Review by coltras35

When fellow lecturer Archer Coe (Alex Hyde-White) drops dead during a meeting to discuss tenure Dr. Jonathan Maxwell (Dick Van Dyke) is more suspicious than the rest of the staff who seem happy to pass it off as a heart attack. With the help of best friend and private investigator Mike Bryant (Barry Van Dyke) they start snooping around and find that several people from a bookie to an angry father of a student who Coe was bedding had reason to murder him. As they try to work out why and who Jonathan is also having to deal with an over eager journalist who uses anything he says in her articles and he's also on the hunt of a young man who stole his antique push bike.

Dick Van Dyke lifts this murder mystery from an average mark with his comic shenanigans and shrewd manner. He's absent-minded with his bike but not where crime is concerned. He's ably supported by his real life son Barry, who plays a private investigator and a much lighter character than the one he plays in Diagnosis Murder. It's a good mystery with a nice list of suspects, and a satisfying denouement.