Unsold TV Pilots
by MinaGrentham | created - 28 Sep 2011 | updated - 1 day ago | PublicEvery year, a number of television pilots are filmed -- "test episodes" for potential new shows. Some of them get ordered to series, and those pilot episodes often become episode #1 of the new show. Others, however, are unable to hurdle that barrier and remain unsold -- not picked up as a full television series.
Note that "unsold" does not necessarily equate to "unaired" -- many of the pilots listed here have aired on tv, either as a backdoor pilot (shown as a tv movie, or as an episode of an already-running tv show from which it was intended to spin off) or "burned off" (aired as a tv movie or a one-off episode among the summer reruns, or incorporated into one of several anthology tv series that consisted entirely of rejected pilots). Others have seen the light of day as extra features on DVDs, or straight-to-video releases, or in a few cases were even bumped up to theatrical releases.
I've started moving ones I've seen and/or have (i.e., I know they're at least marginally available) to the top of the list -- so far that's #s 1-402.
Sources:
Unsold Television Pilots, Lee Goldberg.
Movies Made for Television, 1964-2004 and 2005-2009, Alvin H. Marill.
Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2007 and Encyclopedia of Television Pilots, 1937-2019 and Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945-2018, Vincent Terrace.
Various selective-subject (science fiction, animation, etc.) TV books.
Various internet resources - IMDb, TCMDb, TheFutonCritic, etc. etc. etc.
(A work in progress.)
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1. Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared (1951 TV Movie)
26 min | Mystery
An adaptation of the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a very wealthy businessman with a strange secret.
Director: Richard M. Grey | Stars: John Longden, Campbell Singer, Hector Ross, Ninka Dolega
Votes: 91
2. Crosscurrent (1971 TV Movie)
96 min | Crime, Drama
Police procedural film about two San Francisco homicide detectives investigating a high-profile murder.
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: Robert Hooks, Jeremy Slate, Robert Wagner, Carol Lynley
Votes: 67
3. Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, History, War
During the 1700s, in the Great Lakes region the British troops have driven the French out and with help from the mercenary Hessian troops the British plan to annihilate the native tribes of the Ottawas.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Lex Barker, Helen Westcott, Lon Chaney Jr., Berry Kroeger
Votes: 218
4. Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid (1953 TV Movie)
Unrated | 25 min | Western
This Pilot was about the Adventures of the "Tucson Kid", an insurance investigator who travels to any town where a suspicious insurance claim has appeared.
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Tom Keene, Tom Tyler, Lyle Talbot, Don Nagel
Votes: 156
5. The Shadow (1954 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure
Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not... See full summary »
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Tom Helmore, Paula Raymond, Frank M. Thomas, Alexander Scourby
Votes: 51
6. Collector's Item: The Left Fist of David (1957 TV Movie)
25 min | Adventure, Mystery
Mr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to appraise a vast collection of a recently deceased collector, Van der Locken, when he ... See full summary »
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Whitney Blake, Thomas Gomez
Votes: 52
7. Here Comes Tobor (1957 TV Movie)
26 min | Sci-Fi
A young boy uses his esp to control a robot created by his wheel chair bound Uncle, and together they combat the forces of evil.
Director: Duke Goldstone | Stars: Tommy Terrell, Arthur Space, Bruce Cowling, Alan Reynolds
Votes: 41
8. Planet Patrol (1958 TV Short)
6 min | Animation, Short, Family
Directors: Ray Patterson, Grant Simmons | Star: Dal McKennon
9. Tales of Frankenstein (1958 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 28 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife.
Director: Curt Siodmak | Stars: Anton Diffring, Helen Westcott, Don Megowan, Ludwig Stössel
Votes: 350
10. The Professor (1958 TV Movie)
26 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A Communist agent planted in America creates werewolves in order to start a panic in the U.S. that will lead to a Communist takeover.
