Old TV movies to stream

If you want something light hearted to watch, 1988 tv movie with Christina Applegate, Matthew Perry, Alyssa Milano, Brian Bloom, Tracey Gold, Tempest Bledsoe, Alan Thicke, Kelsey Grammer

Meredith Baxter Birney in My Breadt

Breast

This one was scary. As a seven-year-old:

Another good Valerie Harper in distress movie...

DON'T GO TO SLEEP

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch, 1983

Craptastic fluff starring Priscilla Barnes, Lee Horsley, Joan Collins, Morgan Brittany, Pamela Bellwood, Phyllis Davis, Howard Duff, Donny Osmond and Lisa Whelchel. An Aaron Spelling production .

Family Sins with Kirstie Alley as a monster foster mother

Along Came a Spider

Doing Time on Maple Drive. According to imdb it's only available to rent/buy on Prime.

"He's just SENSITIVE!"

A personal favorite of mine is 1978's Rainbow, the story of Judy Garland's early years, starring Andrea McArdle as Judy, Piper Laurie as Ethel Gumm, Rue McClanahan as Mrs. Ida Koverman, and Moosie Drier as Mickey Rooney. Directed by Jackie Cooper. This is on Tubi now, but I used to watch it in multiple parts on grainy YouTube videos.

If you enjoy a little scenery-chewing, OP, Mike Conners & Cloris Leachman in The Long Journey Back (1978) will not disappoint. Also stars Stephanie Zimbalist. Inspired by a true story, the crash sequence left a huge impression on me as an 11 year-old.

That Valerie Harper movie at r5 is really pretty good.

One big disappointment is SOMEONE HE TOUCHED. You'd think Cloris Leachman getting VD from her husband would result in some laughs, but it's just boring.

[quote]That Valerie Harper movie at [R5] is really pretty good.

Effective use of a pizza cutter, r13.

[quote] One big disappointment is SOMEONE HE TOUCHED. You'd think Cloris Leachman getting VD from her husband would result in some laughs, but it's just boring.

Because, spoiler alert, the old slut gave it to him!

She could never keep her legs crossed.

The Nightman, 1992.

I found some promos.

1985’s Alice in Wonderland. Google says it's streaming on Crackle, but it's also on YouTube.

Among the cast are Carol Channing, Ann Jillian, Sammy Davis Jr., Martha Raye, Imogene Coca, Donald O’Connor, Shelley Winters, Roddy McDowell, Sherman Hemsley, Telly Savalas, Jayne Meadows, Sally Struthers, Karl Malden, and Red Buttons.

Hell on Hills

^HEELS!

Not a TV movie, but partially funded by ABC.

Required viewing for Geraldine Page’s campy performance.

“Lucy and Desi: Before the Laughter”. Currently free on both YouTube and Tubi.

It’s kind of goofy and not terribly well researched, but it’s more entertaining and campy than the dour Nicole Kidman movie. Frances Fisher at least looks somewhat like Lucille Ball.

[quote]Doing Time on Maple Drive. According to imdb it's only available to rent/buy on Prime.

R9 - you can see it for free on YouTube

Here's a link to a Christmas one to watch in December

Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage - Nancy McKeon plays Rosalie Bonanno, who marries the son of another mafia boss. The sone is played by Eric Roberts, who was very hot at this point. MeloDrama!

The Neon Ceiling - Gig Young and Lee Grant. I saw this decades ago and still remember some shots. Young is an artist who works in neon. Lee Grant is a runaway wife.

Be afraid of Uncle Charlie!!

(And those midget Uncle Festers.)

History! Pathos!! Tom Bosley!!

The Switch with Gary Cole, Craig T. Nelson, and Beverly D' Angelo. It's on Tubi and Amazon Prime Video.

You can’t stream it but I wish you could you’ll have to get ahold of a Blu-ray or DVD and get your jollies that way.

Moving Violations

Last night I watched "Dead Before Dawn" on Amazon Prime. Jameson Parker (at the height of his hot daddy-ness) is an abusive husband to Cheryl Ladd who eventually hires a hit man to kill her rather than have her take him for big bucks in a divorce.

