Detective Extralarge
tv show

12 total episodes
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2 seasons
First Aired November 12, 1991
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Overview
Jack Costello is a retired cop and now private detective who lives in Miami, who handles a myriad of cases for unusual clients. At his side are old police buddy Sam Bosley and cartoonist-turned-amateur sleuth Jean Philippe Dumas, who is using Costello as an influence and has nicknamed the burly detective "Extralarge." In the second series, Costello faces other dangerous cases, again with Bosley and Archibald, the son of an old friend, who Costello amusingly nicknames "Dumas."

Diamonds
Season 2 - Episode 3 - 0h 0m
Air Date
April 11, 1993
Overview
Extralarge and Dumas by chance foil the kidnapping of a small girl. What apparently seems to be a normal kidnapping for the purpose of extortion hides a vendetta between drug traffickers. In fact, the girl’s father, Eduardo, is the right-hand man of the Medellin cartel. Eduardo has decided to change his ways, but the other men in the cartel will not permit him to. So Eduardo, in order to blackmail his bosses and as insurance for his life and that of his daughter, hides an enormous consignment of diamonds at a bank which he will return to the traffickers once he is safe. But luck is not with the him. A band of robbers break into the bank where the diamonds are being kept and Eduardo’s guarantee of survival disappears. Terrorized, he goes to Extralarge asking him for protection without however informing him of the real situation, while his daughter is kidnapped by the cartel’s men.....