THE MADE FOR TELEVISION FEATURE FILMS AND MINISERIES (1964-1999)
Several years ago, the late, great Alvin H. Marill created a book called MOVIES MADE FOR TELEVISION. It was the first (and to this day, only) book to pay exclusive tribute to one of the most underrated and overlooked forms of film of all time. The made for television feature film. Mr. Marill was also kind enough to include all of the television miniseries. If not for his invaluable contribution, this list would not have been possible. If I notice anything he might have forgotten to put in his book, I will fill in the blanks. If you notice anything missing, let me know, and I will add them. If I have made any mistakes, please let me know. On a side note, some of these titles are not categorized as TV Movies on IMDB, so don't get confused. Enjoy.
Dedicated to Linda.
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Dedicated to Linda.
****I APOLOGIZE THAT I DO NOT HAVE FACEBOOK, SO IF ANYONE HAS COMMENTS ABOUT ANY OF MY LISTS, YOU CAN GO TO MY MESSAGE BOARDS. I WILL CHECK THEM FROM TIME TO TIME. THANK YOU.****
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1.
See How They Run
(1964 TV Movie)
Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel, which has just murdered their father. (100 mins.)
Director: David Lowell Rich
2.
The Hanged Man
(1964 TV Movie)
A gunman who believes his friend has been murdered sets out to get the people who killed him and finds himself enmeshed in corrupt labor union politics. (87 mins.)
Director: Donald Siegel
3.
Scalplock
(1966 TV Movie)
A frontier gambler wins a railroad in a card game, and must keep it going despite attempts to take it away from him. (95 mins.)
Director: James Goldstone
4.
Fame Is the Name of the Game
(1966 TV Movie)
An investigative reporter looks into the murder of a call girl. His investigation unearths her diary... (100 mins.)
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
5.
The Doomsday Flight
(1966 TV Movie)
A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land. (100 mins.)
Director: William A. Graham
6.
The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones
(1966 TV Movie)
A dying marshal deputizes a drifter to deliver the two killers in his custody to prison. However, the... (85 mins.)
Director: Alex March
7.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
(1967 TV Movie)
A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy. (100 mins.)
Director: William Hale
8.
The Longest Hundred Miles
(1967)
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier... (100 mins.)
Director: Don Weis
9.
Return of the Gunfighter
(1967)
An aging gunman and a wounded drifter come upon a young Mexican girl, and agree to help her avenge the death of her father, who was murdered for their land. (98 mins.)
Director: James Neilson
12.
Winchester 73
(1967 TV Movie)
Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle. (97 mins.)
Director: Herschel Daugherty
13.
Ironside
(1967 TV Movie)
Citizens of San Francisco are stunned by the news that Robert Ironside, the city's hard-nosed, tough-talking chief of detectives... (98 mins.)
Director: James Goldstone
14.
Stranger on the Run
(1967 TV Movie)
Former inmate and drunkard Ben Chamberlain arrives in a railroad town looking for Alma, who's found dead, causing the railroad police deputies to manhunt for Ben. (97 mins.)
Director: Donald Siegel
15.
The Outsider
(1967 TV Movie)
Pilot for the detective drama series has Darren McGavin playing David Ross, a hard-nosed, private eye/ex-con... (120 mins.)
Director: Michael Ritchie
16.
Prescription: Murder
(1968 TV Movie)
A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant. (100 mins.)
Director: Richard Irving
17.
Shadow Over Elveron
(1968 TV Movie)
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged... (106 mins.)
Director: James Goldstone
18.
Hawaii Five-O
(1968 TV Series)
Episode: Pilot (1968)
Red Chinese agent Wo Fat uses a sensory deprivation chamber to procure information from U.S. agents... (60 mins.)
Director: Bradford May, Beau Vanden Ecker
20.
Istanbul Express
(1968 TV Movie)
A railway detective pursues criminals. (100 mins.)
Director: Richard Irving
21.
