The sequel to 1969’s Fear No Evil, this made for TV movie brings back Louis Jordan as psychiatrist Dr. David Sorrell. Now, he has to help Jolene Wiley (Anne Baxter), who has been targeted by a witch coven led by Leila Barton (Diana Hyland). Jolene’s parents have already been killed and her sister Aline (Carla Borelli) has just overdosed on sleeping pills. Could she be next?

This was supposed to be a series, Bedeviled, but NBC ran Night Gallery instead. They still bought another pilot and this was it.

Along with. his mentor Harry Snowden (Wilfrid Hyde-White), Dr. Sorrell investigates, meeting a friend of Aline, Larry Richmond (Georg Stanford Brown), a Vietnam vet hippie blues singer who may have seen way too much of the cult. As for Leila Barton, she’s working on bewitching Dr. Sorrell and using that to get away with her crimes. This movie sets her up as a potential long-term enemy/lover if the show was ever bought.

Director Robert Day started his career in the UK but made some popular TV movies in the U.S., such as Scruples, The Initiation of Sarah and Death Stalk. This was written by the team of Robert Presnell Jr. (The Secret Night Caller) and Richard Alan Simmons (who developed Mrs. Columbo).

It’s rare that a potential show had two pilots air and the series was never picked up. I can only imagine if this had become a series, not all of the episodes would have aired and it would later be released on a box set after numerous airings on the CBS Late Movie.