ABC Movie of the Week (may never be completed list)
I don't think I'll ever get enough info to finish this list. Anyway, here's what I've got.
When ABC presented a made-for-TV movie every week from 1969 to 1975.
Here's a multi-part series of YouTube videos about the series (so far).
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsILwTqRiVc
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4fw_jWWq34
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAek88u91k8
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6vC92zkXDI
When ABC presented a made-for-TV movie every week from 1969 to 1975.
Here's a multi-part series of YouTube videos about the series (so far).
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsILwTqRiVc
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4fw_jWWq34
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAek88u91k8
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6vC92zkXDI
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- DirectorMichael CaffeyStarsMilton BerleSean GarrisonDina MerrillBased on the Leonard Bishop's novel Against Heaven's Hand. Seven blind people are on a plane on their way to a convention for the blind in Seattle. Due to bad weather, the plane crashes and only the seven blind people survive.
- CreatorRobert SpechtStarsChristopher GeorgeDon KnightBarry SullivanAn immortal man whose blood can have miraculous health benefits is a fugitive from those who would exploit both him and his brother he seeks.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsWalter BrennanEdgar BuchananAndy DevineA retired Texas Ranger and his three aging pals are hired to clean up a lawless town.
- DirectorGene NelsonStarsKen BerryEva GaborWerner KlempererDuring the final months of WW2, a lonely German Baroness hides an attractive American airman in her mansion for long time without telling him the war has been over for almost five years.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsGeorge MaharisJanet LeighRick JasonPrivate eye Gus Monk refuses when attorney Barnes wants him to secure material incriminating a gangster. But then Mrs. Barnes asks him, he agrees and soon regrets it when bodies start piling up and all involved speak with forked tongues.
- CreatorMichael ZagorStarsZalman KingJudy PaceLee J. CobbDavid Barrett heads an organization in Boston that supports poor and indigent clients with the aid of young lawyers, Aaron Silverman is the young idealist, Pat Walters is the black street-smart lawyer and Chris Blake is the WASP added to balance the cast.
- DirectorEarl BellamyStarsSammy Davis Jr.Dorothy MaloneVictoria VetriPrivate eye is hired to protect a young girl, but it turns out she doesn't want to be protected.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsRobert HortonSebastian CabotJill St. JohnA one-time secret agent is blackmailed by his former boss back into the world of espionage which he had intended to leave permanently.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsLee MajorsJoey HeathertonJimmy DeanA returning Vietnam veteran finds out that while he was gone his girlfriend has been forced into marrying someone else, his small business is in ruins, and that those he once thought were his friends are in short supply.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsMichael CallanAnn PrentissEve ArdenProblems arise for Steve and Jill when they discover that the JP that they are using for their marriage bureau is not licensed.
- DirectorHarry FalkStarsLarry HagmanJessica WalterE.J. PeakerAn airline pilot tries to balance two wives he has in two separate cities.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDon MurrayRay MillandGene TierneyA professor of cybernetics comes to believe that his dead daughter is communicating with him from the netherworld.
- DirectorMichael CaffeyStarsLloyd BridgesJohn BeckEd BegleyAfter nearly killing a young girl on the heels of a big shootout, a sheriff unloads his gun and struggles to move past the moment. His challenge becomes even greater when he finds himself in a lawless town desperately needing his help.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAlan LandsburgStarsKeir DulleaBradford DillmanFrance NuyenA scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an historic Spanish galleon before a well-armed commercial expedition does.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsRobert HortonSebastian CabotJill St. JohnA former British Secret Service agent is persuaded to negotiate a spy exchange with Russia, only to find himself drawn into political intrigues.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsStephen BoydRobert HooksSusan OliverA racist officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Germans.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsSuzanne PleshetteEd NelsonAndrew PrineThe widow of a scientist who was murdered by his colleagues goes undercover at the research lab where he worked to expose them.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsDarren McGavinBroderick CrawfordJames WhitmoreGallery, a U.S. commando, and Yuro, an enemy commando, are sent to a no man's Pacific jungle island to capture a crashed U.S. space satellite. Whoever survives, wins. Their nations have agreed to this to avoid war, but they cheat.
- DirectorMel StuartStarsJohn Huston
- DirectorLeo PennStarsGary CollinsJohn DehnerSusan HowardA family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and a movie star who refuses to accept treatment for the disease.
- DirectorSidney HayersStarsPatrick MacneeConnie StevensHerbert LomDudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsLloyd BridgesAngie DickinsonDaniel J. TravantiAliens from two planets at war come to Earth, assume human form and continue their battle.
- DirectorRoy HugginsStarsWalter BrennanJoan HackettWally CoxAn adventurous young gambler searches for the owner of a mysterious fortune.
- 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 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.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsHerschel BernardiShirley JonesBrandon CruzAn accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-minded women descend upon him.
