Best Made-for-Television Movies
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Made-For-TV Films
mmwnycny — 13 years ago(May 26, 2012 07:06 AM)
A list of some of the best American made-for-television movies from the 70's:
Duel
Tribes
The Execution of Private Slovik
Playing for Time
The Girl Most Likely To
The Girl in the Empty Grave
Goodnight, My Love
The Nightstalker
Love/Hate/Love
The Point
Maybe I'll Come Home in Spring
A Summer Without Boys
Suddenly Single
A Case of Rape
Recent made-for-television movies:
The Last Seduction (later theatrically released)
Sweet Revenge (with Carrie Fisher)
Tom Selleck's movies as Jesse Stone (beautiful music) -
DrGlitterhouse — 13 years ago(June 29, 2012 03:24 PM)
Duel
Isn't It Shocking?
Missing Pieces
She Lives
Murder C.O.D.
One of My Wives Is Missing
Murder by Natural Causes
A Cry for Help
See the Man Run
Trial Run
Pray for the Wildcats
"Nobody throws me my own guns and says run. Nobody." -
AmandaByNight — 13 years ago(September 06, 2012 01:27 PM)
I also love Murder By Natural Causes! Fantastic movie. I just pulled out my old vhs copy not too long ago. I need to rewatch it!
I also adore Pray for the Wildcats. Andy Griffith is so underrated in his bad guys roles! Remember Savages? -
vinsane — 13 years ago(November 26, 2012 12:00 PM)
I was just going to add Dark Night of the Scarecrow. Aside from the spate of "very special" subject matter movies like Something About Amelia and the great mini-series like Roots and Shogun I think I have tended to forget most of the rest of the Made for TV material I've watched from the 70s and early 80s. Dark Night of the Scarecrow always seemed a notch above anything else. It could have been a film.
I never saw it but Brian's Song was probably about the same caliber as it got theatrical release after first showing on TV.
Eeek!!! I'm getting dressed. -
dyannarosemarie — 13 years ago(December 11, 2012 05:16 AM)
sometimes I forget that this was a made for tv movie great film, great soundtrack.. it did win an Emmy or twobut, just had the movie feal too it.. I keep hearing about them remaking this as a Major Motion Film not sure if its true.. but would be amazing if they did.
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michaelasiclari — 13 years ago(March 23, 2013 06:16 AM)
The 1970's was without a doubt THE decade for made-for t.v. movies. The ABC T.V. Movie of the Week was the pioneer of this format, the brainstorm of Aaro Spelling Productions. A majority of the films had a supernatural tone to them. My favorites are as follows;
- " The Night Stalker " (1971)
- " The House That Would Not Die " (1970)
- " The Norliss Tapes " ( 1973)
- " Crowhaven Farm " (1970)
- " Gargoyles " (1972)
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cryptoflovecraft — 4 years ago(February 09, 2022 02:20 PM)
Duel (1971)
The Deadly Dream (1971)
A Howling in the Woods (1971)
Terror on the Beach (1973)
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
Are You in the House Alone? (1978)
Helter Skelter (1976) (miniseries)
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978) (miniseries)
Salem's Lot (1979) (miniseries) -
I love hutch — 4 years ago(February 13, 2022 01:11 PM)
Tv movies are my favorite. They are so much fun! Especially if they are horror/suspense genre and from the 70s.
You have some really good ones on your list!
In no particular order, I love them all!- Duel
- A Howling in the Woods
- Terror on the Beach
- A Force of Evil
- Trilogy of Terror
- The Paper Man
- Scream, Pretty Peggy
- Night Gallery
- The Possession of Mrs. Oliver
- Sarah T. Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
- Born Innocent
- Cage Without a Key
- The Spell
- The Initiation of Sara
- Are You in the House Alone?
- The Girl Most Likely To…
- Midnight Offerings
- Consenting Adults
- Dark Night of the Scarecrow
- Vacation in Hell
- Friendships, Secrets and Lies
- Bad Ronald
- Death Car on the Freeway
- Death at Ocean View Park
- Summer of Fear
- Death Cruise
- Dawn: Portrait of a teenage Runaway
- Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
- Little Ladies of the Night
- Something for Joey (a tearjerker!)
- Dying Room Only
- Night Terror
- A Cold Night's Death
- Katharine
- Death Sentence
- Someone touched Me
- Hitchhike!
- A Taste of Evil
- The Execution
- Satan's School for Girls
- Outrage
- Crowhaven's Farm
- Murder on Flight 502
- Flood!
- Fire!
- Survival of Dana
- The Stepford Husbands
- The Stepford Children
- Breaking Up is Hard To Do
- Between Friends
- Death of Richie
- Intimate Strangers
- A Gun in the house
- Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
- Revenge!
- Gargoyles
- Diary of a Hitchhiker
- Go Ask Alice
- How Awful about Allan
- Someone's Watching Me!
- Let's Scare Jessica to Death
- Amityville Horror, Part IV: the Evil Escapes
- Before and After
- The Screaming Woman
- Smash Up on Interstate Five
- The Legend of Lizzie Borden
- Secrets of Three Hungry Wives
- Weekend of Terror
- The House on Green Apple Road
- When Michael Calls
- A Little Game
- The Victim
- Home for the Holidays
- Killer Bees
- The Stranger Within
- The Possessed
- Zuma Beach
- Devil Dog: Hound of Hell
- Snatched
- Hustling
- The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
- The Night Stalker
- She Cried Murder
- The Strangers in 7A
- Deadly Intentions
- Desperate Lives
- The Babysitter
- Playing for Time (the only movie on this list with no replay value)
- Stone Pillow
- Born to be Sold
- The Best Little Girl in the world
- Blind Witness
- Death of a Cheerleader
- Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (Best title on the list!)
- Revenge of the Stepford Wives
- Sins of the Mother
- The Black Widow Murders
Couldn't quite make it to 100
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"
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cryptoflovecraft — 4 years ago(February 13, 2022 04:30 PM)
Christ, exhaustive list! I've seen maybe a quarter of those listed.
I've been told Bad Ronald is essential viewing and I still need to see Dark Night of the Scarecrow. I'm pretty sure Let's Scare Jessica to Death was a theatrical release (and it's a great film at that).
