Category Archives: Made for TV Movie

Calendar Girl Murders (1984)

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Originally airing on April 8, 1984 on the ABC Network, this made-for-TV movie aspires to be a giallo just as much as it is a slasher, but it’s hamstrung by network TV limits. Sure, there’s murder and mayhem, but it’s a bloodless affair.

Speaking of affairs — Tom Skerritt stars as Lieutenant Dan Stoner, a married cop who falls for Cassie Bascombone, one of the girls pursued by a killer. She’s played by an incredibly young Sharon Stone. If you look this movie up, chances are you’ll see plenty of foreign VHS covers that make it seem like Stone is the main reason this film was made.

Millionaire Richard Trainor (Robert Culp) is pretty much Hugh Hefner in this. However, on the very night that he announces his calendar girls for this year, Miss January falls from her hotel room and Miss February gets stabbed.

There are — as there always are — many red herrings, as well as Alan Thicke, who shows up as a photographer. And oh look — it’s Barbara Perkins from Valley of the Dolls and The Mephisto Waltz.

If I were Hefner, I may have been peeved at this film. That said, it’s as toothless as it is bloodless, but it’s also a fun romp through early 80’s TV. It’s directed by William Graham, who was also behind Elvis’ last movie Change of Habit and Return to the Blue Lagoon.

Interestingly enough, the Stoner character would appear again in the HBO made-for-TV movie Red King, White Knight. That case is even brought up by Stoner’s captain at the end of this film.

You can watch this on Amazon Prime.

Genesis II (1973), Planet Earth (1974), and Strange New World (1975)

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Okay. Let’s get this out of the way: This is the movie were you video fringe horndogs lose it over Mariette Hartley (as Lyra-A) in a two-piece bikini sporting two belly buttons (a dual circulatory system with two hearts) as a (network censored) “dominatrix” who breeds men for an oppressive, feminist regime.

Gulp.

Yes. Mariette Hartley: We’re talking Zarabeth in the Star Trek: TOS episode “All Our Yesterdays” where she cracked Spock’s emotionless Vulcan shell. She mixed it up with Gary Lockwood as Lisa Karger in Earth II (another failed TV movie pilot-to-series). She tempted Charlton Heston as Harriet Stevens in Skyjacked. She gave Dr. David Bruce Banner butterflies as Dr. Carolyn Fields in The Incredible Hulk. Yes. Mariette Hartley, with a resume of too many popular TV series to mention, all the way out to Fox TV’s 2018 hit series 9-1-1 as Patricia Clark.

Just one look at Mariette in Genesis II and you’ll forget all about the über-cool Sub-Shuttle that we all came for (and not a bogus CGI model . . . but a non-operational, full-sized prop pulled on a long-cable by an off-camera semi-truck) that pulls into a carved-out-of-the mountain sub-station (which Elon Musk has since pinched for his next millionaire-toy project). Oh, and did you notice the sterile, ultramodern-styled city looks suspiciously like the city in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Fox’s “Century City”)? And did you notice how many times the Sub-Shuttle footage was recycled in ‘70s sci-fi television?

Anyway . . . times were hard for ex-Star Trek creators.

In 1974, after the go-to-series failure with Genesis II, Gene Roddenberry developed another TV movie/series pilot with The Questor Tapes (1974). A thinly veiled reworking of the Gary Seven character and plot from the Star Trek: TOS episode “Assignment: Earth,” it was intended as a vehicle for Leonard Nemoy’s return to weekly television. The end product starred Robert Reed-doppelganger Robert Foxworth (1979’s Prophecy) who portrayed an android with incomplete memory tapes — in a pseudo The Fugitive storyline — searching for its creator and purpose (that also sounds like V’ger from Star Trek: TMP).

