On Jan 12, 1:20 am, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I second Kevin's motion for a "TV Movie of the Week" Channel. The wikis have > what looks like a pretty good article on the formal MOW series (which ran > from 1969 - 1976). They list 255 movies. Some were crap, some were cheap > thrills, some were pilots for series that later became famous, some were > failed pilots, some were standard but entertaining melodramas, and some were > just damn fine films, including, of course, "Duel". > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_Movie_of_the_Week
It seems to me that the Encore/MoviePlex channels have long been repositories for older made-fors, but of course you have to check the listings, since they run along with the theatricals of older or recent vintage. As for an MOW channel, with the networks losing their syndication divisions in the early 70s as part of the prime access rule, Barry Diller didn't try to claim ownership and let the various studios keep ownership of the films. Great for them, bad for any chance of Disney/ ABC doing an MOW channel. In my mind, the most likely source for an all made-for-TV movie channel would be NBC, since Universal started first (back with "Fame is the Name of the Game" in 1965, the pilot for the series) and has the most titles. It's just that Disney owns the most memorable made-for-TV-movie series theme music and titles sequence (with only Morton Stevens' CBS movie theme of the 60s and 70s as a second). -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
