Having begun his career on TV (he was a regular on four different series between 1959 and 1970), Burt Reynolds returned many years and more than a few bad movies later for this rather routine private eye series which was one of the rotating elements of the ABC Mystery Movie – alongside Columbo, Kojakand Christine Cromwell – and was seen every three weeks or so.
Stryker was a Vietnam war hero, and burned-out New Orleans police detective who moved to Palm Beach, Florida, to bum around and occasionally work as a low-rent P.I. Living on a houseboat and tooling around in a beat-up old Cadillac, he solved murders mostly among the rich and famous of that golden resort.
Former boxer Oz (Ossie Davis) was his pal and enforcer; Lyynda (Dana Kaminski) was his free-spirited secretary; Oliver (Alfie Wise), his wealthy but trouble-prone landlord; and Kimberly (Rita Moreno), his oft-married ex-wife.
B.L. Stryker
Burt Reynolds Oz Jackson
Ossie Davis Chief Matthew McGee
Michael O. Smith Oliver Wardell
Alfie Wise Lynda Lennox
Dana Kaminski Officer Cartrude
James C. Lewis Kimberly Baskin
Rita Moreno
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