It is sad.... I use to sit on the couch with my Mom and watch Movie of the Week. It almost makes me cry. I am 52 and I never thought that I would hear that song again. And yes, I did think I was the only one. What movies do you remember ? When Michael Calls, The Shuttered Room, Daughter of the Mind ?
Wow! These still look incredibly classy today. Beautiful colors and motion, only the Peignot typeface makes this look the slightest bit dated. Had no idea that Trumbull did these, but it makes perfect sense. I always associated this music with, "The Night Stalker," or the MOW entitled, "Family Flight," with Rod Taylor and Dina Merrill, but I think ABC had changed the title graphics by then. Great post, THANKS very much. Incredible memory rush.
What is so great is being exposed to these clips and theme music from our past. It is so amazing how music can bring you back to those feeling of another time period - just for a few moments when you hear it you can feel those feelings again from that time. With the invention of the internet, it is amazing to find others feeling the things you thought you were the only one feeling or thinking. Who would think someone else had connections to things like the "Movie of the Week" theme.
I'm in for that beer windstorm. Maybe on a Saturday - after Hee Haw- since then it's Lawrence Welk- for my Mom and Dad to watch.....of course only one TV in the house.
I looked up the Bacharach tune as well; it's 'Nikki' (or I think that's what the title is on YouTube); sorry. Either way, I love the music, graphic, whatever
@chip64c Nikki was Burt's Daughter..she committed suicide related to her problems with Asperger's Syndrome..I found this out during a seminar on the disorder..so tragic.. I found this opening theme absolutely captivating..and to this day I still do
They used to some of the best movies on ABC on Tuesday and Wednesday nights far better than any movie they have in theaters these days. This brings back such good memories in my early teen years. Thank you.
This famous tv show opening disproves Trumbull's later efforts to improve motion picture photography. Using just the (albiet advanced) technology of the time, in 1969 he created a most memorable piece of graphic design, which sticks in the memory all these decades later. It's not always about the latest whiz-bang of technology, but the art and craft which the technology is capturing. I dare say Trumbull has wasted most of his career on speeding up the camera, not working on good scripts.
Check out the life of Barry Diller who created the MOTW on CNBC TITANS tonight 8/12 at 10p - amazing life - he was high school friends with Marlo Thomas - and that help him get a job in the mailroom of the william morris agency.
Thank you for posting this! I loved the theme music! I love how the music makes you feel like something really incrible and yet poignant was about to be shown. I loved watching this as a kid with my sisters and grandmother. Such happy, simplier times, and so many great films that I have never forgotten: "The People", "Short Walk to Daylight", "The Screaming Woman", "Five Desperate Women", "Death at Love House". It's a crime that ABC has not released all of them on DVD!
@kirkrules66 Absolutely! One of his best roles ever. "It's miles long, with a maw that could swallow a dozen starships!" "They say there's no devil, Jim. But there is."
@kirkrules66 and I wouldn't call him a renegade, exactly, but rather a vengeful captain, clearly based on Ahab from Moby Dick, another captain who also lost his crew and suicidally went after another man-eating giant beast.
There is a difference though. Ahab didn't answer to anybody cuz it was his ship. It was his personal property. it wasn't given to him by any organization. however Decker was a starfleet officer so there were people he had to answer to that outranked him.
And it's unlikely that Starfleet would've approved of him suicidally going after that planet-eating beast which was why he commandeered that shuttlecraft. He did nothing but violate orders in that instance so that did make him somewhat of a renegade.
Memories of sitting in front of our Admiral T.V. as a a kid with my family. A simpler time with T,V. movies like 'Brian's Song" and 'The Night Stalker" and artists like David Janssen and Angie Dickinson. Grateful to have been there. Thank you for posting.
These were the best of times when it comes to movies on TV. Programming back then was more structured and meaningful. This was trully a memorable era and will never repeat itself. Being a 50 year old, I was lucky to have experienced this kind of television as a kid. The announcer sounds like Chris Shenkel from ABC Wide World of Sports......
Thanks for sharing. Never thought I would ever see this opening for the ABC Movie Of The Week again. Last I saw this was back when I was 6 around 72 or 73 over Ch6 WPVI Phila. Pa..
Today, this animation could be done in a few minutes on a computer, and a lot more easily than it could be done in 1969.
"Movie Of The Week" has become a generic term for movies specifcally made for television.
If ABC decides to start doing a weekly series of brand-new made for TV movies, they should remake this opening on a computer and use an updated arrangement of this music.
BTW, even for 1969, the stars of this TV-movie were names recognizable to most viewers.
batterymaker is right. I can't remember the guy's name (Was it Dykstra?) I know he eventually worked for Lucas, but he was the genius behind the final 'warpspace' scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey. That was in 1968. This intro was 1972.
what great memories these theme songs bring back,even the nerrators voice,use to stay up with my mom and brother and watch,truly great stuff..too bad kids these days don't see anything like these great movies on tv...with all the reality crap.fake tv stuff...the 1960's/70's rule and don't try and tell me different !
No silly that was William Windom...but boy I am w/ the roll call above YES, I am from this era...everything felt so different then, and I miss it ...awwwww...yes, they were indeed the good ol' days when things had a serene kind of feel to the atmosphere...now everything is eeeeekyickkkk!!!!
I've been reading a lot of these comments--wow, you've all touched my heart! There's a collective memory going on here for many 60's kids: listening to the MOTW theme behind a closed door while drifting off to sleep. I think that if any of us got together for a beer or two, we'd have a lot to talk about (and maybe some tears to shed) because we all experienced that time together---scattered but somehow together---and listening to this lovely haunting theme song from movie of the week.
@windstorm1000 ...oh my god you said it!.....i can remember going to bed before it came on and seeing the glow of the television from my room.....sometimes i was lucky enuff to stay up.
@wamcalif5 Windstorm..I thought it was just me being crazy..but you summed up EXACTLY how I feel...everytime I listen to this..I get a lump in my throat thinking about what was in the world...can we please go back..all the family..the promise of a new day..
love, love, love the theme--I think Burt Bacharach created it in honor of his daughter who had some learning disabilities. It fits--very touching--memorable. Reminds me of sitting on the floor watching great stars then like Cloris Leachman, yes, William Windom, --you know, that whole tv movie actor crowd us early 70's kids were so comfortable with. Ah, me--so glad I grew up in an age without cell phones, computers--simpler time then. Better, I think. What say all of you 70's kids?
