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post #31 of 115
3/3/08 at 2:27pm

Re: TV Movie's I would love to see on DVD eventually

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Originally Posted by JoshuaB.
Yes! I remember watching them on PBS in the late 80s and haven't seen them since. I'm rather surprised they haven't been released on DVD, since Star Trek fans would likely buy them. John Saxon was very cool in one of those pilots!

Questor aired on The Movie Channel around 1989-1990. I was fortunate enough to tape it.

Another failed Roddenberry pilot, Spectre has aired on Fox Movie Channel in recent years. It was even the extended European theatrical cut with bonus nudity!

Unicorn video released Planet Earth on VHS years ago, but curiously, Genesis II did not get such a release.

Are you talking about the Gary Lockwood Earth II? I don't think that was one of Roddenberry's. I got this one a couple years back on a 1978 or so VHS tape that I got at a flea market. Someone had recorded it from TV.
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post #32 of 115
3/3/08 at 3:49pm

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Does anyone remember these:

The Screaming Woman (An old lady believes she hears the voices of a woman buried alive, but no one believes her because she was recently institutionalized.)

Bad Ronald (A boy accidentally murders a girl and his mother hides him from the authorities by building a secret room to their house...when the mother dies, the fun really begins!)

One Of My Wives Is Missing (A man claims his wife is missing, then when a woman shows up claiming to be his wife, he says she isn't!)

The Norliss Tapes (A good little horror story starring Angie Dickinson, from the man who brought us The Night Stalker/Strangler and Trilogy of Terror.)

Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (scary little tale of these little demonlike creatures that live in the basement of this married couple.)

Off the top of my head, these were the ones that used to creep me out as a kid watching Prime Time TV. I'm sure there were plenty more I've forgotten.
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post #33 of 115
3/3/08 at 4:26pm

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Originally Posted by Professor Echo
See how much fun it is being anal retentive? Try it!
Try it? I live it! Good to know there are others who store as much semi-useless knowledge as I do....

On the bargain bin / dollar store thing, yeah, I just picked up a copy of "In Search of America" at a dollar store recently, and some years ago I picked up a tape of "Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring" that was a cheapie release. I haven't seen "America" yet, but the print used for "Spring" was pretty wretched.

As for who owns the rights ... Well, it wasn't like a TV series where it was all produced by one studio. It was a series of 90-minute films that were produced by a variety of studios, and maybe a few smaller companies, many of which may be out of business now. Copyright may have lapsed on some of those films which would be why they're showing up in dollar stores and Mill Creek releases.

This seems to be a pretty comprehensive list of the films shown under the ABC Movie of the Week banner:

ABC Movie of the Week - The TV IV

It's really a shame that we don't have anything quite like this anymore. I loved the MotW, even if I didn't always love all the movies. It was a great place for the network to try out different things, lots of different genres within the one slot. I'd love to see some experimentation like that happen in network TV again.
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post #34 of 115
3/3/08 at 4:34pm

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Dark Night of the Scarecrow is a favorite of mine. I would love to see it on Dvd.
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post #35 of 115
9/23/08 at 3:07pm
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Re: TV Movie's I would love to see on DVD eventually

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Originally Posted by nikkif99uk
Not sure about all the companies they owned by (correct me if am wrong), but TV movies I would love to see eventually on DVD include:

ABC Family
Beautiful Girl (2003) Featuring Fran Drescher
Christmas in Boston (2005) Featuring Lindy Booth
Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006) Featuring Lacey Chabert
I Want to Marry Ryan Banks (2004) Featuring Emma Caulfield
Just a Phase (2006) Featuring Carly McKillip
Just a Walk in the Park (2002) Featuring George Eads
Love Rules! (2004) Featuring Maggie Lawson
Mom's on Strike (2002) featuring Spencer Breslin
The One (2003) Featuring Meredith Monroe
Snow (2004) Featuring Ashley Williams
Snowglobe (2007) Featuring Christina Milian
This Time Around (2003) Featuring Carly Pope

Alberta Film Entertainment
Holiday in Handcuffs (2007) Featuring Mario Lopez
Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story (2004) Featuring Kimberly Williams

Blueprint Entertainment
Nobody (2007) Featuring Ryan Belleville

CTV
Deadly Appearances (2000) featuring Wendy Crewson
Eight Days to Live (2006) featuring Kelly Rowan
Love and Murder (2000) featuring Wendy Crewson

