ABC Sunday Night Movie (1980-1981)
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- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsLee RemickColleen DewhurstPatty DukeA wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
- DirectorJack ArnoldJohn FlynnLawrence SchillerStarsCatherine HicksRichard BasehartFrank ConverseThe story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe, from her meteoric rise to stardom, to her marriages and untimely death.
- DirectorRobert LiebermanStarsRobert UrichBonnie BedeliaRichard HerdFootball jock Rocky Bleier makes it all the way to the pros with the Pittsburgh Steelers, only to be drafted in the Vietnam War. Wounded by a hand grenade overseas, Bleier returns to the U.S., and told he will never walk again. However, after a lengthy, grueling rehabilitation, Bleier ultimately walks again. Soon, he trains with his old team for inspiration. Boss Art Rooney's sympathy and regard for Bleier pays off when Bleier improbably comes all the way back, ultimately playing for a Super Bowl Championship with the Steelers. But are all the good feelings and inspiration Bleier engenders enough to carry him to an NFL championship?
- DirectorHarry FalkStarsGeorg Stanford BrownRaymond BurrDavid CassidyA big-city blackout brings out looters, an ambitious politician, a police squad, and a young woman stranded after a party. An all-star cast.
- DirectorMichael O'HerlihyStarsKate MulgrewJean-Pierre AumontRossano BrazziA true story about Elizabeth Bayley Seton, the first American to ever be canonized as a saint by the Pope. She took up Catholicism after the death of her rich husband, fought bigotry, and opened free Catholic schools and orphanages.
- DirectorPaul NewmanStarsJoanne WoodwardChristopher PlummerValerie HarperThree terminally-ill cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital's grounds, where they are attended and visited by both family and close friends.
- DirectorRichard T. HeffronStarsPeter StraussDee WallaceKathryn WalkerA female humpback whale is stranded in a small area during a storm. Fishermen of the village seek to kill the whale but a man visiting the area fights to save the whale's life.
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsKarl MaldenAndrew StevensSteve GuttenbergThe fact-based story of how the U. S. Olympic hockey team beat the Soviets at the 1980 Lake Placid, N. Y., winter Olympics, then went on to win the gold medal.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsPeter O'ToolePeter StraussBarbara Carrera
- DirectorDouglas HickoxStarsJudson ScottShelley SmithE.G. MarshallA mysterious alien with a secret is discovered in a Peruvian sarcophagus.
- DirectorMel DamskiStarsStephen MachtKaren CarlsonHans ConriedDrama about a white middle class family who move from a Chicago suburb to an interracial inner city to find the American dream.
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Beverly ToddCleavon LittleStory of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, star pitcher in the Negro Leagues, and later in the major leagues. Traces his life from his troubled youth, including his life in a detention school for Negroes, to his highs and lows in baseball, and in his personal life.