Movies Of The Week
kclowes
mben...@aol.com wrote:
>
> Some movie with Kim Darby where these little prune people lived in the
> fireplace and they finally "got her" her in the end. Scared the Hell outta
> me...
> Someone tell me what this one was, too. Ted Bessel was in it and he was a
> sculptor. In the end one of his statutes breaks and theres a skeleton
> inside? Help!
> I can remember watching these movies on The ABC Movie Of The Week and CBS
> Friday Night At The Movies. Up until recently CBS still used that old
> intro of the movie reels and film on The Friday Late Movie.
"Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark" is the title.
It was made in 1973.
mben...@aol.com
Movies Of The Week used to be a big deal in the 70's. I remember well
watching "Death At Love House." There is a house in my town that looks
like this house and my sister and I ( 37 and 32, respectively) *still*
call this the Death At Love House house.
Other immortal movies of the week:
Aloha Means Goodbye
Sooner Or Later
Forever
Let's Scare Jessica To Death (theatrical? But I saw it on MOTW)
Sunshine
A Letter or Message to My Daughter?
The Boy In The Plastic Bubble
Some movie with Kim Darby where these little prune people lived in the
fireplace and they finally "got her" her in the end. Scared the Hell outta
me...
Someone tell me what this one was, too. Ted Bessel was in it and he was a
sculptor. In the end one of his statutes breaks and theres a skeleton
inside? Help!
I can remember watching these movies on The ABC Movie Of The Week and CBS
Friday Night At The Movies. Up until recently CBS still used that old
intro of the movie reels and film on The Friday Late Movie.
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djd
In <19961111030...@ladder01.news.aol.com> mben...@aol.com
writes:
>Some movie with Kim Darby where these little prune people lived in the
>fireplace and they finally "got her" her in the end. Scared the Hell
outta
>me...
"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark." Pretty scary flick, I agree.
>Someone tell me what this one was, too. Ted Bessel was in it and he
>was a sculptor. In the end one of his statutes breaks and theres a
>skeleton inside? Help!
Don't know the name of the movie but Ted Bessel died a few weeks ago.
Duane
djd...@ix.netcom.com
Martin Sagara
mben...@aol.com wrote:
: Movies Of The Week used to be a big deal in the 70's.
: Some movie with Kim Darby where these little prune people lived in the
: fireplace and they finally "got her" her in the end. Scared the Hell outta
: me...
Another MOTW I remember also starred Kim Darby and William Shatner. It was
about a school teacher that comes to a rural school to teach the locals.
They were very "Amish-like" but they turned out to be a colony of aliens
that were (space)shipwrecked on earth hundreds of years ago. I think
the name of the movie was "The People". It was a pretty good movie.
One MOTW was titled "Tribes" and starred Jan-Michael Vincent and Darren
McGavin. Vincent was a hippie who was drafted into the Marines and
McGavin was his drill sergent. This was also a pretty good movie.
One last memorable (but not so good) MOTW was called "Family Flight"
with Dina Merrill. A family flies off in their light plane that
is forced down in the desert. They finally fix the plane and get
lost in clouds and find themselves over the ocean with fuel running
out. It just so happens that the aircraft carrier USS Ranger is
there and they ditch the plane next to the ship.
Martin
msa...@rmii.com
Martin Sagara
Another ABC Movie of The Week tidbit:
The theme music was a piece titled "Nikki" and was written by Burt Bacharach.
Martin
msa...@rmii.com
Slug
Thanks for the memory. What was that great movie with Kim Darby and the
evil munchkins? I wonder if we saw that again now if it would be so creepy.
Another favorite of mine was Gargoyles, with the couple who hit the
gargoyle with their car, wrap it up in a blanket and try to get help for
it, like it was a puppy or something. Maybe they were going to take it to
the vet. Of course the other gargoyles can't deal with such a sophisticated
concept and try to get their injured brother back, which leads to various
nastinesses.
Despite the goofy plot, I remember it as pretty scary.
Martin Sagara <msa...@rainbow.rmii.com> wrote in article
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mben...@aol.com
In article <56b62q$7...@natasha.rmii.com>, msa...@rainbow.rmii.com (Martin
Sagara) writes:
>One last memorable (but not so good) MOTW was called "Family Flight"
>with Dina Merrill.