You know Jameson is pure evil because he not only covers Cheryl with bruises, but he dresses like Gordon Gekko and even SMOKES.

Kunt’s Klit

Well, r32...you try.

Just saw Kate’s secret . Lived it!!!! Shari belafonte aerobics instructor.

My favorite scene is the gorge out after the party she threw for husband . As a professionally controlled eating disorder person I so relate to the haste of scooping up food and shoving into my mouth

Like that Costco cake . My career was cut short cause I just never mastered the art of puking ,

Crash Course, also known as Driving Academy (1988), starring Brian Bloom, Alyssa Milano, Tina Yothers, Rob Stone, Edie McClurg, Olivia D'Abo, and Jackée.

On YouTube and currently streaming on Prime, Philo, Sling, Roku channel, and MGM+

Moving Violation boasts Nedra Volz as Loretta.

You can never have to much Nedra Volz.

Women in Chains!

DL fave Lois Nettleton behind bars in a women's prison with Ida Lupino as the dykey matron. Short and really fun.

For Father's Day: The Great Santini

Only 20 years old but The Reagans, with Judy Davis and James Brolin, was great fun.

Friendly Fire on Freevee, Tubi, and Crackle.

Deadly Intentions is really good. Based on a true story, it stars sexy Michael Biehn as a psychotic husband who stalks Madolyn Smith after she leaves him. A highlight is Cloris Leachman doing a straight version of Nurse Diesel.

R39, The Great Santini is not a made-for-tv movie, it was a feature release, though it famously did not do well and had a quick turnover to cable, namely HBO.

Whatever happened to Madolyn Smith?

The Great Santini actually got two Oscar nominations.

Anything with Stephanie Zimbalist is a date. She can take the biggest pile of steaming poo and make it great.

I love the made-for-tv with Stephanie where she played a Russian Olympic gymnast who falls in love with an American track and field athlete played by David Keith during the Moscow Olympics. Of course, the U.S. wound up boycotting the Moscow Games and the idea of a Russian gymnast in the late 1970s having actually gone through puberty didn't give the film much credibility in the long run.

I loved Steph when she's the evil babysitter and steal William Shatner from, I believe, Patty Duke. then her movie where she may be a long ago kidnapped heiress who has returned. That one is not as campy as it may seem. It's a pretty touching is she or isn't she movie. I love her though.

The speeches are quite long this year (?)

Did they vote to give them more time?

Caroline? Is the returned(maybe) daughter. So goooood.

Caroline? won three Emmys.

Speaking of Stephanie Zimbalist - Love On The Run, starring her and Alec Baldwin as the prisoner she helps escape. HAWT

I'm going to say I thought I was just going to be a SZ troll but I'm glad to see the love for her.

I watched "Family Sins" (recommended upthread) last night. Great camp with a fat, nasty Kirstie Alley as a pillar of her suburban community who shoplifts, steals, and abuses her foster kids. On Amazon Prime.

Breezy, 1973.

[quote] Divorced and creeping past middle age, real estate agent Frank Harmon (William Holden) isn't interested in falling in love anymore. But when he reluctantly picks up impoverished teenage hitchhiker Breezy (Kay Lenz) outside his Los Angeles home, she manages to break through his gruff facade. Before long, she moves in with him, and the two enjoy an unlikely romance despite their difference in age and beliefs. Problems arise, however, when Frank's peers become critical of his new relationship.

A Gun In the House - which is neither a Lifetime movie, nor from 2017.

Terror On the Beach with Susan Dey and Estelle Parsons

Bad Ronald — it was Delaware’s on Blu Ray and is, I believe streaming on Prime.

[quote]Moving Violation boasts Nedra Volz as Loretta.

As well as the terrific Wendie Jo Sperber!

Killdozer - a half century old putrid yet hilarious piece of television movie history long before that guy crushed his town with a bulldozer in 1998 or so. So, so bad...

R11 Don Murray as Frank Gumm

R55 Breezy is great! I love Holden and Lenz, Clint Eastwood is a good director. LA in the '70s! (Not a TV movie, though.)