Director: Tom McCain | Stars: Irene Barr, John S. Copeland, Doug Hobart, Benny McIntyre
Votes: 12
11. Beach Patrol (1959 TV Movie)
30 min | Crime, Drama
When a retired gangster is murdered offshore of a popular seaside recreation area, the police department and the beach patrol join forces to bring the man's killer to justice. Their only ... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Alex Nicol, Russ Conway, Joanna Barnes, John Newton
Votes: 9
12. Maggie (1960 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
Pilot for a proposed sit-com concerns the misadventures that occur when a sophisticated husband-and-wife team of actors and their clever teen-age daughter move from Manhattan to suburban ... See full summary »
Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, Leon Ames, Fay Baker, Jeanne Tatum
Votes: 17
13. Rio (1961 TV Movie)
60 min | Action
Andy Gorman (Adam West) has a near death experience, and it motivates him to quit his Seattle, Washington job and fly to the first place he thinks of to start a new life. While he is on the... See full summary »
Director: Don Weis | Stars: James Best, Adam West, Benay Venuta, Joanna Barnes
Votes: 7
14. The Ginger Rogers Show (1961 TV Movie)
32 min | Drama
Twin sisters Liz and Margaret Harcourt (both played by Rogers) do not get along, and their Uncle Eli (Charlie Ruggles) is constantly playing peace-maker. Pilot for a proposed sit-com, which was never picked up.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Charles Ruggles, Cesare Danova, Warren Parker
Votes: 10
15. Tales of the Tinkerdee (1962 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director: Carl Degen | Stars: Jane Henson, Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl, Bob Payne
Votes: 40
16. Fanfare for a Death Scene (1964 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama
An American secret agent on the trail of a vanished scientist must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry.
Directors: Leslie Stevens, Walter Grauman | Stars: Richard Egan, Dee Hartford, J.D. Cannon, Al Hirt
Votes: 107
17. The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964 TV Movie)
80 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Terrified of being buried alive by mistake, a woman puts a phone in her crypt to be able to call home if she needs help. She dies and nothing happens. One day, the phone suddenly rings. Paranormal investigator Nelson Orion (Martin Landau) is brought in.
Director: Joseph Stefano | Stars: Martin Landau, Judith Anderson, Diane Baker, Tom Simcox
Votes: 706
18. The Unknown (1964 TV Movie)
60 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
With a corpse in their trunk, two women get stranded at a mansion in the woods and meet a man who claims to have the abilities to alter time and resurrect the dead.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Scott Marlowe, David McCallum, Vera Miles
Votes: 84
19. Dark Intruder (1965)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Peter Mark Richman, Judi Meredith, Gilbert Green
Votes: 475
20. Della (1965)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
A man trying to negotiate a property deal with a wealthy but reclusive widow becomes romantically involved with the woman's unhinged daughter.
Director: Robert Gist | Stars: Paul Burke, Charles Bickford, Joan Crawford, Richard Carlson
Votes: 618
21. Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966)
Passed | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Secret agent tries to stop a scientist who has devised a bacterium that devours the body from within.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Peter Mark Richman, Wendell Corey, Carl Esmond, Barbara Bouchet
Votes: 1,538
22. Chamber of Horrors (1966)
Unrated | 80 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A one-handed madman uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.
Director: Hy Averback | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Laura Devon
Votes: 1,431
23. Valley of Mystery (1967 TV Movie)
94 min | Action, Adventure
A Meridian Airlines flight from Miami to Caracas crashes in the Venezuelan jungle, stranding 130 passengers and crew in hostile surroundings.
Director: Joseph Lejtes | Stars: Richard Egan, Peter Graves, Joby Baker, Lois Nettleton
Votes: 101
24. Wonder Woman: Who's Afraid of Diana Prince? (1967 TV Short)
4 min | Comedy, Short, Fantasy
Unaired TV pilot in which Diana Prince lives with her mother Hippolyta. When she is needed, she transforms into Wonder Woman and flies off to save the world.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Ellie Wood Walker, William Dozier, Linda Harrison, Maudie Prickett
Votes: 429
25. Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon (1969 TV Movie)
60 min | Horror
Investigator Jonathon Fletcher and his assistant Sajeed Rau investigate supernatural incidents that the local authorities either cannot or will not tackle.
