TENAFLY (1973-1974) – The same television season that Richard Roundtree’s Shaft was adapted as a small-screen series, another black detective show titled Tenafly debuted.
James McEachin starred as Harry Tenafly, a private detective with the high-end detective agency Hightower Investigations, Inc. Harry was a former Los Angeles police detective who left the force for a higher salary with Hightower.
Richard Levinson and William Link, the creators of Columbo, also created Tenafly and like Columbo, Tenafly was one of the 90-minute detective shows that rotated appearances on NBC’s Mystery Movies series.
Harry Tenafly was a devoted husband to his wife Ruth (Lillian Lehman) and loving father to their two sons. His regulation contact on the police force was Lt. Sam Church, played by the ubiquitous David Huddleston.
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