https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/05/city-of-angels.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0542114/
1976 NBC. "The House on Orange Grove Avenue." Wayne Rogers period hard-boiled L.A. private detective show. Guest starring Severn Darden, Billy Green Bush, Ted Gehring, Jerry Hardin, Susan Howard, Susan Sullivan, Lara Parker. From Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins. With Clifton James recurring as the crooked LAPD cop. Some people consider this one of the finest of all detective shows, while others feel that Wayne Rogers was miscast as a hard-boiled gumshoe. All thirteen episodes showed up on Youtube in 2020. The first three-part episode, The November Plan, in particular is acclaimed.
Jake Axminster is hired to investigate an old murder in an orange grove in order to clear the names of two rich women who were accused of the crime. Stirring up the old murder stirs up old feelings and Jake is attacked a couple of times by people wanting to know who he was working for and why. Jake's normal rate is $25 a day plus expenses but when he see how rich his clients are he tries to bump that up to $35 and gets shot down.
City of Angels is a very solid detective show. I watched almost all of them when they became available. The first six are better than the last six as the star and producers became disenchanted with the series as they went along.
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