***SPOILERS*** Pretty good made for TV serial murder mystery involving blond bombshell newspaper editor of the fledging "Faircrest Folcon" Liz Bartlett played by Loni Anderson, the then wife of the 1970's & 1980's mustachioed macho-man Burt Reynolds, who's at odds with her partner on the paper Jerry Caper who after getting a threatening phone-call is found stabbed to death. It's Jerry's good friend who's looking for a job at the paper Dan Walker played by star of the TV show "Jake and the Fatman", he's Jake, Joe Penny who takes it upon himself to find his late friend's killer. It's later after a number of other like-wise murders that Walker starts to feel that the beautiful but unstable Liz had something to do with them. That's by him digging into her past and finding out, by threatening to beat the hell out him, from her shrink or psychiatrist Dr. John Oxford, Jeremy Slate, that as a young girl she was institutionalized after her dad went off his rocker and killed himself! There's also the suspicion that poppa was at the time molesting the poor and helpless little Liz.
It's Walker who on his own without Liz's knowledge interviews her mom self-help columnist Winifred "Ask Winnie" Rogers played by June Lockhart, who played little Timmy's mom Ruth Martin the the TV series "Lassie, and it becomes apparent to him that Liz comes from a dysfunctional family that may well have screwed up her head and possibly turned her into a serial killer when she reached adulthood! Liz for her part doesn't help her own cause in that the people who are murdered in the movie seem to have some kind of strange connection with her that isn't exactly friendly!
****SPOILERS**** Shocking ending when Walker walks right into a trap when he's about to find out who the killer is and he's suddenly attacked from behind! And low and behold it's the local police chief Block, whom he doesn't get along with too well, who save his a** from being sliced up by blasting his attacker. It takes a while to figure out who the killer is but due to process of elimination, and when the smoke that fogged up the screen cleared, it wasn't that hard to do. Loni Anderson was as, even at age 43, beautiful as ever but the only complaint I have with her was that she didn't show enough skin to titillate the males in the audience. That were all just dying to see her in the buff or at least with only her having a very revealing or see through bra as well as panties on!
It's Walker who on his own without Liz's knowledge interviews her mom self-help columnist Winifred "Ask Winnie" Rogers played by June Lockhart, who played little Timmy's mom Ruth Martin the the TV series "Lassie, and it becomes apparent to him that Liz comes from a dysfunctional family that may well have screwed up her head and possibly turned her into a serial killer when she reached adulthood! Liz for her part doesn't help her own cause in that the people who are murdered in the movie seem to have some kind of strange connection with her that isn't exactly friendly!
****SPOILERS**** Shocking ending when Walker walks right into a trap when he's about to find out who the killer is and he's suddenly attacked from behind! And low and behold it's the local police chief Block, whom he doesn't get along with too well, who save his a** from being sliced up by blasting his attacker. It takes a while to figure out who the killer is but due to process of elimination, and when the smoke that fogged up the screen cleared, it wasn't that hard to do. Loni Anderson was as, even at age 43, beautiful as ever but the only complaint I have with her was that she didn't show enough skin to titillate the males in the audience. That were all just dying to see her in the buff or at least with only her having a very revealing or see through bra as well as panties on!