Diagnosis Murder
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| Name: | Diagnosis Murder, Diagnosis: Murder |
| Abbreviation(s): | DM |
| Creator: | Joyce Burditt |
| Date(s): | October 29, 1993 – May 11, 2001 May 1, 1992 February 13, 1993 February 6, 2002 April 26, 2002 |
| Medium: | TV series, TV movies, tie-in novels |
| Country of Origin: | USA |
| External Links: | at IMDb (tv series) at IMDb (1992 movie) at Wikipedia (tv series) at Wikipedia (film series) |
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Diagnosis Murder (also written Diagnosis: Murder) is an American comedy-mystery-medical crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical doctor who solves crimes with the help of his son Steve, a homicide detective played by Van Dyke's son, Barry Van Dyke.
The series began as a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman (Dr. Mark Sloan made his first appearance in episode 4.19 "It Never Entered My Mind", written by Joyce Burditt), became a series of three television films, and then a weekly television series that debuted on CBS on October 29, 1993. Lee Goldberg was a writer and producer on the TV series and later wrote a series of licensed tie-in novels.
Fandom
Pairings
Steve Sloan/Jesse Travis is the fandom's main slash pairing.
Gen Fandom
There is a great deal of gen fanworks, featuring the whole team, or focusing on the platonic friendships between characters.
Common Tropes in Fanworks
- Casefic: similar to canon, where the characters have to solve a mystery
- Crossover: crossovers with other fandoms that were popular in the 1990s and early 2000s is common, some popular choices are CSI, The Sentinel, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
Example Fanworks
Fanfiction
- Comparative Analysis and Misdiagnosed by Juli, a crossover with The Sentinel (Steve/Jesse and Jim/Blair), recced at crack_van as "a good solid read" (c. 2001)
- Rage by phoenix-tears-uk, a drama/angst novel, the most reviewed and favorited Diagnosis Murder story on Fanfiction.net (2003–2004)
- Steve e Jesse by CellyLS, a Brazilian Portuguese Steve/Jesse fanfic for yvarlcris, One-shot divided into ten scenes that lead to the discovery of the love they have for each other (2014)
Archives, Communities & Resources
- Diagnosis Murder tag at AO3
- Diagnosis Murder at FanFiction.Net
- Diagnosis Murder tag at SquidgeWorld Archive
- dmurderfanfic, a LiveJournal Community
- Diagnosis Murder Fanfiction Challenge (archived link)
- Diagnosis Murder Fanfiction by Pamala Rush,[1] a gen website
- Diagnosis Murder Wikia
References
- ^ "Diagnosis Murder Fan Fiction". 1999-10-05. Archived from the original on 2022-03-21.
This page uses content originally from Wikipedia's Diagnosis Murder page; Wikipedia content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0. (view page authors).
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