Lions Gate Films
Brave New Girl (2004) Featuring Virginia Madsen

Muse Entertainment Enterprises/Muse International Distribution
Chasing Cain: Face (2002) Featuring Peter Outerbridge
The Investigation (2002) Featuring Lochlyn Munro
Recipe for a Perfect Christmas (2005) Featuring Carly Pope

Patricia Clifford Productions
Pop Rocks (2004) Featuring Gary Cole

Regent Pictures/Regent Entertainment
Christmas Caper (2007) featuring Conrad Coates
First Landing (2007) Featuring Josh Adamson

Shaftesbury Films
Booky and the Secret Santa (2007) featuring Rachel Marcus
Hemingway vs. Callaghan (2003) Featuring Carly Pope
In God's Country (2007) Featuring Lynda Boyd
In the Dark (2003) featuring Kathleen Robertson
Me and Luke (2006) featuring Emma Taylor-Isherwood
The Robber Bride (2007) featuring Wendy Crewson
Scar Tissue (2002) featuring Catherine Burdon
She Drives Me Crazy (2007) featuring Melinda Clarke
Terry (2005) Featuring Skye Regan

Showtime Networks
A Cooler Climate (1999) Featuring Carly Pope

Stephanie Epstein Productions
Searching for David's Heart (2004) featuring Ricky Ullman

Touchstone Television
Celeste in the City (2004) Featuring Nicholas Brendan
Romy and Michele: In the Beginning (2005) Featuring Katherine Heigl

Universal Pictures
Double Bill (2003) AKA A Tale Of Two Wives Featuring Carly Pope

Von Zerneck Sertner Films
Relative Chaos (2006) Featuring Christopher Gorham

Walt Disney Studios/Walt Disney Pictures
Fallen (2006) featuring David Orth
Pizza My Heart (2005) Featuring Shiri Appleby

Unknown
Principal Takes a Holiday (1998) Featuring Carly Pope
there are others but don't have time to list them all. Too much uni work to do

That I can see one of the films I want is being released.

Also would love to see

Buffalo Dreams (2005) Featuring Adrienne Bailon
Campus Confidential (2005) Featuring Christy Carlson Romano
Divorce: The Musical (2002) Featuring Anneliese van der Pol
Go Figure (2005) Featuring Jordan Hinson
Horror High (2005) Featuring Anneliese van der Pol
Now You See It... (2005) Featuring Alyson Michalka
Stuck In the Suburbs (2004) Featuring Brenda Song
The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000) Featuring Brenda Song
A Very Married Christmas (2004) featuring Ashley Leggat

off to bed now so will edit in the morning
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post #36 of 115
9/23/08 at 4:26pm

Re: TV Movie's I would love to see on DVD eventually

Some TV movies I would love to see released:

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
A Circle of Children (1977)
The Bermuda Depths (1978)
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)(Thank you Image, I won't take it off my list until I hear it officially)
Midnight Offerings (1981)
This House Possessed (1981)
Don't Go To Sleep (1982)
Cry For The Strangers (1982)
Marco Polo (1982 mini series)
Amerika (1987 mini series)
Always Remember I Love You (1990)
Family Sins (2004)
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post #37 of 115
9/23/08 at 8:26pm

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned

The Execution of Private Slovik with Martin Sheen (1974) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden with Elizabeth Montgomery (1975). One other classic comes to mind as well, Sweet Hostage, again with Martin Sheen and Linda Blair (1975)
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post #38 of 115
9/23/08 at 10:09pm

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Has anyone mentioned Steven Spielberg's Duel (ABC 1971)? In the mid 1970s, Universal padded the film to 90 minutes for theatrical screenings in Europe, and this is the version they released on a special edition DVD. It's quite good, but the original 74-minute broadcast was a leaner, meaner, more suspenseful film. Taking the time to flesh out the character played by Dennis Weaver lessons the tension considerably, which was so intense in the original shorter version. There's no good reason why Universal's special edition DVD could not contain both edits.

I would also like to see the Hallmark special April Morning with Tommy Lee Jones released on DVD. A fine educational entertainment about the first battle of the American Revolution based on the classic novel by Howard Fast. More relevant than ever.
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post #39 of 115
9/24/08 at 7:26am

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Originally Posted by ChrisCook
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", which was originally broadcasted on NBC in 1980 and starred Jeff Goldblum as Ichabod Crane. This is long-overdue for a DVD release, and is IMO the definitive adaptation of Washington Irving's classic novel. It also needs to be remastered. I've contacted at least one independent company who replied back and I hope they're able to secure the rights to release this childhood favorite of mine.

