Best Made For Tv Movies of the 70s!
Nightman
"Night Terror" starring Valarie Harper from 1976
What's yours?
Ricky
Trit...@webtv.net
1975.
andy749
Sandy
My favorite is ???????...I'm drawing a blank on the name of it...ummmm.....boy,
sounds like I REALLY love this movie, doesn't it? I KNOW...The Runaways,
staring Josh Albee. Phew! That would have driven me mad! : )
Sandy
2-60
Class of 78
THE FURBY KING
My favorite movies frome the 70's are :
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) w/ Jodie Foster
A sinister little film
The French Connection (1971)
An EXCELLENT 70's New York film !!!
Jaws (1975)
Never scream "S-H-A-R-K" !! in a crowded theater !
Star Wars (1977)
May the force be at the box office !
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Takes shopping to new depths
The Godfather (1972)
Finally, the Mafia has a theme song everyone will recognize ... and
talk about morning breath... Imagine how Mr. Ed felt screening this
flick !
Soooo many great movies... Dog Day Afternoon , Meatballs, The
Exorcist <<< I live right down the street from those stairs and that
house on Prospect Street>>>, The Shinning, Smokey and the Bandit, The
Deliverance, Heaven Can Wait, Shampoo, Saturday Night Fever, The
Gumball Rally (hahaha), Death Race 2000 (hehehehahaha), and Behind the
Green Door (ok, so I never actually saw that one in the theater !)...
FK
CSPharlap51
DavisK
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Yeff
DavisK<dav...@globalserve.net> wrote in
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> 'Salem's Lot' (1979)
The dead little boy tapping at the window
scared the crap out of me! Watched it on
a tiny B&W television in my bedroom. Had
to open the door to the hallway because
the my bedroom had become too creepy.
-Jeff B.
yeff at erols dot com
DavisK
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I was a little kid when I saw it, and it totally creeped me out too. I'd
have to say it was one of the best adaptations of a Stephen King novel.
Tiny Dancer
>My favorite Made for Tv Movies of the 70s is
>"Night Terror" starring Valarie Harper from 1976
>
>What's yours?
I'm not sure if it was made for TV but I know that's where I first
saw it, "Trilogy Of Terror" starring Karen Black and the scariest
doll of all time!
Cheers,
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else) and "Don't be Afraid of the Dark". They both scared the hell out of
me when I was a kid; I was ecstatic when I found out ToT was released on DVD
recently (of course I ran right out and bought it).
Other movies that I really enjoyed watching on TV in the 70s and early 80s
(although not necessarily made for TV) were monster movies on Saturdays and
weekday afternoons-Japanese monster movies, classic Universal films of the
30s, giant bug movies from the 50s, Harryhausen Sinbad flicks, Hammer films,
etc. How come there's not a REAL sci-fi channel that just plays all these
great old movies (rather than infinite reruns of "Manimal" and "Automan") 24
hours a day?
Oh yeah I also have a soft spot in my heart for those pseudo-documentary
movies investigating the paranormal like "In Search of Noah's Ark",
"Mysteries from Beyond Earth", and "The Bermuda Triangle" that would always
air at odd times like 3:37 am or 4:22 in the afternoon. When you're an
eight year old kid, delirious from fever, watching one of these chestnuts on
a local independent TV channel at 3 in the morning, you start saying to
yourself, "Spock (or Rod Serling, depending on who's doing the narrating) is
right! UFOs are really just flying time machines piloted by aliens (bald)
who are in fact nothing more than the highly evolved, distant offspring
(bald) of mankind from some time in the future (when everyone is bald,
including cats, dogs, and Ernest Borgnine) who have traveled to the past
(our present) via the trans-dimensional portal located in the Bermuda
Triangle in order to warn modern 1970s society against the dangers of ATOMIC
POWER (and/or porkchop sideburns)! It all makes perfect sense, really!
(Then the Robitussin would kick in and you'd be out like a light, dreaming
of tomorrow afternoon's Channel 48 "Godzillathon".)
Ah, the sweet memories of youth.
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Sandy
ooooooh, I forgot that one...that was an awesome movie!
Oil Impressionist
Yeah, wasn't Robitussin great in the 70s? Back before they took all
the good drugs out of it and made it, like, just work on your cough? :-
)
Your idea for a "real" sci-fi channel is a great one!
