Death Car on the Freeway is a 1979 made for television movie starring Shelley Hack

Shelley Hack

Shelley Marie Hack is an American supermodel, actress, producer, and political & media advisor. Hack is best remembered for her role as Tiffany Welles in the fourth season of the ABC Television Drama Charlie's Angels ; replacing the departing Kate Jackson...

. In a plot similar to Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

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's Duel

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Duel is a 1971 television film about a terrified motorist on a remote and lonely road being chased and stalked by the unseen driver of a tanker truck...

, this tells the story of an unseen psycho driver who is dubbed the Freeway Fiddler.

Former stuntman Hal Needham

Hal Needham

Hal Needham is an American stuntman and film director.-Early years:Needham was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Edith May and Howard Needham. He was raised in Arkansas and Missouri...

 directed Hack, who plays Janette Clausen, a TV reporter investigating a series of freeway murders. The psycho van driver is deliberately targeting and killing female motorists. While just a standard thriller , it is pepped up by the presence of several TV veterans, including George Hamilton

George Hamilton (actor)

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, Frank Gorshin

Frank Gorshin

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, Peter Graves

Peter Graves (actor)

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, Dinah Shore

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, Harriet Nelson

Harriet Nelson

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, Barbara Rush

Barbara Rush

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 and Abe Vigoda

Abe Vigoda

Abe Vigoda is an American movie and television actor. Vigoda is well known for his portrayal of Sal Tessio in The Godfather, and for his portrayal of Detective Sgt. Phil Fish on the sitcom television series Barney Miller from 1975–1977 and on its spinoff show Fish that aired from February 1977 to...

. Director Needham even turns up in a supporting role.

Death Car on the Freeway first aired on CBS television on September 25, 1979.