Father Dowling Mysteries
| Father Dowling Mysteries | |
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| Genre | |
| Based on | Characters from the Father Dowling Mystery Books by Ralph McInerny |
| Developed by |
Dean Hargrove Joel Steiger |
| Starring |
Tom Bosley Tracy Nelson James Stephens Mary Wickes |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 43 + 1 TV movie (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 40 minutes (per episode) |
| Production company(s) | The Fred Silverman Company Dean Hargrove Productions |
| Distributor | CBS Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network |
NBC (season 1) ABC (seasons 2-3) |
| Original release | November 30, 1987 (TV movie) January 20, 1989 – May 2, 1991 |
Father Dowling Mysteries (also known as Father Dowling Investigates in the United Kingdom) is an American television mystery series that aired from January 20, 1989 to May 2, 1991. Prior to the series, a TV movie aired on November 30, 1987. For its first season, the show was on NBC; it moved to ABC for its last two seasons.
The show features a Catholic Priest, Father Dowling, who solves murders, abductions and other mysteries in his Chicago parish, assisted by a young streetwise Nun, Sister Stephanie, in spite of hindrance by the Bishop's representative, Father Prestwick.
It is based on characters created by Ralph McInerny in a series of mystery novels; but neither the pilot TV movie nor the subsequent regular season episodes are actual adaptations of any of McInerny's stories.
The series was developed for television by Dean Hargrove and Joel Steiger, and produced by The Fred Silverman Company and Dean Hargrove Productions in association with Viacom Productions.
The program featured many notable guest stars, some before they had achieved fame, including: John Astin, Jack Bannon, Roscoe Lee Browne, Steven Culp, Stacy Edwards, Fionnula Flanagan, Michelle Forbes, Kurt Fuller, Annie Golden, Grant Heslov, Laurie Holden, Stanley Kamel, Andreas Katsulas, Yaphet Kotto, Diane Ladd, Anthony LaPaglia, Scott Marlowe, David McCallum, Colm Meaney, William R. Moses, Craig Richard Nelson, Leslie Nielsen, Ethan Phillips, John Slattery, Brenda Strong, Robin Thomas, Sada Thompson, Tony Todd, John Vernon, Kate Vernon, Robert Walden and David Warner.
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