Now You See It, Now You Don't
(1968 TV Movie)
A bumbling art expert, hired by an insurance company to protect a Rembrandt on loan from the Louvre, hatches a scheme to steal it. (100 mins.)
Director: Don Weis
22.
Heidi
(1968 TV Movie)
A lovely little girl lives with her grumpy grandfather in Swiss Alps. One day she is taken and lead to town to work as a servant. Her worried grandpa goes to town to look for her. (105 mins.)
Director: Delbert Mann
23.
Companions in Nightmare
(1968 TV Movie)
One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer. (100 mins.)
Director: Norman Lloyd
24.
Something for a Lonely Man
(1968 TV Movie)
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad. (120 mins.)
Director: Don Taylor
25.
Shadow on the Land
(1968 TV Movie)
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA. (100 mins.)
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
27.
The Sound of Anger
(1968 TV Movie)
A young man is arrested on suspicion of sabotaging the plane of his girlfriend's father, a wealthy man who despises him. (100 mins.)
Director: Michael Ritchie
28.
The Sunshine Patriot
(1968 TV Movie)
An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his heels. (120 mins.)
Director: Joseph Sargent
30.
Trial Run
(1969 TV Movie)
A slice-of-life drama involving a young lawyer, his adoring secretary who tries to help to advance his career, and his employer, a famed lawyer burdened with an unfaithful wife. (120 mins.)
Director: William A. Graham
31.
Dragnet 1966
(1969 TV Movie)
Sgt. Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Off. Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case... (100 mins.)
Director: Jack Webb
32.
Any Second Now
(1969 TV Movie)
A photographer plans to murder his rich young wife after she catches him cheating on her and threatens to divorce him so he won't get any of her money... (95 mins.)
Director: Gene Levitt
34.
Fear No Evil
(1969 TV Movie)
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror... (120 mins.)
Director: Paul Wendkos
35.
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
(1969 TV Series)
Episode: The Whole World Is Watching (1969)
Walter Nichols, an older and experienced lawyer, serves as a mentor to two attorney brothers. Brian is the more cerebral sibling... (60 mins.)
36.
Then Came Bronson
(1969 TV Series)
Episode: Pilot (1969)
A newspaper reporter quits his job and travels across America by motorcycle. (60 mins.)
Stars: Michael Parks
37.
Marcus Welby, M.D.
(1969 TV Series)
Episode: A Matter of Humanities (1969)
Marcus Welby hires brash young Doctor Kiley to assist in his bustling general practice. Among Welby's most pressing cases is a young man suffering from aphasia whose wife is seeking to have him committed to an institution. (60 mins.)
38.
Medical Center
(1969 TV Series)
Episode: U.M.C. (1969)
Located in the Los Angeles area, Medical Center was an otherwise unnamed hospital complex that was part of a large university campus... (60 mins.)
40.
The Immortal
(1969 TV Series)
Episode: Pilot (1969)
A professional race-car driver discovers that there are certain properties in his blood that will make him... (60 mins.)
41.
The Over-the-Hill Gang
(1969 TV Movie)
A retired Texas Ranger and his three aging pals are hired to clean up a lawless town. (75 mins.)
Director: Jean Yarbrough
42.
Wake Me When the War Is Over
(1969 TV Movie)
During the latter days of WW2 an American Lieutenant (Berry), accidentally falls out of an airplane that he was on and falls into German territory... (74 mins.)
Director: Gene Nelson
45.
Destiny of a Spy
(1969 TV Movie)
A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love with an attractive British double agent. (120 mins.)
Director: Boris Sagal
46.
The Young Lawyers
(1969 TV Series)
Episode: Pilot (1969)
David Barrett heads an organization in Boston that supports poor and indigent clients with the aid of young lawyers... (60 mins.)
Director: Gene Levitt
47.
The Pigeon
(1969 TV Movie)
Private eye is hired to protect a young girl, but it turns out she doesn't want to be protected. (90 mins.)
Director: Earl Bellamy
48.
