Telly Savalas suspects a psychic professor of terrorism in this paranoid '72 TV time bomb.
A professor who has visions of the future informs the police that someone is about to plant a bomb. He then discovers that the police consider him the prime suspect.
Acting
Savalas chewing scenery before his Kojak bald era.
Direction
Katzin squeezes maximum claustrophobia from minimal sets.
Director
Lee H. Katzin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired as part of NBC's 'Wednesday Mystery Movie' rotation, the same slot that later launched Columbo and McCloud.
Made during the peak of domestic terrorist panic — the Weather Underground, SLA, and Attica were all fresh wounds, making psychic-bomb plots feel dangerously plausible.
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