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Sunshine: a young mom dying of cancer who tapes messages to her young daughter
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring: Sally Field plays a hippy runaway, Andy Griffith a pastor she meets along the way
The Girls of Huntington House: first time I saw Sissy Spacek in anything, about girls in a home for "unwed mothers"
Go Ask Alice: we all probably remember that one
I know there are probably more....
I remember "Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring" and "Go Ask Alice" but not the others.
Scott Jacoby (age 16) won an Emmy for "That Certain Summer" (1972) -- his dad came out as gay. Wouldn't be a big deal today but you can imagine it was a HUGE deal 45 years ago. I had a major crush on Jacoby!
Also loved the mini-series "Holocaust" (1978) ... lots of amazing actors in it in their "early years" including Meryl Streep, James Woods, Tovah Feldshuh, Joshp Bottoms, Fritz Weaver, etc., etc.
And "Brian's Song" -- just amazing. Still holds up almost 50 years later.
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There were a lot of very good made for TV movies in the 70's.
I remember "Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring" and "Go Ask Alice" but not the others.
Scott Jacoby (age 16) won an Emmy for "That Certain Summer" (1972) -- his dad came out as gay. Wouldn't be a big deal today but you can imagine it was a HUGE deal 45 years ago. I had a major crush on Jacoby!
Also loved the mini-series "Holocaust" (1978) ... lots of amazing actors in it in their "early years" including Meryl Streep, James Woods, Tovah Feldshuh, Joshp Bottoms, Fritz Weaver, etc., etc.
And "Brian's Song" -- just amazing. Still holds up almost 50 years later.
Great site -- thanks for posting the link!
But all of those were, I think, REGULAR movies (i.e. released for the big screen), not TV movies, which I think was what the OP was asking about.
Ooopppps sorry, got carried away. The only one I remember is Brian's Song.
I remember bawling my eyes out over Sunshine and Brian's Song. Others that were memorable:
That Certain Summer
Duel
The Missles of October
Go Ask Alice
Sybil
The Homecoming (the movie on which The Waltons was based)
Mrs. Sundance - Elizabeth Montgomery as Etta Place
Sarah T - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
The Night Stalker (the TV series followed the movie)
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Friendly Fire
And who could forget Rescue from Gilligan's Island? LOL
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I remember bawling my eyes out over Sunshine and Brian's Song. Others that were memorable:
That Certain Summer
Duel
The Missles of October
Go Ask Alice
Sybil
The Homecoming (the movie on which The Waltons was based)
Mrs. Sundance - Elizabeth Montgomery as Etta Place
Sarah T - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
The Night Stalker (the TV series followed the movie)
The Legend of Lizzie Borden
Friendly Fire
And who could forget Rescue from Gilligan's Island? LOL
If you've never watched it, Tribes is a good one. It stars Jan-Michael Vincent and Warren Oates.
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A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie (Jan Michael Vincent) who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.
I watched a lot of made for tv movies then, it was kind of a thing for a while in the mid-late 70s.
I remember a weekly made for TV movie which aired on a weeknight. In one of these, a guy falls asleep in the restroom of a dept store, or maybe he was drunk. Anyway he wakes up late at night, the store is closed, and protected by vicious guard dogs and he has to survive the night fending them off.
Another one starred a young Martin Sheen who was a badass driving a hot rod.
The most memorable one was was Duel, with Dennis Weaver, he played an ordinary guy driving a Dodge Dart or some other plain sedan, terrorized by a truck on a long lonely 2 lane road across the desert. I watched that one many times.
It Happened At Lakewood Manor was another good one, people at a resort attacked by killer ants.
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