Ace Crawford, Private Eye

Ace Crawford, Private Eye is a 1983 television program that parodied the “hard-boiled detective” genre; Tim Conway stars as a trench-coated private detective who always solves the case and caught the bad guy, despite his constant bumbling. Only five episodes were aired. In addition to Tim Conway as Ace Crawford, the cast included: In each half-hour episode, Crawford would be hired for, or otherwise find himself involved in, a case in which criminals were taking advantage of innocent citizens. He would then approach the case using Conway’s trademark comedy style; in one episode he was disguised as a feeble old man, in another he was using a children's toy microphone as a “wire,” et cetera. In spite of the slapstick results of his...