What a nostalgic rush...just a mere 40 or so years ago, television movies were considered major events, and promoted as such. Even the opening music gave you a pang of excitement- that a big deal was about to happen. This 49-year-old appreciates it!!
Now we know what happened to Commodore Decker (William Windom) when he flew the Enterprise shuttle into the Doomsday Machine. "My God! It's full of Movie of the Week!" LOL!
@pbanta62 Don't flirt with a Trekker!!! William Windom did one of those internet Star Treks (yes, he played Commodore Decker) with that beautiful woman from Mirror, Mirror. (No, I could look her name up but I didn't.)
Wm Windom--The Farmer's Daughter, My World and Welcome to It, Murder She Wrote....yes, a very proud career.
I loved Tuesday Movie Of The Week on ABC. I tried to watch them every week. I recall "Tribes", "Duel", "Little Games" and some weird thing with Bing Crosby as a murderer. It's incredibly nostalgic to see something that you often saw 40 years ago but hadn't seen since. Wow!
whats is amazing, is ..at that time nobody knew there musical out-look was actually shaped by Jazz... but the most important thing ..i think the guy that did this is still living...
I was born in 1969, and this definitely harkens back to a simpler time when there wasn't any instant gratification in entertainment. As was mentioned before there where only three networks to choose from, and the TV Guide was essential to planning what you wanted to watch. It was exciting to wait all week for a particular movie to come on and watch it with you family. Thanks to DVDs, my kids can watch a movie more times in a month than I got to view in my whole childhood. Sad.
Well said Tweeter53. TV series like Movie of the Week were big events for families, especially since many homes only had the 3 big networks to choose from. This vid brings back memories of being a kid & teen in the 60s and 70s when things were much less complicated. One of the many things that separates Boomers from X'ers and later generations is growing-up in the pre-cable TV era.
as a Gen Xer (i just turned 40 so i think i'm a Xer lol) yeah i understand what your saying.although in my pre teen yrs 1970 to 82 (especially from 70 to 79) i remeber mostly just the 3 networks (and maybe one or two local channels) the thing i can say for most Gen Xers is that most of us have a fondness for many of the shows of the Boomer Gen because they were played as re runs so much when we were kids.not only that but the whole style (vibe) of that earlier era still lingered.
the music is burt bacharach's "Nikki" arranged by harry betts..it captivated me as a little kid in the early 70s. it gives me a warm comforting feeling of sitting around watching tv with the whole family..the 70s were the best..man..
@kperk014 The entire movie Where Have All the People Gone? is here on YouTube. It was one of my favorites on Movie of the Week. Other favorites were Duel, Short Walk to Daylight, and Trilogy of Terror.
also movie of week was "triolgy of terror" with that little zombie voodoo liker doll that came alive,starred karen black,great movie and karen was hot !
There were actually some good movies that came out of this. One movie I always remembered was one with James Brolin. Brolin is picking up his wife one day in a mall, is mugged and left in the mall when it is closed and some vicious guard dogs are released. Good times.
I too was about 10 years old... Nikki (B.B.) was on the 8-track and the Weds movie of the week was on the TV. We would fix TV dinners and all huddle around the "show." There was only the telephone back then which you could take off "the hook" and not be interrupted. I remember watching: The Girl Most Likely To, The Letters and on and on. Simple simply times... and great TV memories. It was an easier time... almost better in many ways.....
Hey Soapman, someone told me I could find "Seven in Darkness" on iOffer website, so I went and found a copy that I bought. Looking forward to watching it again! So, try iOffer, good luck!
anyone remember a tv movie in the 70's called "REVENGE OF THE COMUTERS" about a school taken over by computers that attacks the students? i can't find this movie anywhere.....
Does anyone remember "Seven In Darkness" with Milton Berle, about seven blind people,who's plane crashed on a mountain & they had to get down the mountain? I've been trying to get a copy of this movie, one of my best memories from this time!
@grooverunner Yeah i remember watching that tv movie on our first Admiral color tv floor model wayback in 1969. I was 12 at the time, aside from Milton Berle you had Dina Merrill, Barry Nelson, Leslie Anne Warren and a cast of others, who had played cinderella on tv a few yrs. before. It's a dam shame that they don't make movies like that anymore, i was just wondering if it's on DVD?
I can still see my absolutely lovely mother lounging on the couch with her big glass of Pepsi watching the Movie of the Week. The music has such a poignant vibe to it. I have to come on YouTube regularly to see this nostalgic clip. Love it!
@itjustfigures Wonderful comment--thanks for sharing. I too have fond memories of this show and the poignant title song--as do 1000's of others it appears from our generation
I still have a few old TV guides from the 70s--even have one from the late 60s--and guys, the older I get the more emotional a read it becomes, even the ads! And I remember how impatient I was for the bigger fall preview guides, with their (sometimes wryly funny) promo copy and pages of glossy snaps of smiling cast members of new shows. Summer replacement tv was fun (initially at least) but I LOVED the new fall shows and the new seasons of my favorites.
burt bacarach was the composer of this theme,believe he wrote it for his daughter natalie it is on his i believe 4 disc set,it is awesome check it out.augdogg
@auggdogrules You're right, except the name of the tune (which you can also purchase as a single MP3) is "Nikki"--written for his and Angie Dickinson's late daughter of the same name.
wow,never thought i'd hear this again,i remember these movies and theme song as a kid lying on the couch with my mom and brothers,how i yearn for those good ole days again.thanks for download,memories,memories.....
OMG I love the movies of the week. Brings back so many good memories. I got a bunch of the out of print classics I've been looking for, forever from a great website that carries a huge library of them. if your interested shoot me an email and i'll get you the information.
This brings back great memories ! My favorite films were the erie films such as "Crowhaven Farm" (Witches in modern day Salem), "Night Slaves" (Aliens who force small town to work as they sleep), "The Love War"(A very good "Outer Limits" and "The Invaders" rip off), and "Kolchak"(Darren McGavin). Others were "Brian's Song", "Duel", "Doctor Cook's Garden" (Bing Crosby as a small town doctor, who kills people) and "In Search Of America" (Son takes parents on a bus to explore the country).
As i've read a lot of your comments, i'm glad to know i'm not the only one that feels this way about this clip. It instantly brings me back to those beautiful and less hectic days when i was a kid. As several people have said, I wouldn't trade those days for ANYTHING today.
