EDITOR’S NOTE: Murder at the World Series was on the CBS Late Movie on November 25, 1982 and April 5, 1985.

Cisco (Bruce Boxleitner) once tried out for the Houston Astros and didn’t make the team. But now that they’re in the World Series — this wouldn’t really happen until 2005 and they wouldn’t win until 2017 — he’s decided to make things murderous.

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen (who not only directed Sahara for Cannon, he also made The Wild Geese) and written by Cy Chermak (the writer of 4D Man and producer for Kolchak: The Night Stalker), this is filled with big stars — well, for me — all being pulled into this disaster.

This movie really has enough plot for an entire series, much less a TV movie. Lynda Day George is troubled actress Margot Mannering! Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones) is her friend Lisa! Karen Valentine is news reporter Lois Marshall! Maggie Wellman is Kathy, a groupie who Cisco thinks is an Astro wife and he abducts, only to strap a bomb to her! It’s also the last movie of Nancy Kelly, the mother of The Bad Seed! Even better, you get Murray Hamilton, Michael Parks, Hugh O’Brian, Dr. No Joseph Wiseman, rodeo cowboy Larry Mahan, Dick Enberg as a radio announcer and Lisa Hartman as a stewardess! And how could I forget! Monica Gayle, my beloved Patch from Switchblade Sisters, is in this!

“The motion picture you are about to see is a work of fiction. It does not reflect the opinions, attitudes or policies of the Houston Astros to whom we are deeply grateful.” I love this credit. I loved this movie, as well. It’s just so silly, but I’m so into both TV movies and disaster spectacles.

This is not the Roy Scheider-starring Night Game, which also has the Astros involved in a murder plot, not is it New York Met pitcher Tom Seaver’s book, Beanball: Murder at the World Series.

You can watch this on YouTube.