Never Entered My Mind" from "Jake and The Fatman" |
| Portrayed by | Ally Walker |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Medical Student for Clairemont Hospital |
| Delores Mitchell | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Miracle Cure written by James Kramer |
| Last appearance | My Baby Is Out Of This World |
| Portrayed by | Delores Hall |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Secretary for Mark Sloan at Community General Hospital |
| Jack Parker | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Diagnosis Of Murder written by Dean Hargrove |
| Last appearance | Diagnosis Murder TV movie : A Twist Of The Knife |
| Portrayed by | Stephen Caffrey |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Medical Student for Community General Hospital |
| Richard | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | It Never Entered My Mind from Jake and The Fatman written by Joyce Burditt |
| Last appearance | It Never Entered My Mind from Jake and The Fatman |
| Portrayed by | Steven Eckholdt |
| Information | |
| Occupation | Medical Student for Clairemont Hospital |
This is a list of characters in the drama/murder mystery television show, Diagnosis: Murder, which ran from 1993 to 2001. The characters are listed alphabetically by their last name or by the name which appears in the episode credits.
Tanis Archer, played by Susan Gibney, is Steve Sloan's 2nd partner. In The Diagnosis Murder Books it mentions her and Steve dated once but that it didn't work out.
She appears in seasons 5 and 6.
Dr. Amanda Bentley is a medical examiner/pathologist. She appears in seasons 1-8 and is played by Victoria Rowell. However, in the first three TV Movies (Diagnosis of Murder, The House on Sycamore Street and A Twist of the Knife), Amanda is played by Cynthia Gibb. Victoria Rowell appeared in all the episodes of the series, with the exception of 11 (both sporadically and during the last season) on (CBS).
In The first three TV movies Amanda Bentley (Cynthia Gibb) had feelings for Jack Parker (Stephen Caffrey). But she denied these feelings for him for the first two TV movies. In The TV movies she was not adopted and her father was a doctor who wanted her to leave Community General Hospital and open up a practice with him financing it.
Dr. Amanda Bentley is a colleague of Dr. Mark Sloan's, with her specialization being pathology. Fiercely intelligent, beautiful and loyal to her friends, Amanda is an orphan (just as Victoria Rowell is), taken to an orphanage when she was younger and soon adopted. Her adopted father was an owner of a yacht, and his sailors were always good friends with the family. When she was six, Amanda took up ballet. She stopped dancing for medical school, but returns to it at the end of season eight. She once fainted during medical school at the sight of her first corpse. She is constantly kidded about it in the first two seasons. It was revealed in season 1 that she was considering changing her specialty. In the episode Reunion with Murder, Amanda got a Guard Dog named Yoda. And in the episode "Confession" she adopts a rabbit. In The Diagnosis Murder books written by Executive Producer and Writer Lee Goldberg, it takes place right after the end of season 6 right when he left the show, which means seasons 7-8 + the two reunion Telefilms are not considered canon by the books. In the last book "The Last Word" Amanda is framed for selling body parts out of her morgue. At the end of the book after she was proved innocent the hospital and the County Coroner's Office offer her her job back, but she thinks she might not go back.
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