I had forgotten this. The graphics are great and the music is even better. Burt Bacarach really wrote a nice piece of music for the show. It grabs your attention and the arrangement is excellent. Most of the theme music (when there is any) on TV now sounds like it was written by a Kindergarten class with no help at all from their teacher.
I remember some of those movies back then. I'm thinking very early 70s. Those movies had some seriously messed -up plots. Look them up. "Trapped" starring James Brolin. Or "Where have All the People Gone?" starring Arthur Hill. Or "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" starring Kim Darby. Or "The Missing Are Deadly" starring Leonard Nimoy. Talk about freaky. What were some of those writers smoking back then that they came up with these ideas for TV movies?????
@smoothpants Was that the one with the little african native running around the house terrorizing the lady? I remember the next day at school all of us were talking about it.
@LosAngeleno1959 It was called "Trilogy of Terror". I was 9 years old then and it scared the crap out of me! I always thought Karen Black was rather creepy looking too. I remember my Mom's reaction to it back then. We still talk about it once and a while -lol
Movies on tv in this era and 70's and 80's were great as well as the new animations that would also get better to enhance the opening. The sad truth those days are long gone as are the fairly innocent story lines, as I watched what the movie was going to be and today if that played on ABC, as then it might have less than 1% of the audience and if only up against only 1 other show today people would rather see a fat nasty pierced tattooed slob of a woman try to repo some losers 1978 pinto.
I remember aunts, uncles and cousins who are gone now. But I'm not sad, when I hear this theme. I remember the fun and the laughter. And GI Joe, can kick Ken's skinny butt. LOL!!
Seems like only yesterday watching this. I'm sitting on the living room floor and my moms is telling me to get ready for bed. I had school the next day...good old days.
Like others have said, this clip also brings strong memories for me from childhood. I do kind of miss those days of the big three -- television was so exciting, and the movie of the week was a big deal (no VCRs, no video stores, no cable). If you wanted to see the movie, you simply HAD to be at the TV on that particular date at that particular time. So it was a big deal, a big event.
I think the 70's were the last decade of any real style... maybe the teens will offer some imagination and style like the 1970's did. I know nostalgia makes us think fondly of even the mundane but seriously, I too wouldn't trade my experience growing up then with any kids today.
the abc mtw , night stalker, garnered a 33.2 rating with a 54 share of the tv audience. the first reaction of the abc bigwigs , was the that the show should have been released in movie theaters. they would have at least made a profit , on something expensive to produce. i think that's the major mindset of the entertainment industry.
Wow, I am in a time machine! I remember hearing that theme when I could stay up late in the summer time. It took years to find out it is called "Nikki" by Burt Bacharach. The last time I recall hearing this particular introduction was about 1975.
wow thank you so much for posting this it made me cry such a simplier time i was 6 years old and it took me back to that time with my family ,its funny this theme stuck in my mind for a long time i never thought i would see it again.thank you
Love how at the 49 second mark the cowboy takes it on the chin... then reacts by jerking his head back sometime after this movie was in reruns... good timing!
Seems to be a lot of us 45-50 year olds who remember this theme when we were grade schoolers.
I also remember this as sort of an event type thing. In fact the only theme that had a greater resonence for 'special' during that time for me was the old National Geographic Special theme.
those 90-min made-4-TV films were among the best & creepiest ever produced, such as DAUGHTER OF THE MIND, THE NIGHT STALKER, TRILOGY OF TERROR (which was horribly remaded), THE PEOPLE, spielberg's classic DUEL, WHEN MICHAEL CALLS & many more. CBS had gr8 midweek 1st-run films also. these movies, in part, motivated me 2 leave chicago & eventually move 2 Hollywood, where i soon began working at paramount pictures. so nice meeting many of the actors who forged gr8 childhood memories 4 me.
The Movie Of The Week was great at bringing back celebrities from The Golden Age of Hollywood.
among the stars were Phil Silvers, Andy Devine, Susan Hayward, Vivian Vance, Joan Blondell, Milton Berle, Van Heflin, Walter Brenan, Edgar Buchanan, Myrna Loy, Helen Hayes, Gloria Swanson, Jose Ferrer, June Lockhart, Dean Jagger and others.
the night stalker,alias smith and jones,marcus welby m.d. ,longstreet, six million dollar man,starsky and hutch,and love american style, are just some of the series that came out of movie of the week.
You're not the only one who's noticed that. As a kid I always tried to see what it said. If it would air again perhaps today's big screens would show it. The res on this clip is not good enough.
Why did they have voiceovers in the 60s and 70s? I mean, I've been watching ancient tapes of Streets of San Francisco, and the voiceover says "This is a Quinn Martin production. Tonight's guest stars are..." I mean, did they think audiences were think or something, back then?
No, I think a lot of it was a carryover from Radio when you had to give the credits. Also, the voiceovers separated and made Quinn Martin shows stand out from other dramas and police shows of that period. Back then, you could tell a QM show from an Aaron Spelling-Leonard Goldberg. Each company had their own style.
Oh, I see, it was a carryover from radio. But I guess the voiceoevers DID give the shows some character, unlike today's bland shows (NCIS being the exception.)
@suir52 Yes, I agree. (Funny you should mention Clu Gulager. A few hours ago, I was watching John Wayne's 1974 film "McQ", which starred Clu Gulager.)
The Quinn Martin shows had the announcer at the beginning name the stars and the name of the episode. Another thing about QM shows is that each segment would begin Act I, Act II and the last part was Epilogue. Most of the QM shows were cop/detective shows like Cannon and Barnaby Jones; I always thought The Streets of San Francisco was the best of the QM series.
Why do they hardly ever do movies for tv anymore? I know things cost too dang much these days, but I would really look forward to seeing all these films. It was always like a special event. Some good flicks were aired--I wish they'd put some of them on dvd.
have to have stupid reality shows and other shows with PR agendas...also many more outlets now for movie reruns..The made for tv movie is all but extinct...
That missed punch on Avery Schriber is so funny..... Great score..
The networks pretty much bailed on TV movies back in the 90's, and it came out that one of the networks (may have been NBC) had decreed that all their future MFTVM's would be ripped from the headlines, i.e. "Based on the shocking true story" instead of coming up with new ideas. I think the event that signalled the end of the MFTVM was when all three networks did movies about the Amy Fisher fiasco.
