Made for TV Movies ?

[Scott]

Making a list of Made for TV movies. Most of them seem to be from the mid-70's. Can you think of any others or Websites devoted to TV Movies?

Dr Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (This was a scary one when I was a kid)
Dracula (Jack Palance)
The Night Stalker
The Night Strangler
Duel (memorable film for me.)
Trilogy of Terrors

[Susan]

Ok - that's a tough list since many basic cable and movie stations are doing their own movies. I rarely ever liked the made for tv stuff so I can't really add to your list.

The Stand
Pirates of Silicon Valley (this wasn't the main networks..i think it was TNT)
When a stranger calls back (heh)

And nominee for the best made for tv movie title:
"Mother may I sleep with Danger?"

[Scott]

I'm not sure I think I'm thinking of only the 70's made for TV movies. They seem to have a different style. I've only seen 2 of the movies that I've listed. That Dan Curtis guy sure knows how to make a movie.

I seen THE STAND and liked the beginning, but it dragged out and the end wasn't what I was looking for in a movie at the time.

[JohnL]

>I'm not sure I think I'm thinking of only the 70's made for TV movies. They seem
>to have a different style.

I think I know what you mean, although some of the newer movies aren't bad.

>That Dan Curtis guy sure knows how to make a movie.

He made some of the ones listed below.

Ok, here's all the ones that I could think of at the moment, plus a couple that I haven't seen but found while searching for the titles of other films (*). I'll let you decide where the cutoff date is. Also, I tried to only include real made for TV films and not the kind of crap that SciFi passes off as its own.

Horror/Supernatural
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Daughter of the Mind (1969)
Gargoyles (1972)
Baffled! (1973)
Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973)
Norliss Tapes, The (1973)
Satan's School for Girls (1973 & 2000)
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974)
The Dead Don't Die (1975) *
Satan's Triangle (1975)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976) *
The Spell (1977)
Spectre (1977)
The Uncanny (1977)
Child of Glass (1978)
Cruise Into Terror (1978)
Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978) Miniseries
Dr. Strange (1978)
The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
Salem's Lot (1979) Miniseries
The Darker Side of Terror (1979) *
Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980)
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
Midnight Offerings (1981)
Invitation to Hell (1984)
The Midnight Hour (1985)
Bay Coven (1987)
The Stepford Children (1987)
Amityville: The Evil Escapes (1989)
Danger Island (1992)
Buried Secrets (1996)
The Stepford Husbands (1996)
I've Been Waiting for You (1998)
The Triangle (2001)

Science Fiction
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Questor Tapes, The (1974)
Exo-Man (1977)
Time Machine, The (1978)
Clone Master, The (1978)
Salvage (1979)
The Aliens Are Coming (1980)
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983)
Timestalkers (1987)
Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1992)
Doomsday Rock (1997)
Tempting Fate (1998)
The Time Shifters (1999)


There was also a pretty good vampire movie in the late 80's or early 90's, with a guy hunting a female vampire. For the life of me, I can't recall the name or who was in it. Anyone know? I seem to recall the final fight takes place in a penthouse apartment.

[Anon E. Mouse]

JohnL wrote:
> There was also a pretty good vampire movie in the late 80's or
> early 90's, with a guy hunting a female vampire. For the life
> of me, I can't recall the name or who was in it. Anyone know? I
> seem to recall the final fight takes place in a penthouse
> apartment.

Sure it wasn't early 80's?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083821/

"I, desire"(1982)  starring David "American Werewolf Cheese" Naughton

It recently played on one of the Encore channels(Encore Mystery).  So maybe you can catch it.  Don't think it's on video.

[Anon E. Mouse]

I, Desire is scheduled to air on these channels at these dates/times(EST):

Fri, Nov 21 7:50AM Mystery I, Desire
 TV14 1h 34min. Horror, Mystery

Fri, Nov 21 8:50AM MOVIEplex I, Desire
 TV14 1h 34min. Horror, Mystery

Fri, Nov 21 9:35PM Mystery I, Desire
 TV14 1h 34min. Horror, Mystery

Fri, Nov 21 10:35PM MOVIEplex I, Desire
 TV14 1h 34min. Horror, Mystery

Thr, Nov 27 3:15AM Mystery I, Desire
 TV14 1h 34min. Horror, Mystery

[JohnL]

>"I, desire"(1982) starring David "American Werewolf Cheese" Naughton

That sounds like the one I was thinking. Thanks!

[iluvdolma]

Of the top of my head....The Last Dinosaur, The Beast, The Creature, On Deadly Ground, just to name a few. Oh, yeah, and the recent Red Water.

Most of them are B movies, and are made fast, with big commercializing plans, just to get people to watch it. Hey, its free. And most people have nothing better to do on Sunday nights.

[Scott]

Thanks JohnL great list !

Wow, I didn't know that Gargoyles (1972) was made for TV. Always loved this film and know that I think of it. It has some of those older TV movies.

[JohnL]

>Thanks JohnL great list !

No problem. :)

I just thought of another one;

The Intruder Within (1981) (horror)

>Wow, I didn't know that Gargoyles (1972) was made for TV. Always loved this
>film and know that I think of it.

Me too. I forget how old I was when I first saw this, but it really creeped me out.

[James]

  Does anybody remember the TV movie {est. '72-'75} with James Brolin accidentally locked in a department store with guard dogs (Doberman's)? He was either pased out or knocked out in public bathroom in something about the size of J.C. Penny's.
   Tough movie. I really want to see it again.

[JohnL]

>Does anybody remember the TV movie {est. '72-'75} with James Brolin
>accidentally locked in a department store with guard dogs (Doberman's)?

I've never seen this myself, but a quick check of the IMDB says it was called Trapped.

[Dave Munger]

Thanks for saving the ultimate made for TV movie for me:

 D A M N A T I O N  . A L L E Y

Oh, yeah, being the one to bring that one up makes me feel real big. These movies seem to have been more guy oriented in the halcyon days of yore that we're hearkening back to. That doberman thing sounds a little like a Denis Weaver situation, was he in something similar, or am a combining Trapped with Duel in my mind? How about The Amazing Dobermans, was that a mini-series or what?

[Yaddo42]

No one seems to have mentioned "The Bermuda Depths" from 1978. It seems to have stuck in the minds of lots of people who saw it as children (like myself). Seems to have been one of Rankin-Bass' few attempts at live action. I was a creepy stort revoving around a mysterious beautiful girl, a young man who first encountered her as children, and a giant turtle with their initials carved in its shell. Co-stars Carl Weathers. Some folks look to be trying to use an on-line petition to get a DVD release. I admit I'm curious to see if it would hold up to my memories, probably not.

The guy at The Unknown Movies site has a soft spot for TV movies, especially ones from the 70s and reviews them frequently. The current/recent review is of a suspense movie called "Night Terror" starring Valerie Harper and Richard Romanus from 1976.

[trekgeezer]

Sorry Dave, but Damnation Alley was a theatrical release.  You are thinking  of the post nuclear war movie with Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, and Paul Winfield?

This movie featured the Landmaster vehicle that had the tri-mounted wheels and turned by flexing in the middle. It was the one really cool thing about this movie. They showed two of them, but only one was built.

Check it out here, it's still around:   Damnation Alley Landmaster Page



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