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8 x 60 minute episodes

Serial killers are a favourite theme for TV crime shows, and this short-lived NBC series was built entirely around them.

The (fictional) Behavioral Science Unit of the US Justice Department, headed by ‘Westy’ Grayson (Starsky and Hutch star David Soul in his return to prime time TV), investigated the most baffling of these cases, using experts in psychological profiling and the latest high-tech equipment.

The rest of the team comprised Ned Platt (M. Emmet Walsh), one of the “best old time feds who ever walked”; forensic scientist Alan McWhirter (Kent McCord), who could make a crime scene talk; Tony D’Agostino (Joe Maruzzo), the rebellious member of the team who was constantly at odds with Wes; Jimmy Bello (Richard Kind), who had a degree in advanced hypnotic therapy and used hypnosis to make witnesses recall things they couldn’t remember; and Ann Madison (Jennifer Hetrick), a RNDSC (a registered nurse who is also a doctor of psychology), who gives the team their psychological killer profiles.

Their targets – “unknown subjects”, or ‘unsubs’ – gave the series its name.

John Westley Grayson (Westy)
David Soul
Ned Platt
M. Emmet Walsh
Alan McWhirter
Kent McCord
Norma McWhirter
Andrea Mann
Tony D’Agostino
Joe Maruzzo
Ann Madison
Jennifer Hetrick
Jimmy Bello
Richard Kind

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