# TVMs: The Best, The Worst, Your Favorite(s) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953 "2018-12-31T01:04:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953/61 "2019-01-04T01:49:17Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > There was a really dumb one about a ocean liner that sunk, and somehow it was rendered airtight and had society on board. The promos showed a diver approaching a porthole and being startled by a face appearing. I confess to being intrigued enough to watch this turkey. _Goliath Awaits,_ I do believe. Without looking at IMDB, I believe it starred Mark Harmon, Emma Samms, Christopher Lee and Frank “The Riddler” Gorshin. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953/62 "2019-01-05T19:46:45Z")
Just remembered Starsky and Hutch started as a TV movie. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953/63 "2019-01-06T15:30:18Z")
Stockard Channing is a really ugly girl who everyone makes fun of. She’s in (IIRC) a car crash, and they reconstruct her face sos she’s beautiful. She then proceeds to murder all her old tormentors in various creative ways. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953/64 "2019-01-06T15:51:45Z")
A vampire movie called _I, Desire_. No gore, sex, or bad language, but it was scary as hell. And Barbara Stock was a magnificent vampire. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953/65 "2019-01-06T17:32:56Z")
In 1993 HBO aired _The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom_. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Positively\_True\_Adventures\_of\_the\_Alleged\_Texas\_Cheerleader-Murdering\_Mom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Positively_True_Adventures_of_the_Alleged_Texas_Cheerleader-Murdering_Mom) ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953/66 "2019-01-07T22:05:30Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > There was a really dumb one about a ocean liner that sunk, and somehow it was rendered airtight and had society on board. The promos showed a diver approaching a porthole and being startled by a face appearing. I confess to being intrigued enough to watch this turkey. There was another turd of about the same time where there was some kind of hypersonci airliner that messed up and entered orbit, complete with all sorts of hijinks about how to get it back down. I remember watching it because I was stuck in the house because I’d broken my ankle that weekend. It was atrocious; you know a movie like that is bad when a 10 year old who was obsessed with NASA and spaceflight was groaning about it. Found it: > **[Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight:_The_Plane_That_Couldn%27t_Land)** > > Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (also known as Starflight One or Airport 85\[Note 1\]) is a 1983 television film (for the ABC Sunday Night Movie) directed by Jerry Jameson and starring Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton, Ray Milland, Gail Strickland, George DiCenzo, Tess Harper, and Terry Kiser. The film also features an all-star ensemble television cast in supporting roles. > Jameson had become known for his work on "... movie-of-the-week phenomenon and group-jeopardy suspense and terro... ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953/67 "2019-01-07T22:07:53Z")
I personally love _The Five People You Meet in Heaven,_ with Jon Voight and Michael Imperioli. Based off of a Mitch Albom book, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953/68 "2019-01-08T01:27:15Z")
> [@bump](#): > > There was another turd of about the same time where there was some kind of hypersonci airliner that messed up and entered orbit, complete with all sorts of hijinks about how to get it back down. I remember watching it because I was stuck in the house because I’d broken my ankle that weekend. > > It was atrocious; you know a movie like that is bad when a 10 year old who was obsessed with NASA and spaceflight was groaning about it. > > Found it: > > [Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight:_The_Plane_That_Couldn%27t_Land) Remember the magical gravity rope they strung up once the plane got stuck in orbit? All you had to do was hold on to the rope and you could walk on the floor. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953/69 "2019-01-08T01:33:40Z")
I don’t remember liking this one very much: _Haunts of the Very Rich_ - a group of wealthies find themselves airplaned to a “Fantasy Island”-type tropical resort where, one-by-one, they figure out they’re all dead, and as the last person gets it, his harridan wife shows up and he realizes they’re all in Hell, to boot. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953/70 "2019-01-08T01:48:35Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Just remembered Starsky and Hutch started as a TV movie. _The Marcus-Nelson Murders_ was the TVM that begat “Kojak” (bang-bang!). _The Night Strangler_ - Kolchak again; not as good as the first, but still decent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvms-the-best-the-worst-your-favorite-s/826953.md?page=3)