Strike Force

STRIKE FORCE was one of those cop shows that didn't last, but that people did in fact watch and mostly, enjoyed for its uniquely gruesome, realistic portrayal of detectives working in a big city, Los Angeles in this case, and while Robert Stack is best known for another crime series, thirty-years earlier in The Untouchables, he'd just starred in both 1941 and Airplane, but slapstick comedies, so FORCE was a way of getting back to his roots where that ultra-serious voice fits... and it did...

He's partnered with a younger partner, of course, as all shows do, in African American Dorian Harewood, and one episode in particular stands out although it doesn't seem to be listed... or described/summarized... in any of the episodes...

It was a kind of play on Psycho where the antagonist is a transgender (at that time called transvestite) who kills people, and it was an extremely eerie and intense episode.... but also, like Psycho, sympathetic. Guess that's a lost episode or something, but, this series should STRIKE on DVD or Blu Ray, and so many Gen X-ers would welcome it with open arms.