Katherine Charles

In hopes of contacting her beloved nephew Martin, a young scoundrel who died four years ago when a tree collided with his motorcycle, Claire Ross sponsors Dr. Douglas Holden and his psychic research. Bosley, Claire's friend and bridge partner, brings in the Angels as fake psychics to check on possible fraud. A complex TV monitoring system records the efforts of psychic Peter Wolcott and young Kathy Wade. Suddenly the voice of Martin is heard from Kathy's locked isolation chamber, and the girl is found murdered. Eerie phenomena occur; Martin's voice is heard from dark corners. Sabrina finds take recordings of "Martin," and locates killer Peter Wolcott. While videotape of Wolcott appeared on the TV monitor, he had been free to let himself into Kathy's booth. The pair had been conspiring to fleece Aunt Claire.

A sleazy racketeer, realizing that Hutch's testimony will send him to prison, hires a hit man to eliminate Hutch by forcing his car to crash in a canyon on "Starsky and Hutch." The episode marks David Soul's television directorial debut. In "Survival," Hutch sets himself up as the payoff man between mobster Vic Humphries and an Eastern syndicate in a hot car deal. At the rendezvous, Humphries double crosses Hutch and plans to kill him, but Starsky and the police arrive to arrest the racketeer. Humphies' lawyer posts his bail but they realize Hutch's testimony will convict the mobster. In desperation, Humphries hires a hit man who uses his own car as a battering ram to send Hutch's car crashing to the canyon floor where Hutch is left for dead.