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THE DETONATOR
Original Airdate: Feb. 25, 1973
Synopsis. An assassination attempt on prominent prosecuting attorney William Sanders (played by Roger Perry) puts Erskine on the trail of Alex Tanner (played by Richard Jordan), a contract killer hired by syndicate racketeer Albert Dirks (Tim O’Connor) to assassinate Sanders. Some years before, Sanders convicted Dirks on a gambling violation—an ordeal that Dirks believes led to the death of his wife. Though Dirks calls off the hit after getting pressure from the mob, Tanner—a tightly wound perfectionist with a peculiar habit of cracking walnuts with his mouth—is determined to finish the job. Erskine must apprehend Tanner before he tries to kill Sanders again.
LEARN MORE about “The Detonator” in THE FBI DOSSIER, everything you wanted to know—and more—about the long-running ABC-TV series produced by Quinn Martin and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
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