NBC Monday Night Movie: Angel Dusted (1981)
As with our yesterday’s review of CBS-TV’s The Killing of Randy Webster, this NBC original movie held a young adult appeal, yet was far too dark for their weekday, Special Treat young programming block that also dealt with the issues of drug abuse — but not like this. Dick Lowry, best known for his Kenny […]
CBS Schoolbreak Special: Portrait of a Teenage Shoplifter (1981)
CBS-TV’s young adult programming block first aired in December 1978 as CBS Afternoon Playhouse and went through a revamp during the start of its 1983 season with the “Schoolbreak Special” moniker. After an 18 year run—and like everything else killed off by the multi-channel cable universe and the Internet—it was cancelled in January 1996. Under […]
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970)
Luther Davis wrote Across 110th Street and this nihilistic TV movie, originally airing October 13, 1970. It’s directed by Walter Grauman, who was behind more than fifty episodes of Murder, She Wrote. What a cast — from Jay C. Flippen (a former blackface vaudevillian known as “The Ham What Am”), Martin E. Brooks (Dr. Rudy Welles from The Six […]
Police Story: A Chance to Live (1978)
Okay. Alright. Settle down, everyone. Yes, we’re reviewing a David Cassidy movie for this latest “TV Week” installment here at B&S About Movies. Sam said it was okay, really. Just be grateful Danny Bonaduce’s role in the 1975 Police Story episode “The Empty Weapon” wasn’t spun off into a series. Knock “Keith Partridge” if you […]
A Christmas to Remember (1978)
A Christmas to Remember is a TV movie that aired on the CBS-TV Network on December 20. 1978, starring Jason Robards (A Boy and his Dog, Something Wicked This Way Comes), Eva Marie Saint (Martha Kent in 2006’s Superman Returns), and Joanne Woodward (Mrs. Paul Newman, 1947’s A Double Life). The screenplay was based on […]
A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019)
I have a confession to make, which isn’t necessarily a confession as most of my friends already know this, I was obsessed with the TV series Pretty Little Liars. I binged about 4 seasons to catch up before the 5th season back in 2014. I have bought most of the seasons on DVD, I think […]
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