And I'm still waiting (though impatiently) on a separate release for the two "MacGyver" TV movies from CBS/Paramount. They've been getting enough angry phone calls about it.

Jeff Goldblum is joining the cast of USA's Network "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and I can't think of a more perfect time to take advantage of the added exposure by finally bringing a remastered "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" to DVD.

And CBS/Paramount: I'm still waiting on a separate release for those "MacGyver" movies.
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post #40 of 115
9/24/08 at 8:07am

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I'm somewhat surprised that no-one has yet mentioned THE GATHERING with Ed Asner and Maureen Stapleton. Though it's had releases on both VHS and LaserDisc, it's not yet available on DVD. It's a Christmastime classic.

Harry
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post #41 of 115
9/24/08 at 9:27am

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FEAR ON TRIAL, THE DELIBERATE STRANGER, DRESS GREY, PROMISE (James Garner and James Woods) and FRIENDLY FIRE.
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post #42 of 115
9/24/08 at 1:33pm

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I remember the following TV movies:

Pearl-This was a three part mini series that aired on ABC about the attack on Pearl harbor. Robert Wagner, Dennis Weaver and a number of other great actors were in it.


Popeye Doyle- Ed O'Neill took over for Gene Hackman.

From Here To Eternity- William Devane starred in this one that also was a short lived series. Joe Pantoliano played Maggio the role made famous by Frank Sinatra. Kim Basinger was also in both this movie and the series.

World War III- This movie featured David Soul and Rock Hudson.
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post #43 of 115
9/24/08 at 9:25pm

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Originally Posted by Carlos Garcia

The Norliss Tapes (A good little horror story starring Angie Dickinson, from the man who brought us The Night Stalker/Strangler and Trilogy of Terror.)

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Didn't FOX release this one on DVD?
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post #44 of 115
9/24/08 at 10:04pm

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Originally Posted by FrosteyV
I'm surprised no one has mentioned

....The Legend of Lizzie Borden with Elizabeth Montgomery (1975). ....

I was beginning to wonder about that myself when I started reading through the thread.

It's unbelievable that movie hasn't been released especially for sale at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast (which is in Lizzie's actual house) or the new exhibit in Salem, MA dedicated to Lizzie B.

Along with that I would love the three part miniseries The Awakening Land that starred Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook and Jane Seymour.

Quite frankly, I would want ALL EM's TV movies, but there is a thread devoted to that all ready - http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...ml#post2005504
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post #45 of 115
9/25/08 at 6:34am

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The Challenge (Darrin McGavin, Mako)
Deadly Dream (Lloyd Bridges)
Nightmare (Richard Crenna)
Dying Room Only (Cloris Leachman)
Trapped (James Brolin)
Pray For The Wildcats (Andy Griffith, William Shatner)
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post #46 of 115
9/26/08 at 3:22pm

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I am suprised not seeing channels like Sci-Fi or USA. Sci-Fi had Painkiller Jane which they then developed into the TV series.
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post #47 of 115
9/29/08 at 2:30pm
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Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire (2000) Featuring Caroline Rhea
On the Edge (2001) Featuring Caroline Rhea
To Be Fat Like Me (2007) Featuring Caroline Rhea
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post #48 of 115
10/1/08 at 4:59am

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Two more that should be mentioned here...I remember these well even though I only saw them once when first aired...

ISN"T IT SHOCKING? (1973) with Alan Alda as a small town New England sheriff investigating a series of unusal killings...directed by John Badham...a terrific cast including Louise Lasser, Edmund O'Brien, Ruth Gordon, Will Geer, Loyd Nolan...Exciting, suspencefull and funny too!

A COLD NIGHT'S DEATH (1973) with Robert Culp and Eli Wallach...scientists at odds with each other at an arctic research station...there to replace a mysteriously dead predecessor and continue his "project"...exciting and atmospheric with tremendous performances by the leads...and a shocker of a twist ending...

You know, with the great number of outstanding TV movies allready mentioned here, it's ironic that they were largely dismissed as second rate TV way back in the late '60s and early '70s...later to become prestige showcase event programming in the '80s and afterward...along with the growing number of miniseries...IMO...
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post #49 of 115
10/1/08 at 8:13pm

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Billionaire Boys Club (1987) with Judd Nelson was outstanding.

