The scary movie thread had me thinking...I remember when I was a kid and used to love the ABC Movie of the Week...Especially the scary ones! Does anyone remember "Home for the Holidays"...Patricia O'Neil with that pitchfork chasing after the girl! Yikes! I also liked "Bad Ronald" (Scott Jacoby...hiding in the walls of the house), "Satans School For Girls" (Kate Jackson), and "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark" (that was my all-time favorite one with Kim Darby! Did anyone else used to watch these? I would have been around 10 years old in 1973. ~Lisa

too young (born in 1974) but I used to love the afterschool specials like "Teenage Dad" with Rob Lowe LOL

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Bad Ronald!!! I have not thought of that movie for years!! Wow..I remember loving it (is that the one where they turned off all the lights and there were still lights coming from the walls???)



Don't Be Afriad of the Dark was a Cult status movie amoung my high school friends. I even have a blog about it on MySpace..LOL

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I am not sure if it movie of the week but I remember "Angel City" with Ralph Waite.

For some reason I can't specifically remember any of the movies of the week but I know we watched them. After all we only had three choices for prime time tv LOL.

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How about When Michael Calls


Trilogy of Terror

Daughter of the Mind

Crowhaven Farm

How Awful about Allen...Those atrte the ones I remember. Here is a list of most if not all of them


