History Series / BarnabyJones

* CrazyJealousGuy: Cam in "Blueprint For A Caper" is this in spades (which was to expected since he's played by Gary Lockwood). The VictimOfTheWeek is Clete, an employee of an insurance company who's seeing Cam's girlfriend Gina(Creator/MegFoster). [[spoiler: they're all part of a plan to rob a jewellers'. Cam's freshly out of prison and just after Clete's gotten the store's layout Cam beats him up and kicks him down an elevator shaft, after relieving him on the layout. In that climax, Cam finds out Gina ''really'' didn't care for losing Clete...even though he was married and a father.]]

** Lois Lambert has been happy to aid in (and enjoy the fruits of [[BlatantLies local boy made good]][[note]]the town thinks Sonny's success comes from selling country rock songs in L.A.[[/note]] Sonny Holland's drug-running operation... but until the ranch hand who found about it was caught and killed by Sonny. So Sonny and the rest of the group - Lois, her boyfriend Walt, and Sonny's girlfriend Vanessa go swimming in the lake... when Lois takes a dip Sonny dives in after her.. then some bubbles reach the surface. A moment later only Sonny comes out of the lake...

* CrazyJealousGuy: Cam in "Blueprint For A Caper" is this in spades. The VictimOfTheWeek is Clete, an employee of an insurance company who's seeing his girlfriend Gina. [[spoiler: they're all part of a plan to rob a jewellers'. Cam's freshly out of prison and just after Clete's gotten the store's layout Cam beats him up and kicks him down an elevator shaft, after relieving him on the layout. In that climax, Cam finds out Gina ''really'' didn't care for losing Clete...even though he was married and a father.]]

** "Woman in the Shadows" has the nurse of a plastic surgeon (Creator/JohnVernon) impersonate the wealthy woman/sole survivor of a car accident she's performed a procedure on. [While two people die in this episode, surprisingly neither one was murdered! [[spoiler: The patient is a victim of medical malpractice, the surgeon's already been brought up malpractice charges and if it'll destroy his career if it happens again... the hairstylist who the wife was cheating on with figures out the charade, [[ItMakeSenseInContext accidentally kills himself before the surgeon can do it]].]]

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: In "Sing A Song Of Murder," a singer falls off a diving board into an empty swimming pool and lands on his head, and his manager and her colleague decide to cover it up by burying his body and making it look like he was kidnapped for a $500,000 ransom. [[ZigzaggedTrope Zig-zagged somewhat]] as [[spoiler: the guy was still alive, and it was the asphyxiation that killed him.]]

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: In "The Mercenaries", one of J.R.'s friends that served with him in Vietnam and has gone missing after joining a private army (to pay for his wife's medical bills.[[spoiler: his wife hasn't been able to contact him to let him know that she's fine now. So J.R.'s first case entails tracking him down... and discovering a planned political assassination.]]

** The homely and ''Series/{{Cannon}}''-esque in build small-town Sheriff Bradden in "Copy-cat Killing" is married to a much younger and much more attractive woman called Kitty [[spoiler: who used to be a prostitute when she arrived in town. She keeps in practice by [[ReallyGetsAround cheating on him with multiple men.]] Her husband finds out and is the murderer of the week.]]

** OK, ugly's pushing it, but the (considerable) gulf in attractiveness between Dick Van Patten's character and Jo Ann Harris' is even noticed ''in-universe'' in "The Odd Man Loses." [[spoiler: A nervous accountant (Van Patten) and two of his fellow and younger and better-looking carpoolers to carry out a robbery. Sadly for the accountant, his hot wife is cheating on him with one of the other carpoolers involved, who's ''also'' married. Sadly for ''him'', she's got a bad case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder complicated with EvilIsSexy, you can guess this doesn't work out for anyone involved.]]

* DeadMansChest: At the beginning of "Image in a Cracked Mirror," one of the women Bradford Dillman fleeced confronts him in a hotel room. He brutally strangles her to death, then packs her body in a nearby steamer trunk.