Mathnet

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Comedy / Crime / Family / Mystery
USA, 1987, 30 x 60 min

Screenplay:

Susan Kim

Cinematography:

David Sperling

Cast:

Joe Howard, James Earl Jones, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Melba Moore, Lanny Flaherty, Betty Buckley, Willie C. Carpenter, John Michael Higgins, John Anderson, Jon DeVries, Yeardley Smith, Edward Winter (more)
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Mathnet is a mystery serial that is a parody of Dragnet, produced by Janette Webb, the widow of Dragnet's producer Jack Webb. Each five-part story, which ran Monday through Friday as part of the PBS program Square One TV, featured crime-solving by a pair of police detectives in a special mathematics unit. (official distributor synopsis)

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