On Jan 12, 7:06 pm, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > The Encore channels do run some of the old MOW, but from my experience (and > it is not systematic or exhaustive) not that many. I believe Encore > programming is on instant view from Netflix, so I guess I can take a random > sample of 20 or so titles from the MOW list and see how many are available > on netflix as a rough guide - I might try that this weekend.
> I do recall the CBS movies, but don't recall them as being particularly good > - are there any iconic titles from that series? Seems to me that CBS' prime time movies were mostly theatricals and that what made-fors that were any good were after "Hallmark Hall of Fame" moved to CBS and went to the two-hour movie format. But the theme music is up there with "Nikki", especially the bumper version-- and it got extra exposure as the theme for "The CBS Late Movie" (although I do hear Dave saying "'The CBS Late Movie' is *not* a movie." -- 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
