Picks and Pans Review: Turnover Smith

UPDATED 06/09/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 06/09/1980 at 01:00 AM EDT

ABC (8-9:30 p.m. ET)

William Conrad is a delightfully cranky criminologist trying to checkmate a chess-obsessed strangler. The pace of this TV movie is fast, and James Darren is fine as the calculating killer even if, from opening to end game, none of it makes much sense.