Midnight Caller is an American drama television series created by Richard DiLello, which aired on NBC from October 25, 1988, to May 10, 1991.

[2][3] Jack Killian is a former San Francisco police detective who quits the force after he accidentally shot his partner dead in a confrontation with armed criminals.

He faced myriad problems, both personal and professional, and was at various points required to come to grips with the nature of his relationships with both his absentee father and his troubled siblings.

The show's jazz music soundtrack also added to its popularity, Rick Braun wrote the theme tune for the series.

The song itself had no relation to the series' subject matter; it had been written by Ham in tribute to a friend of the band who had resorted to working as a high-priced prostitute to pay her bills.

As originally conceived, the man is gunned down in a vigilantism murder by one of the women whom he infects, and a medical team in full Hazmat suit comes to take his body away as Jack Killian comforts the distraught shooter.

Coming in the early years of the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in the US at a time when public understanding of the disease was quite low,[10] the proposed episode was immediately criticised as sensationalistic, ignorant of bisexuality, and pseudoscience.