Duel

R53: HA! Try this for a deep, dark secret 😎🎵🎶...in the late '90s/early '00s, I procured VHS releases of The Long Journey Back and Forever (the Judy Blume adaptation, co-starring Dean Butler) on eBay. I still have them.

Here's the Holy Grail. Stephanie Zimbalist, Loni Anderson, and Michelle Lee in the remake of A Letter to Three Wives.

The gay from Ryan's Hope plays the tennis pro in ALTTW.

Wife, Mother, Murderer

I love that Lucille Bluth was the woman who penned the "letter to three wives," I can only imagine the eye rolls she'd give after watching Michelle Lee emote sincerely!

When She Was Bad starring Cheryl Ladd

OMG R67 That movie is theatrical release quality.

Do Not Fold, Spindle, Or Mutilate

It's a very absorbing, offbeat story, r70.

TWIRL(1981). Best friends Lisa Whelchel & Erin Moran are pitted against each other in the cutthroat world of competitive baton-twirling in Texas.

Also starring Charles Haid ( Moran's father) and Stella Stevens (Whelchel's boozy, divorced mother & former "Miss Twirl"). Plus: young Heather Locklear, Christopher MacDonald, Jamie Rose & Tracy Scoggins in supporting roles.

Twirl is one of my guiltiest pleasures. I remember after seeing Erin in that was the moment I thought she would have a bigger career after happy days. I've been wrong before. LOL

Wife, mother, murderer really sticks close to the true story of what happened. That story is so bizarre if it wasn't real you wouldn't believe it is a work of fiction. Especially the ending.

THE USERS (1978) starring Jaclyn Smith, Tony Curtis, John Forsythe, Michelle Phillips, George Hamilton, Red Buttons, Joan Fontaine, Darren McGavin. I suppose it goes without saying that it was an Aaron Spelling/Douglas S. Cramer production. Co-written by Dominick Dunne & Joyce Haber, former L.A. Times gossip columnist (and ex-wife of Doug Cramer).

The full movie is on YouTube. It's fantastic.

I'm surprised Bad Ronald hasn't been remade with Ronald obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons, Game of Thrones, or anime (though anime would probably make it be Bad Ronette, the story of a trans recluse).

Technically speaking, this was a three-part miniseries and not a movie, but I loved it and I'm re-watching it now. Great ensemble, early SJP vehicle, and with David Oliver, who we discussed previously on DL.

I know the quality is bad, but it's still worth a watch. And if anyone can find a better quality version of this, let me know!

I want to Keep My Baby starring a 15yo Mariel Hemingway. The movie is actually quite good and Mariel definitely suggests she was in the top tier of young juvenile actresses with Kristy McNichol, Tatum O'Neal and Jodie Foster.

r78 I never have watched it, I may now thanks. I just remember ads for it and we hadn't seen SJP in awhile and I thought "she has great hair".

Shirley Jones and Mercedes McCambridge run a home for pregnant teens:

r78 you got me watching it

Hope you enjoy it, R82!

I think I'll watch "Anatomy of a Seduction" tonight (Amazon Prime).

Middle-aged Susan Flannery conducts an affair with 20-year-old Jameson Parker, the son of her best friend Rita Moreno. Co-starring Roger C. Carmel!

Elizabeth Montgomery IS "The Victim"

Steven Spielberg's first feature length film, made for TV, starring Sandy Dennis.

The Victim also features DL fave George Maharis

The victim was really good. I think it was Elizabeth Montgomery's first roll after Bewitched. So she went for something really different. I could be wrong though

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring.

Maybe I’ll Take A Shit in the Spring

Make sure you're not suicidal when you watch I'll come home in the spring

R88?

[quote]Elizabeth Montgomery's first roll after Bewitched

Cinnamon?

LOL no it's called the Open Sesame roll at the witches bakery.

A thread like this make ll of the other crap on DL worthwhile. I remember and loved Bad Ronald and Don't be Afraid of the Dark as a kid.

There were two Kolchak TV movies before the series started; The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler. Both good and evocative.

Oh! and there was Short Walk to Daylight... an earthquake and survivors in the subway system have to try and get out of the tunnels...

I never saw the movie Bad Ronald but I read the book in like 6th grade. EEK

r94 - Who doesn't love Darren McGavin?

