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Everybody's Baby - The Rescue of Jessica McClure - Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle (1989)
It always gripped me. I've seen it 3-4 times and when I became a father in 2000 it suddenly had more punch to it.
Its been a few years since I've seen it and I can't remember the score but Mark Snow was the composer.
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A guilty pleasure of mine is a film called The Last Dinosaur. Originally meant for a theatrical release it was so bad they elected to release it as a television film in the US.
You DING DONG!
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Saw the original broadcast. Very effective and scary.
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Short list:
1 - THE NIGHT STALKER - 1972
2 - DUEL - 1971
3 - THE WOMAN IN BLACK - 1989 (once again, Hollywood managed to produce a terrible remake)
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Surprised nobody has mentioned FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY. That's another that got a (severely truncated) cinema release. It certainly caused a stir on two consecutive Christmas TV showings (probably 1975 and '76?) in my household, and in the school playground after the holidays. Music by GIL MELLÉ, and it's magnificent.
Yes, DUEL is brilliant. Unlike FRANK: THE TRUE STORY, the running time was beefed up a bit for the cinema releases, right? I actually prefer that longer version, even if it isn't Spielberg's original vision.
Many of my choices are based on how much talk about them there was in the school playground the next day, or the following Monday. Hence THE NORLISS TAPES, DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK and GARGOYLES. Some of these might look a bit silly today (especially GARGOYLES) but they were great at the time.
Others that made an impression were CROWHAVEN FARM and DEAD OF NIGHT. The latter was another Dan Curtis production consisting of three stories. The one that scared me was the last one, called "Bobby", with Joan Hackett as the mum of the titular character. Scary ending. Everybody remembers TRILOGY OF TERROR, and especially Karen Black fighting that Muppet, but I can't have seen that for some reason.
Don't know if SALEM'S LOT would be considered a TV Movie or a miniseries. Whatever, that's another one that everybody talked about afterwards, although by that time I must have been the oldest schoolkid on the block.
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The Six Million Dollar Man
The Night Stalker
Short Walk to Daylight
The Immortal
Brian's Song
Disaster on the Coastliner
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