High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. A spin-off from Cannon, the show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. The character of Barnaby Jones was introduced in the episode "Requiem for a Son" in 1973, featuring special guest star William Conrad as Frank Cannon. The two-part episode "The Deadly Conspiracy" (1975) began on Cannon and concluded on Barnaby Jones.