Kiss Me Kill Me (1976)

When a quiet respectable school teacher (Tisha Sterling) is brutally stabbed to death, the police detective (Stella Stevens) working on the case discovers that the teacher was actually leading a double life. At night, she was cruising bars and picking up men of every persuasion until one night, she brought the wrong man home. If the scenario sounds familiar, it should. The novel LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR was published in 1975 and a film version came out in 1977. In between, this TV movie ripped off the premise. Actually, the movie was intended as a pilot for a proposed TV series with Stella Stevens as a detective along the lines of POLICE WOMAN with Angie Dickinson but it wasn't picked up. As a telefilm, it's decent enough and Stevens is very good but it's quite ordinary although quite "adult" for a TV movie at that time. It may have been the first time the word "semen" was used in prime time TV and the gay bar scene in L.A. is explored. Directed by Michael O'Herlihy. The cast includes Robert Vaughn, Dabney Coleman, Pat O'Brien, Claude Akins, Bruce Boxleitner, Bruce Glover and Michael Anderson Jr.