Also, it's much cheaper just to put on reality and competition shows.
this clip literally brings back my childhood. about ten years old , my parents were still alive and most of the older members of the family. simpler times, free from adult responsiblities. i wouldn't trade my childhood with todays youth for all the money in the world. today everything seems so pc and sterile.how three networks seemed to keep us entertained seven days a week seems amazing in todays world.
You and me both. I think we grew up in a time where it was still fun to be a kid. I also remember this clip as well, it came out in 1969 and lasted until the early 1970's so I was 3 to about 6 then. I remember the Big three network and a smattering of indy stations on UHF.
It is sad.... I use to sit on the couch with my Mom and watch Movie of the Week. It almost makes me cry. I am 52 and I never thought that I would hear that song again. And yes, I did think I was the only one. What movies do you remember ? When Michael Calls, The Shuttered Room, Daughter of the Mind ?
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Wow! These still look incredibly classy today. Beautiful colors and motion, only the Peignot typeface makes this look the slightest bit dated. Had no idea that Trumbull did these, but it makes perfect sense. I always associated this music with, "The Night Stalker," or the MOW entitled, "Family Flight," with Rod Taylor and Dina Merrill, but I think ABC had changed the title graphics by then. Great post, THANKS very much. Incredible memory rush.
hibob418 1 month ago
Dick Tufeld 1927-2012. RIP.
polarisathena 1 month ago
Dick Tufeld did all the intro voiceovers to these. RIP Mr. Tufeld
SpaceIntruderDetecto 1 month ago
@SpaceIntruderDetecto I just found out he died. may he rest in peace.
selloutasaurus 1 month ago
What is so great is being exposed to these clips and theme music from our past. It is so amazing how music can bring you back to those feeling of another time period - just for a few moments when you hear it you can feel those feelings again from that time. With the invention of the internet, it is amazing to find others feeling the things you thought you were the only one feeling or thinking. Who would think someone else had connections to things like the "Movie of the Week" theme.
patrickpnyc 1 month ago 2
You Tube is about as close as we'll get to a time machine...and it is good.
DISCONNECTproject 2 months ago 3
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I've often said the same thing, and it's a great source of information.
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I'm in for that beer windstorm. Maybe on a Saturday - after Hee Haw- since then it's Lawrence Welk- for my Mom and Dad to watch.....of course only one TV in the house.
DISCONNECTproject 2 months ago
@DISCONNECTproject :)
windstorm1000 2 months ago
Can anyone help me find the movie "Ordeal" which was an ABC movie I remember vividly as a kid....is it possible to find this movie?
MrWestdene1972 3 months ago
DISREGARD MY LAST POST...
I looked up the Bacharach tune as well; it's 'Nikki' (or I think that's what the title is on YouTube); sorry. Either way, I love the music, graphic, whatever
chip64c 3 months ago
@chip64c Nikki was Burt's Daughter..she committed suicide related to her problems with Asperger's Syndrome..I found this out during a seminar on the disorder..so tragic.. I found this opening theme absolutely captivating..and to this day I still do
rooseguitar64 3 months ago
Someone ought to call it 'The ABC Movie Waltz', and write another for present time (I was born in 1982, but love the music, graphic, whatever)
chip64c 3 months ago
They used to some of the best movies on ABC on Tuesday and Wednesday nights far better than any movie they have in theaters these days. This brings back such good memories in my early teen years. Thank you.
syxx444 4 months ago
This famous tv show opening disproves Trumbull's later efforts to improve motion picture photography. Using just the (albiet advanced) technology of the time, in 1969 he created a most memorable piece of graphic design, which sticks in the memory all these decades later. It's not always about the latest whiz-bang of technology, but the art and craft which the technology is capturing. I dare say Trumbull has wasted most of his career on speeding up the camera, not working on good scripts.
pauldavidclub 4 months ago
Check out the life of Barry Diller who created the MOTW on CNBC TITANS tonight 8/12 at 10p - amazing life - he was high school friends with Marlo Thomas - and that help him get a job in the mailroom of the william morris agency.
204union 6 months ago
Thank you for posting this! I loved the theme music! I love how the music makes you feel like something really incrible and yet poignant was about to be shown. I loved watching this as a kid with my sisters and grandmother. Such happy, simplier times, and so many great films that I have never forgotten: "The People", "Short Walk to Daylight", "The Screaming Woman", "Five Desperate Women", "Death at Love House". It's a crime that ABC has not released all of them on DVD!
tedj85 6 months ago 2
Next thing you'll be reaching for a giant black monolith, and...
Mikefreed9241 7 months ago
William Windom as an ex-con? Never!
humbleradio 7 months ago
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how about as a renegade Starfleet Officer?
kirkrules66 7 months ago
@kirkrules66 Absolutely! One of his best roles ever. "It's miles long, with a maw that could swallow a dozen starships!" "They say there's no devil, Jim. But there is."
humbleradio 7 months ago
@kirkrules66 and I wouldn't call him a renegade, exactly, but rather a vengeful captain, clearly based on Ahab from Moby Dick, another captain who also lost his crew and suicidally went after another man-eating giant beast.
humbleradio 7 months ago
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There is a difference though. Ahab didn't answer to anybody cuz it was his ship. It was his personal property. it wasn't given to him by any organization. however Decker was a starfleet officer so there were people he had to answer to that outranked him.
kirkrules66 7 months ago
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And it's unlikely that Starfleet would've approved of him suicidally going after that planet-eating beast which was why he commandeered that shuttlecraft. He did nothing but violate orders in that instance so that did make him somewhat of a renegade.
kirkrules66 7 months ago
Memories of sitting in front of our Admiral T.V. as a a kid with my family. A simpler time with T,V. movies like 'Brian's Song" and 'The Night Stalker" and artists like David Janssen and Angie Dickinson. Grateful to have been there. Thank you for posting.
rickw1100 7 months ago 4
Sends chills over me. Great remembrances as a kid. They don't don't make television like this anymore. Bur Bacharach theme is awesome!
dashdub1 8 months ago 2
These were the best of times when it comes to movies on TV. Programming back then was more structured and meaningful. This was trully a memorable era and will never repeat itself. Being a 50 year old, I was lucky to have experienced this kind of television as a kid. The announcer sounds like Chris Shenkel from ABC Wide World of Sports......
5litreho 8 months ago 3
Thanks for sharing. Never thought I would ever see this opening for the ABC Movie Of The Week again. Last I saw this was back when I was 6 around 72 or 73 over Ch6 WPVI Phila. Pa..
