Racecar driver Tom Kovack (Leonard Nimoy) was well in the lead when he suddenly had a vision. He saw a manor house in England and a screaming woman. The vision ruins his concentration on the racetrack. He spun out and crashed. Luckily, he was not injured. Later, during an interview, he detailed the vision to the reporter. Michelle Brent (Susan Hampshire) was watching and she quickly realized that Tom had psychic powers. She asked him to travel to England and save the screaming woman. He viewed that as ludicrous. However, when he had another vision which saw him falling from a cliff into the sea, he reconsidered, especially since he awoke on the floor covered in sea water.
Actress Andrea Glenn (Vera Miles) traveled to England with her daughter, Jennifer. They planned to meet her long estranged husband at a manor house owned by Mrs. Farraday (Rachel Roberts). Much to Jennifer's disappointment, he was not there. Or is he? Jennifer begins to act strangely and Andrea becomes deathly ill. Worse still, efforts were made to kill both Tom and Michelle. As Tom and Michelle investigate - often with Tom's clairvoyant talents, they discovered that occultism and psychic powers are being wielded against Andrea, her daughter, and themselves. Can they counter this hidden villain before one of them is killed?
This was made as a pilot for a potential series and even ended with Tom having a vision that required them to travel to Paris next. Much as I like Leonard Nimoy, he was not the best choice for the role. Perhaps that is because I've typecast him as Spock. Susan Hampshire plays both love interest and sage of psychic powers. If this had launched into a series, how long would her schtick of explaining clairvoyance and the occult have been valuable? The series would doom Tom to being an eternal noob with regards to powers that he had and she did not. The villain (Mike Murray) had a small role but managed to be both slimy, creepy, and scary. He looked like an evil version of Michael Palin.
Just okay.
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