Die, Die My Darling 1965 - starring Tallulah Bankhead and Stefaine Powers - also 'The Unseen' 1980 movie starring Barbara Bach - a Divine like crackpot living in the basement of an old mansion.

Die, Die My Darling is a lot better than you may think it would be if you just watch the trailer. I really enjoyed it and not in a haha sort of way.

Scream, Pretty Peggy!

Two things I notice in these old tv movies. No perfect teeth like today. Also people look old for their age, a 35 year old back then looks like a 50 year old today.

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story (1989) starring Nancy McKeon, Dale Midkiff & Bruce Weitz is excellent! Based on a true story that helped change domestic violence laws. The sequence in which Buck Thurman (Midkiff) tries to kill Tracey (McKeon) is probably the most violent/harrowing/disturbing thing I've ever seen in a tv movie.

Written by Beth Sullivan, creator & EP of The Trials of Rosie O'Neill & Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. It's in three-parts at this YT channel:

Sins of the Past - A group of call girls "retires" when one is murdered. They reunite when another murder alerts them they are the targets of a serial killer. Cast: Barbara Carrera, Kim Cattrall, Debby Boone, Kirstie Alley, Megan Gallagher and Anthony Geary.

I did a day of extra work on that, r102.

R102: In the 2000s, that's a two-part L&O: SVU sweeps episode.

Secrets (1995), with Veronica Hamel, Julie Harris, and Thomas Gibson

Not with *that* starry cast, r104!

Sure it is, R103/106. I will see your Kirstie Alley, Barbara Carerra, Debbie Boone, Kim Cattrall & Tony Geary....and raise you a Jaclyn Smith, Morgan Fairchild, Ann-Margaret, Susan Anton, Renee Taylor, William Atherton & Robert Newman (of Guiding Light fame).

Whatever happened to Barbara Carrera?

She was gorgeous.

Whatever happened to Morgan Fairchild?

Barbara at Chiller

Barbara would be perfect to play my great-grandmother!

DEBBY BOONE? A HOOKER?

She lit up their lives, r113.

[quote]r102 Sins of the Past - A group of call girls "retire" when one is murdered.

[quote]R103 I did a day of extra work on that

[italic]WHORE!

Another vote for any TV movie with Stephanie Zimbalist, who is not only a Julliard alum and superb actress, but also the best example I can summon up ( with Marilyn Hassett) of natural 70s beauty.

She toured in My One and Only and did other musical roles.

^^ Hey look, it’s another gdamn Nepo Baby!

What's a DL thread without an appearance by Olivia de Havilland

Bermuda Depths. Connie Sellecca, Burl Ives and a prehistoric sea turtle,1978. This movie haunted me as a kid.

R86 Sorry, Spielberg's 1st TV movie was Duel (1971). I linked to it at R63.

THANK YOU to whoever recommended "Wife, Murderer, Mother." I watched it last night and was highly entertained.

What's not to love about Judith Light cunting around small-town Alabama in one bad wig after another, knocking off anyone who gets in her way?

You're welcome, r122. Read the book Poisoned Blood. There's more bizarre behavior from her and suspicion that she also killed her mother. She would have gotten away with it if only she hadn't...

Everything on TCM

Cruel Doubt, featuring a young GOOP

Connie Stevens [bold]is[/bold] The Sex Symbol

The Sex Symbol is FABULOUS camp. Connie Stevens is supposed to be a Marilyn Monroe manque in the 1940s and 1950s but the hair and the fashions are pure 1970s cheese. Much of the movie is her stomping around her boudoir bitching like Peggy Gravel. Shelley Winters collects a check as a bitchy gossip columnist.

It's so hard to believe that Wife, Murderer, Mother is true story. Holy fuck. The twin sister shit? Jesus H. Plus the police are all convinced she's did a lot of shit they don't even know about. The ending. I was like this can't be a true ending. I had to immediately go and read a synopsis of the real woman. It was all fucking all true. The whole movie.

R127, you write with style. 🙏

Wife, Murderer, Mother: Imagine being a serial killer and getting caught because you wrote a bad check. LOL

Well, r130, it wasn't about a bad check, r130. She wouldn't have gotten caught if she hadn't gone away as "Robbi" and come back as "Robbi's sister Teri".