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electronmusicjunkie 8 months ago 2
0:48 that fist was about 12 inches from the face that (after 1 sec pause) reacted to it !
chets808 8 months ago
Today, this animation could be done in a few minutes on a computer, and a lot more easily than it could be done in 1969.
"Movie Of The Week" has become a generic term for movies specifcally made for television.
If ABC decides to start doing a weekly series of brand-new made for TV movies, they should remake this opening on a computer and use an updated arrangement of this music.
BTW, even for 1969, the stars of this TV-movie were names recognizable to most viewers.
altfactor 8 months ago
batterymaker is right. I can't remember the guy's name (Was it Dykstra?) I know he eventually worked for Lucas, but he was the genius behind the final 'warpspace' scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey. That was in 1968. This intro was 1972.
Interfect727 8 months ago
How many nights did I stare at this with wonder and dread. For this meant I had to go to bed.
Interfect727 8 months ago
I always liked that theme music. Great to hear it again!
bobfritz1466 9 months ago
@bobfritz1466 So did I ! Brings back so many memories. And they featured some good movies.
amuslima99 9 months ago
FO SHIZZLE!
mpjgbx 9 months ago
How I would look forward to watching the MOTW.
jrdroptini 9 months ago
YouTube is such a fantastic time machine.
picchaz 9 months ago 2
what great memories these theme songs bring back,even the nerrators voice,use to stay up with my mom and brother and watch,truly great stuff..too bad kids these days don't see anything like these great movies on tv...with all the reality crap.fake tv stuff...the 1960's/70's rule and don't try and tell me different !
auggdogrules 9 months ago
No silly that was William Windom...but boy I am w/ the roll call above YES, I am from this era...everything felt so different then, and I miss it ...awwwww...yes, they were indeed the good ol' days when things had a serene kind of feel to the atmosphere...now everything is eeeeekyickkkk!!!!
GenX4ever80s 9 months ago
guess this movie is a comedy.. heh yeah... Avery Schrieber needed to practice taking a punch.. heh yeah...
irish89055 9 months ago
Asside From Mr.Keith,Ms.Prowess,and Mr.Schriber..this tv movie drama also featured Mr.William Windom and The late Mr.Ken Mars.
TheStanbabe 10 months ago
Happy Birthday Doug Trumbull!! (April 8th) Cheers!
selloutasaurus 11 months ago
did anyone notice, this font is the exact same font as mary tyler moore?! :D
xxBRoWNeeXX 1 year ago
I've been reading a lot of these comments--wow, you've all touched my heart! There's a collective memory going on here for many 60's kids: listening to the MOTW theme behind a closed door while drifting off to sleep. I think that if any of us got together for a beer or two, we'd have a lot to talk about (and maybe some tears to shed) because we all experienced that time together---scattered but somehow together---and listening to this lovely haunting theme song from movie of the week.
windstorm1000 1 year ago 18
@windstorm1000 ...oh my god you said it!.....i can remember going to bed before it came on and seeing the glow of the television from my room.....sometimes i was lucky enuff to stay up.
67mrblack 10 months ago
@windstorm1000 Well said! I love this theme and the memories attached to it. It's almost painful to listen to it and realize that time is long gone.
wamcalif5 5 months ago 5
@wamcalif5 Windstorm..I thought it was just me being crazy..but you summed up EXACTLY how I feel...everytime I listen to this..I get a lump in my throat thinking about what was in the world...can we please go back..all the family..the promise of a new day..
rooseguitar64 3 months ago
@windstorm1000 Beautifully said.
rickw1100 2 months ago
love, love, love the theme--I think Burt Bacharach created it in honor of his daughter who had some learning disabilities. It fits--very touching--memorable. Reminds me of sitting on the floor watching great stars then like Cloris Leachman, yes, William Windom, --you know, that whole tv movie actor crowd us early 70's kids were so comfortable with. Ah, me--so glad I grew up in an age without cell phones, computers--simpler time then. Better, I think. What say all of you 70's kids?
windstorm1000 1 year ago
Twister53 you had brought back it all in your comment. Bravo, Bravo.
iwasthor 1 year ago
Lame. So glad I grew up in the 80s and not the 60s or 70s. Thank You God.
mccarrpo 1 year ago
@mccarrpo Thank Chango.
cheapholiday 1 year ago
@cheapholiday Chango finally turned 40 recently.
mccarrpo 1 year ago
@mccarrpo See the whole movie before you critisize!!
windstorm1000 1 year ago
What a nostalgic rush...just a mere 40 or so years ago, television movies were considered major events, and promoted as such. Even the opening music gave you a pang of excitement- that a big deal was about to happen. This 49-year-old appreciates it!!
mca1218 1 year ago 2
Six Million Dollar Man premired in one of these!
jimwg1 1 year ago
Now we know what happened to Commodore Decker (William Windom) when he flew the Enterprise shuttle into the Doomsday Machine. "My God! It's full of Movie of the Week!" LOL!
pbanta62 1 year ago
@pbanta62 Don't flirt with a Trekker!!! William Windom did one of those internet Star Treks (yes, he played Commodore Decker) with that beautiful woman from Mirror, Mirror. (No, I could look her name up but I didn't.)
Wm Windom--The Farmer's Daughter, My World and Welcome to It, Murder She Wrote....yes, a very proud career.
mikefastener 1 year ago
They didn't "rip of Kubrick." Douglas Trumbull, who invented slitscan, did this opening -- and also did the Stargate sequence for 2001.
robertjsawyer 1 year ago
I loved Tuesday Movie Of The Week on ABC. I tried to watch them every week. I recall "Tribes", "Duel", "Little Games" and some weird thing with Bing Crosby as a murderer. It's incredibly nostalgic to see something that you often saw 40 years ago but hadn't seen since. Wow!
billbadford 1 year ago
@billbadford ..... This WAS 1 of the BEST times EVER!!!!
