Details

Release year: 1989

Storyline

An amiable, inquisitive Chicago priest moonlights as a detective and is assisted by a rather worldly, lock-picking nun.

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Cast

Tom Bosley — Father Frank Dowling, Blane Dowling, Frank, O'Downey
Tracy Nelson — Sister Stephanie 'Steve' Oskowski, Cara Winston, Mary Catherine Ignatius, Sister 'Steve Oskowski, Sister Steve Oskowski
Mary Wickes — Marie Murkin, Maggie
James Stephens — Father Philip Prestwick, Private Eye

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• NBC canceled the series after the first season. ABC picked up the show as a mid-season replacement and then aired another full season before it was canceled for good in 1991.

• The first series was originally set to premiere in October 1988, but pushed to January 1989 in the mid-season lineup, due to the 1988 Writers' Strike.

• The decision to cancel "Father Dowling" came at the eleventh hour. ABC elected to revamp "Gabriel's Fire," a private eye drama starring James Earl Jones, as "Pros and Cons;" that series took the spot on the schedule from "Father Dowling."