Daughter of the Mind (1969)
Gidget Grows Up (1969)
Honeymoon with a Stranger (1969)
In Name Only (1969)
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) - series pilot
Arsenic and Old Lace (1969)
Seven in Darkness (1969) (First ABC-TV "Movie of the Week" to be broadcast.)
The Over-the-Hill Gang (1969)
The Ballad of Andy Crocker (1969)
The Immortal (1969) - series pilot
The Monk (1969)
The Young Lawyers (1969) - series pilot
Three's a Crowd (1969)
Wake Me When the War Is Over (1969)
Along Came a Spider (1970)
Carter's Army (1970)
Crowhaven Farm (1970)
Dial Hot Line (1970)
Death Car on the Highway (1973)
How Awful about Allan (1970)
Mister Jerico (1970)
Night Slaves (1970)
Quarantined (1970)
Run, Simon, Run (1970)
The Challenge (1970)
The House That Would Not Die (1970)
The Love War (1970)
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever (1970)
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970)
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again (1970)
The Young Country (1970)
Tribes (1970)
Weekend of Terror (1970)
Wild Women (1970)
A Little Game (1971)
A Taste of Evil (1971)
Alias Smith and Jones (1971) - series pilot
Assault on the Wayne (1971)
Brian's Song (1971)
Earth II (1971)
Congratulations, It's a Boy! (1971)
Deadly Dream (1971)
Death Takes a Holiday (1971)
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)
Dr. Cook's Garden (1971)
Duel (1971)
Escape (1971)
Five Desperate Women (1971)
Hitched (1971)
In Broad Daylight (1971)
In Search of America (1971)
Longstreet (1971) - series pilot
Love Hate Love (1971)
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)
Owen Marshall, Counsellor at Law (1971)
Revenge (1971)
River of Gold (1971)
See the Man Run (1971)
Suddenly Single (1971)
Sweet, Sweet Rachel (1971)
The Birdmen (1971)
The Death of Me Yet (1971)
The Devil and Miss Sarah (1971)
The Failing of Raymond (1971)
The Feminist and the Fuzz (1971)
The Forgotten Man (1971)
The Last Child (1971)
The Reluctant Heroes (1971)
The Sheriff (1971)
The Trackers (1971)
Thief (1971)
Two on a Bench (1971)
What's a Nice Girl Like You...? (1971)
Yuma (1971)
A Great American Tragedy (1972)
All My Darling Daughters (1972)
Call Her Mom (1972)
Every Man Needs One (1972)
Family Flight (1972)
Getting Away from It All (1972)
Gidget Gets Married (1972)
Goodnight, My Love (1972)
Haunts of the Very Rich (1972)
Home for the Holidays (1972)
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife (1972)
Moon of the Wolf (1972)
Night of Terror (1972)
No Place to Run (1972)
Playmates (1972)
Pursuit (1972)
Rolling Man (1972)
Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole (1972)
Second Chance (1972)
Short Walk to Daylight (1972)
That Certain Summer (1972)
The Astronaut (1972)
The Couple Takes a Wife (1972)
The Crooked Hearts (1972)
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe (1972)
The Eyes of Charles Sand (1972)
The Heist (1972)
The Longest Night (1972)
The Night Stalker (1972)
The People (1972)
The Rookies (1972)
The Screaming Woman (1972)
The Victim (1972)
The Weekend Nun (1972)
Two for the Money (1972)
When Michael Calls (1972)
Women in Chains (1972)
A Summer Without Boys (1973)
Beg, Borrow, or Steal (1973)
Blood Sport (1973)
Class of '63 (1973)
Death Race (1973)
Deliver Us from Evil (1973)
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
Dying Room Only (1973)
Female Artillery (1973)
Firehouse (1973)
Go Ask Alice (1973)
Guess Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1973)
Hijack (1973)
Isn't It Shocking? (1973)
Legend in Granite (1973)
Letters from Three Lovers (1973)
Linda (1973)
Maneater (1973)
Message to My Daughter (1973)
Money to Burn (1973)
My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973)
Ordeal (1973)
Outrage (1973)
Pioneer Woman (1973)
Runaway! (1973)
Satan's School for Girls (1973)
Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973)
She Cried Murder (1973)
She Lives! (1973)
Shirts/Skins (1973)
Snatched (1973)
The Affair (1973)
The Alpha Caper (1973)
The Bait (1973)
The Cat Creature (1973)
The Chill Factor (1973)
The Connection (1973)
The Devil's Daughter (1973)
The Gift of Terror (1973)
The Girl Most Likely to... (1973)
The Girls of Huntington House (1973)
The Great American Beauty Contest (1973)
The Letters (1973)
The Man Without a Country (1973)
The Night Strangler (1973)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973)
The Six Million Dollar Man (1973) - series pilot
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War (1973)
The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973)
The Third Girl from the Left (1973)
Toma (1973)
Trapped (1973)
Trouble Comes to Town (1973)
What Are Best Friends For? (1973)
You'll Never See Me Again (1973)
A Cry in the Wilderness (1974)
All the Kind Strangers (1974)
Bad Ronald (1974)
Betrayal (1974)
Can Ellen Be Saved? (1974)
Cry Panic (1974)
Death Cruise (1974)
Death Sentence (1974)
Get Christie Love! (1974)
Heat Wave! (1974)
Hit Lady (1974)
Hitchhike! (1974)
Houston, We've Got a Problem (1974)
Hurricane (1974)
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974)
Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (1974)
Killdozer (1974)
Live Again, Die Again (1974)
Locusts (1974)
Mrs. Sundance (1974)
Murder or Mercy (1974)
Nakia (1974)
Only with Married Men (1974)
Panic on the 5:22 (1974)
Planet Earth (1974)
Pray for the Wildcats (1974)
Scream of the Wolf (1974)
Shootout in a One-Dog Town (1974)
Skyway to Death (1974)
The California Kid (1974)
The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
The Death Squad (1974)
The Elevator (1974)
The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped (1974)
The Godchild (1974)
The Gun (1974)
The Hanged Man (1974)
The Last Angry Man (1974)
The Mark of Zorro (1974)
The Morning After (1974)
The Rangers (1974)
The Sex Symbol (1974)
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974)
The Stranger Within (1974)
This Is the West That Was (1974)
Thursday's Game (1974)
Unwed Father (1974)
Where Have All the People Gone? (1974)
Winter Kill (1974)
Wonder Woman (1974) - series pilot
Starsky and Hutch (1975) - series pilot
A Cry for Help (1975)
Barbary Coast (1975)
Dead Man on the Run (1975)
Hey, I'm Alive (1975)
Huckleberry Finn (1975)
Let's Switch! (1975)
Matt Helm (1975)
Mobile Two (1975)
Promise Him Anything (1975)
Returning Home (1975)
Satan's Triangle (1975)
Someone I Touched (1975)
The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975)
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return (1975)
The Desperate Miles (1975)
The Family Nobody Wanted (1975)
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant (1975)
The Hatfields and the McCoys (1975)
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)
The Missing Are Deadly (1975)
The Nurse Killer (1975)
The Trial of Chaplain Jensen (1975)
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
You Lie So Deep, My Love (1975)
Brenda Starr (1976)
Bridger (1976)
Death at Love House (1976)
High Risk (1976)
Kiss Me, Kill Me (1976)
Panache (1976)
The Great Ice Rip-Off (1976)
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe (1976)
Time Travelers (1976)
Twin Detectives (1976)



