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7.0 1h 13m

They Only Come Out at Night

Jack Warden plays real-life Los Angeles detective John St. John in this pilot for the Jigsaw John television series. He and his Native American partner track a pervert serial killer of elderly women.

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  • Jack Warden

    Jack Warden

    John "Jigsaw" St. John

  • Charles Ynfante

    Charles Ynfante

    Tallchief

  • Madeleine Sherwood

    Madeleine Sherwood

    Helen St. John

  • Joe Mantell

    Joe Mantell

    Lt. Baylor

  • Tim O'Connor

    Tim O'Connor

    Det. Lee Masters

  • Dick Dinman

    Dick Dinman

    David Kanlan

  • Lily Valenty

    Lily Valenty

    Mrs. Eichman

  • BarBara Luna

    BarBara Luna

    Receptionist

  • Solomon Karriem

    Solomon Karriem

    Petulia

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Jack Warden plays real-life Los Angeles detective John St. John in this pilot for the Jigsaw John television series. He and his Native American partner track a pervert serial killer of elderly women.

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  • PIMannix
    PIMannix
    Sep 26, 2015

    Warden (THE VERDICT) stars as real-life Los Angeles detective John St. John in this pilot for the JIGSAW JOHN series. St. John, who worked the Black Dahlia case, received his “Jigsaw” nickname because of his talent for solving clever crimes like assembling a jigsaw puzzle. JIGSAW JOHN lasted only 15 episodes as a midseason replacement on NBC in 1976, but the movie-length pilot aired the year before. Al Martinez, a newspaper columnist who penned the BRONK pilot in 1975, wrote THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT, which is capably steered by Emmy winner Duke (THE SENATOR). St. John is one of those cops who gets emotionally involved with the victims, although his empathy doesn’t extend to his Indian partner Tallchief (Ynfante), who seems like a capable young detective, or his sympathetic wife (Sherwood), who dutifully gets up at 4:00 a.m. to make him coffee before he heads out to see another corpse. His new prey is a pervert who strangles old ladies and puts lipstick on them. A lot of shoe leather is worn and a lot of coffee is drunk while St. John and Tallchief plod their way through the clues. The killer turns out to be a whimpering psycho pretty common to old television shows. JIGSAW JOHN aired mainly against RICH MAN POOR MAN and got clobbered in the Nielsens.

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