Then, after the additional go-to-series failures of the Genesis II reboots Planet Earth and Strange New World produced in the wake of The Questor Tapes, Roddenberry tried again — by jumping on the ‘70s “occult detective” sub-genre with 1977’s Spectre — by reworking another Star Trek element: the contemptuous friendship between Spock and Dr. Leonard McCoy, itself a homage to the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Spectre starred Robert Culp (The Gladiator) as William Sebastian, a criminologist and occult expert assisted by Gig Young (1978’s Game of Death with Bruce Lee) as Dr. Hamilton. (If you care: Other shows in the ‘70s occult TV movie-to-series subgenre include The Sixth Sense with Gary Collins of Hanger 18 and Killer Fish, Roy Thinnes of Satan’s School for Girls in The Norliss Tapes, and the most-successful of the pack: Darren McGavin of Dead Heat and the post-apoc dropping Firebird 2015 A.D in Kolchak: The Night Stalker.)

Genesis II stars Alex Cord (who also journeyed into a “fucked up future” in Chosen Survivors) in the “future world” of 1979 as NASA scientist Dylan Hunt. Of course, he opens the post-apocalyptic proceedings with that all-too-familiar apocalypse (or psychological horror) cliché: “My name is Dylan Hunt. My story begins the day on which I died.” So goes the story a “20th Century Boy” (T Rex, anyone?) thrown forward in time by a suspended-animation earthquake-accident that damages his New Mexico/Carlsbad Caverns-housed “Project Ganymede” system for astronauts on long-duration spaceflights.

And we flash forward to the year 2133.

An archeological team of PAX (Latin for “peace”) descendants from the NASA personnel that lived-worked-were trapped in the Carlsbad installation when World War III (aka “The Great Conflict” because, well, the docile hoards of all post-apoc futures never seem to be able to preserve or retain a basic semblance of American history) broke out, discover Hunt’s buried chamber. And while they can’t seem to “remember” World War III, the PAX are smart enough to construct a subterranean rapid transit system utilizing a magnetic levitation rail operated inside a “vactrain-tunnel network” that spans the globe and saves the masses from air transportation attacks.

Anyway, here’s where Mariette Hartley comes in.

Lyra-A oversees the all-female totalitarian regime known as the mutated (natch) Tyranians that rule the lands once known as Arizona and New Mexico. In addition to their increased physical abilities, you can always spot a Tyran by their nifty, dual navels — that they seem to love to show off. (Schwing! Thank you, Gene!) Not that the wussy PAX-rats would do anything when they spot a Tyran: they let themselves be enslaved.

Lyra-A, in a grand alien fashion of the Star Trek variety, is enraptured by Roddenberry’s “Buck Rogers” and wants to harness Hunt’s knowledge of (among other things) nuclear power systems to fix the Tyranians’ dead power plant. But apoc-bitch Lyra-A double crossed him: it’s a ploy to reactivate a nuclear missile system to destroy the PAX. As a result, Hunt goes into Moses-mode (see the apoc-romps No Blade of Grass, Ravagers) and leads a revolt of the enslaved, sabotages the nuclear device, and destroys the reactor.

Sound pretty cool, right?

Airing to high ratings in March 1973 and encouraged by the network brass, Roddenberry worked up a 20-episode first season on the adventures of Alex Cord’s post-nuc Moses. Then CBS-TV dropped the bomb: they passed over Genesis II and gave the timeslot to another competing post-apoc series: the short-lived and low-rated Planet of the Apes.

Those mothballed Genesis II episodes featured recycled ideas from Star Trek: TOS and fueled the later Star Trek movies — with stories about suspended animation soldiers from the past (“Khan!!!”), a London ruled by King Charles X; NASA “evolved” computers and equipment left on Jupiter’s Ganymede returning to Earth in search of their “God” (“The Changeling” and the annoying Persis Khambatta-V’ger non-sense from Star Trek: TMP); men turned into breeders and domesticated pets (reworked for the second pilot, Planet Earth); the ol’ catapulted-through-a-time-continuum back to 1975 gaffe (“Tomorrow and the Stars,” an episode from Star Trek: Phase II, the proposed-failed post-Star Wars reboot), and a creepy priesthood who enslaves the masses via electricity used as a “God” (“Return of the Archons” from ST: TOS).

