Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer a disclaimer, disassociating itself from Rossner's novel and subsequent film. Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer is a television film starring George Segal, Shelley Hack and Tracy Pollan. It first aired on October 15, 1983, on the CBS television network. Produced by Sonny Grosso and Larry Jacobson, the film was directed by Bill Persky. The film follows the investigation into the 1973 rape and murder of a young Manhattan school teacher. The film appropriates the title of Judith Rossner's acclaimed best-selling novel "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", published in 1975 and filmed in 1977. Mistakenly referred to
William Atherton He got his big break playing hapless fugitive Clovis Poplin in "The Sugarland Express" (1974), the feature film debut of Steven Spielberg. After this, he garnered major roles in dark dramas such as "The Day of the Locust" (1975) and "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (1977), as well as the big-budget disaster film "The Hindenburg" (1975). Atherton also starred as cowboy Jim Lloyd in the miniseries "Centennial" (1978), based on the novel by James Michener. Atherton appeared in the comedy "Ghostbusters" (1984) as the EPA agent Walter Peck. Martha Coolidge chose Atherton to play Professor Jerry Hathaway in the teen comedy