Details

Release year: 1989

Storyline

A Texas police detective ties pitcher's strikes to a serial throat slasher.

Top credits

Directors

Peter Masterson

Writers

Cast

Roy Scheider — Lt. Mike Seaver
Karen Young — Roxy Bennett
Lane Smith — Lamar Witty
Richard Bradford — Chief Ron Nelson

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Did you know

• Hurricane Gilbert threatened the Texas coast during filming. Cast and crew evacuated to Houston for a few days and filmed interior scenes there.

• The finale was filmed at the Balinese Room located at Seawall Boulevard @ 21st Street; sadly, the entire structure was destroyed September 13, 2008 by Hurricane Ike. A few scenes were filmed underneath the Balinese Room (including the Murdoch's Pier and Ocean Grill (later the original Hooters Galveston) where the Flagship Hotel is seen in the background - the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in 2008 which devastated the Balinese Room and Hooters Galveston resulted in the redevelopment of the Flagship Hotel into the Galveston Pleasure Pier now owned by Landry's Restaurants. A new Hooters was opened off 61st Street in 2017, replacing the former destroyed by Hurricane Ike.

• Second and final appearance of sportscaster Bob Allen (1946 - October 20, 2016) as the Houston Astros play-by-play announcer. Allen, in real life, was a sports reporter for KTRK-TV Channel 13 in Houston, TX (1974-2013) and later KHOU 11 (2013-15) until he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Allen did a cameo appearance in the 1976 ABC Movie of the Week Murder At The World Series.