"Rehearsal for Murder" was re-written (as "Killing Jessica"), for the London West End Stage in 1986, by Richard Levinson & William Link. It Premiered on 19th November, attended by HRH The Queen Mother and HRH The Princess Margaret (Mother and Sister of HM The Queen.
The Play starred Patrick McNee and was directed by Brian Forbes.
In the flashback scene where William Russ is with Lynn Redgrave, Russ is wearing a brown leather bomber jacket with the number 13 over his left breast. When he portrays Roger Lococco a few years later in Wiseguy (1987), he will wear that same jacket. The jacket was considered Lococco's "trademark".
William Russ and William Daniels later co-starred on the long-running series Boy Meets World (1993). Their characters, Alan Matthews and George Feeny, respectively, were next-door neighbors.
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