The Rich Preacher Mysteries (260)

Yes, his name was Richard Preacher. Yes, he was a man of the cloth that had gotten rich due to a lawsuit against the city. It is also true that in his spare time, he was an amateur detective. Rich preacher was his name and his game...and solving mysteries was his game as well.
he carried two guns that he called Peter and Paul, and he'd learned kung-fu from a monk. Not a Shaolin monk, but a benedictine monk.
when he was approached by CBS about tuning his adventures into a weekly series, he agreed with the request that the last 5 minutes of each episode was a mini-sermon about the evils of smoking and drinking and crime and coveting things.
the show was a success, and oddly enough, the last two minutes were the best part.
later the show was cancelled due to low ratings. Rich Preacher was told that it was because people just didn't find religion cool anymore. Rich knew that it was because the writers had decided to add a talking dog sidekick.
in real life, Preachers sidekick was a talking sugar glider.