Dawna
> Michael A. Madaychik
> m.mad...@worldnet.att.net
>
> Nightman wrote:
> > My favorite Made for Tv Movies of the 70s is
> > "Night Terror" starring Valarie Harper from 1976
> >
> > What's yours?
>
>
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Yeff
Michael Madaychik<m.mad...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in
alt.culture.us.1970s:
> When you're an
> eight year old kid, delirious from fever, watching one of these chestnuts on
> a local independent TV channel at 3 in the morning, you start saying to
> yourself, "Spock (or Rod Serling, depending on who's doing the narrating) is
> right! UFOs are really just flying time machines piloted by aliens (bald)
> who are in fact nothing more than the highly evolved, distant offspring
> (bald) of mankind from some time in the future (when everyone is bald,
> including cats, dogs, and Ernest Borgnine) who have traveled to the past
> (our present) via the trans-dimensional portal located in the Bermuda
> Triangle in order to warn modern 1970s society against the dangers of ATOMIC
> POWER (and/or porkchop sideburns)! It all makes perfect sense, really!
> (Then the Robitussin would kick in and you'd be out like a light, dreaming
> of tomorrow afternoon's Channel 48 "Godzillathon".)
> Ah, the sweet memories of youth.
I remember once when I was in the hospital at Yakota AB in
Japan about to have knee surgery. The nurse showed up an
hour before the operation and told me they were going to
give me a shot containing a sedative to calm me down. I
told her that since I wasn't at the dentist I was very
calm. Had to get the shot anyway.
Then, to wile away the time I was given a magazine -
Scientific American. I was bored and didn't think
the shot had done a thing to me as I flipped through
the articles. One caught my eye and I started reading
about trying to use the light refracted around the
edge of a black hole to see stars farther than with
an un-aided telescope. This sounded like a good
idea and soon I'd thought up a bunch of things that
the scientist hadn't considered that would make the
whole thing easy and feasible.
Right, the drug wasn't working! Once I caught
myself I laughed and put on my headphones to
listen to Pink Floyd. That's when I discovered
what I'd been missing in music all those years
I had never gotten high! <g>
One of those shots would have been just the thing
for a Saturday afternoon Creature Double Feature.
andy749
>one!
Or maybe even an all horror(w/ some sci-fi) channel. If done right that
could be great!
Dixon Hayes
Weaver as the motorist in the red Dodge stalked by an unseen guy in an old gas
truck, what we now call road rage. I loved it long before I knew the kid who
directed it was a young Steven Spielberg. It first appeared on the ABC Movie
of the Week...
Dixon
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recsec
"Nightman" <Stati...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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> My favorite Made for Tv Movies of the 70s is
> "Night Terror" starring Valarie Harper from 1976
>
> What's yours?
>
>
One that I really like a lot has Anthony Newman in it. You know Petrocelli.
He was an escaped convict in a hot rod being chased all over what looked
like (whisper) Arizona. His car was yellow. I can't remember the name of it
tho. Anybody out there who can??
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SusieVance
The ones that left an impression on me, for whatever reason:
"A Girl Name Sooner" with Cloris Leachman
"Long Journey Back" with Stephanie Zimbalist (based on true story of high
school girl left paralyzed when her school bus stalls on a set of railroad
tracks and is hit by an oncoming train)
"The Ghost of Flight 401" with Ernest Borgnine.
jdin...@my-deja.com
NIGHT TERROR stands up to the test of time.
Just watched it last week and it was as scary
as I remember from 1976!
Sean
In article <16251-39...@storefull-147.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
Stati...@webtv.net (Nightman) wrote:
> My favorite Made for Tv Movies of the 70s is
> "Night Terror" starring Valarie Harper from 1976
>
> What's yours?
>
> Ricky
>
>
Asswad1
seen, "Don't look in the Basement"?
dougbaker
"Asswad1" <ass...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I've never seen Night Terror but will rent it if it's that good. Have you
> seen, "Don't look in the Basement"?
My favorite scary TV movie of the 70s was probably "Salem's Lot." It
seemed frightening at the time, but it's pretty tame by today's standards. I
thought "Don't Look in the Basement" was a theatrical release.