Little did she know, the man she chose to go on a date with - Rodney Alcala - was in fact a notorious serial killer. Alcala was part-way through a crime spree when he appeared on the show, having raped and assaulted multiple people and committed several murders.

In Hollywood, “the dating capital of the world,” according to the announcer of a famous game show on ABC-TV, Cheryl Bradshaw arrived as one in a long line of disappointed acting hopefuls — struggling,