Jigsaw (U.S. TV series)

Jigsaw
Genre	Crime drama
Written by	Walter Doniger Jerrold Freedman David Friedkin Ken Pettus Mark Rodgers Robert E. Thompson Leigh Vance
Directed by	Marc Daniels Walter Grauman Barry Shear
Starring	James Wainwright Pernell Roberts
Country of origin	USA
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Producer(s)	Stanley Kallis Harry Tatelman
Running time	60 mins.
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 20, 1972 – March 3, 1973

Jigsaw is a television crime drama that aired as an element of the short-lived wheel series The Men, part of the ABC network's 1972-73 lineup. Universal Television produced Jigsaw; the same studio had previously been responsible for a series which, in part, inspired The Men: The NBC Mystery Movie.

The program starred James Wainwright as Lt. Frank Dain, who worked as an investigator for the California State Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons. Dain was a rebel who chafed at standard police procedures and techniques, but was always effective in finding the person for whom he was searching. He pieced each case together as if it were a jigsaw puzzle. Shortly before the series' cancellation, Dain was booted from the bureau and set up shop as a private eye.

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