Case file: #7-76881-H
Dale Vernon Hillman: Kidnapping, Murder.
Original broadcast date: 1 May 1966
This episode was not repeated.
Inspector Lew Erskine seeks a kidnapper-killer who tries to hide in a paramilitary, neo-Nazi hate group. The inspector does so by going undercover, and infiltrating it. Excellent episode, and proof positive that hate groups were just as active in 1966 as they are (sadly) in the present.
- Warner Brothers stalwart Andrew Duggan makes his first appearance in the series. He made at least three other appearances in the series. He also had a lead role in the final Quinn Martin FBI movie, Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975), and was in FBI Code 98 (1963).
- Charlotte Stewart was billed as Charlotte Considine.
- We learn that Assistant Director Arthur Ward is a “hi-fi” aficionado. The episode begins and ends with Mr. Erskine playing tennis.
- The 1957 Ranchero (yellow/white) is in the tomato-throwing scene in the park. It also appears in an earlier sequence in the show.
Credits:
Directed by: Christian Nyby
Written by: Richard Neil Morgan and Charles Larson
Performer | Role
- Robert Drivas | Dale Vernon Hillman
- Andrew Duggan | Chief of Police John Stanford
- Joe Maross | Commander Philip Payne
- Carl Reindel | Roy Carey
- Charlotte Stewart (as Charlotte Considine) | Cheryl Stanford
- Dick Whittinghill | Rod Patrick
- Jay Lanin | Lee Nelson
- Vivi Janiss | Mrs. Gibbons
- Melinda Casey (as Melinda Plowman) | Ruth
- Marvin Brody | Man
- Roy Engel | Coroner
- Bob Klein | Firearms Examiner
- Duncan McLeod | Doctor