Director: Lela Swift | Stars: Cal Bellini, Thayer David, Marj Dusay, Louis Edmonds
Votes: 130
26. The Spy Killer (1969 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Action, Drama
A one-time secret agent is blackmailed by his former boss back into the world of espionage which he had intended to leave permanently.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Robert Horton, Sebastian Cabot, Jill St. John, Eleanor Summerfield
Votes: 92
27. The Wizard of Id (1969 TV Short)
3 min | Short, Comedy
An unsold TV pilot based on the classic comic strip.
Stars: Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl
Votes: 16
28. Mister Jerico (1970 TV Movie)
85 min | Adventure
Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Patrick Macnee, Connie Stevens, Herbert Lom, Marty Allen
Votes: 114
29. Original Cast Album: Company (1970)
53 min | Documentary
Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company" opened on Broadway in the Spring of 1970, and tradition dictates that the cast recording is done on the first Sunday after opening night. D.A. ... See full summary »
Director: D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: Barbara Barrie, Charles Braswell, Susan Browning, George Coe
Votes: 1,020
30. Escape (1971 TV Movie)
73 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Christopher George, William Windom, Marlyn Mason, Avery Schreiber
Votes: 110
31. Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You (1971 TV Movie)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Ellery Queen has to solve a series of murders where the victims were killed in numerically descending ages, the male victims were strangled with blue cords and the female victims with pink ones.
Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Peter Lawford, Harry Morgan, E.G. Marshall, Skye Aubrey
Votes: 156
32. Hitched (1971 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 73 min | Comedy, Western
The adventures of a newly married teenage couple in the Old West.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Sally Field, Tim Matheson, Neville Brand, Slim Pickens
Votes: 93
33. The Sheriff (1971 TV Movie)
73 min | Crime, Drama
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Ossie Davis, Kaz Garas, Kyle Johnson, Edward Binns
Votes: 90
34. They Call It Murder (1971 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Drama, Mystery
A small-town district attorney's saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Jim Hutton, Lloyd Bochner, Jo Ann Pflug, Robert J. Wilke
Votes: 288
35. A Very Missing Person (1972 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
Director: Russ Mayberry | Stars: Eve Arden, James Gregory, Julie Newmar, Ray Danton
Votes: 115
36. Adventures of Nick Carter (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.
Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: Robert Conrad, Shelley Winters, Broderick Crawford, Neville Brand
Votes: 112
37. Baffled (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
A US racing champion is haunted by intense visions of an American woman in some kind of danger in a English mansion. A British ESP and occult expert believes that his visions will really happen and asks him to help her investigate them.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Rachel Roberts, Vera Miles
Votes: 440
38. The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night (1972 TV Movie)
50 min | Thriller
Aristocratic Victorian investigator deals with a supernatural mystery, traveling from place to place in his personal railway train.
Director: Cyril Coke | Stars: Robert Hardy, Julian Holloway, John Rhys-Davies, Reginald Marsh
Votes: 34
39. Call Holme (1972 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy, Mystery
Unsold comedy pilot starring Arte Johnson as an inept private eye who happens to be a master of disguise.
Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Arte Johnson, Arlene Golonka, Jim Hutton, Linda Cristal
Votes: 13
40. Madame Sin (1972)
Not Rated | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller
A C.I.A. Agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Bette Davis, Robert Wagner, Denholm Elliott, Gordon Jackson
Votes: 1,159
41. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, try to solve the murder of the heir to the Baskerville fortune.
Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Stewart Granger, Bernard Fox, William Shatner, Anthony Zerbe
Votes: 384
42. The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972 TV Movie)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency, helped by an ex-con and various parolees.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Bette Davis, Doug McClure, Eric Braeden, Joan Van Ark
Votes: 554
43. The People (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A teacher takes a job in a small remote community and finds the inhabitants to be strange with unsettling rules imposed on even her young students. On learning more about the people she finds that things are not at all what they seemed.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Kim Darby, William Shatner, Diane Varsi, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 688
44. Catch-22 (1973 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy, War
Stationed in Italy with the USAF during World War Two, Captain Yossarian flouts authority and tries not to get killed.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Dana Elcar, Frank Welker, Stewart Moss
Votes: 125
45. I Love a Mystery (1973 TV Movie)
120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Three insurance investigators search for a mysterious billionaire.
Director: Leslie Stevens | Stars: Ida Lupino, Les Crane, David Hartman, Hagan Beggs
Votes: 139
46. Isn't It Shocking? (1973 TV Movie)
73 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Alan Alda, Edmond O'Brien, Louise Lasser, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 362
47. Night of Fear (1973)
54 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Insane sadistic hermit stalks and captures those who get lost in his part of the woods. A young woman whose car broke down is about to find out what he does with them next.
Director: Terry Bourke | Stars: Norman Yemm, Carla Hoogeveen, Mike Dorsey, Briony Behets
Votes: 656
48. Poor Devil (1973 TV Movie)
73 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A young down on his luck resident of Hell (Sammy Davis, Jr.) is given a chance to redeem himself by signing up a down on his luck retail accountant to sell his soul to Lucifer.
Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Sammy Davis Jr., Christopher Lee, Jack Klugman, Adam West
Votes: 196
49.
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972–1974)
Episode:
Lost in Space
(1973)
60 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An animated version of the much loved 1960's TV series. This time the Jupiter 2 is a space shuttle on its way from Earth to Saturn, commanded by Commander Craig Robinson and crewed by Robon... See full summary »
Director: Charles Nichols | Stars: Jonathan Harris, Sherry Alberoni, Michael Bell, Ralph James
Votes: 45
50.
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972–1974)
Episode:
That Girl in Wonderland
(1973)
60 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Annie Marie imagines herself in the stories "Alice in Wonderland", "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", "The Wizard of Oz" and "Cinderella".
Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Stars: Marlo Thomas, Patricia Bright, Dick Heymeyer, Rhoda Mann
Votes: 27
51. The Alpha Caper (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull of a $30-million armored car robbery.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Henry Fonda, Leonard Nimoy, James McEachin, Elena Verdugo
Votes: 231
52. The Bait (1973 TV Movie)
78 min | Drama, Thriller
An undercover policewomen risks her life to trap a homicidal rapist.
Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Donna Mills, Michael Constantine, William Devane, Arlene Golonka
Votes: 157
53. The Norliss Tapes (1973 TV Movie)
72 min | Horror
An investigative reporter stumbles onto an artist that has made a pact to come back after his death to sculpt a statue of a demon using human blood and clay. Once the demon is awakened he will be granted immortality.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Don Porter, Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins
Votes: 1,548
54. Men of the Dragon (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two men and a woman, all friends and martial arts experts, visit Hong Kong, where they grew up. When the woman disappears, the men find out that she has been kidnapped by white slavers, and... See full summary »
Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Jared Martin, Katie Saylor, Robert Ito, Joseph Wiseman
Votes: 64
55. Planet Earth (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A man awakens from suspended animation and finds himself in the 22nd century, where women rule the world and men are slaves called Dinks. He is captured and sold as a slave, but escapes and hooks up with a male rebel movement.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: John Saxon, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, Christopher Cary
Votes: 891
56. Sidekicks (1974 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy, Western
Travelling through the West right after the Civil War, two con men hatch a scheme to try to collect the fifteen thousand dollar bounty offered for the capture of an outlaw.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Larry Hagman, Louis Gossett Jr., Blythe Danner, Jack Elam
Votes: 110
57. The Mad Magazine TV Special (1974 TV Movie)
22 min | Animation, Comedy
An animated adaptation of the notorious satire comic magazine. The skits include a look at a modern American car factory, the inner workings of a hospital, a spoof of The Godfather (1972), Mad Magazine's X-Ray vision and Spy vs. Spy.
