Campy tv movies and mini-series that you still watch every once in awhile

I should start searching these out. I have fond memories of so many. I was the perfect age for them. It was a great loss when they disappeared. At one time ABC had several a week, with a great generic opening theme.

A really good one is "Along Came a Spider" with Godess Suzanne Pleshette and Ed Nelson. I hope it's out there, somewhere.

The Stranger Within -Barbara Eden is pregnant with an alien baby...

The Girl Most Likely TO -Stockard Channing as a former fat girl who murders all the people who humiliated her...

Planet Earth - John Saxon takes off his shirt repeatedly in a failed Gene Roddenberry pilot...

City Beneath the Sea -Irwin Allen reuses sets, props, costumes, and actors from his TV shows to tell the story of an underwater city threatened by bad writing...

Death Cruise -Kate Jackson and a few other DL faves on a cruise where people are murdered one by one...

The House That Would Not Die -Barbara Stanwyck plays both sides as a loving auntie and demure girlfriend in a haunted house story...

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring -Sally Field eats garbage as a teen runaway...

Where Have All the People Gone? - A plague reduces most of the population to powder while dogs go feral and eat surviving children...

Bad Ronald - The neighborhood creepy kid kills a girl and hides out between the walls spying on the new family that moves into his house...

Seven In Darkness - The only survivors of a plane crash are a group of blind people who try to climb down a mountain...

God! TV used to be so much better!!

Bad Ronald is a favorite of mine. It was released on blu-ray within the past couple of years.

What was the true story movie (maybe Lifetime?) starring Melissa Gilbert about a fertility doctor who was using his own sperm to impregnate scores of women, anyone know?

The Jessica Savitch Story

Jewels

Anything with Judith Light

Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story

Blind Faith

Save By The Bell

California Dreams

Surviving, which is surprisingly good (and has an excellent score).

“Mother, May I Sleep With Danger”: A mom grows suspicious that her daughter (Tori Spelling) has found a too-perfect new boyfriend (Ivan Sergei), and that something is very wrong. She’s correct, of course.

The Legend of Lizzie Borden - Elizabeth Montgomery tv movie festival is completely worth it.

Condominium - made for syndication version of a John D. McDonald novel with a class of total B listers

Hollywood Wives

Lace and Lace II

The Stranger Within - Kate Jackson and Ricky Schroder

Almost any tv movie with one of Charlie's Angels, or with Markie Post, or Nancy McKeon

David with Bernadette Peters

Liza's tv movies are pretty good - Sam Found Out, A Time to Live. The West Side Waltz is a dud, despite the cast.

In theory I'd enjoy the ones with Pam Dawber, Connie Selleca, and Veronica Hamel getting kidnapped by terrorists and all, but their weird non-acting wears thin pretty quick. Also I'm not a fan of Meredith Baxter-Lesbian in her down-in-the-mouth, serious actress TV movie mode, even as Betty Broderick.

“Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?”

Beverly Hills Madam starring our girl Faye.

R8, I’ve always wanted to see Condominium. I don’t think it’s streaming anywhere.

Roots (the original 1977 mini-series)

Backstairs at the White House (1979)

The Holocaust (1978)

Angels in America (2003)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979)

Shogun (1980)

Takes of the City (1993)

Shattered Innocence - Melinda Dillon plays the mother of a rebellious teen who runs away to Hollywood and becomes a porn star. Dillon is good but Jonna Lee as the doomed porn star is camp-tastically bad. There's a good quality version on youtube

Our girl Dorothy Faye as Evita or also known by its other title “Bitch Squared”.

I loved Backstairs At The White House -My sister actually hunted it down on DVD for me for Christmas last year.

For R11...

r12 has some interesting ideas about what constitutes "camp." (Unless he's thinking of CONCENTRATION camps.)

