Ace Crawford, Private Eye is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March 15 to April 12, 1983.

Tim Conway stars as a trench-coated private investigator who always solves the case and catches the bad guy, despite his constant bumbling.

In each half-hour episode, Crawford would be hired for, or otherwise find himself involved in, a case in which criminals were taking advantage of innocent citizens.

He would then approach the case using Conway's trademark comedy style; in one episode he was disguised as a feeble old man, in another he was using a children's toy microphone as a "wire."

Every episode ended the same way: Crawford would leave The Shanty at night and walk along the wharf, vanishing into the fog... and then audibly fall into the water.