procedural drama

The original crime-solving series Private Eyes is a 10-episode procedural drama that follows ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade (Jason Priestley) who irrevocably changes (Jason Priestley's life when (Jason Priestley decides to team up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett (Cindy Sampson) to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.

comedy mystery film

The Private Eyes is a 1980 American comedy mystery film starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts.

comedy mystery

The Private Eyes is a 1980 American comedy mystery film starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts.

comedy-drama

Private Eyes (during production first known as The Code) is a Canadian comedy-drama television series inspired by the novel of the same name by G.B. Joyce, created by Tim Kilby and Shelley Eriksen starring Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson as the two protagonist private investigators solving crimes in Toronto.

a Scooby-Doo-style horror/comedy movie

The Private Eyes film is a Scooby-Doo-style horror/comedy movie.

comedy

These Private Eyes reconstruct the day's events through four classic story-telling perspectives (film noir, mystery, romance, and Western) to solve the mystery in this clever and fast-paced comedy.

mystery

In general, a 'private eye' is any mystery protagonist who is a professional investigator, but not a police officer or government agent.

comedy of suspicion

Private Eyes is a 1996 drama by Steven Dietz about deception and broken trust, labeled by the author as a "comedy of suspicion", as the story is brought in multiple layers and the audience is repeatedly tricked to believe that the current situation is real.

Detective

A Private Eye is a specialized type of Detective.

a comedy-mystery starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts

The Private Eyes is a comedy-mystery starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts and would mark their finale on-screen pairing (minus a cameo in The Cannonball Run II).

an engaging private detective drama featuring two strong and forever-competing characters investigating high-stakes cases of the week

Private Eyes is an engaging private detective drama featuring two strong and forever-competing characters investigating high-stakes cases of the week, taking them to many diverse worlds and testing their new partnership.

Michael Hui Michael Hui's brothers,

The Private Eyes is a 1976 Hong Kong comedy film written, directed by and starring Michael Hui and co-starring Michael Hui's brothers, Samuel Hui and Ricky Hui, and also starring Shih Kien and Richard Ng in Michael Hui's second film role.

and co-starring Samuel Hui and Ricky Hui

The Private Eyes is a 1976 Hong Kong comedy film written, directed by and starring Michael Hui and co-starring Michael Hui's brothers, Samuel Hui and Ricky Hui, and also starring Shih Kien and Richard Ng in Michael Hui's second film role.

detective novel

Written in a Chandleresque, hard-boiled detective novel style, the basic premise is that a private eye is hired by an enigmatic and sinister client to find a missing person.

detective dramas

Hard-boiled detective dramas are almost always categorized as film noir, and there is usually the constant of a private eye and a femme fatale.

into two sub-genres: hard-boiled and soft-boiled

Private eyes typically fall into two sub-genres: hard-boiled and soft-boiled.

Spy fiction

Spy fiction is usually about love, money or politics.

noir

From historical commentators to neo-noir pictures to pop culture ephemera, the private eye and the femme fatale have been adopted as the quintessential film noir figures, though they do not appear in most films now regarded as classic noir.

classic tropes of film noir

Private eyes, femme fatales, crooked businessmen, and ransoms are all classic tropes of film noir.

a cinematic, neo-noir psychological thriller, crafted exclusively for virtual reality, fully immersing players in the gripping, fragmented narrative of a mysterious detective

Private Eye is a cinematic, neo-noir psychological thriller, crafted exclusively for virtual reality, fully immersing players in the gripping, fragmented narrative of a mysterious detective.