- 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...
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsHugh O'BrianAnne FrancisMarilyn MaxwellFive female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsWalter BrennanFred AstaireEdgar BuchananRetired Texas Ranger Nash Crawford re-assembles his former Ranger outfit from the old days to fight crime in his hometown.
- 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.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsBurt ReynoldsInger StevensRoyal DanoA Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsRobert ConradCarol LynleyLee MajorsThree nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.
- DirectorJohn TrentStarsSandy DennisStuart WhitmanBurl IvesA famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady, and illegal, purposes.
- CreatorGlen A. LarsonStarsBen MurphyRoger DavisPete DuelHannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, two of the most wanted outlaws in the history of the West, are popular "with everyone except the railroads and the banks".
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsJoseph CottenLloyd HaynesDewey MartinDuring the Cold War, enemy agents, posing as U.S. Navy crew, plan to sabotage a nuclear submarine and steal its anti-ballistic missile guidance system.
- DirectorTed PostStarsBing CrosbyFrank ConverseBlythe DannerDr Cook has a beautiful garden! But what's the secret to his green thumb?
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsBarbara EdenDavid HartmanJo Anne WorleyThrough unforeseen circumstances, a male chauvinist cop and a dedicated feminist become roommates.
- DirectorFred WolfStarsRingo StarrDustin HoffmanPaul FreesA father reads his son a bedtime story about young Oblio, who is banished from the fantastical kingdom of pointed heads and things for having no point.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsRyan O'NealLesley Ann WarrenPeter HaskellRyan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance who turns out to be a psychotic who will not let go of Sheila that easily.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsSally FieldEleanor ParkerLane BradburyAfter finding out that the hippie lifestyle isn't as glamorous as the media makes it look, Dennie comes home to find disapproval and judgment at every turn, and her sister Susie wanting to follow in her footsteps.
- CreatorStirling SilliphantStarsJames FranciscusMarlyn MasonPeter Mark RichmanThe cases of a blind insurance investigator.
- DirectorTed PostStarsClint WalkerBarry SullivanEdgar BuchananA tough marshal is sent to clean up a lawless western town.
- DirectorDavid FriedkinStarsRay MillandSuzanne PleshetteDack RamboA pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsCarl BetzVera MilesRuth McDevittA college dropout convinces his family to re-examine its goals and gets them to leave it all for a cross-country odyssey in a 1928 Greyhound bus.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsOssie DavisKaz GarasKyle JohnsonA rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsChristopher GeorgeWilliam WindomMarlyn MasonA scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDennis WeaverLois NettletonAnne FrancisFormer Vietnam War POW Lt.Joe Hardy returns home to the US where he finds a totally changed life situation and where he struggles with PTSD.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsDoug McClureRene AuberjonoisRichard BasehartDuring World War II, American soldier Harry Cook is sent to Norway to aid in the defection of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape Europe, they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in a high alpine castle on the German-Swiss border. Cook must find a way to escape with the scientist before the Gestapo discover the Norwegian's true identity. Cook convinces the other prisoners to build a two person glider that can fly to Switzerland. The race is on to complete the glider before the German guards discover the plane, and the Gestapo catch up with Cook and the scientist.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsBill BixbyDiane BakerJack AlbertsonA bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.
- DirectorTed PostStarsRobert ConradAnjanette ComerBradford DillmanFive young women vacation together at a resort on an isolated island. They are the resort's only customers and, aside from the boat Captain who brought them there and the resort's handyman, Wylie, the island's only inhabitants. When one of the women is found dead, the others begin to fear the Captain, who's been acting strangely. Wylie and the Captain argue over the identity of the murderer, each accusing the other, and a fight erupts. Alarmed, the women attempt to leave the island, but the boat, their only means of escape, explodes and sinks before they can board it. Then Wylie comes to their aid, claiming to have killed the boat Captain in self-defense and telling the women they're safe. But are they?
- DirectorSutton RoleyStarsAlex DreierPat HingleLouise LathamAn ESP expert uses his powers to try to track down a psychic who uses telepathy to commit murder.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsMichael ColeVan HeflinHarry GuardinoIn a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsRichard CrennaAngie DickinsonCameron MitchellA professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
- 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.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsRichard BooneSuzanne PleshetteStella StevensA blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend, and hatches a plot to murder them both.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsHal HolbrookBarbara RushMargot KidderA newly divorced man finds it difficult to get used to the single world.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsYvette MimieuxMonte MarkhamMelvyn DouglasDeath takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDoug McClureRosemary ForsythRichard BasehartThe editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDiane BakerEd NelsonHoward DuffA hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsPatty DukeTed BessellAndrew DugganOutgoing young girl and a square stockbroker meet on a park bench in Boston, are mistaken for international spies & chased by both sides.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsShelley WintersStuart WhitmanBradford DillmanA deranged mother avenges herself against the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.