The reason the network passed on Genesis II: The series was “too philosophical” and Alex Cord’s portrayal was “too dark and brooding.” They wanted another handsome and charmingly arrogant Captain James T. Kirk. So Roddenberry and Warner Bros. rebooted Dylan Hunt into an action-driven and conflict seeking Kirk-like character embodied by John Saxon.

Cue for Planet Earth.

Now Dylan was one of three cryogenically-frozen astronauts who return to Earth to reestablish the PAX organization that sent them into space. And while we lost Mariette Hartley, we gained the equally fetching Diana Muldaur (again, from Cord’s Chosen Survivors), who rules the Amazonian, male-enslaving “Confederacy of Ruth,” along with cherished character actors Bill McKinney (Deliverance, Cannonball) and Gerritt Graham (Phantom of the Paradise, Used Cars) as “impotent males” in recurring roles.

This time, instead of CBS, ABC aired the Warner Bros. produced program in April 1974.

The network passed.

Cue a Strange New World.

To creative and legal reasons lost to the test of time, Warner Bros., who now owned the intellectual rights, reworked the premise a third time as Strange New World (pinching the title from Star Trek’s opening monologue) — sans Roddenberry’s involvement — dumped the PAX and Tyranians, and retained John Saxon as the same Kirk-like character, now known as Captain Anthony Vico, who returns from a suspended animation space trip with two other astronauts (as in Planet of the Apes TV series that screwed Genesis II in the first place).

The movie aired in July 1975.

The network passed.

And with that, between Roddenberry’s vision, and the failure of the Planet of the Apes TV series (episodes were cut into overseas theatrical and telefilms), the small screen’s attempt to jump on the major Hollywood studios’ post-apocalyptic bandwagon was over. Thus, us wee lads and lassies gathered around the TV on Saturday mornings and settled for Filmation’s Ark II, whose 15 episodes (it seems it had more episode and was on much longer), aired in 1976, then reran in 1977, then again in 1978. And that kiddie-apoc series stopped production because the network “wanted Star Wars” (and not a TV knockoff of 1977’s Damnation Alley). So Ark II was reworked and repurposed (the same “universe,” so to speak) as Space Academy and Jason of Star Command (Sid Haig, rules!).

There was also another, similar attempt at the Genesis II concept with, ironically, another Star Trek: TOS alum: Glenn Corbett (warp-drive creator Zefram Cochrane in 1967’s “Metamorphosis”). As with Roddenberry’s The Questor Tapes, The Stranger (1973) was another failed TV movie-to-series sci-fi twist on the ‘60s runaway TV hit, The Fugitive. This time, instead of returning to a post-apocalyptic society, our astronaut (Hey, Sam . . . he’s named “Stryker”!) returns to a totalitarian “twin” Earth run by the “The Perfect Order.” (And if it all sounds a bit like 1969’s Journey to the Far Side of the Sun by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson of the fellow-failed, post-Star Trek series UFO and Space: 1999 . . . then it probably is: both series were movie-rebooted in the post-Star Wars universe as Invasion: UFO and Destination Moonbase Alpha, respectively.)

But wait . . . all was not lost with Genesis II.

Roddenberry’s widow, Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine Chapel in Star Trek: TOS and Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: TNG and DSN) produced one of Roddenberry’s old pre/post-Star Trek dystopian-apocalyptic concepts, Andromeda (itself recycling from Genesis II and Planet Earth), a Canadian series that ran from 2000 to 2005 and aired in syndication on U.S television.

VHS rips of Genesis II and Strange New World can be enjoyed for free on You Tube, while Vudu has official, affordable streams of Genesis II and Planet Earth. For whatever “legal” reasons, no streaming platform offers Strange New World. However, copies of all three are widely available on DVD courtesy of Warner Home Video’s Warner Archive Collection.

You say you’re still jonesin’ for a fix of the “Big Three”-over-the-air U.S television network movies from the good ol’ days before the VHS and cable television boom? Then check out B&S Movies’ tributes of “Lost TV Week,” “Week of Made for TV Movies,” “Sons of Made for TV Movies Week,” and “Grandson of Made for TV Movie Week.” 

