Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "abc-movie-of-the-week"
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. Duel (1971 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Action, Thriller
A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell
Votes: 78,981
2. Brian's Song (1971 TV Movie)
G | 73 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, Bernie Casey
Votes: 8,931
3. The Night Stalker (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror, Mystery
An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker
Votes: 7,428
4. A Howling in the Woods (1971 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Thriller
A disillusioned homemaker on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home--and, more ominously, a mysterious howling at night.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Barbara Eden, Larry Hagman, John Rubinstein, Vera Miles
Votes: 542
5. Satan's School for Girls (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young woman investigating her sister's suicide at a private girls' school finds herself battling a Satanic cult.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Lloyd Bochner, Jamie Smith-Jackson
Votes: 1,648
6. The Victim (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wealthy woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Eileen Heckart, Sue Ane Langdon, George Maharis
Votes: 887
7. Wonder Woman (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Fantasy
A super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Cathy Lee Crosby, Kaz Garas, Andrew Prine, Ricardo Montalban
Votes: 1,478
8. Longstreet (1971–1972)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The cases of a blind insurance investigator.
Stars: James Franciscus, Marlyn Mason, Peter Mark Richman, Ann Doran
Votes: 627
9. Gidget Grows Up (1969 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 75 min | Comedy
After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her ... See full summary »
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Karen Valentine, Edward Mulhare, Paul Petersen, Warner Anderson
Votes: 281
10. Moon of the Wolf (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Horror, Thriller
After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Bradford Dillman, John Beradino
Votes: 1,943
11. The Birdmen (1971 TV Movie)
74 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II, American soldier Harry Cook is sent to Norway to aid in the defection of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape Europe, they are... See full summary »
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Doug McClure, Rene Auberjonois, Richard Basehart, Max Baer Jr.
Votes: 338
12. The House That Would Not Die (1970 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror
A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Egan, Michael Anderson Jr., Kitty Winn
Votes: 995
13. The Screaming Woman (1972 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 73 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground who has ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Ed Nelson, Laraine Stephens, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 930
14. Crowhaven Farm (1970 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Horror
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.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Hope Lange, Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner, John Carradine
Votes: 1,022
15. Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Ted Bessell, Bette Davis, Sian Barbara Allen, Charles Drake
Votes: 1,199
16. Pray for the Wildcats (1974 TV Movie)
100 min | Thriller
Ad agency employees Warren, Paul, and Terry suggest using Baja California, Mexico, for wealthy industrialist Sam Farragut's campaign. Sam insists on all four of them riding 600 miles on dirt bikes to find the perfect spot.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Robert Reed, Marjoe Gortner
Votes: 350
17. A Taste of Evil (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Horror, Thriller
On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Parkins, Roddy McDowall, William Windom
Votes: 745
18. Planet Earth (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A man awakens from suspended animation and finds himself in the 22nd century, where women rule the world and men are slaves called Dinks. He is captured and sold as a slave, but escapes and hooks up with a male rebel movement.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: John Saxon, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, Christopher Cary
Votes: 897
19. When Michael Calls (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Horror, Thriller
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Douglas, Al Waxman
Votes: 1,007
20. Madame Sin (1972)
Not Rated | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller
A C.I.A. Agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Bette Davis, Robert Wagner, Denholm Elliott, Gordon Jackson
Votes: 1,168
21. Night Slaves (1970 TV Movie)
72 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Scott Marlowe, Andrew Prine
Votes: 380
22. Scream of the Wolf (1974 TV Movie)
74 min | Horror, Thriller
A big-game hunter comes out of retirement to help track down a killer wolf, and begins to suspect that it isn't a wolf but an animal that can take human form.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Peter Graves, Clint Walker, Jo Ann Pflug, Philip Carey
Votes: 876
23. The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969 TV Movie)
Unrated | 75 min | Comedy, Western
A retired Texas Ranger and his three aging pals are hired to clean up a lawless town.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Andy Devine, Jack Elam
Votes: 694
24. The Sex Symbol (1974 TV Movie)
74 min | Biography, Drama
A thinly disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributes to her deteriorating career.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Connie Stevens, Shelley Winters, Jack Carter, William Castle
Votes: 123
25. Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Mystery
Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Helen Hayes, Vince Edwards, Myrna Loy, Mildred Natwick
Votes: 312
26. A Cold Night's Death (1973 TV Movie)
74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.
Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: Robert Culp, Eli Wallach, Michael C. Gwynne, Vic Perrin
Votes: 1,082
27. The Mark of Zorro (1974 TV Movie)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Western
When Don Diego returns to California only to find the people overrun and overtaxed by corrupt politicians, he takes matters into his own hands as the masked crusader Zorro.
Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Louise Sorel
Votes: 696
28. Arsenic and Old Lace (1969 TV Movie)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.
Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Helen Hayes, Bob Crane, Lillian Gish, Fred Gwynne
Votes: 284
29. Time Travelers (1976 TV Movie)
78 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
During an outbreak of a contagious disease in 1976, two scientists are sent back in time to 1871, when a Chicago doctor apparently had the cure for it.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Sam Groom, Tom Hallick, Francine York, Booth Colman
Votes: 534
30. Returning Home (1975 TV Movie)
74 min | Drama
The story of three returning World War II veterans, and how they try to cope with returning to civilian life.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Dabney Coleman, Tom Selleck, James R. Miller, Whitney Blake
Votes: 42
31. The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970 TV Movie)
73 min | Thriller
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes,... See full summary »
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Martin Balsam, Diane Baker, Ruth Roman
Votes: 287
32. Huckleberry Finn (1975 TV Movie)
PG | 78 min | Adventure
Huckleberry Finn, a knavish boy weary of social expectations and his cruel, selfish father, floats a raft down the Mississippi River. With him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Huck realizes he must help Jim make it to freedom.
Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Ron Howard, Don Most, Royal Dano, Antonio Fargas
Votes: 207
33. The Girls of Huntington House (1973 TV Movie)
74 min | Drama
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.
Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Shirley Jones, Mercedes McCambridge, Pamela Sue Martin, William Windom
Votes: 149
34. The Death Squad (1974 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 75 min | Crime, Drama
When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals were treated too leniently by the courts.
Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Robert Forster, Michelle Phillips, Claude Akins, Mark Goddard
Votes: 134
35. The Letters (1973 TV Movie)
74 min | Drama
Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.
Directors: Paul Krasny, Gene Nelson | Stars: John Forsythe, Pamela Franklin, Ida Lupino, Dina Merrill
Votes: 267
36. The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped (1974 TV Movie)
74 min | Comedy
A small-town beauty queen is hired, as a joke, as a "birthday present" for a magazine publisher.
Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Karen Valentine, Richard Long, Tom Bosley, Farrah Fawcett
Votes: 174
37. Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A high-school senior and his girlfriend get married when they find out she's pregnant.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Desi Arnaz Jr., Christopher Norris, Dan Dailey, Dina Merrill
Votes: 103
38. Stand Up and Be Counted (1972)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see... See full summary »
Director: Jackie Cooper | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Stella Stevens, Steve Lawrence, Gary Lockwood
Votes: 149
39. The Bounty Man (1972 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 73 min | Drama, Western
Two rival bounty hunters are after the same killer, but find they have to join together to fight off his gang.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Clint Walker, Richard Basehart, John Ericson, Margot Kidder
Votes: 246
40. The Devil's Daughter (1973 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Horror
A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she must marry a fellow demon.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Shelley Winters, Belinda Montgomery, Robert Foxworth, Jonathan Frid
Votes: 643
41. Five Desperate Women (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Five young women vacation together at a resort on an isolated island. They are the resort's only customers and, aside from the boat Captain who brought them there and the resort's handyman,... See full summary »
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Robert Conrad, Anjanette Comer, Bradford Dillman, Joan Hackett
Votes: 236
42. The Silent Gun (1969 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, Western
After nearly killing a young girl on the heels of a big shootout, a sheriff unloads his gun and struggles to move past the moment. His challenge becomes even greater when he finds himself in a lawless town desperately needing his help.
Director: Michael Caffey | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, John Beck, Ed Begley, Edd Byrnes
Votes: 66
43. Death Cruise (1974 TV Movie)
75 min | Mystery
Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.
Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: Richard Long, Polly Bergen, Edward Albert, Kate Jackson
Votes: 348
44. The Feminist and the Fuzz (1971 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
Through unforeseen circumstances, a male chauvinist cop and a dedicated feminist become roommates.
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Barbara Eden, David Hartman, Jo Anne Worley, Herb Edelman
Votes: 224
45. Hurricane (1974 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Drama
Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Larry Hagman, Martin Milner, Jessica Walter, Barry Sullivan
Votes: 222
46. The Longest Night (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama
The daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped and imprisoned underground in a coffin, while her family and the police search for her.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: David Janssen, James Farentino, Phyllis Thaxter, Skye Aubrey
Votes: 220
47. Gidget Gets Married (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Romance
Gidget finally gets married and rebels against the social caste system in her new husband's company.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Michael Burns, Monie Ellis, Don Ameche, Joan Bennett
Votes: 159
48. In Broad Daylight (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend, and hatches a plot to murder them both.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Richard Boone, Suzanne Pleshette, Stella Stevens, John Marley
Votes: 254
49. Mrs. Sundance (1974 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 75 min | Western
The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that the Sundance Kid may still be alive.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Robert Foxworth, L.Q. Jones, Arthur Hunnicutt
Votes: 326
50. You'll Never See Me Again (1973 TV Movie)
73 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
After a couple have an argument, the wife disappears. The husband searches for her, only to discover evidence that implicates him in her murder.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: David Hartman, Jane Wyatt, Ralph Meeker, Jess Walton
Votes: 253