- 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.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDennis WeaverJacqueline ScottEddie FirestoneA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsDesi Arnaz Jr.Christopher NorrisDan DaileyA high-school senior and his girlfriend get married when they find out she's pregnant.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsKen BerryJim HuttonTrini LópezDuring the Korean War, a newly commissioned lieutenant finds that he and his men are trapped after the enemy surrounds their position. Despite having had no leadership training, he uses ancient tactics he remembers from his history books to try to get them out of their seemingly hopeless situation.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsJane WymanDean StockwellDana AndrewsOn the day before she retires, a teacher discovers that a student she had flunked ten years previously is out to kill her.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsJames CaanBilly Dee WilliamsJack WardenBased on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
- DirectorMichael CaffeyStarsGene BarryJanice RuleJames DruryA notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic powers. He uses them on the man's wife to try to possess her and help him escape.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsPatty DukeFrank Michael LiuAnne BaxterA white Californian girl and her new Japanese-American husband must keep their recent marriage secret in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
- DirectorCorey AllenStarsRobert CulpAngie DickinsonEddie AlbertKidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number & reach a struggling actor instead. He decides to cut himself in for some of the money.
- DirectorEarl BellamyStarsSammy Davis Jr.Ernest BorgnineJulie AdamsWhen a rancher's daughter is kidnapped by Apaches, he forms a posse and sends for the U.S. Marshal but an African-American Deputy Marshal shows up instead.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsBrenda VaccaroJack WardenRoddy McDowallA working girl who is a dead ringer for a wealthy socialite is kidnapped by extortionists and forced to impersonate her.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsMichael BurnsMonie EllisDon AmecheGidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husband's company.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsJackie CooperMonte MarkhamRichard AndersonGovernment officials, not wanting to have the space program canceled, substitute a lookalike for an astronaut who died on a Mars mission.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDarren McGavinCarol LynleySimon OaklandAn abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsBette DavisRobert WagnerDenholm ElliottA C.I.A. Agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
- DirectorLee PhilipsStarsLarry HagmanBarbara FeldonGary CollinsTwo city couples decide to leave the hectic urban life and retreat to the country, but find that rural living isn't quite what they thought it would be.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsKim DarbyWilliam ShatnerDiane VarsiA teacher takes a job in a small remote community and finds the inhabitants to be strange with unsettling rules imposed on even her young students. On learning more about the people she finds that things are not at all what they seemed.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsIda LupinoBelinda MontgomeryLois NettletonFemale parole officer poses as an inmate in a women's prison in order to investigate murder, abuse and living conditions.
- 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.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsClint WalkerStefanie PowersPedro Armendáriz Jr.Man comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and run off with a Mexican revolutionary.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsBen GazzaraElizabeth AshleyMichael DouglasA woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
- DirectorPeter TewksburyStarsBrian KeithElizabeth AshleyKenneth MarsA rich stockbroker buys a Nevada ghost town as a community for people who need a second chance in life.
- DirectorBarry CraneStarsStewart GrangerBernard FoxWilliam ShatnerSherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, try to solve the murder of the heir to the Baskerville fortune.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsConnie StevensThelma CarpenterJohn David CarsonA sexy waitress becomes the house mother in a fraternity house.
- CreatorEd SpielmanHerman MillerStarsDavid CarradineRadames PeraKeye LukeThe adventures of Shaolin Monk Kwai Chang Caine as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsRobert HooksStephen BrooksWalter BrennanTwo cops quit the police department to become private detectives, hunt for a killer who has eluded capture for years.
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsPeter HaskellJoan BennettBarbara RushA young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave. He helps a girl investigate her brother's alleged murder.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsEve ArdenJames GregoryJulie NewmarAn ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
- CreatorWilliam BlinnRita LakinStarsGeorg Stanford BrownSam MelvilleGerald S. O'LoughlinThe trials and adventures of three young police officers.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsDavid JanssenJames FarentinoPhyllis ThaxterThe daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped and imprisoned underground in a coffin, while her family and the police search for her.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsBuddy EbsenKaren ValentineLesley Ann WarrenDue to a home-steading law, a fur trapper schemes to keep his land by hiring a hooker, a pickpocket, and a thief to pose as his family.
- DirectorDelbert MannJohn BadhamStarsHerschel BernardiStefanie PowersLarry HagmanAn adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLloyd BridgesCloris LeachmanEdward AsnerA group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort but find themselves wondering about their existences after a while.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsDavid JanssenBarbara RushBradford DillmanAfter several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsSusan HaywardDarren McGavinMichael ConstantineA recently widowed research doctor is convinced by a colleague to join him in an inner-city clinic.