MrJamie1932 11 months ago
whats is amazing, is ..at that time nobody knew there musical out-look was actually shaped by Jazz... but the most important thing ..i think the guy that did this is still living...
discoAL 1 year ago
I was born in 1969, and this definitely harkens back to a simpler time when there wasn't any instant gratification in entertainment. As was mentioned before there where only three networks to choose from, and the TV Guide was essential to planning what you wanted to watch. It was exciting to wait all week for a particular movie to come on and watch it with you family. Thanks to DVDs, my kids can watch a movie more times in a month than I got to view in my whole childhood. Sad.
eatoncorona 1 year ago
Well said Tweeter53. TV series like Movie of the Week were big events for families, especially since many homes only had the 3 big networks to choose from. This vid brings back memories of being a kid & teen in the 60s and 70s when things were much less complicated. One of the many things that separates Boomers from X'ers and later generations is growing-up in the pre-cable TV era.
ninagingofarmcat 1 year ago
as a Gen Xer (i just turned 40 so i think i'm a Xer lol) yeah i understand what your saying.although in my pre teen yrs 1970 to 82 (especially from 70 to 79) i remeber mostly just the 3 networks (and maybe one or two local channels) the thing i can say for most Gen Xers is that most of us have a fondness for many of the shows of the Boomer Gen because they were played as re runs so much when we were kids.not only that but the whole style (vibe) of that earlier era still lingered.
vardiss22 1 year ago
i remember this.
elwin38 1 year ago
Crow haven Farm...Satan's School for girls. Man these movies sure creeped me out when I was 10 and 11. And I loved every one of them
booboozenkitty 1 year ago
the music is burt bacharach's "Nikki" arranged by harry betts..it captivated me as a little kid in the early 70s. it gives me a warm comforting feeling of sitting around watching tv with the whole family..the 70s were the best..man..
discoAL 1 year ago 2
@discoAL "Nikki's Theme", to be precise. =o)
Ebenoozen 1 year ago
William Windom as an ex-con?? NEVER!
theschizoidman 1 year ago 2
has burt bacarach written all over it..one of the best ever,love the graphics also. thanks for posting.
cidedwards31a 1 year ago
Does anyone remember a movie starring Peter Graves called "Where Have All The People Gone?" It was pretty spooky for a youngster.
kperk014 1 year ago
@kperk014 The entire movie Where Have All the People Gone? is here on YouTube. It was one of my favorites on Movie of the Week. Other favorites were Duel, Short Walk to Daylight, and Trilogy of Terror.
JGlaister 1 year ago
@JGlaister By golly you're right. Thanks for the heads-up!
kperk014 1 year ago
also movie of week was "triolgy of terror" with that little zombie voodoo liker doll that came alive,starred karen black,great movie and karen was hot !
auggdogrules 1 year ago
@auggdogrules Yes, that and The Night Stalker, Bad Ronald, and The Boy In The Plastic Bubble
mediaagent 1 year ago
Is that a sampling of Joe Meek's "Telstar" song?
xxxMrSuspendedxxx 1 year ago
Wasn't James Caan's Brians Song an ABC MOTW?
SteveTheMovieGuy1 1 year ago
@SteveTheMovieGuy1 Yes it was!!
mediaagent 1 year ago
There were actually some good movies that came out of this. One movie I always remembered was one with James Brolin. Brolin is picking up his wife one day in a mall, is mugged and left in the mall when it is closed and some vicious guard dogs are released. Good times.
hanoc101 1 year ago
@hanoc101 YES! I remember that one too. Forgot all about it until you mentioned it.
63gstone 1 year ago
@63gstone I found it on Youtube. It's called Trapped and it's from 1973. Guess you can find just about anything here. :)
hanoc101 1 year ago
I too was about 10 years old... Nikki (B.B.) was on the 8-track and the Weds movie of the week was on the TV. We would fix TV dinners and all huddle around the "show." There was only the telephone back then which you could take off "the hook" and not be interrupted. I remember watching: The Girl Most Likely To, The Letters and on and on. Simple simply times... and great TV memories. It was an easier time... almost better in many ways.....
manhatnn 1 year ago
Hey Soapman, someone told me I could find "Seven in Darkness" on iOffer website, so I went and found a copy that I bought. Looking forward to watching it again! So, try iOffer, good luck!
grooverunner 1 year ago
anyone remember a tv movie in the 70's called "REVENGE OF THE COMUTERS" about a school taken over by computers that attacks the students? i can't find this movie anywhere.....
mfbinc 1 year ago
Does anyone remember "Seven In Darkness" with Milton Berle, about seven blind people,who's plane crashed on a mountain & they had to get down the mountain? I've been trying to get a copy of this movie, one of my best memories from this time!
grooverunner 1 year ago
@grooverunner Yeah i remember watching that tv movie on our first Admiral color tv floor model wayback in 1969. I was 12 at the time, aside from Milton Berle you had Dina Merrill, Barry Nelson, Leslie Anne Warren and a cast of others, who had played cinderella on tv a few yrs. before. It's a dam shame that they don't make movies like that anymore, i was just wondering if it's on DVD?
sopaman1234 1 year ago
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Juliaflo 1 year ago
But you ARE an ex-con.
Rhombus20147 1 year ago
I just love the intro music ...and the narrator's vouce is soooo sexy.....and I'm a guy!
navet1953 1 year ago
@navet1953 ...... Couldn't said it any better!!! LOL!!!
223trailblazer 5 months ago
geez brings me back to those great days,where did they go,thanks for download!
auggdogrules 1 year ago
Reminds me of that final part of 2001: A Space odyssey. They ripped off Kubrick!
danalan1970 1 year ago 12
@danalan1970 Did you read the description?
Childist2 1 year ago
@danalan1970 Who doesn't?
stokepogue 1 year ago
@danalan1970 funny you should mention it, but the same person did the graphics for this as 2001
MVR326 1 year ago
@danalan1970 No, the guy who came up with that FOR Kubrick did it for ABC... :-)
batterymaker 9 months ago
@danalan1970 yes they did.
TheClam88 6 months ago
I can still see my absolutely lovely mother lounging on the couch with her big glass of Pepsi watching the Movie of the Week. The music has such a poignant vibe to it. I have to come on YouTube regularly to see this nostalgic clip. Love it!
itjustfigures 1 year ago
@itjustfigures Wonderful comment--thanks for sharing. I too have fond memories of this show and the poignant title song--as do 1000's of others it appears from our generation
windstorm1000 10 months ago 2
you do realize that in 40 years people will burst into tears watching clips of jersey shore?
mst3kpimp 1 year ago
I still have a few old TV guides from the 70s--even have one from the late 60s--and guys, the older I get the more emotional a read it becomes, even the ads! And I remember how impatient I was for the bigger fall preview guides, with their (sometimes wryly funny) promo copy and pages of glossy snaps of smiling cast members of new shows. Summer replacement tv was fun (initially at least) but I LOVED the new fall shows and the new seasons of my favorites.
