Ross had been sent money to meet with a rich client who turned out to be dead. The only clue as to what he was being hired for was a telescope in the dead man's yard looking at the backyards of his rich neighbors. So Ross started investigating the neighbors. After cross examining a frustrated neighbor at a country club, Ross is walking out of the fenced in area and the rich neighbor screams thru the fence.... "leave us all alone". Ross looks up thru the fence for a moment and laughs and starts walking away. Neighbor screams out thru the fence...."what's so funny?". Ross replies, looking at the neighbor standing behind the wrought iron bars of the fence looking frustrate, "ever been to a zoo?".

When I was a child and watched this show, I looked forward to those words every week. The show would start with a cliffhanger followed by "My name is David Ross and I'll bet you're wondering how I got into a mess like this!"When became aware of the genre this show grew out of, I came to believe that it (the show) was an homage to Raymond Chandler. I can think of very few others that captured the spirit of those detective novels so well. Of course this is looking back in memory and it has been many years. I would love to see how this series stand the test of time. If this were available I would buy it in a minute. Does anyone know if it is available or if it soon might be?

While the plot lines and stories escape me...I was pretty young then...I remember the show.My dad used to love this series. I remember him being pretty amused by the credits where Darren opens his fridge and slugs down some milk only to discover it had gone over.The show and actor were soon, and forever, nicknamed "Sour milk" in our house.Later I caught the premiere of the "Night Stalker" movie. I was hooked.Darren presented himself in most of his characters, in such a way that you wish that you could have known him personally. He was the irascible uncle with the heart of gold.Darren passed away this last weekend. The world is poorer for his passing.

I had never seen this show when it was on the first time as I was working 2 jobs at the time. This show was on one of the cable channels over the weekend. The only reason I watched it was the fact that I like Darren McGavin. This was not the tough Darren that played Mike Hammer or Kolchak but a very toned down character with no bite. The story line was awful and right out of the private-eye tv show cookie-cutter scripts of the time. I will never bother watching another episode again.