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Distinguishing "TV Movies" from theatrical releases is less relevant now than when they were called "MOW(s)" in the 1970s, from ABC's Movie of the Week series, the first dedicated showcase of films made for television, starting 1969.
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- DirectorRobert DayStarsJanet LeighJulie HarrisTim O'ConnorA detective investigates the disappearance of the promiscuous wife of a timid salesman, and finds that everything is not quite as it appears.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsJohn ForsytheSenta BergerJane WyattThree children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel, which has just murdered their father.
- DirectorMichael RitchieStarsDarren McGavinSean GarrisonShirley KnightPilot for the detective drama series has Darren McGavin playing David Ross, a hard-nosed, private eye/ex-con hired to tail a woman in an embezzling case which takes a turn when he finds himself the prime suspect when the woman is found dead in his own office, by his gun.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsGlenn FordRosemary ForsythDean JaggerA successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past - in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.
- DirectorJohn PeyserStarsJanet LeighRossano BrazziCesare DanovaWhile vacationing with her husband in Italy, a middle-aged woman wakes up one morning to find that the man in bed with her is an impostor. He, however, claims that he is her husband, and she cannot get anyone to believe her.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsOlivia de HavillandEd NelsonLaraine StephensA wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground who has been buried alive. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsEdward G. RobinsonMartin BalsamDiane BakerEmile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
- DirectorJohn BadhamStarsTuesday WeldJoan HackettSam WaterstonThe wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.
- DirectorMichael LandonStarsLance KerwinBrian KeithDeAnn MearsA young boy who still wets the bed finds escapism from his abusive mother and his own embarrassment by going running after school.
- DirectorJoseph PevneyStarsBrooke AdamsDonna MillsEfrem Zimbalist Jr.In Los Angeles in 1947, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, whose nude body was dumped in a lot after being bisected with surgical precision. The detective interviews people who knew Short, who was called "The Black Dahlia" because of the black outfits she wore.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsDarren McGavinEarl HollimanJan-Michael VincentA Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.
- DirectorJames GoldstoneStarsJohn ForsytheEarl HollimanRalph MeekerA man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsValerie HarperRichard RomanusNicholas PryorA housewife is stalked by a psycho after she sees him murder a highway patrol officer.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsCloris LeachmanRoss MartinNed BeattyStranded at a roadside diner in the desert, a woman searches for her husband who has mysteriously disappeared from property.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsHope LangePaul BurkeLloyd BochnerA young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.
- DirectorTed PostStarsHelen HayesVince EdwardsMyrna LoyFour elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.
- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsAnthony PerkinsJulie HarrisJoan HackettAfter an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
- DirectorTed PostStarsBing CrosbyFrank ConverseBlythe DannerDr Cook has a beautiful garden! But what's the secret to his green thumb?
- DirectorTed PostStarsJames FranciscusLee GrantScott MarloweA man and his wife find themselves stranded in a small western town. He discovers that a strange force has turned the residents into zombies, and runs into a beautiful woman who he believes is the key to the mystery.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckRichard EganMichael Anderson Jr.A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckBarbara ParkinsRoddy McDowallOn her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
- DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsVictor FrenchCandy ClarkLouise LathamThe crises, incidents and interactions among the employees, patrons and contestants of a country-western bar's regularly scheduled talent show.
- DirectorAnthony Pullen ShawStarsAngela LansburyDiana RiggLothaire BluteauAn elderly charwoman in 1950s London spots a Dior dress at the home of her employer and becomes determined to travel to Paris and buy one herself.
- StarsAngela LansburyMaureen StapletonMartin BalsamThe story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsElizabeth MontgomeryFionnula FlanaganEd FlandersIn 1893 Massachusetts, Lizzie Andrew Borden is put on trial for murdering her father and stepmother with an axe.
- StarsGeorge DiCenzoSteve RailsbackNancy WolfeThe investigation and trial of the horrific Tate-LaBianca mass murders orchestrated by the psychotic pseudo-hippie cult leader, Charles Manson.
- DirectorFred WaltonStarsShawnee SmithTammy LaurenCandace Cameron BureA group of pranksters unintentionally gets the attention of a serial killer who soon starts targeting them.
- StarsDon JohnsonJason RobardsJudith IveyA loner arrives in a small town only to be condemned for the sins of his father.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsJack KlugmanElizabeth AshleyJames FranciscusDaniel 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.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsSebastian CabotJane AlexanderDavid HartmanA department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who he is.
- DirectorLila GarrettStarsLloyd BochnerJane DuloArny FreemanStory of the various joys and crises of neighbors who share terraces in a high-rise apartment building.
- DirectorDonald WryeStarsMarlo ThomasOrson WellesWayne RogersIn the spirit of "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), a young woman must give up her dream and remain in her small hometown as head of her family's Building and Loan business.
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsPeter StraussPeter JurasikJennifer EdwardsDetective Peter Gunn is asked by a mob boss to find the murderer of a friend's brother. Although he is working outside from the mob, Gunn is none the less pursued by mobsters, the cops and interested women.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsPeter BoyleJohn ForsytheHeather Menzies-UrichA dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
- DirectorLee PhilipsStarsStockard ChanningEdward AsnerJim BackusAfter an accident causes an ugly duckling girl to undergo reconstructive surgery, she emerges from behind the bandages a ravishing beauty. It's payback time when she uses her new attractiveness to exact revenge on those who wronged her.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsGlenn CorbettChrista LangStéphane AudranAn American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.aka: Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDarren McGavinCarol LynleySimon OaklandAn abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsDarren McGavinJo Ann PflugSimon OaklandA reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRichard ChamberlainFaye DunawayPatrick MacneeThe love of King Edward VIII for American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson eventually leads to his abdication.