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Thanks for the list working2pay...it's great! Brings back lots of memories! ~Lisa

There were so many I recognized after I found the list. Wow there were some good ones!

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wow maybe i`ll come home in the spring with Sally Field.

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Thank you! Now I remember quite a few of them. "Mr & Mrs Bo Jo Jones" I think I also read it. "The Family Nobody Wanted" was another good one.

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Man, those were the days. But the biggie for me was the afterschool specials!! I could hardly sit thru the school day for looking forward to watching them! And remember when Saturday morning cartoons were IT? Pink Panther, Scooby Doo, on and on! Those were the days!!

Bad Ronald..I remember. He killed a young girl by pushing her and she fell on a rock ? The sister of a football player who then goes on to date the new police chief's dd ? Wasn't she named Beth ? The mom of Ronald hid him in a secret room. He started to paint bizarre murals. He was a king..Beth the queen..screy !

I also remember.." when Michael calls"...

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In "Bad Ronald" when the mother hid him in the wall, another family moved into the house I think...I only can picture his eyeball looking through a peep hole in the wall...Scared me to death! ~Lisa

"When Michael Calls" ---Was that the one with Sally Field and her character was "Auntie Mylyn" or something like that? They were trying to make her think she was losing her mind. Of all the ABC Movie of the Week installments I watched, that is the only one I still remember and I'm sure my memory of it is fuzzy at best.

ETA: Ok, it was bugging me so I looked it up -- Elizabeth Ashley was the actress, not Sally Field.

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The kids and I still watch Pink Panther my younger 2 like it

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Trilogy of Terror!!!!

That little doll with that big knife!!! LOL..still gives me the creeps!!

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I remember on the movie " when Michael Calls"..the little boy was crying on the phone that the aunt did not pick him up..and it was raining and cold. He was crying. At the end it turns out some kids from a boys reform school were playing a prank.

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Does anyone remember the one movie..set in civil war times ? I think Clint Eastwood played the male part. A mother and her dd's try to poison the soldier ? Feed him poison in his food ?

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It was funny to read your post, before I opened it, I said, I loved Home For the Holidays. It was the only one I could remember after all these years off the top of my head,
They were some awesome movies, and they hyped them up all week, so you were reallly looking forward to them.

The Beguiled. It's actually a girls school. They feed him poison mushrooms at the end. That movie always made me wonder how they made him look like he had no leg.

Loved Bad Ronald. Don't be Afraid Of The Dark scared me for years, so did Trilogy of Terror. Satans School for Girls I have on dvd, it came on some collection I bought. I remember it from way back when.

Funny, skimming thru the list I see Where Have All The People Gone, I just looked that movie up a few days ago at IMDB, I love that movie.

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I bet these are on youtube. I just watched "Go Ask Alice" and "The Death of Richie" there. Both of those were after school specials 'member?

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