EDITOR’S NOTE: The 11th Victim was on the CBS Late Movie on August 27, 1982.

Airing on November 6, 1979 as the CBS Tuesday Night Movie, The 11th Victim — released on VHS as The Lakeside Killer — has Jill Kelso (Bess Armstrong) coming from Des Moints to Los Angeles, looking for the killer of her younger sister, Cindy Lee (Marilyn Jones), who was trying to be an actress and ended up a sex worker. She refuses to believe that, however, even as cop Andrew Spencer (Max Gail) tries to keep her safe when she investigates on her own.

The bad influence on her sister was Sally Taylor (Pamela Ludwig), who got Cindy Lee to pose nude for a German calendar. She barely knows Jill and soon she’s taking her to a “video disco” and getting her to do drugs. Then Jill gets the idea to become a girl fresh off the bus named Kelly and follows in her sister’s footsteps, meeting this movie’s version of Jim South, Spider (Eric Burdon, yes from The Animals), whose secretary Cathy (Annazette Chase) seems so lovely, then tells Jill/Kelly to take off her clothes, right there in the office. And before you know it, Jill/Kelly is agreeing to do hardcore with megastar Red Brody (David Hayward), who she believes is a killer, the very person who killed her sister.

Dick Miller appears as a cop, and this was the last film for Tara Strohmeier, whose career is marked by a list of notable movies, including Hollywood Boulevard, Truck Turner, The Kentucky Fried Movie, The Student Teachers, and more.

After Mr. Billion and Over the Edge flopped, director Jonathan Kaplan found himself working in TV. He also made The Gentleman Bandit and Girls of the White Orchid, which is much better and nearly the same movie, before achieving success with Heart Like a Wheel. This was written by Ken Friedman, who also wrote Death by Invitation, White Line Fever and Cadillac Man.

This movie is definitely “We have Hardcore at home.”

You can watch this on YouTube.