Those Tremendous Made-For-TV Dramas / Mysteries / Thrillers From The 1980's!...
More great, good, and not so good telefilms packed with the stars of the era!...
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- DirectorPeter MedakStarsPatty DukeWilliam ShatnerQuinn CummingsSpoiled 12-year-old Tara's new best friend from next door gets hired as a live-in babysitter, but things soon go horribly wrong when Tara's mom starts hitting the bottle and fighting with her dad.
- DirectorRobert FuestStarsSharon GlessJulie KavnerAudra LindleyAn investigate reporter arrives in the suburb of Stepford to dig up a news story about its low crime and divorce rates and discovers the horrific secret behind the women's docile and submissive nature.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsKim BasingerRobert CulpStephen MachtStory of a young woman's murder and the people who become involved with it.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsMariette HartleyKathleen BellerArlen Dean SnyderAmy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wanting to kill her. The police can't help her. But who is this man in black? Is it the strange young man whom she recently dated? Or the psychologist her mother told her to visit? Or is she really insane...?
- DirectorDouglas HickoxStarsIan RichardsonDonald ChurchillDenholm ElliottSherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsAnthony GearyJudith LightMark HarmonDoctor Kyle Richards takes a job managing an office in the Hamptons where herpes runs rampant. He is frustrated by the community's denial and decides to go public with the epidemic to raise public awareness about the problem.
- DirectorRod HolcombStarsJoan CollinsDavid HasselhoffEd LauterCurt Taylor (David Hasselhoff) is a convict and owes Phil Drexler (Telly Savalas), the number one convict in the prison. Now, to settle his debt, Drexler sends Curt to be the secretary for Cartier Rand, Marilyn Hallifax (Dame Joan Collins), so that he can steal her jewels. But he falls in love with her, which complicates things.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsSuzanne PleshetteTom AtkinsPaul BenjaminA wealthy widow lives moments of tension when she decides to spend a few days in a beach house of a mysterious young man.
- DirectorArthur Allan SeidelmanStarsValerie HarperGerald McRaneyBarry CorbinA city-slicker family, tired of the urban grime and crime, moves to a quaint little lakeside village. All seems like paradise - until corpses start showing up in the water. Will the family be the new victims?
- DirectorMel DamskiStarsRobert HaysCatherine Mary StewartChristopher MurneyA mild-mannered mystery writer has become so immersed in his material that his character constantly appears to him as a hallucination. Intent on getting rid of him, the writer finds himself embroiled in a mystery all his own.
- DirectorMichael O'HerlihyStarsRod TaylorJoanna PettetNigel DavenportA Green Beret-veteran businessman investigates the plane crash in Ireland that killed his family.
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsVictoria PrincipalJames FarentinoGlenn WithrowThey are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.
- DirectorNoel NosseckStarsBarbara EdenDon MurrayChristopher ConnellyAn aging motorcycle gang assemble for a twenty-five-year reunion to help out former member Mary Beth, a widowed operator of a popular campground which is being threatened by a band of arrogant groupies.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDavid SoulPam DawberFionnula FlanaganA musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractive woman in that building is checking him out. He strikes up a relationship with her. Soon afterwards a string of serial killings occurs in the neighborhood, and suspicion begins to fall on the musician.
- DirectorTim BurstallStarsLindsay WagnerTom SkerrittConstance McCashinFour women play a terrifying game of cat and mouse when they encounter a Neo-Nazi hideout while making a trip through the Sierra Mountans.
- DirectorChristian I. Nyby IIStarsLoni AndersonJoe PennyJune LockhartLiz Bartlett, an ambitious reporter, is the central nerve in a killing spree in this spine-chilling mystery. Secretly wishing that her business associate Jerry Caper were dead, Liz's hidden desire becomes a reality when he is brutally murdered. Dan Walker, a top-notch investigative reporter, is assigned to the case and becomes intrigued by the pretty, though troubled, reporter.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsTom SkerrittSharon StoneBarbara BossonMedia mogul Richard Trainor is celebrating the success of his nude modeling business, and introducing the newest class of calendar models to the adoring public. The party is ruined when one of his models is murdered.
- DirectorMark JoffeStarsTom JenningsNicole KidmanJoanne SamuelSteve Beck (Vince Martin) is a Karate instructor, Robby Mason (Tom Jennings) his prize student. Beck is using drugs to give him an edge. Guy Duncan (Craig Pearce) is Beck's drug connection that threatens to expose Beck as a user then Beck kills Duncan, but Robby was witness to this. Robby confronts Beck about the killing, during the karate championship. Beck tries to kill Robby during the match and again afterward in the street.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsLee MajorsHal LindenLauren HuttonOn the maiden flight of the first hypersonic commercial plane which can make the flight from New York City to London in four hours, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually leaving the Earth's atmosphere and orbiting around the globe. A lack of heat-resistant tiling prevents the plane from simply re-entering the atmosphere. With oxygen (and therefore time) running out, the crew of the plane and the crew on the ground must figure out a way to return the plane and its passengers to safety.
- DirectorTom McGowanStarsMaurice GrandmaisonPaul WhartonJohn MasonA story of the settling in the West and the hardship and determination it took to do it.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsGerald McRaneyHeather LocklearTerence KnoxAn attractive young woman is being watched closely by her ex-lover, but matters soon start to escalate and run out of control.
- DirectorLou AntonioStarsLee RemickTony MusanteMichael BeckA psychopathic prison escapee and his cousin steal an RV camper and take hostage a baby and a nurse but a police detective figures out their identity and eventual game-plan.
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsKen HowardKate NelliganMadge SinclairA serial rapist gets acquitted of his crimes due to a police mishandling of the investigation. His victims decide to turn the tables on him and begin stalking him.
- DirectorJack BenderStarsKathleen BellerMichael BrandonDennis FranzLaura Daniels, single and bored, finds new interest in life when she discovers an old ouija board. It appears, however, that the object's previous owner was murdered - and messages from beyond warn Laura that she may be next.
- DirectorEric LaneuvilleStarsDavid RaschePaul Le MatJoaquin PhoenixTwo children play amateur detectives in their neighborhood.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsDavid JanssenRobert VaughnPerry KingVince Perrino is a burned-out newspaper writer who's goated by his ruthless boss, publisher Harrison Crawford III, into tracking the moves of Tony Pate, a vicious serial killer through a big city.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsSuzanne PleshetteBarry NewmanRobert VaughnA crazed killer stalks the cast of a television soap-opera.