Directors: Gordon Bellamy, Chris K. Ishii, Jimmy T. Murakami | Stars: Allen Swift, Patricia Bright, Gene Klavan, Hetty Galen
Votes: 94
58. The Mark of Zorro (1974 TV Movie)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Western
When Don Diego returns to California only to find the people overrun and overtaxed by corrupt politicians, he takes matters into his own hands as the masked crusader Zorro.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Louise Sorel
Votes: 690
59.
Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode:
Color Him Dead
(1974)
TV-14 | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
After an assassin's bullet fails to kill tycoon David Garrick, eccentric husband-and-wife detective team Arden and Suzy Buckley are hired to protect the millionaire. The pair have to ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Moffatt | Stars: Gayle Hunnicutt, Christopher Cazenove, Peter Dyneley, Stephen Rea
Votes: 186
60. Wonder Woman (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Fantasy
A super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Cathy Lee Crosby, Kaz Garas, Andrew Prine, Ricardo Montalban
Votes: 1,471
61. A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975 TV Movie)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A private investigator is confronted by the police and the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Rod Taylor, Marc Alaimo, Abraham Alvarez, Anne Archer
Votes: 92
62. Conspiracy of Terror (1975 TV Movie)
Unrated | 78 min | Drama
A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults, while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who haven't forgiven him for marrying a Gentile woman.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Michael Constantine, Barbara Rhoades, David Opatoshu, Roger Perry
Votes: 68
63. Death Among Friends (1975 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 78 min | Mystery, Thriller
A female homicide detective is assigned to solve the murder of an international banker.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Kate Reid, John Anderson, A Martinez, Martin Balsam
Votes: 48
64. Search for the Gods (1975 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Two young people search for a valuable medallion, which they believe will prove that aliens from outer space visited Earth in prehistoric times.
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Kurt Russell, Stephen McHattie, Victoria Racimo, Raymond St. Jacques
Votes: 195
65. Sky Heist (1975 TV Movie)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A husband and wife come up with a plan to steal $10 million in gold, using the hijacking of a police helicopter as a diversion.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Don Meredith, Joseph Campanella, Larry Wilcox, Ken Swofford
Votes: 77
66. Strike Force (1975 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.
Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Cliff Gorman, Don Blakely, Richard Gere, Edward Grover
Votes: 252
67. The Log of the Black Pearl (1975 TV Movie)
85 min | Adventure
A young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named 'Black Pearl' along with a medallion that is the key to a sunken nazi treasure. But there are people also looking for the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Kiel Martin, Jack Kruschen, Glenn Corbett
Votes: 85
68. The Runaway Barge (1975 TV Movie)
72 min | Adventure, Action
Three bargemen on the Mississippi River find themselves mixed up in a kidnapping and hijacking plot.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Bo Hopkins, Tim Matheson, Jim Davis, Nick Nolte
Votes: 64
69. High Risk (1976 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Comedy, Crime
A troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.
Director: Sam O'Steen | Stars: Victor Buono, Joseph Sirola, Don Stroud, JoAnna Cameron
Votes: 17
70. Kiss Me, Kill Me (1976 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: Stella Stevens, Michael Anderson Jr., Dabney Coleman, Bruce Boxleitner
Votes: 58
71. One of My Wives Is Missing (1976 TV Movie)
93 min | Mystery, Thriller
Daniel Corban's wife Elizabeth disappeared after they had a fight. Then she shows up, yet he insists that the woman isn't actually his wife.
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Jack Klugman, Elizabeth Ashley, James Franciscus, Joel Fabiani
Votes: 667
72. Our Man Flint: Dead on Target (1976 TV Movie)
77 min | Action, Drama
Oil company executive Wendell Runsler gets abducted by a liberation army group from the Middle East. Shrewd, handsome, and dashing private eye Derek Flint is hired to find Runsler. Flint ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Ray Danton, Sharon Acker, Lawrence Dane, Donnelly Rhodes
Votes: 118
73. The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976 TV Movie)
74 min | Comedy, Mystery, Crime
A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is treating him, he sets out to solve the murder of an embezzler.
