The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies (1973-1974)
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- DirectorNorman PanamaStarsKaren ValentineMichael Anderson Jr.Lou JacobiAn airline stewardess juggles a life that includes a husband in Los Angeles and another one in London.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDennis WeaverEstelle ParsonsKristoffer TaboriA family's outing turns out badly as they are terrorized by a gang of young thugs.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsTelly SavalasLynda Day GeorgeMike FarrellA model, while riding in the front car of a subway train, witnesses a woman being pushed in front of the train. But when the police come to interview her, she recognizes one of them as the man who did the pushing. She spends the rest of the movie trying to convince the good cop, that Telly is a bad cop; and Telly spends the rest of the movie chasing her around the city and finally to the subway yards. Only now the police, having finally been convinced, have joined in the chase.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsJames StewartStrother MartinSheree NorthHawkins comes to Hollywood to defend a star's husband in a murder case. The man claims that he killed a playboy when he caught him trying to rape his daughter. But Hawkins doubts that he is telling him the full truth.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsRichard RoundtreeEddie BarthRobert CulpA group of the town's leading citizens is acting as a vigilante committee, kidnapping, trying, and executing suspects who have been acquitted of crimes. Shaft becomes involved after the group goes even further, killing an attorney who helped get him started in his business.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJames StewartMurray HamiltonHenry JonesHawkins defends a woman who is accused of murdering her wealthy elderly husband, who was bedridden with an incurable disease. She admits to not giving him the medicine he needed, but refuses to discuss her motives. While many believe it was a mercy killing, an ambitious assistant district attorney is trying to prove she did it because of the two million dollars she would inherit.
- DirectorNicholas ColasantoStarsRichard RoundtreeEddie BarthJa'net DuBoisShaft gets into an altercation with a procurer while trying to protect an old girlfriend who has fallen on hard times and turned to prostitution. When the procurer is found murdered, Shaft is accused of the crime, and the girl is his only alibi, but she has disappeared.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsJames StewartTyne DalyJames HamptonHawkins defends a man who is charged with killing one of the two psychology professors whom he blames for the suicide of his son. Making it worse is that he was recorded on a television news tape vowing to make both men pay "a life for a life".
- DirectorHarry HarrisStarsRichard RoundtreeEddie BarthHoward DuffShaft is hired to prove the innocence of a young man accused of an accidental hit-and-run killing with a stolen car. He finds that the victim was a casino enforcer who was trying to skim off his employer, and that his killing was probably not an accident at all.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJames StewartStrother MartinJeanette NolanHawkins comes to his own hometown to defend his own cousin's accused killer (and R.J.'s opponent in the upcoming sheriff's race). Fueling the case against the man is that he has been openly in love with the victim's wife, and that there has been talk of a long-standing feud between his family and the Hawkins clan.
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsRichard RoundtreeEddie BarthPaul BurkeA banker's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers insist that Shaft deliver the ransom. But complications arise when, on the way to the drop point, Shaft is stopped by an overzealous deputy who won't listen to a word he says.
- DirectorLee PhilipsStarsRichard RoundtreeEddie BarthGeorge MaharisA police officer is framed for extortion and assault on a singer. He tells Shaft he believes this was done to prevent him from uncovering crooked officers involved in an auto theft ring. Shaft persuades Rossi to go undercover to investigate, but when Rossi is shot down and lies near death, Shaft feels responsible and tries to break the ring himself.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsRichard CrennaPatty DukeVic MorrowA murder witness, who can't convince the police that the killer lives in the apartment across the courtyard from him, realizes he is the sniper's next victim.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsRichard RoundtreeEddie BarthDon KnightA business executive under suspicion for embezzlement is killed, and his wife injured, after a fire engulfs his office. The wife hires Shaft to investigate, as the fire is determined to be arson. But all is not as it seems, and more murders occur as an associate of the executive tries to get control of the company and retrieve a diamond necklace that was put in a safe deposit box.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsJames StewartStrother MartinTeresa WrightHawkins defends the son of an old flame, who has been charged with murdering a drug-addicted young woman whom he had put into a room at the hotel his mother runs
- DirectorGene LevittStarsSkye AubreyJack CassidyJackie CooganThe internationally famous Worldwide Studios (really MGM) has hit hard times and is forced to sell it's back lot to Hollywood property developers. The trouble is someone keeps killing off the site surveyors. The studio chiefs then learn of the legend of a masked man who lives on the lot and is sworn to protect it from harm.
- DirectorLawrence DobkinStarsRichard RoundtreeEddie BarthClu GulagerA grand jury witness, who was to testify against a mobster, is killed by a grenade at the courtroom. Also killed is a friend of Shaft who was at the courtroom to get married. Shaft is determined to catch the hit man, who he briefly saw, and decides to set himself up as a decoy to do so. The killer is also a devoted family man whose wife is catching on to what he really does for a living.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsKen HowardGary LockwoodTim O'ConnorPilot for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after two Bonnie-and-Clyde style bank robbers who murdered his former girlfriend.
- DirectorRobert ScheererStarsJames StewartStrother MartinPaul BurkeHawkins defends a U.S. Senator's aide who's been charged with the murder of a muckraking reporter who was going to air a story that might have caused embarrassment to his boss.