Night Gallery
(1969 TV Series)
Episode: Night Gallery (1969)
In the pilot of the television series _"Night Gallery" (1970)_, Rod Serling introduces three separate paintings... (50 mins.)
49.
The Spy Killer
(1969 TV Movie)
A one-time secret agent is blackmailed by his former boss back into a life hhe thought he left for good. (75 mins.)
Director: Roy Ward Baker
50.
The Ballad of Andy Crocker
(1969 TV Movie)
A returning Vietnam veteran finds out that while he was gone his girlfriend has been forced into marrying someone else, his small business is in ruins and that those he once thought were his friends are in short supply. (74 mins.)
Director: George McCowan
51.
Run a Crooked Mile
(1969 TV Movie)
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder... (100 mins.)
Director: Gene Levitt
53.
Three's a Crowd
(1969 TV Movie)
An airline pilot tries to balance two wives he has in two separate cities. (90 mins.)
Director: Harry Falk
54.
D.A.: Murder One
(1969 TV Movie)
A deputy district attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses... (120 mins.)
Director: Boris Sagal
55.
Daughter of the Mind
(1969 TV Movie)
A professor of cybernetics comes to believe that his dead daughter is communicating with him from the netherworld. (90 mins.)
Director: Walter Grauman
56.
The Silent Gun
(1969 TV Movie)
A sheriff with a reputation as a fast gun almost kills an innocent child. He makes up his mind that... (75 mins.)
Director: Michael Caffey
57.
Silent Night, Lonely Night
(1969 TV Movie)
Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude... (98 mins.)
Director: Daniel Petrie
58.
Honeymoon with a Stranger
(1969 TV Movie)
While vacationing with her husband in Italy, a middle-aged woman wakes up one morning to find that the... (74 mins.)
Director: John Peyser
59.
Gidget Grows Up
(1969 TV Movie)
After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed... (75 mins.)
Director: James Sheldon
60.
David Copperfield
(1969 TV Movie)
The legendary novel by Charles Dickens comes to life in this colorful interpretation directed by Delbert Mann. (118 mins.)
Director: Delbert Mann
61.
The Desperate Mission
(1969 TV Movie)
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francissco. (96 mins.)
Director: Earl Bellamy
62.
Black Water Gold
(1970 TV Movie)
A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an historic Spanish galleon before a well-armed commercial expedition does. (73 mins.)
Director: Alan Landsburg
63.
Sole Survivor
(1970 TV Movie)
When a bomber believed to have crashed in the ocean 17 years ago is found in the Libyan desert. A Colonel... (100 mins.)
Director: Paul Stanley
64.
House on Greenapple Road
(1970 TV Movie)
A detective investigates the disappearance of the promiscuous wife of a timid salesman, and finds that everything is not quite as it appears. (120 mins.)
Director: Robert Day
65.
Foreign Exchange
(1970 TV Movie)
A former British Secret Service agent is persuaded to negotiate a spy exchange with Russia, only to find himself drawn into political intrigues. (75 mins.)
Director: Roy Ward Baker
66.
My Sweet Charlie
(1970 TV Movie)
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up... (97 mins.)
Director: Lamont Johnson
67.
Carter's Army
(1970 TV Movie)
A redneck officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Nazis. (70 mins.)
Director: George McCowan
68.
The Movie Murderer
(1970 TV Movie)
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets. (99 mins.)
Director: Boris Sagal
69.
Along Came a Spider
(1970 TV Movie)
The widow of a scientist who was murdered by his colleagues goes undercover at the research lab where he worked to expose them. (75 mins.)
Director: Lee H. Katzin
70.
The Challenge
(1970 TV Movie)
All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle... (74 mins.)
Director: Alan Smithee, Alan Smithee
71.
Cutter's Trail
(1970 TV Movie)
Marshal returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits, enlists the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother to track them down. (100 mins.)
Director: Vincent McEveety
72.
McCloud
(1970 TV Series)
Episode: Portrait of a Dead Girl (1970)
A marshal from New Mexico travels to New York City to deliver a witness who is supposed to testify in a murder trial... (120 mins.)