Director: Dean Hargrove | Stars: Larry Hagman, Jenny O'Hara, Nicholas Colasanto, Woodrow Parfrey
Votes: 116
74. Bunco (1977 TV Movie)
48 min | Crime, Drama
Tom Selleck is a member of the "Bunco" squad the squad in charge of nabbing con men, cheats, and swindlers. Most of their time is spent dealing with penny-ante street-corner crooks. But ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Robert Urich, Milt Kogan, Donna Mills
Votes: 62
75. Cover Girls (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
Two beautiful fashion models work undercover as secret agents.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Cornelia Sharpe, Jayne Kennedy, Don Galloway, Michael Baseleon
Votes: 89
76. Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging (1977 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 100 min | Western
An 1870s private detective is hired to find and deliver a rich California rancher's missing daughter.
Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Clu Gulager, Ralph Bellamy, Blair Brown, Christopher Connelly
Votes: 76
77. Good Against Evil (1977 TV Movie)
84 min | Horror
A writer, Andy Stuart, teams up with an exorcist, Father Kemschler, to battle Satan, and a group of Devil worshipers led by Mr. Rimmin.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Dack Rambo, Elyssa Davalos, Richard Lynch, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 599
78. Dead of Night (1977 TV Movie)
76 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Three horror stories about a vintage car that transports its driver back to 1926, the mistress of an old Victorian mansion who is scared of a vampire and a mother tormented by her dead son who she has brought back to life.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., E.J. André, Ann Doran, Christina Hart
Votes: 1,625
79. The 3, 000 Mile Chase (1977 TV Movie)
100 min | Action, Drama
Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3, 000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price.
Director: Russ Mayberry | Stars: Cliff De Young, Glenn Ford, Blair Brown, David Spielberg
Votes: 87
80. Spectre (1977 TV Movie)
Unrated | 98 min | Horror
A criminologist and occult investigator recruits an old friend to assist in his current case. A sister of a prominent British businessman believes her brother dabbles in the black arts. The two investigate the matter.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Robert Culp, Gig Young, John Hurt, Gordon Jackson
Votes: 708
81. The Hunted Lady (1977 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An undercover policewoman finds herself framed for murder by a crime. Forced to flee for her life, she determines to clear her name and bring the real killers to justice.
Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Donna Mills, Lawrence P. Casey, Andrew Duggan, Alan Feinstein
Votes: 76
82. The Possessed (1977 TV Movie)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the Satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: James Farentino, Harrison Ford, Claudette Nevins, Eugene Roche
Votes: 712
83. Dr. Scorpion (1978 TV Movie)
120 min | Adventure
A former secret agent turned marine biologist investigates the murder of a friend and gets caught up in a complex and dangerous intelligence network.
Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Christine Lahti, Richard Herd, Sandra Kerns
Votes: 24
84. Dr. Strange (1978 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 93 min | Action, Fantasy
A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.
Director: Philip DeGuere Jr. | Stars: Peter Hooten, Clyde Kusatsu, Jessica Walter, Anne-Marie Martin
Votes: 2,140
85. Escapade (1978 TV Movie)
50 min | Action
Two U.S. Secret Service agents are lured on a bizarre search for their rookie partner who has mysteriously disappeared.Two secret agents set out in search of a missing comrade.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Granville Van Dusen, Morgan Fairchild, Len Birman, Janice Lynde
Votes: 21
86. Hunters of the Reef (1978 TV Movie)
95 min | Action, Adventure
A salvage vessel captain finds himself in competition with a better equipped boat in a race to raise a wreck on the Florida coast.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Michael Parks, Mary Louise Weller, William Windom, Felton Perry
Votes: 21
87. Sorority '62 (1978 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
The wacky shenanigans of four sorority girls.
