"Off The Minnesota Strip" (1980)
I’d thought Season Hubley was in that. I guess not.
But I learned something new by googling it:
[italic] 1970s Eighth Avenue: “Minnesota Strip” could describe Eighth Avenue between 42nd and 50th Streets… It was coined by cops in the 1970s because a huge proportion of the prostitutes who worked that stretch were teenage runaways from Minnesota.
A November 28, 1977 Time article reported, “Minneapolis police claim that up to 400 juveniles a year from the area are lost to other cities, with most of the youths winding up in prostitution in New York.”
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 3, 2022 5:28 AM |
I preferred Cloris Leachman in the syphilis drama "Someone I Touched"
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 3, 2022 5:32 AM |
<- More like, "Someone I sucked".
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 3, 2022 5:37 AM |
Oh, Cloris did more than suck—she took those syph-infected loads right up her slutty married snatch!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 3, 2022 5:38 AM |
Jesus Christ, this sounds awful:
“She’s torn between the man who loves her and the man who needs her.
It’s the toughest choice a woman can make - and she’s enjoying every minute of it.”
Starring Jean Stapleton.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 3, 2022 5:43 AM |
A cancer-ridden Susan Hayward watches her husband have a heart attack and crash his small plane in front of her in
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole
A Spelling-Goldberg Production
(which ABC wisely did not pick up to series)
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 3, 2022 6:05 AM |
The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
beauty pageant contestants held hostage!!!
She's not in the ad but Victoria Principal plays Miss Israel who is really an undercover CIA or FBI (I forget) agent.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 3, 2022 7:15 AM |
Listen you bitches, I'm seeing ABC and CBS movies. This thread is for ABC movies of the week. Get it right!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 3, 2022 7:41 AM |
Err, NBC! Goddamn it, Candy. Where are my glasses!?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 3, 2022 7:42 AM |
When Michael Calls ... Elizabeth Ashley freaks out:
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 3, 2022 8:20 AM |
Off the Minnesota Strip was written by David Chase, who went on to create The Sopranos.
He won an Emmy for that screenplay.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 17, 2022 2:49 AM |
The Victim, with Elizabeth Montgomery and DL face George Maharis
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 17, 2022 2:56 AM |
Elizabeth Montgomery was the ABC TV movie queen for a while.
Including her infamous take on Lizzie Borden:
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 17, 2022 3:16 AM |
Bumpo
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 17, 2022 9:21 PM |
The star tunnel rules!! My mom used to watch all the James Bond movies on that!
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 18, 2022 12:56 AM |
Bad Ronald
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 18, 2022 5:41 PM |
Sopranos show runner David Chase wrote Off the Minnesota Strip. I just listened to a podcast yesterday where he was talking about it. He had other movies in development before the Sopranos that never got made. They all sounded good. Makes you wonder how so much crap gets green kit when very good scripts are shelved.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 18, 2022 6:28 PM |
Satan's Triangle, with Alejandro Rey and Kim Novak
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 20, 2022 4:49 AM |
Moviola, the 3 part TV movie about Hollywood. Best was the middle (I think) segment, The Scarlett O’Hara War, about the casting process. Morgan Brittany (Magat bitch) cameos at the end.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 20, 2022 5:01 AM |
I remember one that was called something like Murder Among Friends. People in an apartment complex keep getting offed, including someone who got electrocuted in a pool.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 20, 2022 5:08 AM |