- DirectorGordon DavidsonDavid GreeneStarsBen GazzaraLorne GreeneFrances Lee McCainThe bizarre story behind Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of assassinating U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, and what might have happened had he been brought to trial, if he had not been murdered by Jack Ruby.
- DirectorJames HawesStarsRupert Penry-JonesLydia LeonardDavid HaigRichard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when secret agent, Scudder, bursts into his room and entrusts him a coded notebook with map, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must crack himself. Masquerading as a liberal party pundit, Richard also gets stuck with parliamentary candidate Sir George Sinclair's sister Victoria. They must survive with the secrets and decide who they can trust and how to keep it from others.
- DirectorFielder CookStarsPatricia NealRichard ThomasEdgar BergenOn Christmas Eve 1933, the Waltons prepare for the holiday, but they are becoming increasingly worried because John Walton, who was forced to take work in another part of the state, has not yet returned home.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsJohn AstinMickey RooneyDick ShawnThe meanest villain in the West falls for a pretty schoolteacher and tries to change his ways, but a determined (and egomaniacal) singing sheriff is out to capture him.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsPercy RodriguesSterling HaydenBen GazzaraDaniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.
- DirectorJames SheldonStarsKaren ValentineEdward MulharePaul PetersenAfter spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "Moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian Sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
- StarsCindy PickettJohn AshtonCorin NemecThe harrowing true account of Steven Stayner, who was kidnapped by a perverted pseudo-priest and his lackey during the 1970s. As he gets older, he realizes that he needs to try to make an escape and get back home.
- StarsJeremy IronsAnna ChancellorEmma KayIn two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyDavid SusskindStarsArlene FrancisFarley GrangerLee RadziwillA woman (Radziwill) is found murdered in her apartment by a gunshot to her face. The detective assigned to solve the case spends a lot of time in her apartment, which contains a large portrait of her and finds himself falling in love with her. He, of course, solves the case in spite of an unexpected twist that sends the investigation in an entirely different direction.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsCharles McGrawRobert RidgelyTed KnightPolice authorities in Chicago are seeking serial killer "Georgie Porgie." His M.O. is to murder blondes with a "cheap" reputation. He was thought to have "gone south for the winter" after a killing in Tennessee. But he has returned to Chicago and kills a woman in the middle of a strip club. Georgie Porgie is somewhere on the Illinois Tollway. However, the manhunt is complicated by a missile convoy moving through the Chicago area.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsCharles McGrawRobert RidgelyTed KnightIn Chicago, the police are man-hunting a serial killer of blonde women and end-up car-chasing him through the complex maze of state highways.
- DirectorStephen GyllenhaalStarsJames CaanDavid CarradineRachel TicotinJohn, a decent prison warden in 1910 Arizona, meets an old friend in his prison who plans an escape. A prisoner about to be hanged asks John to give a ring and message to his wife. Single John meets the cute widow and kid.
- DirectorRoger BeattyHarvey KormanStarsCarol BurnettHarvey KormanVicki LawrenceBased on characters from "The Carol Burnett Show," this was the film which led to the series "Mama's Family."
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsRaymond BurrRobert LoggiaRoger RobinsonMallory defends the nephew of a businessman arrested for taking his car. The boy kills an inmate for trying to sexually abuse him. Mallory must defend the boy, while fighting a corrupt DA's office who want him to lose the case.
- DirectorSam O'SteenStarsMaureen StapletonCharles DurningMichael BrandonA lonely widow and a postman find romance late in life at the local dance hall.
- DirectorTed PostStarsClint WalkerBarry SullivanEdgar BuchananA tough marshal is sent to clean up a lawless western town.
- DirectorMollie MillerStarsRita MorenoD.W. MoffettPenelope Ann MillerAn aging actress hires a young director to film her next picture.
- DirectorMerrill BrockwayMarshall W. MasonStarsJane AlexanderLindsay CrouseBrad DourifIn 1974, five former activists from the 1960s meet in a bar, but do not relate. Each is lost in his or her own memories of more hopeful, revolutionary days.
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsJane AlexanderRachel RobertsDavid Ogden StiersA teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child who doesn't talk but emits a stream of gibberish.
- DirectorJohn J. SughrueStarsCharles BoyerGermain BazinBefore this film no one else, including the French was ever permitted to film the Louvre. The priceless treasures and incomparable art can be shared through the eyes of award-winning filmmaker Lucy Jarvis. Set against the panoramic history of France, and hosted by Charles Boyer, The Louvre, regal palace and home to so many of the world's great gifts of art, becomes THE LOUVRE, a film acclaimed and winner of fourteen national and international awards, so rich in its story that even the Mona Lisa smiles.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDennis WeaverJacqueline ScottEddie FirestoneA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
- DirectorHarvey HartStarsRobert ForsterDon JohnsonWard CostelloMatt and Scott are two detectives trying to catch a crazy guy who has a beef with a country singer. Banks' problem with country singer, Wes Collins, is that Wes was identified (by Banks' dying mother) as being Banks' deadbeat dad. Banks is now intent on getting revenge for this by killing Wes. Only Matt and Scott can stop him.
- DirectorRichard IrvingStarsPeter FalkGene BarryKatherine JusticeA psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.
- DirectorRichard IrvingStarsPeter FalkLee GrantJohn FinkAfter killing her boring husband and disposing of the body, a supposedly brilliant tort attorney fakes his kidnapping and keeps the ransom money. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.