To Die For

A Matter of Justice and any other Patty Duke/Martin Sheen Made for TV movie

“V” (1983) - Aliens come to Earth, focusing of course on Los Angeles, and although they appear to be very attractive humans, they are of course lizards from space in disguise. Nazis to boot, complete with a stylized alien swastika symbol, as well as douchey sunglasses to protect them from our sun’s ghastly brightness.

Peter Nelson played one of the hotter aliens, in his human form at least.

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

#4 - are you me???? Those are some of my favorites!! To see lovely Robert Urich making an ass out of himself crying lovesick tears and singing “Lady” over the t phone to Robin Dorian Lord Stasser - the swim meet and Joanna KEARNS holing her rose …..Jewels with Annette O’Toole - the nazis take over her home as headquarters - didn’t her older husband come back from the war sickly? ….. Jessica Savitch’s coke filled Bicentennial Minute - So many random memories!!!!

^ Finally, I have found someone on here who matches my level of taste and sophistication…….. and just to make your bussy even wetter………did you ever watch the classic “Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story” with Sherilyn Fenn?????

Little Gloria- Happy At Last (1982)

There is something quite homosexual about this miniseries and I enjoy watching it every so often.

They're planning one about Anderson Cooper called- Little Albino Homosexual Happy At Last.

An Inconvenient Woman and The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

I LOVED An Inconvenient Woman and Two Mrs Granville’s. I don’t know HOW I could have missed The Elizabeth Taylor Story with Sherilyn Fenn! I will have to watch it! ….. Ine of my old favorites was “Murder Ordanined” - JoBeth Williams seduces wimpy Rev Bird played by Terry Kinny. He kills his wife and her husband Terrance Knox. Keith Carridine, Kathy Bates and Hohn Goodman . ….. Also In the Best Interest of the Children with Sarah Jessica Parker and Sally Struthers.

R26 Your excitement is contagious!! I can feel it vibrating even as I write...

Linda Purl did a whole slew of these but I have a soft spot for Accidental Meeting.

Black Christmas-you gotta watch.

Ooh, the Linda Purl mention made me recall the Single White Female-ish Body Language with Purl and Heather Locklear. Haven't seen it in years but I remember it being a lot of fun, though it would have made more sense for Purl to play the exec and Locklear the ambitious assistant. And what's with the generic, Skinemax-ish title?

Why is it so hard to see Bad Ronald? It’s NEVER on YouTube!

Here, r31

"Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story” with Sherilyn Fenn is the best shit ever. I watched it every single time it aired in the 90s which was often, and rewatched it again a few years ago.

Linda Purl is incredibly nice. She does a lot of concerts and theatre now and is in a LTR with Patrick Duffy.

The Thornbirds

--or don't you thinks that's campy?

𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐬 (1972) linked below

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐥 (1972)

𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐌𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 (1973)

𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐝𝐨𝐳𝐞𝐫 (1974)

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 (1975)

𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎 (1977), aka 'The Chosen,' aka 'Rain of Fire'

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 (1980)

Linda Purl and Shaun Cassidy in Like Normal People

Midnight Offerings with Melissa Sue Anderson

Love the Liz Taylor with Sherilyn Fenn but she’s gone full MAGAT so, fuck her.

R36, I liked You'll Never See Me Again

Another one from the Linda Purl as villain oeuvre

Here's the trailer.

Home For The Holidays, every Christmas. Not Jodie Foster's cinematic dramedy, but the 1972 ABC CIrcle/Aaron Spelling TV movie, starring DL faves Sally Field, Jessica Walter and Eleanor Parker, along with Sal Mineo beard (or girlfriend?) Jill Haworth, all playing sisters who suspect their stepmother, DL fave Julie Harris, of being responsible for their father's death.

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch (1982) starring Priscilla Barnes, Lee Horsley, Joan Collins, Pamela Bellwood, Morgan Brittany, Phyllis Davis, Howard Duff, Jeanette Nolan, Donny Osmond, and Lisa Whelchel. Brought to you by Aaron Spelling (predictably, with that cast). It's on YouTube.