William Bowers

Specialized in comedy westerns and also turned out several thrillers. Bowers produced the last film that he wrote, the superior Western parody "Support Your Local Sheriff!" (1969).

Starsky and Hutch · S2, E14

Bloodbath

Starsky is kidnapped and threatened with death unless a drug cult leader and nine-time-murderer is set free in "Bloodbath." Starsky is abducted and the place he was last seen is ritualistically smeared with blood graffiti. An agonized Hutch knows he cannot prolong the sentencing of the most sensational criminal of the decade -- even if it means Starsky may die. ate the gang's hiding place. His gamble leads him to a deserted zoo where Starsky has been tortured and is about In desperation, he studies the strange, sing-song symbolic language of the killer, hoping to find a clue and loc to be killed.