Picks and Pans Review: A Cry for Justice

UPDATED 05/28/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 05/28/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (9 p.m. ET)

The detective genre may be well worn, but this TV film proves it isn't worn out. The ever quirky Robert Culp plays a flashy if slipshod investigator whose drab partner, Dennis Weaver, insists on digging into the shooting of fellow cop Donald Reid. Larry Hagman is splendid as a heavy-drinking lawyer, Diana Muldaur empathetic as Weaver's wife.

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