TheCatgirl6 1 year ago 2
I dont know why but I loved this opening theme to the movie of the week and hearing it here, I still do!
antitum 1 year ago
Time machine take me back!
bill483098 1 year ago
burt bacarach was the composer of this theme,believe he wrote it for his daughter natalie it is on his i believe 4 disc set,it is awesome check it out.augdogg
auggdogrules 1 year ago
@auggdogrules You're right, except the name of the tune (which you can also purchase as a single MP3) is "Nikki"--written for his and Angie Dickinson's late daughter of the same name.
TheCatgirl6 1 year ago
wow,never thought i'd hear this again,i remember these movies and theme song as a kid lying on the couch with my mom and brothers,how i yearn for those good ole days again.thanks for download,memories,memories.....
auggdogrules 1 year ago
Wow that brings back major memories of my childhood. If I remember the movies were pretty decent too.
dublinguy65 1 year ago
Aww man, I arrived here 10 years later. That was the best intro i ever seen for the first time on YT.
MoJoRod30 1 year ago
OMG I love the movies of the week. Brings back so many good memories. I got a bunch of the out of print classics I've been looking for, forever from a great website that carries a huge library of them. if your interested shoot me an email and i'll get you the information.
guerrette 1 year ago
This brings back great memories ! My favorite films were the erie films such as "Crowhaven Farm" (Witches in modern day Salem), "Night Slaves" (Aliens who force small town to work as they sleep), "The Love War"(A very good "Outer Limits" and "The Invaders" rip off), and "Kolchak"(Darren McGavin). Others were "Brian's Song", "Duel", "Doctor Cook's Garden" (Bing Crosby as a small town doctor, who kills people) and "In Search Of America" (Son takes parents on a bus to explore the country).
fairnorth 1 year ago
As i've read a lot of your comments, i'm glad to know i'm not the only one that feels this way about this clip. It instantly brings me back to those beautiful and less hectic days when i was a kid. As several people have said, I wouldn't trade those days for ANYTHING today.
BlueH2O66 1 year ago
I had forgotten this. The graphics are great and the music is even better. Burt Bacarach really wrote a nice piece of music for the show. It grabs your attention and the arrangement is excellent. Most of the theme music (when there is any) on TV now sounds like it was written by a Kindergarten class with no help at all from their teacher.
east215 1 year ago
@east215 Burt Bacarach also got to sleep with Angie Dickinson. He was the man!
Masturbov 1 year ago
The announcer is none other than Dick Tufeld... The voice of The Robot in 'Lost In Space'.
Aeolis7 1 year ago
Oh my God! It's full of ABC logos!
mhirtes12 1 year ago 2
I remember some of those movies back then. I'm thinking very early 70s. Those movies had some seriously messed -up plots. Look them up. "Trapped" starring James Brolin. Or "Where have All the People Gone?" starring Arthur Hill. Or "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" starring Kim Darby. Or "The Missing Are Deadly" starring Leonard Nimoy. Talk about freaky. What were some of those writers smoking back then that they came up with these ideas for TV movies?????
zonawriter 1 year ago
Every time I see this opening sequence, I can only think of one movie.
Trilogy Of Terror.
*shudder*
smoothpants 1 year ago
@smoothpants Was that the one with the little african native running around the house terrorizing the lady? I remember the next day at school all of us were talking about it.
LosAngeleno1959 1 year ago
@LosAngeleno1959 - Yup. That's the one. The first two stories were fairly uninteresting. But the last one with the doll??? Whoo boy!
smoothpants 1 year ago
@LosAngeleno1959 It was called "Trilogy of Terror". I was 9 years old then and it scared the crap out of me! I always thought Karen Black was rather creepy looking too. I remember my Mom's reaction to it back then. We still talk about it once and a while -lol
JP5466 1 year ago
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...lol
darrylhaynes 1 year ago
it was trilogy of terror...at the end she had a knife and sharp teeth.....she also had crazy lookin eyes...
darrylhaynes 1 year ago
Movies on tv in this era and 70's and 80's were great as well as the new animations that would also get better to enhance the opening. The sad truth those days are long gone as are the fairly innocent story lines, as I watched what the movie was going to be and today if that played on ABC, as then it might have less than 1% of the audience and if only up against only 1 other show today people would rather see a fat nasty pierced tattooed slob of a woman try to repo some losers 1978 pinto.
BIGGREENLEAF1 1 year ago
I remember aunts, uncles and cousins who are gone now. But I'm not sad, when I hear this theme. I remember the fun and the laughter. And GI Joe, can kick Ken's skinny butt. LOL!!
TheSpelldoctor 1 year ago
Seems like only yesterday watching this. I'm sitting on the living room floor and my moms is telling me to get ready for bed. I had school the next day...good old days.
EKNYLIVE 1 year ago 3
@EKNYLIVE I have similar memories--thanks for sharing...
windstorm1000 10 months ago
Like others have said, this clip also brings strong memories for me from childhood. I do kind of miss those days of the big three -- television was so exciting, and the movie of the week was a big deal (no VCRs, no video stores, no cable). If you wanted to see the movie, you simply HAD to be at the TV on that particular date at that particular time. So it was a big deal, a big event.
chrisman737 1 year ago 3
I think the 70's were the last decade of any real style... maybe the teens will offer some imagination and style like the 1970's did. I know nostalgia makes us think fondly of even the mundane but seriously, I too wouldn't trade my experience growing up then with any kids today.
RicktheCabbie 1 year ago 3
@RicktheCabbie you are so correct...something happened after the 70s (shows, movies and music)..at least we have youtube, dvds to watch and enjoy.
happymundo 1 year ago
the abc mtw , night stalker, garnered a 33.2 rating with a 54 share of the tv audience. the first reaction of the abc bigwigs , was the that the show should have been released in movie theaters. they would have at least made a profit , on something expensive to produce. i think that's the major mindset of the entertainment industry.
weitzfc 1 year ago
William Windom as an ex con? Yeah right!
LosAngeleno1959 1 year ago
@LosAngeleno1959 Lol! How few people can know how funny that is!
humbleradio 1 year ago
@humbleradio I just couldn't help but laugh and wonder who cast him for that role.
LosAngeleno1959 1 year ago
Wow, I am in a time machine! I remember hearing that theme when I could stay up late in the summer time. It took years to find out it is called "Nikki" by Burt Bacharach. The last time I recall hearing this particular introduction was about 1975.
