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The John Killer
Conventioneers are being murdered by someone masquerading as a call girl.
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Release Date:
Fri, Nov 13, 1981
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Dorian Harewood
Sergeant Paul Strobber
Robert Stack
Captain Frank Murphy
Herb Edelman
Commissioner Herb Klein
Trisha Noble
Sergeant Rosie Johnson
Richard Romanus
Lieutenant Charlie Gunzer
Michael Goodwin
Sergeant Mark Osborne
Season 1:
Five bizarre and brutal decapitations bring together the Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Police Department, and the Highway Patrol as a special strike force. Headed by Captain Frank Murphy, the force begins their investigation -- their only clue is that each victim served on the jury of an embezzlement case.
The team is tipped off about a kidnapping by Frank's ex-partner, a souse who claims he also witnessed a murder.
The Force gambles that money will motivate a woman to set up her colleagues in crime.
Murphy plays on the emotional insecurity of a sadistic rapist who stalks his victims in supermarkets.
A dealer uses pot and pills to lure teenagers into pushing harder drugs to their friends.
Patients have been dying inexplicably at four hospitals -- including the one where Klein is taken following a heart attack.
A bomber sends Klein a photograpic clue to his next target -- and then pays him a visit.
Strobber shoots a teen-age robber whose racist partners swear revenge in a taped message -- left on the body of a slain black cop.
An international hit man plays cat and mouse with Frank, who has 48 hours to determine his target.
Clues in a string of jewelry-store robberis point to on-duty policemen -- and the captain of Internal Affairs, who try to pin the crimes on Gunzer.
The common element in a series of rape-murders is that the victims were last seen in singles bars.
A murderous cult is alerted to a police investigation by the mayor's premature press conference.
Muggings of the elderly go unchecked until a councilwoman is murdered trying to stop an attack.
A mobsters right-hand man uses Murphy's ex-wive to contact him about becoming a government-protected witness.
Conventioneers are being murdered by someone masquerading as a call girl.
Young muggers out on bail terrorize witnesses scheduled to testify against them.
Prison escapees hijack a military van, unaware of the contents -- refrigerated germ-warfare cultures.
A high-school girl left for dead by kidnappers provides the break in a series of abductions.
Gunzer and his girlfriend are wounded by hit men and the street talk is the girl was the target.
A policeman's widow is terrorized by phone calls from a man who claims to be her husband trying to avenge his ""death"".