73.
The Challengers
(1970 TV Movie)
Racers compete in the Grand Prix. (120 mins.)
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
74.
Ritual of Evil
(1970 TV Movie)
A psychiatrist investigates the death of one of his patients, a young heiress. (100 mins.)
Director: Robert Day
75.
Quarantined
(1970 TV Movie)
A family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and a movie star who refuses to accept treatment for the disease. (74 mins.)
Director: Leo Penn
77.
Dial Hot Line
(1970 TV Movie)
The head of a psychiatric telephone hot line gets his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems. (98 mins.)
Director: Jerry Thorpe
78.
The Mask of Sheba
(1970 TV Movie)
An expedition searches for a priceless gold mask in the wilds of Ethiopia. (100 mins.)
Director: David Lowell Rich
79.
The Love War
(1970 TV Movie)
Aliens from two planets at war come to Earth, assume human form and continue their battle. (74 mins.)
Director: George McCowan
80.
Hunters Are for Killing
(1970 TV Movie)
A man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's estate. However... (100 mins.)
Director: Bernard Girard
81.
The Young Country
(1970 TV Movie)
An adventurous young gambler searches for the owner of a mysterious fortune. (74 mins.)
Director: Roy Huggins
82.
The Bold Ones: The Senator
(1970 TV Series)
Episode: A Clear and Present Danger (1970)
The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema. (60 mins.)
83.
The Brotherhood of the Bell
(1970 TV Movie)
A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past - in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him. (100 mins.)
Director: Paul Wendkos
84.
How Awful About Allan
(1970 TV Movie)
After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him. (73 mins.)
Director: Curtis Harrington
85.
Night Slaves
(1970 TV Movie)
A man and his wife find themselves stranded in a small western town. He discovers that a strange force has turned the residents into zombies, and runs into a beautiful woman who he believes is the key to the mystery. (72 mins.)
Director: Ted Post
86.
San Francisco International Airport
(1970 TV Series)
Episode: San Francisco International (1970)
Pilot for the TV series, stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conred, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss... (60 mins.)
87.
But I Don't Want to Get Married!
(1970 TV Movie)
An accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-minded women descend upon him. (75 mins.)
Director: Jerry Paris
88.
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
(1970 TV Movie)
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless... (73 mins.)
Director: Walter Grauman
89.
The Other Man
(1970 TV Movie)
The neglected wife of an ambitious district attorney starts an affair with an ex-convict he had sent to prison. When her lover is found murdered, she begins to suspect that her husband did it. (120 mins.)
Director: Richard A. Colla
90.
Wild Women
(1970 TV Movie)
Five female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840. (74 mins.)
Director: Don Taylor
91.
The Aquarians
(1970 TV Movie)
A scientist and his team of underwater explorers search for the culprit who has stolen the world's supply of nerve gas and hidden it somewhere in the ocean. (100 mins.)
Director: Don McDougall
92.
The House That Would Not Die
(1970 TV Movie)
A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country. (74 mins.)
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
93.
Berlin Affair
(1970 TV Movie)
Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path through love and loss. (120 mins.)
Director: David Lowell Rich
94.
Tribes
(1970 TV Movie)
A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things. (90 mins.)
Director: Joseph Sargent
95.
The Intruders
(1970 TV Movie)
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them. (100 mins.)
Director: William Graham
96.
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
(1970 TV Movie)
Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the... (75 mins.)
Director: George McCowan
97.
Night Chase
(1970 TV Movie)
A man fleeing the scene of his wife's shooting forms an unexpected relationship with the tough cab driver he hires to drive him to the Mexican border. (95 mins.)
Director: Jack Starrett
98.
Crowhaven Farm
(1970 TV Movie)
A young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.' (74 mins.)
Director: Walter Grauman
99.
Hauser's Memory
(1970 TV Movie)
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets... (96 mins.)
Director: Boris Sagal
100.
Run, Simon, Run
(1970 TV Movie)
A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer. (74 mins.)
Director: George McCowan
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