REVEALED: The Dating Game producer tried to stop serial killer Rodney Alcala appearing on show in 1978 because he had a strange personality - but colleagues oblivious to his murder spree said the audience will love him
Serial killer Rodney Alcala infamously appeared on the The Dating Game in September 1978, when he was in the midst of a brutal killing spree
Then-executive producer Mike Metzger told ABC he didn t want Alcala on the show because he had a strange personality and unsettling mystique
He was convicted by contestant coordinator Ellen Metzger, whose now his wife, to allow him on the show because she said woman would love him