The checks were what they originally arrested her for while she was impersonating Teri. It allowed them to hold her while they put everything together.

No, r132, read the Wiki. The checks were what led them to arresting her for her husband's murder. Then she escaped and started over as Robbi/Teri.

R124 TV movies.

r67 watching the Judith Light movie now. I think I watched this back in the day, there were so many good tv movies in the 80's and 90's.

The checks were what led them to arresting her for her husband's murder.

So she got arrested for the checks. Just like I fucking said....

Herpes movie with Judith Light and Ricky Nelson’s brother-in-law Mark Harmon.

So scandalous.

Sissy Spacek (pre-Carrie) becomes a revolutionary activist

DL icon and TV movie diva Judith Light beats the shit out of her husband in this legendary and disturbing tale.

"Kojak: The Belarus File"

Greatest line reading in Suzanne Pleshette's career.

And hot!

Judith Light really is the Meryl Streep of network TV movies of the week.

For a seductress Judith Light's character was sho ugly. And then shows up as her twin. LMAO

You mean her..."twin". What was her psychopathy about, did she want to be caught?

*Verna: USO Girl*

Sissy Spacek, a very adorable William Hurt *and* a "been there" Sally Kellerman

This movie, based on a true story, where Joanna Kerns and Barry Bostwick and their little daughter were kidnapped from their Oregon coast motel by John Stamos and Chad Lowe. (Bad print, though.)

Brian Dennehy as John Wayne Gacy

An Early Frost - the first tv movie to address the AIDS crisis

The Snow Goose

with Jenny Agutter and Richard Harris

I loved the Gallico novel. The quality isn't good unfortunately.

Too creepy for me, r146.

OMG she is kissing and sucking Charles Winchester's toes. This Judith Light film is great.

Once Upon a Family is the most shameless Kramer Vs. Kramer ripoff imaginable. Barry Bostwick was so handsome, though.

Samantha Stevens and Hannibal Lecter. Epic.

I also did a day of extra work on...

SCANDAL SHEET

with Burt Lancaster, Robert Urich, Lauren Hutton and Pamela Reed

Oh my god. I've watched that John Wayne Gacy film about five times and every time I watch it I find something new to be creeped out about.

[quote] watching the Judith Light movie now. I think I watched this back in the day, there were so many good tv movies in the 80's and 90's.

Yeah, I miss the days when broadcast networks made some great TV movies and mini-series. There were some bad TV movies, but even the bad ones were campy fun.

Another Judith Light TV movie that was great was The Ryan White Story. It's on Netflix.

My Boyfriend's Back

Dark Night of the Scarecrow

What’s the one where one of the Hardy Boys plays a retarded person?

R159, that is "Like Normal People" with Sean Cassidy and Linda Purl.

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones! With Desi Arnaz Jr. and Miss Christopher Norris!

The Voyage of the Yes, with Desi Arnaz jr and Mike Evans.

MIRACLE LANDING (1990) starring Wayne Rogers, Connie Sellecca & Ana Alicia. It's about Aloha Airlines Flight 243 which lost a twenty-foot section of its roof while en route from Hilo to Honolulu.

The Face of Fear

[quote]A psychic mountain climber (Lee Horsley), his girlfriend (Pam Dawber) and the police hunt a serial killer.

She Lives! starring Desi Jr and Season Hubley. About a girl with a terminal disease. The title sort of gives away the ending.

R160, I watched this over and over as a kid (same with The Other Side Of the Mountain).

“We ordered a room with. View!”

“They’re going to be alright!”

This is a great one if you've never seen it before: Dummy (1979) with LeVar Burton as a deaf young man. Also with Paul Sorvino.

Enjoy!

"Beverly Hills Madam" starring a glamorous and relatively subdued - but still always teetering on the edge of hysteria - Faye Dunaway is quite fun. Also includes a camp C-list supporting cast of Donna Dixon, Robin Givens, Melody Anderson, and Louis Jourdan! I'm a sucker for anything having to do with high-class prostitution.

