That beloved and nearly extinct genre, the TV movie TWO

Before it was a TV series, Battlestar Galactica started out as a TV movie.

It was so successful that some time later it played for a few weeks in theaters in Sensurround.

The mini-series "I'll Take Manhattan" was mentioned - Barry Bostwick was in that. He was also in another mini-series "Scruples".

R1 Didn't know that.

Okay, i want to jump in early here with a repost form the other thread... Does anyone else remember the TV movie, Celebrity? I remember it as being quite good, with the murder mystery solved very late in the program. One thing I do recall is being shocked that one of the men was gay and then very disappointed that the gay man's son was permanently damaged because he saw his father with another man.

Here's the promo - it's over 2 minutes long... can you imagine a TV network producing a two minute promo for anything in 2018?

What a cast!

Someone here claimed that the closeted gay character in Celebrity was based on Burt Reynolds!

The Babysitter's Seduction was pure camp

I loved the Hallmark movies that used to air on CBS.

No doubt needing to pay his mounting legal bills, Woody Allen came crawling back to television with two made-for-tv movies. First was a remake of "Don't Drink the Water" in 1994, based on his screenplay (this time he directed, which he didn't do for the original)

Then he played second banana to Peter Falk, in the 1996 remake of The Sunshine Boys:

“Don’t Drink the Water” was really funny!

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David ( The movie based on the real life story of David Rothenberg, he was set on fire by his father. Bernadette Peters plays the mother).

Body Language, a single white female movie starring Linda Purl who is obsessed with her boss, played by Heather Locklear.

Something To Live For: The Alison Gertz Story. Starring Molly Ringwald as the woman who got AIDS from a bisexual bartender that she met at Studio 54.

This one stars Sally Field and the acting is so over the top and it’s cheesy, but so good and entertaining.

Loving it.

Maybe I'll Come Home In The Spring isn't perfect, but it's perfect for an ABC Movie of the Week. The name stayed with me for decades and I was lucky enough to find it one night in a bargain dump bin at Walgreen's .

Overwrought and better than I remember.

Obsessed- William Devane plays a man who gets romantically involved with a much younger woman played by Shannen Doherty who goes psycho on him.

Stalking Laura, aka I Can Make You Love Me -- Richard Thomas relentlessly stalks co-worker Brooke Shields. When he's fired, and after she gets a restraining order, he shoots up the workplace.

Based on a true story; the real killer is on death row in California.

R19 I remember that movie! I thought it was really good and the real life killer was good-looking and the woman who spurned him I didn't think was all that. Also, she's said that no matter how many times she's moved, he still finds her and writes her letters.

There are 2 that Penelope Ann Miller did that were based on true stories: Mary Kay Letourneau: All American Girl and New York Prison Break: The Seduction Of Joyce Mitchell , in which I didn't even recognize her. They really made her look like a hag.

And who could forget when Leonard Nimoy finally got to be the Captain. However the movie lost a lot of its effectiveness when the entire audience noticed the cheapskate producer had used a diesel-electric Guppy-II class boat as a substitute for a nuclear ballistic missile boat.

My favorites were: Haunts of the Very Rich, Death at Love House, It Happened one Christmas, Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night, Child of Rage, Vacation in Hell, The Night that Panicked America and my most favorite: Last Best Year with Bernadette Peters as a loner who finds out she's dying and Mary Tyler Moore as her therapist. It's almost too sad to watch.

I loved this because I tuned in halfway through and found Ann Sothern AND Ann Jillian AND Doris Roberts all doing a scene together . I didn't realize until much later that it was a remake of "A Letter to Three Wives". Loved it.

With Michelle Lee, Stephanie Zimbalist, Michael Gross, and Ben Gazarra.

From NBC 1985, it also has the original commercials intact:

The Victim, with DL faves George Maharis and Elizabeth Montgomery

“The Last Survivors” - survivors of a shipwreck on a lifeboat that isn’t big enough to hold them all for long.

The Sacketts.

Plot, Sam Elliot and friends look smelly as they spit tobacco juice over the old west

Camp classic TV movie Death of a Cheerleader is getting remake for Lifetime

R20 the real-life man, Richard Farley, was no looker. Are you thinking of someone else?

These are the real people involved in that case:

R28 God, I hope they don't try to spin it to make Kirsten sympathetic like that DEADLY WOMEN series tried to do. She really was nasty piece of work, according to her own friends. That Rolling Stone article (on which the TV movie was based on) was very well-researched and won awards.

Incidentally, when did it become titled DEATH OF A CHEERLEADER? When I first watched it in 1994, it was called A FRIEND TO DIE FOR. IMO, that's a better title. The former sounds rather generic.

R30 I recall that Kirsten Costas' parents complained about the tile "A Friend to Die For". It got changed for later airings on TV.

The remake is airing on February 2nd. Lifetime has page up for it.

The original movie is on Amazon Prime along with a bunch of other 90s TV movies including Dying to Belong which starred Hilary Swank as a college student trying to get justice for her friend who died as a result of sorority hazing.

R31 I was hoping they'd use their real names this time. I also noticed they kept 'Kirsten' blonde and 'Bernadette' brunette like in the original movie. It was the other way around in real life.

R32 They are probably using different names for the legal reasons. There is a very anti- Bernadette Protti blog out there. They exposed details about Bernadette's life and her changed name. The blog hasn't been updated in two years. I thought the blogger and her fans really crossed a line when they did a post about Bernadette's sister who is a CEO of bank in California. I get that the people on that blog hate Bernadette, but they need to leave the sister out of their hate.

I loved Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. It was shown in October 1973 on ABC. It starred Kim Darby as Sally and Jim Hutton as her douchebag husband Alex. Sally inherits her grandmother's mansion and Sally and Alex move into it and start redecorating. Sally insists on opening up a bricked up fireplace, but the handyman played by William Demarest (Uncle Charlie from My Three Sons) begs her not to. Of course stupid-ass Sally opens a grate in the fireplace and unleashes three small creatures who are weirdly obsessed with her. They had the creepiest voices and kept whispering, "Sally, we want you!"

As a child, the movie scared the bejeezus out of me and my friends. That Halloween, several of us were convinced the little creatures would come after us on Halloween night. I had nightmares for weeks about the little urchins coming after me. I was afraid of the dark for years because of this movie. Of course I watched it back as an adult and can't see why I was so scared.

I think it still holds up pretty well. One thing the movie did right was it never explained what these little creatures were or why they were obsessed with getting Sally. That left us to our imaginations. My friends and I debated up to Halloween what these things were. Guillermo Del Toro did a film remake a few years back with Guy Pierce and Katie Holmes. It sucked because they tried to explain what the creatures were and ruined the fear of the unknown.

The Death of a Cheerleader remake is airing tonight on Lifetime.

Brian's Song (1971) was one of the first.

Another great performance from Elizabeth Montgomery: the TV remake of [italic]Dark Victory,[/italic] co-starring Anthony Hopkins as her husband.

This site blows since you have to pay to post on certain topic. It's Campfire Video 2.0. Good luck with that DL Just shut it down and try to maintain some dignity

R38 Don't let the door hit you in the fat ass on your way out the door

r39 enjoy talking to yourself in a month