TV Movies

[Dude111]

Have you seen any TV MOVIES and if so,what do ya think??

I have seen 3

1) On the edge of innocence - 1997

An excellent movie about 2 kids ending up in an institution and falling in love,then escaping from it and then realising they need help and returning.....

2) Living with the dead - 2002

An excellent movie with a surprising ending!! -- You really need to be in the right frame of mind to understand the ending!!!! (It brought me to tears -- A touching movie)

3) Red alert - 1977

A good movie about a power plant employee gone bad...... Thankfully they get him before anything really big happens!

 

[Greg Cox]

The seventies were the golden age of TV-movies, at least on the spooky side of things:THE NIGHT STALKER, DUEL, TRILOGY OF TERROR, etc.

Or so I remember.

 

[RandyS]

The seventies were the golden age of TV-movies, at least on the spooky side of things:THE NIGHT STALKER, DUEL, TRILOGY OF TERROR, etc.

Or so I remember.

There is also a little known remake of The Time Machine from 1978, starring John Beck and a pre-Three's Company Priscilla Barnes as Weena. Whit Bissell from the 1960 version is also in it, as a character similar to Filby. I'm lucky enough to have a copy on DVD-R.

 

[J.T.B.]

The seventies were the golden age of TV-movies, at least on the spooky side of things:THE NIGHT STALKER, DUEL, TRILOGY OF TERROR, etc.

Or so I remember.

Indeed. There was one called The Bermuda Depths that freaked me out when I was 8 or so. (Spoiler warning on the minute chance anyone tracks this one down). A boy met a girl on a beach and made friends, and he carved their initials on the shell of a baby turtle. The girl came back when he was an adult, at the same time a sea monster started wreaking havoc on the island where he lived. Turned out she was a ghost or spirit or something. The sea monster destroys a bunch of stuff but the hero escapes, then at the end it shows that the giant sea monster was in fact... the turtle with the initials on its shell!

 

[Goji]

I liked Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot. Apparently it got something of a theatrical release (in edited form, I believe), but I'm pretty sure it showed up on TV first.

 

[J.T.B.]

^ Yeah, Encore ran it a couple months ago and I thought it held up pretty well. It seems like it was considered a mini-series at the time, though only two parts. I had forgotten Fred Willard was in it, his part was straight but he still made me laugh.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Surely the all-time king of TV movies has to be Spielberg's Duel? It got a theatrical release in Europe. This was not an uncommon phenomenon in the 70s/early 80s - as I recall, the pilot episodes for Buck Rogers, The Incredible Hulk and BSG all got such releases.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The seventies were the golden age of TV-movies, at least on the spooky side of things:THE NIGHT STALKER, DUEL, TRILOGY OF TERROR, etc.

Or so I remember.

Indeed. There was one called The Bermuda Depths that freaked me out when I was 8 or so. (Spoiler warning on the minute chance anyone tracks this one down). A boy met a girl on a beach and made friends, and he carved their initials on the shell of a baby turtle. The girl came back when he was an adult, at the same time a sea monster started wreaking havoc on the island where he lived. Turned out she was a ghost or spirit or something. The sea monster destroys a bunch of stuff but the hero escapes, then at the end it shows that the giant sea monster was in fact... the turtle with the initials on its shell!

I was going to mention The Bermuda Depths. I'd really like to se that one again. Also, The Last Dinosaur. I really don't know if these were per se made for TV, but that's where I saw them.

 

[J.T.B.]

Oooh, the 1980 PBS TV movie The Lathe of Heaven. What an impression that made on my young mind. They showed it again around 2000, it was great.

ETA:

I was going to mention The Bermuda Depths. I'd really like to se that one again.

Cool, I haven't found many that remember that one!

I mentioned in the Joseph Sargent thread in the TOS forum that I'd like to see The Night That Panicked America again, I was too little to remember much about it.

And then there was another thing shown on PBS, Threads, which disturbed me on such a profound level, I'm not sure I'd watch it again even 30 years on.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

I have a fondness for the Norliss Tapes.

There was a TV movie years ago about teenagers inspired by Dungeons & Dragons to kill their parents (possibly featuring a young Gwenyth Paltrow) that is unintentionally hilarious. I can still recall the sheriff character perusing Dungeon Master Guides, shaking his head in disgust, before realization dawned on his face that this game was a recipe-book for murder!

 

[Push The Button]

+1 for Duel. Everyone in my family loved that movie, and I still watch it about once a year, it never gets old.

The Night that Panicked America was another great one, it is currently on YouTube.

 

[ToddPence]

There is also a little known remake of The Time Machine from 1978, starring John Beck and a pre-Three's Company Priscilla Barnes as Weena. Whit Bissell from the 1960 version is also in it, as a character similar to Filby. I'm lucky enough to have a copy on DVD-R.

I think I remember seeing this as a child! If it's the one I'm thinking of, the time traveler escapes being burned as a witch by beaming himself into another time zone despite having his hands bound.

 

[ToddPence]

Remember also that Rod Serling's NIGHT GALLERY was also originally a TV movie, and one of the best ever made.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

There's also Genesis II, Planet Earth (1974), and Strange New World.

 

[MacLeod]

It all depends on how you want to define what a TV Movie is. Surely the pilot episodes of TNG/DSN/VOY as well as their finalés could be classed as TV movies as was the ENT pilot. Not to mention the B5 pilot. Some TV shows had TV Movies after their series had ended such as the The Incredible Hulk, The Pretender

 

[Forbin]

I'd kill to see Crowhaven Farm and The People again.

 

[RandyS]

There is also a little known remake of The Time Machine from 1978, starring John Beck and a pre-Three's Company Priscilla Barnes as Weena. Whit Bissell from the 1960 version is also in it, as a character similar to Filby. I'm lucky enough to have a copy on DVD-R.

I think I remember seeing this as a child! If it's the one I'm thinking of, the time traveler escapes being burned as a witch by beaming himself into another time zone despite having his hands bound.

Yep. It's the only version of the story where Neil Perry (The Time Traveler in this verson) goes to the past.

 

[Greg Cox]

I'd kill to see Crowhaven Farm and The People again.

I was fond of The People, too. And the original "People" stories, by Zenna Henderson, that the movie was based on.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I wish Special Bulletin and Countdown to Looking Glass were available on DVD. (Although apparently Special Bulletin was for a limited time, but is no longer.)

And 18 posts in and no one's mentioned The Day After yet?

There is also a little known remake of The Time Machine from 1978, starring John Beck and a pre-Three's Company Priscilla Barnes as Weena. Whit Bissell from the 1960 version is also in it, as a character similar to Filby. I'm lucky enough to have a copy on DVD-R.

I had not heard of this before just now, and now I really want to see this.

 

[Greg Cox]

Surely the all-time king of TV movies has to be Spielberg's Duel? It got a theatrical release in Europe. This was not an uncommon phenomenon in the 70s/early 80s - as I recall, the pilot episodes for Buck Rogers, The Incredible Hulk and BSG all got such releases.

Written by Richard Matheson, of course, based on his short story of the same name.