Remember how excited people would be for upcoming TV movies? All the promo the networks would give? When I was young, the most hyped one I remember, is V. OMG everybody watched that and talked about. THEY'RE LIZARDS...THEY EAT RATS....

TOO LAZY TO LOOK IT UP but I remember Dyan Cannon did a good true biography where she ages from young prostitute to end up as old lady mayor of Sausalito.

SORRY, but all of my suggestions so far and in future will fall into the TOO LAZY TO LOOK UP category. I guarantee quality, not availability.

And whoever suggested "Along Came a Spider" with Suzanne Pleshette and Ed Nelson has good taste. This one is classic made for TV melodrama.

What ever happened to Christopher Norris?

[quote]What ever happened to Christopher Norris?

She became a plumber.

The original "V" really was something the first time it was broadcast. The special effects were top-notch for the time, the storyline, echoing a fascist state/German final solution with neighbors turning on neighbors and family snitching on family... and then that scene where Diana eats the hamster!

No one saw that coming and the whole show shifted into "classic".

I don't think the sequel was as good and the TV series didn't work - let's not talk about the remake - but the original is definitely special.

V was something else. That Steven alien character played by Andrew Prine had me so horrified when he told that earthling he'd enjoy eating him.

R160, my best friend Lori and I used to play "Like Normal People" afterschool in all earnestness. We were kind of effed up, I guess, but we were six, so...

Expensive wedding ring, lived in a house, how was he paying for this with Best Buy wages?

Then on V when they showed all the humans in cocoons.

What is up with the smoking in the one with Gwyneth and Blythe? They're lighting up in every scene. Was R.J. Reynolds a sponsor or something?

Diana eating the rat.

[quote] Cruel Doubt, featuring a young GOOP

I remember that one and years later, I read the Joe McGinnis book that the mini-series was based on. There was another TV movie about the Lieth Von Stein murder called Honor Thy Mother was based on the book Blood Games by journalist Jerry Bledsoe. I wouldn't be surprised if streaming service did a mini-series or movie on the Lieth Von Stein murder. Many of the people who followed the Murdaugh case would probably eat up a mini-series or movie on the Von Stein/Pritchard family because Lieth was a wealthy southern businessman who was saddled with brat step-kids.

There were some rivalries back in the 80s and 90s with broadcast networks when it came to the "based on a true story" movies. The networks would scramble to get their TV movie out first which led to the multiple Amy Fisher and multiple Menendez brothers movies.

There was the Gregory K case in the mid 90s. Gregory Kingsley was a foster kid in Florida who went to court to divorce/terminate the rights of his biological parents in order to be adopted by his foster family. The case got a lot of media attention and the courts granted Gregory K's wishes . Two TV movies ended up being made about the case.

A Brand New Life starring Cloris Leachman and Martin Balsam as a couple who are shocked to find out they are going to become parents in their late 40a!

Costarring Marge Redmond, Mildred Natwick and Barbara Colby.

[quote] Moving Violation boasts Nedra Volz as Loretta.

also Clara "Were's the beef?" Peller

CLARA! Ok now I remember Moving Violation. LOL

[quote] WEHT Christopher Norris

Apparently she underwent gender reassignment surgery.

I remember when they were trying, non stop, to make Christopher Norris the next big thing. She didn't get that big but she did all right.

I remember Christopher Norris randomly (to me anyway) popping up on Guiding Light.

She was pretty popular on Trapper John, M.D. I believe.

Should you be his-s-s-s-ed R187? H-i-s-s-s-s-ed-d of the internet? According to soap threads here on DL, the show is THE Guiding Light! THE Guiding Light - get it bitch?

Just kidding, I really don't care, but the title of this soap is THE Edge of Night. The Edge of Night foreva!

My fun for the day.

R185 She looks like Phillip McKeon.

Christopher Norris wasn't all that!

Hey, she made Battle of the Network Stars. Put a little respect on her name.

STRANGE VOICES (1987) starring Nancy McKeon (co-executive producer), Valerie Harper, Stephen Macht & Tricia Leigh Fisher. A bright, gifted college student develops schizophrenia which tears her family apart. It was one of the ten highest-rated tv movies that season.