This one I remember. Does anyone remember the one about a little boy who
killed people and hid up in the attic of the house? Maybe I am confusing
two movies but I remember some movie about a kid killing people..
There was one disaster movie about an earthquake in NYC and people in the
subway being trapped and having to walk out. "Short Walk To Daylight" or
something? And what was the one where James Brolin got trapped in the
store after it closed and the Dobermans were after him?
mben...@aol.com
In article <01bbd131$1f8170c0$b89d...@alpha.softcom.net>, "Slug"
<sl...@softcom.net> writes:
>Another favorite of mine was Gargoyles, with the couple who hit the
>gargoyle with their car, wrap it up in a blanket and try to get help for
>it, like it was a puppy or something.
Yes, yes yes. I remember it scared me too. I know this really was not a
movie of the week, but I saw in the satellite guide last week where
"Sssss!" was going to be on. My my my. wasn't that Dirk Benedict? "
Tarantulas- The Deadly Cargo" was another winner.
This also was not a movie of the week, but anyone remember "Nightwing",
about the bats? I remember seeing the trailer before some movie I saw and
the damn trailer scared the Hell out of me. It was a cool print ad too.
Eyes leering over the horizon a ' la "Eyes Of Laura Mars."
Steve Ellis
In article <19961114010...@ladder01.news.aol.com> mben...@aol.com writes:
<<snip>>
>Yes, yes yes. I remember it scared me too. I know this really was not a
>movie of the week, but I saw in the satellite guide last week where
>"Sssss!" was going to be on. My my my. wasn't that Dirk Benedict? "
Ah, yes. Dirk Benedict pre-Battlestar Galactica, and Heather Menzies post
Sound of Music. And of course Strother Martin is always Strother Martin.
By the way, my book lists the title as "Sssssss!" (7 S's). This may be the
most misspelled movie title of all time.
Steve
msw
>Ah, yes. Dirk Benedict pre-Battlestar Galactica, and Heather Menzies post
>Sound of Music. And of course Strother Martin is always Strother Martin.
>
>By the way, my book lists the title as "Sssssss!" (7 S's). This may be the
>most misspelled movie title of all time.
My cousin is related to Dirk Benedict, though when we saw this movie ,I
thought it was positively dreadful. That was probably because it
was a disgustingly hot summer night at the outdoor theatre, and it also
made us wait that much longer for the movie we really wanted to see...
GODZILLA VS. MEGELON!!!
Best wishes,.
Mike
ko...@bbs.cruzio.com
> about a school teacher that comes to a rural school to teach the locals.
Ohhhhhhh, but the MOTW champ, also co-starring Wild Bill Shatner,
had to be "Go Ask Alice": Good suburban girl gets hooked on
goofballs (and whatever else is available) and goes down, down,
only to come back to reality with the help of Andy Griffith's
hep preacher, only to lose the Big Fight to a suspicious O.D.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want. -- attributed to the Tao Te Ching
Kent Wayson
In <19961111030...@ladder01.news.aol.com> mben...@aol.com
writes:
>>Someone tell me what this one was, too. Ted Bessel was in it and he
>>was a sculptor. In the end one of his statutes breaks and theres a
>>skeleton inside? Help!
>
Was that "Scream, Pretty Peggy"? I never saw it, but I remember the
ads for it vividly, and realizing it was the guy from 'That Girl'...
(unless I'm mixing up movies here)...
I don't know if any of these was ever an acutal "Movie of the Week",
but here's some t.v. movies I remember from the 1970s:
"The Girl Most Likely To. . . " with Stockard Channing ('Grease','Six
Degres of Separation') and Ed Asner. I loved this movie! Fred Grandy
(Gopher on 'Love Boat' was also in it).
And does anyone remember the movie with Elizabeth Montgomery - a
horror/suspense flick where she goes to visit someone (a sister?) who
has been killed (and, I think, stuffed into a laundry basket in the
basement)? Can't remember the title of that one...
The bad hurricane movie with Larry Hagman "A Lady Named Hilda" or
something like that. When I was little I thought ABC must be the
number one network because of movies like that - little did I know
they were #3 when they aired those horrible movies....
"She Lives" - with Desi Arnez, jr.
"Heat Wave" - was Desi jr. in that one, too?
