CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Hotline (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Hotline was on the CBS Late Movie on October 30, 1986 and March 10, 1987. Originally airing on CBS on October 16, 1982, this made-for-TV movie was directed by Jerry Jameson, who also was the in the director’s chair for movies like The Bat People, Airport ’77 and the Gunsmoke and Bonanza reunion movies. Lynda Carter (TV’s Wonder Woman as well as Miss […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Legend of Billie Jean was on the CBS Late Movie on October 7, 1988. This movie was a big deal when I was 13 and somehow, I never saw it. Billie Jean Davy (Helen Slater) and her brother Binx (Christian Slater, the two stars are not related) spend their days in Corpus Christi, Texas […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Five Star Murder (2023)
The Partridge Inn in Augusta, Georgia is listed as a three-star hotel online. Part of the Curio Collection by Hilton, it’s one of the only hotels in Georgia to be a member of Historic Hotels of America and is the closest golf course to the famous Augusta National Golf Course. Built in 1890 as a […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Kolchak: The Night Stalker: The Knightly Murders (1975)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker was on the CBS Late Movie on November 16, 1979; August 28, 1981 and December 18, 1987. As in so many episodes of Kolchak, there are murders throughout Chicago and they have a supernatural feeling about them, as all of the murders were committed with medieval weapons. The big […]
Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 8: The Other Way Out (1972)
Directed by Gene R. Kearney, who wrote the script based on a story by Kurt van Elting, “The Other Way Out” starts with businessman Bradley Meredith (Ross Martin) returning home from a long vacation with his wife Estelle (Peggy Feury) just in time for his secretary to show him that a go-go dancer that he […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Return of Sherlock Holmes was on the CBS Late Movie on November 28, 1988; November 10, 1989 and April 20, 1990. Directed by Kevin Conner (Motel Hell, The House Where Evil Dwells) and written by Bob Shayne, this made for TV movie feels a little bit like Adam Adamant Lives! Or for those that don’t obsess over […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Awakening (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Awakening was on the CBS Late Movie on October 31, 1986 and February 25, 1987. Based on Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars — which was also filmed as an episode of Mystery and Imagination as “The Curse of the Mummy,” Hammer’s Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb and the 90s movie Bram Stoker’s […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Matilda (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Matilda was on the CBS Late Movie on December 23, 1985. When Melvin Simon Productions out up half the cash for this movie, they made nearly half a million in profit by selling the TV rights to CBS for $2.5 million, foreign sales which went around $1.6 million and American-International Pictures paid an advance of […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Legacy of Terror (1975)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker didn’t air on the CBS Late Movie because ABC packaged “it with “Demon In Lace” as the TV movie The Demon and the Mummy. “Among the philosophers, the great thinks and the common Joes of this world, no question is more controversial than truth. Remarkable as it may seem, I […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Prototype (1983)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Prototype was on the CBS Late Movie on June 5, 1987 and January 28 and May 12, 1988. Directed by David Greene (The People Next Door, Madame Sin) and written by the team of William Link and Richard Levinson, who wrote and created Columbo, Mannix, Blacke’s Magic, Scene of the Crime and Murder, She Wrote. […]
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