The Judge and Jake Wyler is a 1972 American TV movie directed by David Lowell Rich.
The title characters are a hypochondriac former judge who owns a private detective agency and her parolee partner.
The two are hired by Alicia Dodd to investigate the alleged suicide of her father, whom she suspects was really a murder victim.
Earlier that year, Bette Davis had starred in Madame Sin, a pilot for ABC that also failed to sell.
In 1973, the character of Judge Meredith resurfaced in the form of Lee Grant in the TV movie Partners in Crime, scripted by Shaw and directed by Jack Smight.