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The ABC Movie of the Week was an American weekly television anthology series featuring made-for-TV movies that aired on the ABC network in various permutations from 1969 to 1975.
- United States
- September 23, 1969 –, May 14, 1975
- English
- ABC
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- Born Innocent
- Trapped
- Duel
- Bad Ronald
- Go Ask Alice
- A Cry in The Wilderness
- Brian’s Song
- Maybe I’ll Come Home in The Spring
- Sweet Hostage
- Someone I Touched
Linda Blair first gained fame as the pea soup-spewing Regan in The Exorcist, but for dedicated couch potatoes, she’ll always be remembered for her many poignant appearances in made-for-TV flicks. Her pièce de résistance was 1974’s Born Innocent, in which she portrayed an incorrigible runaway who ends up in the juvenile prison system. Harsh punishme...
Audiences first got to know James Brolin as the motorcycle-riding renegade doctor on Marcus Welby, MD, but he eventually became a fixture in the made-for-TV film world. In 1972’s A Short Walk to Daylight, he played a New York City cop who had to lead a subway car full of disparate strangers out of the crumbled underground tunnels after an earthquak...
Long before the term “road rage” had been coined, Dennis Weaver experienced it on the small screen when he innocently passed a tanker truck that was spewing exhaust in front of him on a remote road. Apparently the trucker took this to be an insult to the size of his Peterbilt, and he proceeded to tailgate, blast his horn at, and nudge Weaver’s Plym...
A nerdy high school kid is taunted by a little neighborhood girl. He shoves her in anger. Girl hits head on a cinder block and dies. Boy runs home to Mother and tearfully describes the accident. Does Mom call the police? No, she has Son break out his carpentry tools and wall himself inside a bathroom secreted under the stairs in their house. This w...
The 1971 book Go Ask Alicewas purported to be the real diary of a shy new-in-town teenage girl who discovered that the road to high school popularity was paved with LSD. The book was banned in many high school libraries, which only helped to increase sales and prompted Hollywood to come a-calling. The 1973 TV film starred Jamie Smith-Jackson as Ali...
Academy Award-winner George Kennedy took a break from his variousAirportmovies to portray a man frustrated with his cushy Chicago lifestyle and a hankerin’ to get back to his rough-and-tumble boyhood roots. So he uproots his wife and son and moves to a ramshackle house in a remote part of the Oregon wilderness (no phone, nearest neighbor is a two-d...
This 1971 Emmy-winner told the story of boisterous Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo and his unlikely friendship with fellow Bear, the shy and retiring Gale Sayers. Brian coaxed and encouraged Sayers through his lengthy rehab therapy after a serious knee injury threatened to cut his football career short. Shortly after Gale’s triumphant retu...
By the early 1970s Sally Field was anxious to change her screen image from that of the bubbly Gidget and Flying Nun, so she signed on to play a hippie chick returning home to her family in Maybe I’ll Come Home in the Spring. The film points a finger of blame at yuppie suburbanite parents and their materialistic lifestyle as the reason their kids ar...
First aired in 1975, this romantic drama was based on the book Welcome to Xanaduby Nathaniel Benchley. Martin Sheen portrays escaped mental patient Leonard Hatch who impulsively kidnaps teenage bumpkin Linda Blair from the side of the road and spirits her away to a remote mountain cabin. Blair braces herself for an expected sexual assault and is su...
This well-meaning 1975 public service announcement about the dangers of syphilis was unintentionally hilarious from the opening credits, over which star Cloris Leachman sings the syrupy theme song. Leachman was 49 years old when she played a married career woman who is ever so excited to find out she’s pregnant with her first child. Unbeknownst to ...
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Below is a list of made-for-TV movies created for ABC under the various banners—including The ABC Movie of the Weekend, The ABC Suspense Movie, Tuesday Movie of the Week and Wednesday Movie of the Week.
Browse the IMDb list of 55 titles of the ABC Movie of the Week, a weekly TV anthology series that aired on ABC from 1969 to 1977. Find ratings, genres, summaries, directors and stars for each movie.