Director: Tony Csiki | Stars: Karen Berger, Joey Bishop, Dick Clark, Marj Dusay
Votes: 16
88. Space Force (1978 TV Movie)
25 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
The comic adventures that befall a crew of astronauts assigned to a remote military space station.
Director: Peter Baldwin | Stars: William Phipps, Fred Willard, Larry Block, Jim Boyd
Votes: 35
89. The Return of Captain Nemo (1978 TV Movie)
102 min | Sci-Fi
After a century of being in suspended animation, the mysterious submarine commander is revived in modern times for new adventures.
Directors: Alex March, Paul Stader | Stars: José Ferrer, Burgess Meredith, Mel Ferrer, Horst Buchholz
Votes: 444
90. The World Beyond (1978 TV Movie)
60 min | Horror, Thriller
A golem made of mud terrorizes a couple on a remote Maine island. An episode called "Monster" from the TV-series "The World Beyond".
Director: Noel Black | Stars: Granville Van Dusen, JoBeth Williams, Barnard Hughes, Richard Fitzpatrick
Votes: 201
91. True Grit: A Further Adventure (1978 TV Movie)
100 min | Western
The further adventures of 'True Grit' Rooster Cogburn which has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.
Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Warren Oates, Lisa Pelikan, Lee Meriwether, James Stephens
Votes: 215
92. Beane's of Boston (1979 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
To keep from being fired by his uncle, Franklin Beane has a bright idea for a theme week for the Men's and Ladies' Wear department of Beane's of Boston department store.
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: John Hillerman, Charlotte Rae, Alan Sues, George O'Hanlon Jr.
Votes: 47
93. Mandrake (1979 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Mandrake, a famous magician, and his assistant Lothar come to the aid of an amusement-park owner who is being blackmailed by a madman who is killing the park's customers until he gets his money.
Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Anthony Herrera, Simone Griffeth, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Hank Brandt
Votes: 63
94. Nero Wolfe (1979 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Mystery
A wealthy realtor sends out dozens of copies of a book that paints the FBI in an unfavorable light. They harass her. So she turns to Nero Wolfe to get them off her back.
Director: Frank D. Gilroy | Stars: Thayer David, Tom Mason, Brooke Adams, Biff McGuire
Votes: 162
95. Samurai (1979 TV Movie)
70 min | Action, Fantasy
Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Joe Penny, Dana Elcar, Beulah Quo, James Shigeta
Votes: 63
96. The Chinese Typewriter (1979 TV Movie)
60 min | Action, Adventure
This unsold TV pilot set in Hawaii is about two PIs hired by an airline company to retrieve a stolen jet, the company's latest prototype.
Director: Lou Antonio | Stars: Tom Selleck, James Whitmore Jr., Lane Bradbury, William Daniels
Votes: 42
97. The Orson Welles Show (1979 TV Special)
74 min | Talk-Show
Directors: Orson Welles, Stanley Sheff | Stars: Orson Welles, Angie Dickinson, Dave Goelz, Jim Henson
Votes: 82
98. The Ultimate Impostor (1979 TV Movie)
97 min | Action
A secret agent is trained by having his brain linked up to a computer. He is then sent on a mission to rescue a Russian sub commander. The Russian is a defector who has important secrets ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: Joseph Hacker, Keith Andes, Macon McCalman, Erin Gray
Votes: 41
99. Topper (1979 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A recently deceased couple try, any way they can, to get into heaven rather than wander the Earth as invisible souls with no purpose.
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Kate Jackson, Andrew Stevens, Jack Warden, Rue McClanahan
Votes: 173
100. Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Former Los Angeles police lieutenant Bill Battles is hired by Hawaii State university to not only become head of the campus police, but assistant coach in charge of special teams for the ... See full summary »
Director: Ron Satlof | Stars: William Conrad, Lane Caudell, Robin Mattson, Marj Dusay
Votes: 41
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