Jigsaw (U.S. TV Series) - Overview

Overview

The program starred James Wainwright as Lt. Frank Dain, who worked as an investigator for the California State Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons. Dain was a rebel who chafed at standard police procedures and techniques, but was always effective in finding the person for whom he was searching. He pieced each case together as if it were a jigsaw puzzle.The show was supposedly based on Det. Sgt. John "Jigsaw" St. John (at that time, the longest-serving member of the Los Angeles Police Department, who retired after just over fifty years on the force).

There was a spin-off Jigsaw Annual, which is now rare enough to change hands for over one thousand dollars on the collectors' market.