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Survival 1990 (1985)

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Remember B&S Movies’ past geographical warnings about staying the hell out of South Africa and keeping your ass in the Philippines, Italy, and Australia for your post-apocalyptic fixes?

Well, add Canada to the list. Be warned, my fellow apoc-rats. The lands of Survival 1990 aren’t across the border from 1990: The Bronx Warriors. If ever a film needed a meeting of the Riders and Tigers, this is the movie.

Also known as Survival Earth in its VHS revival, this canuxploitation dropping that makes the Canux nuc-fest Def Con 4 look like Escape from New York occurs in 1996, ten years after “The Fall,” which refers to the collapse of the world economy and . . . hey, wait a minute . . . 10 years after 1996 is 1986 . . . so why does the title refer to the year of 1990? I know, I know. Don’t overthink the (lack of) plot . . . and math. Which brings us to questioning who made this? Yep, the mathematicians at Emmeritus Productions, the Canadian studio that also made the computer-takes-over-a-hi-tech hi-rise A.I tomfoolery, The Tower, and the inert John Carpenter-porn knock off, Blue Murder.

Duh. You’ve been warned.

Anyway, this shot on video tape for Canadian TV potboiler starts with a stock footage montage of some riots, newspaper articles, nuclear power plants, and politician infighting that fades out under an optical effect informing us the big one dropped. And that’s the end of the special effects for the movie.

The resident “Adam and Eve” survivors living in the wiles of Toronto are John and Miranda, who meander through the woods and talk, talk, talk . . . and read poetry (at least books survived “The Fall”), and goes all philosophical quoting Yeats. And when drippy John isn’t reading poetry, he talks about the good ol’ days of mowing grass, driving his ol’ Honda Civic, and about his dad’s cloning experiments (a major plot twist, don’t forget!).

In addition to a mysterious “creature” shadowing their every move, they meet up with Simon, a soldier of fortune (in run-of-the-mill camo-fatigues off the rack at Bass Pro Shops) who survived the war and becomes their ally. And thank god, because Simon at least has a rifle and a pistol to fight off the mutant-vandals (that aren’t at all “mutant” and look more like raggedy street people) who kill John. Then John’s clone—who’s been spying on them—shows up and rescues Miranda. And they read more poetry and bicker happy ever after. The end.

So if you need to explore the post-nuke wastelands of the Great White North — sans any Snakes or Trashes, or props, or special effects, or sets, or costumes, or action, or plot, or point — then this is your film. This rarity from the video ‘80s — that’s never been issued to DVD or Blu-ray (complete with trailers for the low-budget videotape pot boilers Deadly Pursuit and The Edge) — is on You Tube.

Star Nancy Cser, who played Miranda, received some video-store fame courtesy of the 1986 Canadian soft core skin flick, Perfect Timing, which had plenty of naked women for us horn dogs—and nary a plot. Not that we cared about the plot. For when you have boobies, you need no plot. Wow. We already sat through The Tower. So, sorry, Nancy: no more reviews for you. Some movies are best forgotten.

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Till Death Do Us Hart (1996)

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Sooner or later, you knew that George Hamilton was going to show up in one of these Hart to Hart reunion movies. He waited until the eighth of eight movies to make it happen, playing the evil Karl Von Ostenberg.

This episode finds the Harts heading to Munich, where Jennifer donates bone marrow to Maximilian, a little boy with leukemia. His doctor (Dwight Schultz, from TV’s The A-Team and Alone In the Dark) is amazed, because Jennifer looks exactly like his fiancee Simone, who has seemingly left him before the wedding. With an important dinner coming up, the Harts save him from an embarrassing situation by Jennifer filling in for the missing woman at an important dinner.

The last of these films, this was directed by original series director and creative consultant Tom Mankiewicz, who also directed the Tom Hanks version of Dragnet. He was also the writer of Ladyhawke, the two Richard Donner Superman movies, Diamonds Are Forever, Live & Let Die, The Man With the Golden Gun and The Cassandra Crossing. It was written by Bill Froehlich and Mark Lisson, who also wrote Return to Horror High.

