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In May 1979, ABC returned to film production with the formation of ABC Motion Pictures, this time with distribution through 20th Century-Fox. [1] This company closed down in 1985. [2] Both ABC and 20th Century Fox (now known as 20th Century Studios since 2020) are now owned by The Walt Disney Company.
This is a list of television films produced for American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Many of these films were made as television pilots, four of them were United Nations television film series.
TV Movie. A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer (Rutger Hauer), Adolf Hitler's (Sir Derek Jacobi's) young architect and one-time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. This movie is based on Speer's autobiography of the same name.
- Born Innocent
- Trapped
- Duel
- Bad Ronald
- Go Ask Alice
- A Cry in The Wilderness
- Brian’s Song
- Maybe I’ll Come Home in The Spring
- Sweet Hostage
- Someone I Touched
Linda Blair first gained fame as the pea soup-spewing Regan in The Exorcist, but for dedicated couch potatoes, she’ll always be remembered for her many poignant appearances in made-for-TV flicks. Her pièce de résistance was 1974’s Born Innocent, in which she portrayed an incorrigible runaway who ends up in the juvenile prison system. Harsh punishme...
Audiences first got to know James Brolin as the motorcycle-riding renegade doctor on Marcus Welby, MD, but he eventually became a fixture in the made-for-TV film world. In 1972’s A Short Walk to Daylight, he played a New York City cop who had to lead a subway car full of disparate strangers out of the crumbled underground tunnels after an earthquak...
Long before the term “road rage” had been coined, Dennis Weaver experienced it on the small screen when he innocently passed a tanker truck that was spewing exhaust in front of him on a remote road. Apparently the trucker took this to be an insult to the size of his Peterbilt, and he proceeded to tailgate, blast his horn at, and nudge Weaver’s Plym...
A nerdy high school kid is taunted by a little neighborhood girl. He shoves her in anger. Girl hits head on a cinder block and dies. Boy runs home to Mother and tearfully describes the accident. Does Mom call the police? No, she has Son break out his carpentry tools and wall himself inside a bathroom secreted under the stairs in their house. This w...
The 1971 book Go Ask Alicewas purported to be the real diary of a shy new-in-town teenage girl who discovered that the road to high school popularity was paved with LSD. The book was banned in many high school libraries, which only helped to increase sales and prompted Hollywood to come a-calling. The 1973 TV film starred Jamie Smith-Jackson as Ali...
Academy Award-winner George Kennedy took a break from his variousAirportmovies to portray a man frustrated with his cushy Chicago lifestyle and a hankerin’ to get back to his rough-and-tumble boyhood roots. So he uproots his wife and son and moves to a ramshackle house in a remote part of the Oregon wilderness (no phone, nearest neighbor is a two-d...
This 1971 Emmy-winner told the story of boisterous Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo and his unlikely friendship with fellow Bear, the shy and retiring Gale Sayers. Brian coaxed and encouraged Sayers through his lengthy rehab therapy after a serious knee injury threatened to cut his football career short. Shortly after Gale’s triumphant retu...
By the early 1970s Sally Field was anxious to change her screen image from that of the bubbly Gidget and Flying Nun, so she signed on to play a hippie chick returning home to her family in Maybe I’ll Come Home in the Spring. The film points a finger of blame at yuppie suburbanite parents and their materialistic lifestyle as the reason their kids ar...
First aired in 1975, this romantic drama was based on the book Welcome to Xanaduby Nathaniel Benchley. Martin Sheen portrays escaped mental patient Leonard Hatch who impulsively kidnaps teenage bumpkin Linda Blair from the side of the road and spirits her away to a remote mountain cabin. Blair braces herself for an expected sexual assault and is su...
This well-meaning 1975 public service announcement about the dangers of syphilis was unintentionally hilarious from the opening credits, over which star Cloris Leachman sings the syrupy theme song. Leachman was 49 years old when she played a married career woman who is ever so excited to find out she’s pregnant with her first child. Unbeknownst to ...
Jun 10, 2024 · ABC’s 1983 TV film shocked more than 100 million Americans with its graphic depiction of nuclear fallout. Censors and political interference nearly got in its way.
Sep 24, 2024 · Background. ABC Films (formerly "ABC Film Syndication, Inc.") was the production/distribution arm of the ABC Television Network for ABC off-network programs from 1953 to 1973, also establishing "ABC International" and "The Worldvision Corporation" as the international distribution brands for distributing the library overseas, until it was spun ...
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