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(c)1977 Columbia Tristar Television (film)
(c)1988 WGNT-E.W. Scripps Co.


April 1988 commercial promoting WYAH-TV 27 (now WGNT) showing for their 8:00 movie the 1977 CBS made-for-TV movie "A Killing Affair"; starring former "Bewitched" star Elizabeth Montgomery and Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson as a pair of homicide detectives who, while tracking down a killer (Dean Stockwell), start developing a romantic attraction to each other; with other notable cast members including Rosalind Cash (wife of O.J.'s character); Priscilla Pointer; Dolph Sweet (whose best-known role was as a cop, as police chief Carl Kanisky on NBC's "Gimme a Break", playing the role from the show's beginning in 1981 until he succumbed to stomach cancer in 1985) and John Mahon among others.


The film finished just behind ABC juggernaut "Charlie's Angels" in its time slot when it debuted; with Simpson's acting receiving high praise. Additionally, per a 1977 "Jet" article on the movie, there was apparently far less controversy over the interracial aspects of the lead characters' romance than expected (while neither Montgomery or Simpson received any hate mail; one unidentified CBS affiliate in the South did get a bomb threat that was taken seriously enough to have the building evacuated while a Chicago newspaper and CBS O&O WBBM-TV 2 received a number of disturbing crank calls).