diagnosis murder have be show on most weekday afternoon on bbc1 since i use to watch it while ill from school a good 10 year ago i know i shouldn not really enjoy it and in the same way i shouldn not enjoy murder she write but i be totally addict to both and even have the dvd box set . ok i know that sad . dick van dyke carry the show a he star a dr. mark sloan a doctor at community general hospital in l. a who be also a police consultant for the l. a. p. d. his son steve ( barry van dyke dick real life son ) be a police officer and who need his father help on very many suspicious death . along for the ride be dr. amanda bentley ( victoria bentley ) the resident pathologist at community general and for the first couple of season you have scott baio play dr. jack stewart and who up and leave the series in 1995 hoping to go on to big and good thing . he should have stay where he be and he hasn not do anything of note since . and his only theatrical appearance for many year be in baby genius 2 representsuperbabies . oh dear . anyhow dr. jack stewart be replace by the young dr. jesse travis play by charlie schlatter who step into baio shoe pretty comfortably . the series be highly implausible but what whodunit series isn not . ( murder she write everywhere jessica go and someone end up dead and or the underrated father dowling mystery about a murder solve priest with nun sidekick ) the series be much light up until 1997 this be because it have a support cast that include the bumble hospital manager norman briggs play by michael tucci along with nurse and mark secretary dolores play by delores hall and after 1997 both these character be no longer include and the series become a grittier affair with a big look budget and some episode include far more action and one episode the entire hospital be blow up . this be a family show for the van dyke because as well a dick son barry and you also have dick daughter and all his grandchild make an appearance in various episode . a the series go on it get a bit silly and one episode i remember dick van dike play his entire family and which be a bit out of the ordinary and but on the whole diagnosis murder be a really good tv show which have numerous good guest star . since this show finish in 2001 and dick and barry have appear together again in the murder 101 series of tv movie make by the hallmark channel and pretty much follow the same path and and still enjoyable . dick who now in his mid 80 doesn not seem to change a great deal and and look as if he will be work till the bitter end . tv show out of .