Diagnosis: Murder (Series) - TV Tropes. Diagnosis: Murder is a mystery/medical/crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr.

Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son, a homicide detective played by his real- life son Barry Van Dyke. Malcolm Saison 1 Episode 12. Given that at least two of Barry's children turn up in the series and Dick's brother turns up as Mark's brother..)In between saving people's lives, Mark as the chief of internal medicine also finds time to help the woefully inadequate LAPD find the constant murders that have been going around lately. The whole idea is that a patient will come in comatose under the reasoning that a landslide had knocked them out and caused internal bleeding so they died, yet under closer inspection these . Steve, this man wasn't killed by rocks on a landslide but by books in a library; my diagnosis, murder. It's woefully ridiculous but the fact that the show knows it's a stupid idea and pokes a lot of fun at itself just makes it that much more appealing. Mark doesn't solve the crimes by himself; Steve, Mark's son mentioned above, gives him reason to poke around.

Also, depending on the season, he has doctors Amanda Bentley, Jack Stewart and Jesse Travis. The latter opens up a BBQ restaurant with the policeman Steve. So Amanda and Jack/Jesse will then get themselves into random danger with the killer while trying to solve the murder because clearly being highly trained doctors with lives to save isn't enough to keep them occupied and they don't have the brains to ask their police friend, Steve, to look into it for them. It's not commonly known that this was a spinoff of. Jake and the Fatman (which in turn was a spinoff of Matlock). Absentee Actor: Pushed to extremes in Season 8 when either Jesse, Amanda or both were absent from nearly every episode.

There are only 6 episodes of the entire season where all 4 main characters appear, and Jesse isn't even in the series finale. Adam Westing: Adam West himself cameos as a washed- up actor who was made famous by playing half of a crime- fighting duo, Tuttle and the Mummy. Amateur Sleuth: Dr. Mark Sloan. Birthday Episode: . Initially depicted as an Obstructive Bureaucrat, he later demonstrates that he genuinely cares for Community General but is caught between the needs of the hospital and the realities of the economy. Bluffing the Murderer: Several episodes have Mark using this trick to make the killers incriminate themselves. Both Sides Have a Point: .

Sloan trying to stop a doctor who helps terminally ill patients commit suicide. The ending leaves it up to the viewer who they want to side with. Breaking the Fellowship / Putting the Band Back Together: In the two- parter . Sloan and his son Steve helped put away, is executed for his crimes, the killer's children pull off a series of copy- cat bombings, causing the police to suspect that they executed the wrong man. At the end of Part 1, facing a public relations nightmare, the board of executives at Community General revoked Dr. Sloan's medical license and fired Amanda Bentley and Jesse Travis, while the LAPD suspended Steve Sloan indefinitely.

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In Part 2, the four of them reunite after a few weeks to clear their reputations and prove that Louis Sweeney was indeed guilty of the bombings he committed, and that his children were responsible for the copy- cat bombings. By the end of the arc, Dr.

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Sloan's license is restored and everyone's back on the job. Guess who plays the Mark Expy in the Show Within a Show at the end of .

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Sloan has raised eccentricity to a high art (he's been known to make his rounds on roller- skates), but his skills as a doctor and as a consultant to the police more than make up for that. Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Delores Mitchell and Norman Briggs. Church of Happyology: Earthonomy, a cult with ridiculous mafia- like connections. They kill a reporter who was investigating them and attempt to kill another reporter. One suspect is even a closeted gay actor obviously based on..

It turns out the killer was a hitman hired by the head of Earthonomy, who was having a homosexual affair with the gay actor. Connect the Deaths: A serial bomber wrote the name of her dead father on the city map. The absurdity of this is Lampshaded by Neil Burnside (the man in charge of the investigation, who is also running for District Attorney), who draws a pig in the same pattern, though of course Dr. Sloan is right. Contractual Purity: invoked One episode had the murder victim (the Executive Head of a PAX- style Christian TV network) given a fatal heart attack by video clips sliced into a show she's reviewing that had images of a lookalike practicing Satanism (which she did in college), something that would ruin anyone's career, let alone hers. Criminal Doppelg. Mark Sloan (both roles played by Dick Van Dyke)Crossover: With Matlock in the two- parter .

It's also of a less humorous bent than usual. Death in the Clouds: . When Amanda tells him to go home and get some sleep, he angrily says he will and turns and strides dramatically through a door. Which turns out to be the broom closet. Forgot to Gag Him: Dr.

Mark Sloan - when kidnapped by the insane children of a Mad Bomber he got sent to the electric chair, he manages to play them against each other, while secretly sending clues to his partners- in- crimesolving, leading to his inevitable rescue. One of the agents on the case even comments that they really should've shot him right away..

Friend on the Force: Mark's son. Gangsta Style: Played with in an episode where Mark Sloan is at a gun range being shown how to use a pistol. He fires off a few rounds normally (with realistic loudness and recoil) and then asks the man who was showing him whether he could fire it sideways .

While the instructor starts saying why it's a bad idea, Mark fires the gun anyway by accident and the recoil flings it out of his hand with great ease and force - which creates a big enough diversion for another character to sneak past. Gold Digger: The victim in !

Lander, Leslie Easterbrook, and Conrad Janis). Hypocritical Humor: When the hospital's computer system is brought to its knees by a virus, Norman asks the computer engineer who fixes the problem to give the staff a lecture on proper computer handling and to remind them that their computer terminals are not toys. Watch Time Bomb Mediafire. The engineer then reveals that the virus on the system is commonly found in a particular computer game - which Norman has installed on his terminal. Identical Stranger: In . Sloan is at a retirement home disguised as a wheelchair- bound senile person in order to investigate corruption. At one point, another character needs emergency medical treatment, so Sloan has to irrevocably blow his cover in front of all the staff and residents to help.

Inheritance Murder: In one episode, there's a millionaire who decides to leave his fortune to a hospital, but who dies before he can change his will. Naturally, suspicion falls on his three awful children. Interdisciplinary Sleuth: Dr. Sloan uses his medical knowledge to solve crimes. It Was Here, I Swear!: In .

When he returns with aid, the body is gone and another man is faking tachycardia. Jesse spends the rest of the episode trying to persuade people of what he saw. Jack the Ripoff: The title character of the tie- in novel The Silent Partner is a serial copycat: one copycat each for multiple serial killers. Karma Houdini: In . Mark is later forced to perform impromptu surgery on the kidnapper when the broken rib he suffered during the crash punctures his lung. Killed Off for Real: Carol Sloan and her husband in the movie Town Without Pity.

The Killer Was Left- Handed: Almost used in an episode where the killer must be right handed. This lets the left handed man off, until it's revealed that everyone is innocent. Since someone must be guilty, it turns out the lefty is ambidextrous.

Diagnosis Murder (a Titles & Air Dates Guide). Dr. Mark Sloan uses his keen wits and medical expertise to solve murder mysteries with the help of his son, a detective with the L. A. Mark Sloan made his first appearance in 1. Jake and the Fat Manepisode 4- 1. We are just providing.

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