 

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Harts in High Season (1996)

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Before the Harts were married, she dated Elliot Manning (James Brolin!), who was a man that competed with Jonathan in racing and in business. After Jonathan duly destroys him in every endeavor, he still tries to be friends, but Manning nurses a revenge plot where he fakes his own death and hides in Australia while the police try to keep Jonathan for murder.

To those of you who watched the early UFC shows, Emmanuel Yarborough shows up here as Tonga, Elliot’s faithful henchman. At a weight of 882 pounds, he held the Guinness World Record for the heaviest living athlete. An NCAA All-American offensive tackle and amateur wrestler at Morgan State University, he also won the 1995 World Amateur Sumo Championships and then went into sumo and pro wrestling, where he worked for Germany’s CWA.

His biggest highlight for US fans was when he battled Keith Hackney in UFC 3, a match that proved that size wasn’t always necessary to win the fight in this new style of combat. He’d go on to defeat UWFI pro wrestler Tatsuo Nakano on a Shooto show in Japan before losing to Daiju Takase for the Pride promotion. Yarborough died in 2015 at the age of 51 from a heart attack.

Like the past movie on the set that we covered, Two Harts In 3/4 Time, this was written by Matt Crowley. It was directed by Christian I. Nyby II, who was behind most of the Perry Mason TV movies that aired through the 80’s and also directed seven episodes of Moonlighting, which gets a sly reference from the Harts in this film. His resume covers all manner of TV shows, from Battlestar Galactica to Emergency!, BJ and the Bear, Simon & Simon, The A-Team, Hill Street Blues and the Remo Williams TV pilot. He’s the son of Christian Nyby, who directed The Big Sleep and the original version of The Thing.

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Two Harts in 3/4 Time (1995)

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When the Harts visit Montreal to accept a clock left to them by Max, their recently deceased friend, the timepiece becomes the centerpiece of a case involving blackmail and murder. Ah man — with Lionel Stander gone, these movies have lost a bit of steam. But hey — Joan Collins!

Here she plays Lady Camilla Ashley, who may seem to have the world at her feet, but who is dealing with a duplicitous boy toy. There’s also an appearance by Max’s niece Marie who has man problems of her own. And her partner in an antique shop Vivienne is actually the one sleeping with Lady Camilla’s husband Ronny, which leads to secret papers being shoved into the clock Max wanted to give away.

This episode was written by Donald Ross, who gifted us with Hamburger: The Motion Picture, and Matt Crowley, who wrote the play The Boys In The Band and also provided uncredited rewrites to The Eyes of Laura Mars.

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Secrets of the Hart (1995)

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Jonathan and Jennifer Hart head to San Francisco for a charity auction, where she discovers an old heart locket with a picture of Jonathan as a child. He never knew his family, so he quickly learns that he may have a sister and nephew. But this being Hart to Hart, someone has to die before its all over. Maybe a few people have to die, actually.

This is the first of the reunion movies to be directed by someone other than Peter Hunt. Here it’s Kevin Connor, who was behind From Beyond the Grave and Motel Hell. He also directed six episodes of the original series.

Marion Ross (Happy Days) and Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) play the aunt and nephew, while Wagner’s daughter Natasha plays Tibby, the wife of Bateman’s character. You also get small parts from Rodger Bumpass (Squidward from Sponge Bob Squarepants), comedian John Pinette, Pat Morita as a Japanese Jewish jeweler named Ling Goldberg, exploitation fave Ross Hagen, Taylor Negron, John Beck (Moonpie from Rollerball), Edward Mulhare from Knight Rider and Michael Parks (Earl McGraw himself!) and Wendie Malick (Just Shoot Me, Dream On) as a murderous couple who clash with the Harts.

Sadly, this would be the final appearance of Lionel Stander died soon after making this. His appearance is really rough and his dialogue is often looped, so you can see it coming. It actually made me really emotional.

