''Dellaventura'' is an American
crime drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combin ...
television series created by Richard Di Lello, Julian Neil and Bernard L. Nussbaumer, that aired on
CBS
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from September 23, 1997, to January 13, 1998. The show was based on the life of late
NYPD
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement agency within the City of New York, the largest and one of the oldest in ...
detective Anthony Dellaventura.
Premise
A former NYPD detective now works as a private detective,
taking on cases in which the bureaucratic legal system has failed.
Cast
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Danny Aiello as Anthony Dellaventura
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Rick Aiello as Teddy Naples
*Byron Keith Minns as Jonas Deeds
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Anne Ramsay as Geri Zarias
Episodes
Reception
Dellaventura was described as "essentially a rip-off" of ''
The Equalizer''.
"Dellaventura' is impossible to take seriously"
Retrieved 6 July 2019.
A review in the ''TV Guide
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The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008.
Corpora ...
'' noted:
References
External links
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*{{epguides, Dellaventura
1997 American television series debuts
1998 American television series endings
1990s American crime drama television series
American detective television series
English-language television shows
CBS original programming
Television shows set in New York City