"It Could Have Happened To a Nicer Guy" - about a man who got raped -
and it was a comedy!?
And of course, the best t.v. movie of the 1970's - 'Sybil' starring
Sally Field and Joanne Woodward.
Kent
Kent Parks
I haven't seen anyone mention two of my favorite '70s TV movies, "The
Stranger Within" and "Sara's Initiation"--
"The Stranger Within" had Barbara Eden pregnant with what turned out to be
an alien's baby; she began having these odd cravings for lots and lots of
black coffee, and was always having chills, in between musing about "the
Martian canals so cool..."
"Sara's Initiation" concerned two half-sisters--one pretty, one
plain--starting college together and the pretty one's mother was
pressuring her to get into the 'good' sorority, while "Sarah", the plain
one, had no interest in it. The 'pretty sister' was very kind yet got
pressured by her mother and peer pressure to join the 'good' sorority,
where evil sorority sister extraordinaire, played by Morgan Fairchild,
made her taunt Sarah and the one sorority that accepted her,
"affectionately" dubbed "Pigs, Elephants, and Dogs". Anyway, Sarah's
housemother was played by Shelly Winters, and it turned out she was
actually a witch, who of course 'got even' with the snobby sorority girls
(but of course spared Sarah's nice sister) and Morgan Fairchild got it
especially 'good'. Anybody else remember this one?
Kent
mben...@aol.com
In article <32936294...@news.alpha.net>,
ways...@mail.milwaukee.k12.wi.us (Kent Wayson) writes:
>Was that "Scream, Pretty Peggy"?
<snip>
Yes it was! Thank you! : >
>
>
>And does anyone remember the movie with Elizabeth Montgomery - a
>horror/suspense flick where she goes to visit someone (a sister?) who
>has been killed (and, I think, stuffed into a laundry basket in the
>basement)? Can't remember the title of that one..
<snip>
I do, but I canot remember the name, either.
>"She Lives" - with Desi Arnez, jr.
> <snippity snip>
Now, this is a classic, Time In A Bottle type movie. In fact, I think
they used that as a theme song. He was a big deal with those movies,
huh?...Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones himself....(.I got that book from the
Scholastic Book Sale at school. Along with Burnt Offerings. Yes, Burnt
Offerings is damn fine reading for a 6th grader...)
ban...@aol.com
Let's not forget the Grandaddy of all tearjerkers... Brian's Song.
Kent Wayson
On 20 Nov 1996 03:10:53 GMT, pa...@ruby.ils.unc.edu (Kent Parks)
wrote:
>I haven't seen anyone mention two of my favorite '70s TV movies, "The
>Stranger Within" and "Sara's Initiation"--
>
>"The Stranger Within" had Barbara Eden pregnant with what turned out to be
>an alien's baby; she began having these odd cravings for lots and lots of
>black coffee, and was always having chills, in between musing about "the
>Martian canals so cool..."
>
Yeah! She got drunk on coffee, and put tons of salt on everything.
She also painted some space ship. At the end of the movie, she (and a
bunch of other pregnant woman) leave Earth on the spaceship. Didn't
some pseudo-famour writer like Richard Matheson write "The Stranger
Within"? One of my all-time favorites!
>"Sara's Initiation" concerned two half-sisters--one pretty, one
>plain--starting college together and the pretty one's mother was
>pressuring her to get into the 'good' sorority, while "Sarah", the plain
>one, had no interest in it. The 'pretty sister' was very kind yet got
>pressured by her mother and peer pressure to join the 'good' sorority,
>where evil sorority sister extraordinaire, played by Morgan Fairchild,
>made her taunt Sarah and the one sorority that accepted her,
>"affectionately" dubbed "Pigs, Elephants, and Dogs". Anyway, Sarah's
>housemother was played by Shelly Winters, and it turned out she was
>actually a witch, who of course 'got even' with the snobby sorority girls
>(but of course spared Sarah's nice sister) and Morgan Fairchild got it
>especially 'good'. Anybody else remember this one?
I watched this one! It was called "The Initiation of Sarah". All I
remember about the time frame was that it came out after 'Carrie' -
because it was such a blatant rip-off of that movie. Remember when
the "snotty" sorority invites Sarah to some affair - and then pelts
her with tomatoes. Then she goes crying back to Shelley Winters who
helps her use her power for revenge.