Zzznorch 1 year ago
Too bad, I was born in 1977 during the disco era.
30wonderwoman 1 year ago
bootiebanty: looking forward to some evenings just because of the shows on. that says it all. thats something rare on tv today.
weitzfc 1 year ago
I was very surprised when I learned that Burt Bacharach had actually composed this music for this daughter.
BardCoennius 1 year ago
looks like a comedy...
irish89055 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
"But you are an ex-con! So lighten up! Geeesh!"
Rhombus20147 2 years ago
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Rhombus20147 2 years ago
wow thank you so much for posting this it made me cry such a simplier time i was 6 years old and it took me back to that time with my family ,its funny this theme stuck in my mind for a long time i never thought i would see it again.thank you
reesejenkins1 2 years ago 5
Your not alone it made me cry too.....its nice to remember what was...
rooseguitar64 2 years ago 3
Did anyone recognize the dude at :49 getting hit in the chin? Thats the original Dorito's commerical guy. Or was it Cheeto's?
skipp39 2 years ago
The tune, I found out, is Burt Bacharach's "Nikki's Theme"....
dreamottowa 2 years ago
That 1970's feeling. just beautiful.****
d4seasons 2 years ago 3
Love how at the 49 second mark the cowboy takes it on the chin... then reacts by jerking his head back sometime after this movie was in reruns... good timing!
Rhombus20147 2 years ago
Seems to be a lot of us 45-50 year olds who remember this theme when we were grade schoolers.
I also remember this as sort of an event type thing. In fact the only theme that had a greater resonence for 'special' during that time for me was the old National Geographic Special theme.
ryoushii 2 years ago 6
those 90-min made-4-TV films were among the best & creepiest ever produced, such as DAUGHTER OF THE MIND, THE NIGHT STALKER, TRILOGY OF TERROR (which was horribly remaded), THE PEOPLE, spielberg's classic DUEL, WHEN MICHAEL CALLS & many more. CBS had gr8 midweek 1st-run films also. these movies, in part, motivated me 2 leave chicago & eventually move 2 Hollywood, where i soon began working at paramount pictures. so nice meeting many of the actors who forged gr8 childhood memories 4 me.
sibphu 2 years ago 4
The Movie Of The Week was great at bringing back celebrities from The Golden Age of Hollywood.
among the stars were Phil Silvers, Andy Devine, Susan Hayward, Vivian Vance, Joan Blondell, Milton Berle, Van Heflin, Walter Brenan, Edgar Buchanan, Myrna Loy, Helen Hayes, Gloria Swanson, Jose Ferrer, June Lockhart, Dean Jagger and others.
frankd1965 2 years ago 4
@ryoushii no kidding it was kinda something to look forward to during the long school week
dadadruma 2 years ago 3
the night stalker,alias smith and jones,marcus welby m.d. ,longstreet, six million dollar man,starsky and hutch,and love american style, are just some of the series that came out of movie of the week.
weitzfc 2 years ago
What is that?!?!
I've noticed this since I was a kid watching this cool intro on our good ol' console TV as I lay on the floor with my chin on a pillow:
What is the isolated mark that flies by on the lower right 21 seconds in to the opening?!?! Just ahead of all the "movie of the week" logos?!?!
PS - I miss console TVs
Rhombus20147 2 years ago
You're not the only one who's noticed that. As a kid I always tried to see what it said. If it would air again perhaps today's big screens would show it. The res on this clip is not good enough.
latanze 2 years ago
Why did they have voiceovers in the 60s and 70s? I mean, I've been watching ancient tapes of Streets of San Francisco, and the voiceover says "This is a Quinn Martin production. Tonight's guest stars are..." I mean, did they think audiences were think or something, back then?
jamessmedley82 2 years ago
No, I think a lot of it was a carryover from Radio when you had to give the credits. Also, the voiceovers separated and made Quinn Martin shows stand out from other dramas and police shows of that period. Back then, you could tell a QM show from an Aaron Spelling-Leonard Goldberg. Each company had their own style.
digital2500 2 years ago
Oh, I see, it was a carryover from radio. But I guess the voiceoevers DID give the shows some character, unlike today's bland shows (NCIS being the exception.)
jamessmedley82 2 years ago
@jamessmedley82 And they also taught you how to pronounce actor's names properly, such as Clu Gulager, Rene Auberjonois, Ramon Bieri, etc.
suir52 10 months ago
@suir52 Yes, I agree. (Funny you should mention Clu Gulager. A few hours ago, I was watching John Wayne's 1974 film "McQ", which starred Clu Gulager.)
jamessmedley82 10 months ago
The Quinn Martin shows had the announcer at the beginning name the stars and the name of the episode. Another thing about QM shows is that each segment would begin Act I, Act II and the last part was Epilogue. Most of the QM shows were cop/detective shows like Cannon and Barnaby Jones; I always thought The Streets of San Francisco was the best of the QM series.
Mpoconnor7 5 months ago 2
Why do they hardly ever do movies for tv anymore? I know things cost too dang much these days, but I would really look forward to seeing all these films. It was always like a special event. Some good flicks were aired--I wish they'd put some of them on dvd.
Owlzindabarn 2 years ago
have to have stupid reality shows and other shows with PR agendas...also many more outlets now for movie reruns..The made for tv movie is all but extinct...
That missed punch on Avery Schriber is so funny..... Great score..
irish89055 2 years ago
The networks pretty much bailed on TV movies back in the 90's, and it came out that one of the networks (may have been NBC) had decreed that all their future MFTVM's would be ripped from the headlines, i.e. "Based on the shocking true story" instead of coming up with new ideas. I think the event that signalled the end of the MFTVM was when all three networks did movies about the Amy Fisher fiasco.
Also, it's much cheaper just to put on reality and competition shows.
Mpoconnor7 5 months ago
this clip literally brings back my childhood. about ten years old , my parents were still alive and most of the older members of the family. simpler times, free from adult responsiblities. i wouldn't trade my childhood with todays youth for all the money in the world. today everything seems so pc and sterile.how three networks seemed to keep us entertained seven days a week seems amazing in todays world.
weitzfc 2 years ago 49
Literally? Wow!
unsub1 2 years ago
You and me both. I think we grew up in a time where it was still fun to be a kid. I also remember this clip as well, it came out in 1969 and lasted until the early 1970's so I was 3 to about 6 then. I remember the Big three network and a smattering of indy stations on UHF.
NowhereMan1966 2 years ago