Farrah Fawcett as Diane Downs in Small Sacrifices

Mayflower Madame

Sins starring Joan Collins

Speaking of the Menendez Brothers...

Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills

R195. SINS is a masterpiece. 87 costume changes, 36 Valentino’s! I know QUITE A BIT about this mini series.❤️❤️❤️

r197 please share. I love Sins.

The song Carly Simon wrote for it - It's Hard To Be Tender

My favorite Menendez TV movie is Honor Thy Father and Mother which featured Jill Clayburgh as Kitty Menendez. There was a campy scene of Kitty ripping Lyle's hairpiece off.

I Have Seen it And It Is Large

Sidney Sheldon's Master of the Game

Chiefs

Patty Duke in Before and After. She's a fat pig who goes to a party and rips her clothes. She has to wear he friends drapes home. That's her wake-up call to go on a diet.

[quote]She's a fat pig who goes to a party and rips her clothes. She has to wear he friends drapes home.

If I had a dime for every time...

Mario and the mob 1993

Starring Robert Conrad and Anne Jillian

I watched r203 recently and today the "Before" Patty Duke wouldn't be considered fat

Doesn't Anne Jillian have one of those ow my tits hurt movie?

R207 Yes, she played herself in the tv movie about her cancer battle.

That Patty Duke movie was shot in Seattle. The Rocky Gonna Fly ripoff is hilarious as is Betty White's turn as a sadistic instructor.

R198. I was very good friends with the two guys who wrote the book, under the pen name “Judith Gould”. They were on set for a large part of the filming, and had lots of Joan tea. Not always pleasant. Sadly, she was also quite frosty to me when I met her at Bergdorf Goodman. Oh well, I STILL LOVE HER

R180, it famously was a guinea pig, not a rat.

Don't act as if it doesn't matter.

It does.

[quote]Sadly, she was also quite frosty to me when I met her at Bergdorf Goodman

She hit 𝒎𝒆 in the head with a fondue pot.

R212. Spill it

And how can I possibly not bring up (again) being an extra in...

*The Disappearance of Aimee*

If you enjoy a ghost-story combined with a plane crash...

THE GHOST OF FLIGHT 401(1978) starring Ernest Borgnine, Gary Lockwood, and then-unknown, Kim Bassinger.

Based on John Fuller's novel about Eastern Airlines 401 which crashed in the Everglades on approach to Miami in 1971, killing 101 people. Salvaged parts from 401 were used on other L-1011s...and allegedly, people (crew & passengers) started seeing the ghost of the 401's flight engineer on planes with those salvaged parts ( a seat, an oven door). At the time, it was NBC's Friday Night at the Movies highest-rated ever.

Mrs Porter

I totally remember that one, R215. So good.

Not a TV movie...but that's where I saw it.

all episodes in one film.. Dabney Coleman RIP

A Pack of Lies (1987) Ellen Burstyn and Teri Garr star in this adaptation of Hugh Whitemore's play revolving around the true story of Morris and Lona Cohen two American spies working for the Soviet Union who were living under false identities in suburban London.

^^ I remember expecting that to be more dramatic than it was. But maybe my reaction would be different now that I’m older.

R219, thanks for that post... Fresno was such a surprise when first broadcast. Without a laugh-track, it was genuinely funny, with some laugh outloud scenes. What a marvelous cast.

Burl Ives haunts me, too.

The Dylan Cannon movie was Lady of the House. True(ish?) story but she did end up as mayor of Sausalito. I saw it but don’t remember anything about it.

You mean Dyan?

R220 I saw that in community theater. Quite good.

[quote]I remember expecting that to be more dramatic than it was. But maybe my reaction would be different now that I’m older.

I'm betting it would be, r221.

Right to die starring Raquel Welch

Autocorrect triumphs again

“WHO WILL LOVE MY CHILDREN??” starring Ann-Margret

Big pieces for daddy, little pieces for you and me.

Teen Angels season 3 of Charlie’s Angels. It has bitchy Audrey Landers as the mean girl - Donna.

Are these actually available to stream??

Who's Minding the Mint? 1967

Hilarious comedy. Jim Hutton was gorgeous.