Damn, that sounds interesting. Wish they’d release more of these on DVD.
Some that stuck with me:
Birds of Prey (1973). David Janssen as a WWII veteran pilot, flying a traffic helicopter, who doggedly pursues bank robbers whose getaway vehicle is also a helicopter. This one is available from Netflix, but sadly without the song “Thwee Widdie Fishies”; there’s generic jazz in its place, even though Janssen is singing along to the song you’re not hearing. Great ending.
Shirts/Skins (1973). Maybe it’s because I was 12 at the time, but I loved this movie; I’d like to see a good remake.
Steambath (1973). Bill Bixby, half-nekkid Valerie Perrine, and a host of others find themselves in the afterlife in the form of a coed steambath. Jose Perez may or may not be God.
The Cube (1969). Amazing this is still in my memory after 40 years. Surrealist, allegorical, or whatever you’d call it; seemed pretty freaky to me when I was 8.
blondbear got my first choice, How I Spent My Summer Vacation. Robert Wagner tries to out-cool Peter Lawford. I’d love to see it again to find out if it makes any more sense to the grown-up me.
I nominate All Together Now, or as I like to call it, Party of Five Minus One, Twenty Years Earlier. Features a very young Helen Hunt.
Came in to post about V. The first time Diana gobbled that guinea pig, I nearly fainted. I actually saw the miniseries in the “4 for $20” bin at Blockbuster this afternoon!
Most of mine have already been posted. I’m old enough to have seen all of these when they originally aired:
Sybil
Special Bulletin
The Day After
Trilogy of Terror
Brian’s Song
The Execution of Private Slovik
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Roots
Duel
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (btw, I don’t think Lizzie did it, but it was an interesting theory, and how can you go wrong with Elizabeth Montgomery?)
I remember this as being gripping, fascinating and very moving. What a cast too! Ben Gazzara, Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Caron, Lee Remick, Juliet Mills, Anthony Quayle, John Gielgud.
I also really loved Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
It’s been decades since I’ve seen it, but just going from my memory, I think the old age makeup in that TV movie was better than some feature films now!
Probably not very good, but I loved these at the time because I was a huge Elizabeth Montgomery fan:
The Lizzie Borden one had Elizabeth Montgomery’s lower-back dimples and stopped just short of coinslot. I remember nothing else of it but, having been a prepubescent when Bewitched premiered, I had somehow known from an early age that I wanted to see that and more.
Valerie Prine in Steambath? By then Playboy had told me that there was more of her to see than was shown only momentarily onscreen, moments I could savor (we didn’t have VCRs or rewind then), so I let i pass by and relished that God could b a Puerto Rican janitor.
Being outnumbered when my parish Friday Night Movie Club began I had to accept Chick Flicks, Inspirational Shit, and other films I’d never see on my own, but I had to put my foot down on the two films at which guys are allowed to cry: Ol’ Yeller and Brian’s Song. One must do all he can to maintain his composure.
Mine too! Disney remade it recently with Mekhi Phifer as Gale Sayers. I usually like Mekhi Phifer, but come on, he is NO Billy Dee.
When I checked wikipedia to confirm the remake was Disney, I noticed that it says the original Brian’s Song made for TV movie was so successful that it went on to be shown in theaters. That’s got to be pretty rare.