Not to get political, but as you can see from the clip above, Donald Trump makes an appearance. I really need to get on my Donald Trump as a character in fictional movies Letterboxd list. There’s Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, Ghosts Can’t Do It, Two Weeks Notice, 54, Zoolander, The Little Rascals, Across the Sea of Time…man. An entire week of films ready for people to get upset about!

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Old Friends Never Die (1994)

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Someone wants Jonathan Hart dead, so they’ve created the perfect trap for him. That trap involves inviting his wife to a secluded getaway of other writers, which enables the creators of this made for TV reunion movie to gather all manner of guest stars. There’s also a lot of the Harts acting dippy, which seems to be their biggest hobby when they’re not stumbling over bodies. They spend an extended amount of time in this one acting like Laurel and Hardy, if that’s what you’re looking for.

Let’s get into the guest stars in this one, which is absolutely packed with them. There’s David Rasche, who we all remember from Sledge Hammer! and the Larry Cohen TV movie Wicked Stepmother. James Shigeta, who played doomed CEO Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi in Die Hard is here. Over here by the bean dip, we find David Leisure, who was Joe Isuzu, as well as starring on Empty Nest. They also invited Fred Willard, James Avery (Uncle Phillip from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), Paul Williams, Vicki Lawrence (Mama’s Family and the singer of “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia”) and Mike Farrell from M*A*S*H*.

Someone tries to kill Jonathan with bad seafood, so that should tell you how this one goes. Thankfully, the Harts survive — they better we have four more TV movies after this — and go back to acting like goofs. That’s why we love them, right?

You can get eight movies featuring the Harts on the new Mill Creek Hart to Hart Movies Are Murder Collection. If you’ve been missing shows where the leads encounter death around every corner when they’re not romancing one another, this set has exactly what you’re craving.

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Crimes of the Hart (1994)

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Remember how in the last Hart to Hart reunion movie where Mrs. H was a noted journalist? Well, now she’s also a playwriter, bringing her college script about Jack the Ripper to the Great White Way. Mr. H, Max and Freeway come along for the ride, with Max nearly getting married to an old flame. And yes, many people die.

Richard Belzer plays Det. Frank Giordano here. No, he’s not Detective John Munch, but you can forgive yourself if you think he is. He’s only played that role on Homicide, Law & Order: SVU, The X-Files, The Beat, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, The Wire, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, the regular Law & Order and Jimmy Kimmel Live! Munch is the only character to appear on ten different shows on five different networks, which is pretty cool.

Audra Lindley (Mrs. Roper from Three’s Company), John Stockwell (who would go on to direct Blue Crush and Kickboxer: Vengeance) and Lew Ayres (Dr. Klldare from the film series) all show up, too.

The bad guy has a mannequin of Jennifer in his basement with her photo stapled to it, so that’s pretty creepy. He almost kills Jonathan in a basement that feels like Mario Bava lit it, but everything — as it always does — works out just fine.

You can get this movie — along with seven others — as part of the new Mill Creek Hart to Hart Movies Are Murder Collection. We’ve been loving it all week long.

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Home is Where the Hart Is (1994)

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When Jonathan and Jennifer Hart attend the funeral of the newspaper publisher who helped Jennifer start her journalism career, they uncover some sinister secrets about her hometown of Kingman’s Ferry. Honestly, you can’t take them anywhere!

This film has Maureen O’Sullivan (she played Jane in the 1930’s Tarzan films), Alan Young from the original The Time Machine, Roddy McDowell (Peter Vincent from Fright Night and Caesar from Planet of the Apes amongst so many other roles), Mitchell Ryan (Dr. Wynn from Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers) and Charles Tyner (the founder of Hamburger University in Hamburger: The Motion Picture).

It was filmed in the very same area where Hitchcock shot The Birds. There are all manner of secrets to be found when Jennifer inherits the town where she grew up and no one is as they seem. I always wonder, who stays friends with the Harts? Everyone they know dies. Well, except for Max and Freeway Junior. They always seem to survive no matter what shenanigans happen.

You can get this movie — and seven others — as part of the new Mill Creek Hart to Hart Movies Are Murder Collection. If you’re nostalgic for the fun of old TV mysteries, it’s a must buy.

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