This is something I've been trying to figure out for many years. I think I posted this on the old Horror board on IMDb once too, but never got an answer. Back in 1978 or possibly earlier (No later as I know it was before The Dain Curse and Salem's Lot), I saw part of a TV movie or possibly an episode of some show where a woman was groping around inside a dark house at night, presumably where she was not supposed to be because she had to get out fast when a car pulled into the driveway. She dropped an object into the drain of the kitchen sink that resembled the headdresses worn by the guards at Buckingham Palace (only much smaller and on a stick like a popsicle). She dropped it fast because it was either hot or smelled bad, and it fell into the drain in the sink and sat there with the end of the stick sticking up. On one of the walls of the house was a poster like the one seen in every episode of Three's Company of the swallowtail butterfly with the human female body with the word Life on the top, but in this one it was a Cecropia moth with a skeletal body and the word Death instead.

Does anyone remember seeing this and know what it was? For a while I thought it could've been an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, but I have seen all those since. It could've been some made for TV horror movie, or maybe an episode of some detective series.