The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972)
- Director(s):
- David Lowell Rich
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Even Bette Davis showed up in a TV-movie pilot from time to time. The Judge and Jake Wyler stars the indestructible Davis as a hypochondriac former judge who becomes a private detective. Davis puts paroled ex-con Doug McClure to work as her "leg man," searching for clues in the supposed suicide of the heroine's (Joan Van Ark) businessman father. Had Judge and Jake Wyler sold as a series, Davis would have had to choose between this project and another projected weekly, Madame Sin; the decision was made for her when neither series sold. Two years later, Judge and Jake Wyler was rewritten, recast with Lee Grant and Lou Antonio, and repitched as a pilot under the title Partners in Crime (which also didn't fly). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Bette Davis - Judge Meredith
- Eric Braeden
- Lou Jacobi
- James McEachin
- Gary Conway
- Director(s):
- David Lowell Rich
- Writer(s):
- William Link, Richard A. Levinson, David Shaw
- Producer(s):
- Richard A. Levinson, William Link
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