The Deliberate Stranger is a book about American serial killer Ted Bundy written by Seattle Times reporter Richard W. Larsen that was published in 1980.

The book spawned a television miniseries of the same title, starring Mark Harmon as Bundy, that aired on NBC on May 4–5, 1986.

Frederic Forrest starred as Seattle detective Robert D. Keppel, and George Grizzard played reporter Larsen.

During the second part's broadcast, a few NBC affiliates (including WPXI channel 11 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and KPRC channel 2 Houston, Texas) were interrupted by a frozen scene and a static sound until placing their own technical difficulties tel-op graphics for less than 30 seconds before returning to its fixed program.

[3][4] Bundy's lawyer Polly Nelson, in her book Defending the Devil, characterized the miniseries as "stunningly accurate" and said it did not portray anything that was not proven to be factual.