| The Case of the
Shooting Star In this
episode, broadcast on NBC on Sunday night, November 9,
1986, Perry is called on to defend a man who shoots a
talk show host to death in front of 40 million
eyewitnesses.
The victim, a Johnny Carson type named
Steve Carr (Alan Thicke), is at odds with his friend, TV
star Robert McKay, played by Joe Penny. McKay is in New
York City shooting a movie Carr films his talk show in the Big Apple
also. When McKay finds his girlfriend snuggling with Carr
in a restaurant, angry words are exchanged. The two men
start to argue. A punch is thrown. They have to be
separated. Looks like the end of the friendship.
The next day, McKay arranges with his
show's stunt coordinator to get hold of a prop gun. He
intends to play "a joke" on Carr, pretending to
shoot him on the air. That night, while the talk show is
on the air, McKay walks through the curtain and
"shoots" at Carr. Trouble is, someone put a
real bullet in the .357 Magnum. Carr is dead.
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