Despite his intelligence, however, Robison was able to pin the convicted murderer down, and it was all thanks to his appearance on The Dating Game. In the episode, contestant Cheryl Bradshaw ...

The man who arrested serial killer Rodney Alcala, whose case inspired the recent Netflix special "Woman of the Hour," detailed the true story behind the popular film and how Alcala's appearance on ...

A Netflix film dramatizing the true story of a serial killer who appeared on a television dating show in the ... Alcala was chosen by Cheryl Bradshaw at the end of the show. But Bradshaw later ...

The film focuses on Cheryl Bradshaw, who was the actual bachelorette on “The Dating Game” and was presented with Alcala as a suitor in 1978. In the film, Cheryl, portrayed by Anna Kendrick, is an ...

Overall, The Dating Game was revived and canceled several times after Rodney Alcala became an infamous contestant in 1978.

The real-life Cheryl Bradshaw felt 'ill' after meeting serial killer Rodney Alcala on The Dating Game in September 1978 and declined to meet with him again, in a move that probably saved her life.

an aspiring actor and Dating Game contestant who selected Alcala (Daniel Zovatto) as the winning bachelor on the show, but, like her real-life counterpart Cheryl Bradshaw, gets out of the ...

Kendrick, making her directorial debut, stars as an aspiring actor named Cheryl Bradshaw who ultimately winds up a contestant on that particular “Dating Game” episode. Early in the film ...

The movie is based on the true story of the 'Dating Game Killer' Rodney Alcala ... where he comes around the partition and Cheryl Bradshaw looks at him, there’s a moment in her eyes where ...

The crime thriller was directed by Anna Kendrick who also plays the bachelorette on "The Dating Game" who ended up choosing Alcala for a date, Cheryl Bradshaw. During the episode in which he was ...