Once The
Killing Starts
(ITC Movie title "Once The Killing Starts")
Original UK transmission: 2nd February 1974
Original US transmission: 7th January 1974
WRITTEN BY: Brian Clemens
DIRECTED BY: John Scholz-Conway
PRODUCED BY: John Sichel
MAIN CAST: Patrick O'Neal (Michael Lane), Angharad Rees (Stella
Mason), Michael Kitchen (George Newton), Gerald Sim (Peterson),
Gary Watson (Inspector Rush), Patricia Donahue (Elizabeth Lane),
Terry Wright (Det. Constable Waters)
Teaser
Sequence
The camera pulls back over a
grand English university and settles on a small residence.
Inside, a college professor is at work in his study when his wife
asks him if he's coming along to church. To her annoyance he
declines, stating that he has agreed to see one of his students -
George. She leaves and George arrives - who turns out to be an
attractive young girl.
Plot
Summary
College Professor Michael Lane plots to kill his wife and things
seems to go off without a hitch when he begins receiving alarming
blackmail messages from an unknown person. Each time he silences
who he believes to be his tormentor, the messages return and he
becomes ever more frantic to unmask the blackmailer.
Comments
Despite the promising title, there isn't much to recommend here.
Events unfold far too predictably and the ending is very low-key
indeed and rather unsatisfying. Probably my least favourite
episode.
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