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Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Genre Mystery
Thriller
Crime
Drama
Written by Leslie Stevens
Directed by Russ Mayberry
Starring Barbara Eden
Joseph Mascolo
Joan Hackett
Richard Basehart
Louise Latham
Music by Patrick Williams
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) David J. O'Connell
Producer(s) Leslie Stevens
Location(s) Los Angeles
Cinematography Terry K. Meade
Editor(s) Robert F. Shugrue
Running time 73 minutes
Production company(s) Universal Television
Distributor NBC
Release
Original network NBC
Original release January 16, 1977

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? is a 1977 American made-for-television mystery-crime film starring Barbara Eden which premiered as the NBC Movie of the Week on January 16, 1977. It was directed by Russ Mayberry from a teleplay written by Leslie Stevens and produced as a pilot for a proposed television series that was not picked up by the network.

Liz Stonestreet (Barbara Eden) is a private investigator whose late husband, a police detective, was killed in the line of duty and she becomes a policewoman to keep his beliefs about law and order alive.

Stonestreet is hired by Mrs. Shroeder (Louise Latham) to locate her son, Eddie (James Ingersoli), a small-time hoodlum who has been missing for eight days. Liz goes undercover as an usher at a porno theatre where Eddie worked and discovers in his locker a pair of expensive diamond earrings and newspaper clippings about a missing heiress, Amory Osborn (Ann Dusenberry), the niece of Elliott Osborn (Richard Basehart), a rich and powerful business leader. Despite advice from her boss Max Pierce (Joseph Mascolo) that her that her suspicions are unfounded, Stonestreet pursues the investigation in an attempt to find the link between Shroeder and the heiress.

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? has never been released on any format in the USA. The film aired on NBC on January 16, 1977. Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? was released on DVD in region 4.


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