Morgan Fairchild's character got scalded in a shower. Apparently,
when filming that scene, Morgan was asked to "give a bit wet one for
the boys over at ABC" (or something like that - meaning: mush your
naked, wet body onto the glass for some T&A we can cut from the movie
but send to the network execs).
Gosh, they just don't make movies like these anymore.... :-(
Two classics! Thanks for the memories, Kent!
>
>Kent
(The other) Kent
Kent Wayson
On 21 Nov 1996 12:58:32 GMT, mben...@aol.com wrote:
>In article <32936294...@news.alpha.net>,
>ways...@mail.milwaukee.k12.wi.us (Kent Wayson) writes:
>
>
>>"She Lives" - with Desi Arnez, jr.
>> <snippity snip>
> Now, this is a classic, Time In A Bottle type movie. In fact, I think
>they used that as a theme song.
Yes, they did use that song. It was on the only Jim Croce album we
had, and I thought it was cool they were using a song from the guy who
did "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"!
Kent
Perry and Lauri
ban...@aol.com wrote:
>Let's not forget the Grandaddy of all tearjerkers... Brian's Song.
Oh, and the "Portrait of..." movies. Of course my personal fave was
'Teenage Alcoholic" with Linda Blair and Mark Hamil and varoius other
people.
Lauri
djd
When I was in parochial grade school we took a field trip to the old
Fox Fullerton Theatre to see "The Cross and the Switchblade" with Pat
Boone. Then we had a discussion session about it's meaning. All very
serious. Heck, I just wanted more Raisinettes and Dots, and another
cup of Sprite.
Duane
djd...@ix.netcom.com
mben...@aol.com
In article <57f33b$6...@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>,
djd...@ix.netcom.com(djd) writes:
>When I was in parochial grade school we took a field trip to the old
>Fox Fullerton Theatre to see "The Cross and the Switchblade" with Pat
>Boone. T
Ohhhhh, my God, The Nicky Cruz story!!! I had not thought of this
movie/book in a million years!! I distinctly remember sneaking my sister's
copy of this book to read over and over something about someone getting
all cut up with a switchblade.
Kent Parks
: >When I was in parochial grade school we took a field trip to the old
: >Fox Fullerton Theatre to see "The Cross and the Switchblade" with Pat
: >Boone. T
: Ohhhhh, my God, The Nicky Cruz story!!! I had not thought of this
: movie/book in a million years!! I distinctly remember sneaking my sister's
: copy of this book to read over and over something about someone getting
: all cut up with a switchblade.
Nicky Cruz lived in my neighborhood (suburban Raleigh, NC) in the '70s,
and his daughter rode my schoolbus. I felt like we had a MAJOR celebrity
among us! (His daughter, BTW, was VERY friendly, bubbly, funny, etc...for
some reason this seemed quite out of character from what you'd expect).
Kent
Perry and Lauri
asi...@com-aid.com (Andy Silverman) wrote:
> Sorry, I missed the beginning of this thread; but if the subject is Movies of
>the Week, I've got 2 words:
> Bad Ronald.
I was going to mention that myself, but I couldn't remember if it was
a made for TV move. That was creepy the way he lived in the wall and
watched everything.
Lauri
MICHAEL FERRIO
<asi...@com-aid.com> (Andy Silverman) wrote:
> Sorry, I missed the beginning of this thread; but if the subject is Movies of
>the Week, I've got 2 words:
> Bad Ronald.
Sorry, but I missed *all* of this thread...
Yeah, that was a classic. Ronald kills his girlfriend (she pushes her
and her head hits a rock, I think). Then he hides inside a secret compart-
ment in the house while another family moves into it or something...
There was another movie in which some guy moves into a house in the country
(as a boarder or something?), and the scruffy-looking kids steal his
belongings, wreck his car, and everything. That one gave me nightmares,
too...
And there was another one where Barbara Eden had a baby, and on X-ray
they found it had two brains, or two hearts, or something. Toward the end
of the movie, they show hundreds of mothers with similar babies boarding a
spaceship...
And don't forget "Lizzie Borden" and "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud".
How can you tell these movies were good? Simple: you'll *never* see
them on cable!
-- Michael