A serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin stalking him.
Acting
Kate Nelligan's simmering fury never once tips into melodrama
Direction
Freedman shoots LA like a predator's hunting ground
Writing
The courtroom scene that'll make you scream at your screen
Director
Jerrold Freedman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for CBS in 1982, this was radical fodder for prime time—rape revenge narratives were largely exploitation territory, and Victims dared to make it prestige-adjacent melodrama.
Howard Hesseman, fresh off WKRP in Cincinnati, fought hard for the rapist role to shatter his comic image; the network nearly recast.
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