Crosscurrent (1971)
CHARACTER: Sergeant Pat Cassady
DIRECTED BY: Jerry Thorpe

Crosscurrent emulates the 1971 theatrical feature Tick, Tick, Tick by teaming a black homicide lieutenant Insp. Lou Van Alsdale (Robert Hooks) with a white partner Sgt Pat Cassady (Jeremy Slate). Simon Oakland costars as the team's apoplectic superior Capt. Goodlad. Set in San Francisco, the story involves the cable-car murder of a shipping mogul's son, which was committed in broad daylight. Designed as the pilot for a TV series.

CAST: Robert Hooks, Jeremy Slate, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Jose Ferrer, John Randolph, Don Pedro Colley and Robert Wagner as Howard McBride