IMDB - (100 to 500 Votes) (USA) (+ = 8.0 ) (year 1970 - 1979)
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1. Sunshine (1973 TV Movie)
G | 121 min | Biography, Drama
When a young woman who is living in the woods with her struggling-musician husband and her very young daughter discovers that she has terminal cancer, she begins to tape-record a journal of... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Cristina Raines, Cliff De Young, Meg Foster, Brenda Vaccaro
Votes: 648
2. Steambath (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy
Random people find themselves in a steam room, quickly realize that it's a gateway to the afterlife and that the eccentric Puerto Rican janitor is actually God.
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff | Stars: Stephen Elliott, Bill Bixby, Herb Edelman, Neil J. Schwartz
Votes: 462
3. The Disappearance of Aimee (1976 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Drama
In 1926, famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. When she surfaced, she claimed that she had been kidnapped and held prisoner in Mexico. Others claimed that she ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Bette Davis, James Sloyan, James Woods
Votes: 759
4. Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas (1977 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The original cast of "Father Knows Best" returns for the second reunion movie. After learning that none of the children will be home for Christmas, Jim and Margaret decide to sell their house.
Director: Norman Abbott | Stars: Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray
Votes: 240
5. The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 125 min | Crime, Drama
A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Telly Savalas, Marjoe Gortner, José Ferrer, Ned Beatty
Votes: 672
6. In This House of Brede (1975 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 105 min | Drama
A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Diana Rigg, Pamela Brown, Gwen Watford, Denis Quilley
Votes: 308
7. Little House Years (1979 TV Movie)
132 min | Drama, Family
"Little House on the Prairie" Thanksgiving clip show in which Laura Ingalls reminisces about the Ingalls' journeys and struggles during a family Thanksgiving gathering.
Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Votes: 341
8. The Taming of the Shrew (1976 TV Movie)
102 min | Comedy, Romance
San Francisco's A.C.T. company presents Shakespeare's classic take with a Commedia dell'Arte flair, as if it were a inn yard performance by a traveling company.
Directors: William Ball, Kirk Browning | Stars: Raye Birk, Earl Boen, Ron Boussom, Barbara Dirickson
Votes: 297
9. The Snow Goose (1971 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
An aging artist who lives a solitary life as a lighthouse keeper in an Essex fishing village assists a young orphan girl in caring for a wounded snow goose.
Director: Patrick Garland | Stars: Richard Harris, Jenny Agutter, Graham Crowden, Freda Bamford
Votes: 449
10. Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince (1971 TV Movie)
60 min | Family, Fantasy, Music
A frog and a princess, both cursed by a witch, figure out how to break each other's spells.
Director: Jim Henson | Stars: Trudy Young, Gordon Thomson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson
Votes: 511
11. Once Upon a Mattress (1972 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A musical comedy variation of the classic "Princess and the Pea" story. This is a television recreation of the successful Broadway show of the same name also starring Carol Burnett in the title role.
Directors: Ron Field, Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Ken Berry, Jack Gilford, Jane White
Votes: 182
12. Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977 TV Movie)
155 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, Priscilla Pointer, Walter McGinn
Votes: 344
13. The Nutcracker (I) (1977 TV Movie)
78 min | Fantasy, Music, Romance
The television adaptation of the Baryshnikov production.
Director: Tony Charmoli | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland, Alexander Minz, Gayle Young
Votes: 515
14. Death Be Not Proud (1975 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Based on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son Johnny, who died from a brain tumor.
Director: Donald Wrye | Stars: Arthur Hill, Jane Alexander, Robby Benson, Linden Chiles
Votes: 201
15. The Belle of Amherst (1976 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Portrait of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson based on her poems, letters and notes. This is a taped broadcast of a live one-woman performance.
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Star: Julie Harris
Votes: 137
16. A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975 TV Movie)
134 min | Drama
In Connecticut in September 1923, the lives of three people collide: Josie, a domineering Irish woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation, her conniving father, tenant farmer Phil ... See full summary »
Directors: José Quintero, Gordon Rigsby | Stars: Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Ed Flanders, Edwin McDonough
Votes: 170
17. The Neon Ceiling (1971 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stops in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Gig Young, Lee Grant, Denise Nickerson, Herb Edelman
Votes: 175
18. 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
19.
The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978–1985)
Episode:
Richard II
(1978)
158 min
The incompetent King Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer King.
Director: David Giles | Stars: Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Jon Finch, Wendy Hiller
Votes: 323
20. Hospital (1970 TV Movie)
84 min | Documentary
An intimate look at the daily activities of medical staff and patients in New York's Metropolitan Hospital.
Director: Frederick Wiseman | Stars: Eugene Friedman, Stanley Friedman, Robert Schwartz
Votes: 547
21. Pueblo (1973 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, War
A Cold War incident, told in flashbacks, regarding the capture of the American spy ship, U.S.S. Pueblo and its crew by North Korean naval units off the North Korean coast on January 23, 1968.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Ronny Cox, Andrew Duggan, Stephen Elliott
Votes: 153
22. Tales from Muppetland: The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (1972 TV Movie)
50 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Four mistreated farm animals seek refuge as a band of traveling musicians in this musical tale narrated by Kermit the Frog.
Director: Jim Henson | Stars: Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt
Votes: 308
23. Clarence Darrow (1974 TV Movie)
81 min | Biography, Drama
The taped performance of Henry Fonda's one-man show was aired as "IBM Presents Clarence Darrow" on September 4, 1974, on NBC.
Director: John Rich | Star: Henry Fonda
Votes: 161
24. Hello Mother, Goodbye! (1974 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
A successful engineer tires of his high-tension job and quits to start his own mail-order company, much to his mother's consternation.
Director: Peter H. Hunt | Stars: Bette Davis, Kenneth Mars, Dran Hamilton, Ellen Weston
Votes: 342
25. David Frost Interviews Richard Nixon (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History
Originally broadcast in May of 1977, this series of interviews between Sir David Frost and U.S. President Richard Nixon, delves into the various controversies of Nixon's presidency, ... See full summary »
Director: Jorn H. Winther | Stars: David Frost, Richard Nixon
Votes: 452
26. Ten from Your Show of Shows (1973)
G | 92 min | Comedy
Ten comedy sketches compiled from the 1950s TV series, "Your Show of Shows."
Director: Max Liebman | Stars: Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris
Votes: 237 | Gross: $0.43M
27. The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Richard Schickel | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Vincente Minnelli
Votes: 233
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