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HOW TO MURDER AN IRON HORSE
Original Airdate: Dec. 12, 1965
Synopsis. David Macklin stars as Howard Spencer “Howdy” Collier, a twenty-year-old psychopath with unresolved father issues. After blowing up a freight train belonging to the Dakota & Northwestern Railroad of Fargo, North Dakota, Howdy threatens to detonate a passenger train within seventy-two hours unless the company pays him $100,000.
Louise Latham also stars as Howdy’s mother. This marks the first of three FBI episodes in which Latham and Macklin played mother and son. Perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but there must have been something about the chemistry between the two actors that the casting personnel liked.
LEARN MORE about “How to Murder an Iron Horse” 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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