Picks and Pans Review: Undercover with the Kkk

UPDATED 10/22/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 10/22/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (9-11 p.m. ET)

Don Meredith gives perhaps his best acting performance as Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., the controversial FBI infiltrator who witnessed—and is under indictment for—the murder of a civil rights worker in Alabama. It is that rare film whose violence, however brutal, is not gratuitous