The Classic Film & TV Cafe is proud to host the first annual Movie of the Week Blogathon, celebrating made-for-TV movies broadcast between the mid-1960s and 1989.This era is widely considered to be the "Golden Age" of telefilms and included a number of now-classic movies such as Duel, Brian's Song, My Sweet Charlie, The Night Stalker, Trilogy of Terror, Gargoyles, and Love Among the Ruins (starring Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier).
Many of them were originally shown on ABC as part of the fondly-remembered Movie of the Week, but NBC and CBS also featured their own evenings of made-for-TV movies. In fact, NBC broadcast what is generally considered to be the first telefilm in 1964: See How They Run. It was a thriller, starring John Forsythe, about three orphans being pursued by hired killers.
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Here's the blogathon schedule:
Death Takes a Holiday (1971) - Silver Screen Modes
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) - John V's Eclectic Avenue
Escape (1971) - Some Polish American Guy Reviews Things
Gargoyles (1972) - in so many words...
Gidget Grows Up (1969) - Michael's TV Tray
The Gift of Love (1983) - Christmas TV History
Haunts of the Very Rich/Scream of the Wolf - Classic Film & TV Cafe
Home for the Holidays (1972) - Twenty Four Frames
Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973) - Lo, The Humanities!
Love Among the Ruins - Old Hollywood Films
The Love War (1970) - Silver Screenings
The Night Stalker/The Night Strangler - Once Upon a Screen
Pray for the Wildcats (1974) - Movie Movie Blog Blog
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole (1972) - Caftan Woman
Shadow on the Land (1968) - Captain Video
Sole Survivor (1970) - Apocalypse Later
Strange Homecoming (1974) - Made for TV Mayhem
Thirteen at Dinner (1985) - British TV Detectives
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)- Reelweegiemidget Reviews
Where Have All the People Gone? (1974) - Phantom Empires
Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975) - Film Noir Archive
The 3,000 Mile Chase (1977) - Cantrell's Writing
I'll take a flyer on Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
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What a great cast: Susan Hayward, Darren McGavin, Beverly Garland, Michael Constantine, Jeannette Nolan, and Richard Anderson!
DeleteRick, this is too good to pass up. Please tell me The Love War (1970), starring Angie Dickinson and Lloyd Bridges is still available! If so, that's my choice.
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I love me THE LOVE WAR! PLus, I have a greater appreciation of Lloyd Bridges after recently watching him in THE LONER TV series.
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DeleteRick, I'm a big fan of your site & I'd love to participate! If possible, I'd take on Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, starring Kim Darby!
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A genuinely creepy movie! Looking forward to your review of this one.
DeleteRick, put me down for Home For the Hoildays (1972)
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Another cast: Jessica Walter, Sally Field, Julie Harris, Eleanor Parker, and Walter Brennan!
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Karen Valentine was a perfect Gidget. Wish she would have done a couple of sequels.
DeleteGreat idea. I'd be happy to join the fray.
ReplyDeleteHow about Sole Survivor (CBS, 1970), with Vince Edwards, Richard Basehart and William Shatner?
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Looking forward to a modern review of (especially) "Shadow on the Land," as well as "Night Stalker" and "Birds of Prey" ("Remember when we used to make simultaneous approaches on intersecting runways?").
ReplyDeleteI hope someone reviews BIRDS OF PREY. It was a "water cooler" movie when I was in high school.
DeleteA great idea! I'll be looking forward to reading the reviews and discovering some hitherto-unknown treasure. I'm reviving my blog and making it classic TV, film, and radio-cetered, and this blogathon will be a part of that revival.
ReplyDeleteI plan to review HORROR AT 37,000 FEET, a 1973 classic starring William Shatner, Buddy Ebsen, Roy Thinnes, and other icons of the small screen.
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One of the great TV movie casts! Just watched it again last year.
DeleteHi Rick, please mark me down for Death Takes a Holiday, the 1971 version. It will be covered in Silver Screen Modes.
ReplyDeleteFor Old Hollywood Films, I would like to write about Love Among the Ruins starring Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier.
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ReplyDeleteCan you put me down for The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (TV Movie) for the Movie of the Week Blogathon. https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/
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Can I do GARGOYLES? Has anyone chosen that and I didn't notice?
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This sounds good would like to write about Killdozer from 1974
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I would love to join in! Going to take a look at the classic Murder on Flight 502 (Ok anything with Farrah Fawcett is a classic right?)
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Hey Rick, if it's not too late to throw my hat in... I'd like to cover Escape from 1971 with Christopher George.
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ReplyDeleteRick!I'm very excited about this blogathon & have already posted my entry:
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We're awake: http://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/02/movie-of-week-blogathon-say-goodbye.html
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Thanks for hosting!
Here's my review on The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan from Realweegiemidget Reviews xx
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Thanks for the chance to enjoy this movie again with a great blogathon!
Here's my review of Sole Survivor (1970), as promised at Apocalypse Later:
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Thanks for giving me an opportunity to get round to this one. It was a blast.
Rick, this blogathon has given me a whole new appreciation for made-for-TV movies. Thank you for that. :)
ReplyDeleteI wish one of you bloggers would do a write-up on one of my favorite TV movies,Outrage, starring Robert Culp.
ReplyDeleteMark, it sounds intriguing (and is allegedly based on fact). Plus, it's on YouTube (though the quality is only so-so). And...I know several big Robert Culp fans among my blogger friends.
DeleteOh, the bad and good of finding out about a blog I'd never heard of until just now. I've missed so many movie reviews, but I'll just have to catch up.
ReplyDeleteI don't like scary movies, but I love good dramas and mysteries. Just saw "Laura," for the third time on PBS and now I'm madly going through the library's dvd catalogue to see what other Gene Tierney movies it has.
And so glad you have a thorough index on the side; I'll be combing through it for days.
If you haven't seen Gene in LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, I strongly recommend it.
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