On Edit: Just found out it has recently been released for Region 1, finally.
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post #50 of 115
10/1/08 at 8:43pm

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Originally Posted by Carlos Garcia
Does anyone remember these:

Bad Ronald (A boy accidentally murders a girl and his mother hides him from the authorities by building a secret room to their house...when the mother dies, the fun really begins!)
Carlos,

Yes, I do remember this one (as well as one or two others you've listed). This one starred Scott Jacoby--I think I've seen the t.v. film twice. It also had one of my favorite 'character' actors in it--John Fiedler. Nice memories there.
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post #51 of 115
10/4/08 at 4:51am

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Originally Posted by JoshuaB.

White Lies (1998) A disturbing tale of neo-nazism starring my favourite actress, Sarah Polley.


It is out I own it picked it up at Zellers for $2.99

Amazon.ca: White Lies: Kari Skogland, Sarah Polley, Tanya Allen, Jonathan Scarfe, Lynn Redgrave, Joseph Kell, Albert Schultz, Toby Proctor, Drew Coombs, Joe Roncetti, Rob Stefaniuk, Mark Huisman, Brenda Bazinet, Michael Eric Kramer, Aileen Lee, Willi
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post #52 of 115
10/4/08 at 5:03am

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My List

Chiefs (1983) UNCUT and complete
Victims (1982) Howard Hesseman's best role ever
Special Bulletin (1983)
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post #53 of 115
10/4/08 at 5:27pm

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Carlos Garcia wrote (post #32):
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The Norliss Tapes (A good little horror story starring Angie Dickinson, from the man who brought us The Night Stalker/Strangler and Trilogy of Terror.)

Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (scary little tale of these little demonlike creatures that live in the basement of this married couple.)


DeWilson wrote (post #43):
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Didn't FOX release this one on DVD?

Anchor Bay licenced The Norliss Tapes from Fox Home Entertainment.

We're, of course, still waiting for the promised release of Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, but I'd like to put in a further word for an ABC Circle Films/Spelling-Goldberg Productions co-production starring Robert Culp: A Cold Night's Death (a.k.a., The Chill Factor) (1973). Great idea for a movie!
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post #54 of 115
10/5/08 at 7:08pm

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Originally Posted by Carlos Garcia
Does anyone remember these:

The Screaming Woman (An old lady believes she hears the voices of a woman buried alive, but no one believes her because she was recently institutionalized.)

Bad Ronald (A boy accidentally murders a girl and his mother hides him from the authorities by building a secret room to their house...when the mother dies, the fun really begins!)

One Of My Wives Is Missing (A man claims his wife is missing, then when a woman shows up claiming to be his wife, he says she isn't!)

The Norliss Tapes (A good little horror story starring Angie Dickinson, from the man who brought us The Night Stalker/Strangler and Trilogy of Terror.)

Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (scary little tale of these little demonlike creatures that live in the basement of this married couple.)

Off the top of my head, these were the ones that used to creep me out as a kid watching Prime Time TV. I'm sure there were plenty more I've forgotten.


I definitely remember "Bad Ronald" and "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and have been anticipating those on DVD for a long time.

Some other favorites from the 70's:
"Cage Without a Key", "Smash-up on Interstate 5", 'Hey I'm Alive", "Satan's School For Girls", "Cure of the Black Widow", "Little ladies of the Night", "Skyway to Death" "Dawn-Portrait of a Teenage Runaway"
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post #55 of 115
10/5/08 at 7:38pm

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Final Descent (1997)
The Tower (1993)
Code 11-14 (2003)
Heart of Fire (1997)
Rattled (1996)
Volcano - Fire on the Mountain (1997)
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post #56 of 115
10/6/08 at 2:51pm

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Two Jan Micheal Vincent classics

1970 "Tribes"
1976 "Baby Blue Marine"
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post #57 of 115
10/6/08 at 5:43pm

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The Power (1968).
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post #58 of 115
10/6/08 at 8:57pm

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Originally Posted by Ian_H
I want the Hal Needham "Duel" rip-off Death Car on the Freeway and the Sturgeon classic Killdozer.

Death Car on the Freeway was turned into a song by the ska group King Apparatus many years ago, FYI.
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post #59 of 115
10/7/08 at 10:19pm

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Ockeghem wrote (post #57):
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The Power (1968).

Only I think The Power was an MGM theätrical release.
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post #60 of 115
10/8/08 at 5:39am

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Originally Posted by Rex Bachmann
Ockeghem wrote (post #57):



Only I think The Power was an MGM theätrical release.
Rex,

Really? Thanks. Oh, sorry. Thänks.
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