Throughout October I’ve been posting videos of old made for TV movies by ABC-TV broadcast in the early 70’s. These were well-done suspense thrillers.
Tonight marks the final installment and its apropos on this Halloween. A young woman investigating her sister’s suicide at a private girls’ school finds herself battling a Satanic cult. Two future Charlie’s Angels face the devil himself.
Originally broadcast on September 19, 1973.
This month I’m having some Halloween fun by posting some old 1970’s made for TV movies that aired on ABC-TV.
Low-budget? Campy? Yes.
Horrifying? Thrilling? Daring stories? Well-done? Good actors and actresses? Also yes.
Our next feature…
Produced by Dan Curtis who gave us the popular daytime gothic soap opera “Dark Shadows.” Originally broadcast on January 16, 1974.
To coincide with Halloween, October is TV Movie month on my blog, featuring made for TV thrillers from the early 1970’s.
A woman begins receiving phone calls from her supposedly dead nephew Michael and begins to wonder if Michael is really dead, or if she is losing touch with reality.
Originally broadcast on February 5, 1972. Enjoy!
Two more movies coming Saturday and Monday.
To coincide with Halloween, October is TV Movie month on my blog, featuring weekly made for TV thrillers from the early 1970’s.
No slashers or gory monsters. Just quality TV nostalgia.
Originally broadcast November 3, 1973.
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October is TV Movie month on my blog, featuring weekly made for TV thrillers from the early 1970’s. And this one’s a dandy.
Olivia de Havilland of “Gone With The Wind” fame stars in her first TV movie about a former mental patient haunted by the cries of a woman that she believes is buried alive on her property. Orginally broadcast on January 29, 1972.
October is TV Movie month on my blog. Loved the weekly made for TV thrillers from the early 1970’s.
Four elderly women create a fake profile at a computer dating service as a prank, but “she” attracts a murderous stalker.
Starring: Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy, Mildred Natwick, Sylvia Sidney, Vince Edwards.
Originally broadcast on November 9, 1971.
October is TV Movie month on my blog. Loved the made for TV thrillers from the early 1970’s. Here’s perfect viewing for this Saturday evening.
After years in a psychiatric hospital, an heiress returns to her family mansion and realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
Originally broadcast on October 12, 1971.
October is TV Movie month on my blog. Stole this idea from my wife Jennifer.
People go for scary movie these days. I say forget “Halloween 6” and Texas Chainsaws and Chucky. Thriller TV movies from the early 1970’s….now those were well done.
In “Weekend of Terror” kidnappers accidentally kill their victim before they could collect the ransom, then abduct three nuns from a car as a stand-in to convince the victim’s father that she is still alive. Actor Robert Conrad is cast as a bad guy.
Originally broadcast on December 8, 1970.
Good stuff.
October is TV Movie month on my blog.
Perfect suspenseful viewing on this Saturday evening.
After inheriting a farm near Salem, a woman learns that she is being targeted for revenge by a coven of witches for the actions of her previous incarnation. Originally broadcast on November 24, 1970.
October is TV Movie month on my blog.
Love this one. A man and his wife find themselves stranded in a small western town. He discovers that a strange force has turned the residents into zombies, and runs into a beautiful woman who he believes is the key to the mystery.
Originally broadcast on September 29, 1970.
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