THE 3,000 MILE CHASE DVD (1977) $14.99
run time: 94 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Russ Mayberry
description: Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles, because the drug mob wants to kill them at any price. A casual glance at the cast list for the made-for-TV 3000 Mile Chase might lead one to conclude that stars Cliff De Young and Glenn Ford play dual roles. In fact, De Young is a bonded courier, and Ford is a government witness. Produced by Roy Huggins, 3,000 Mile Chase was a revamping of his earlier busted pilot film Target Risk (1974). Originally telecast June 16, 1977, Chase likewise failed to graduate to a weekly series. WATCH CLIP

AMY PRENTISS: AKA THE CHIEF PILOT DVD (1974) $14.99
run time: 88 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Boris Sagal
description: The two-hour final episode of Ironside's seventh season serves as the pilot film for the spinoff cop series Amy Prentiss. Jessica Walter plays the title character, a hardworking San Francisco police woman who aspires to the position of Chief of Police. Though up against a lot of resistance from the all-male establishment, Amy has a staunch supporter in the form of former chief Robert Ironside (Raymond Burr)

BAFFLED! DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. UK / USA. Color.
directed by: Philip Leacock
description: Leonard Nimoy stars as a race car driver with psychic visions in "Baffled!" After Tom Kovack (Nimoy) reports on television that he had a vision that caused him to lose control of his race car during a competition, he is visited by a psychic (Susan Hampshire) who believes he should follow up on what he saw - a manor house in England. "Baffled" seems to have been a pilot for a TV series. The stars - Hampshire and Nimoy - are delightful, and the story is an interesting one that manages to tie in not only psychic phenomenon but a satanic element as well.

COFFEE, TEA OR ME? DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 74 mins., USA. Color.
directed by: Norman Panama
description: A dirty joke that became a "clean" TV movie, Coffee, Tea or Me stars Karen Valentine, cast to type as a perky stewardess. In a chaste variation of The Captain's Paradise, Valentine finds herself married to two different men in two different countries. Since the men are played by John Davidson and Michael Anderson Jr., each in his own way as cute as Valentine, the girl's dilemma is profound. Until its cop-out ending, Coffee Tea or Me glides through its risque situations with class and finesse. The film was directed by Norman Panama, who earlier had been responsible (in collaboration with Melvin Frank) for such comedies as Danny Kaye's The Court Jester ('56) and the film version of the Broadway musical Li'l Abner ('59). WATCH CLIP

CRASH OF FLIGHT 401 DVD (1978) $14.99
run time: 95 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Barry Shear
description: William Shatner stars in a true story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.

DAUGHTER OF THE MIND DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Walter Grauman
description: Psychologist Don Murray investigates the claim of Nobel prize winning scientist Ray Milland, who insists he has spoken to his young daughter. The thing of it is, the daughter has been dead for several weeks. At first dismissing the claims as the delusions of a grief-stricken man, Murray decides to stick with the case when he notices that the Government is acutely interested in Milland's ethereal "conversations". As the story unfolds, we learn that the apparitions are tied in with a complicated espionage plot. Daughter of the Mind was one of the first high-quality offerings of ABC's Movie of the Week series. The film also represented the TV-movie debut of Gene Tierney, as the other woman in the scientist's life. WATCH CLIP

DEADLY DREAM DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 73 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Alf Kjellin
description: Where do dreams end and reality begins? That's the question facing research scientist Lloyd Bridges in the made-for-TV Deadly Dream. Each night, Bridges suffers nightmares, in which he is on trial for his life before a mysterious tribunal. The whys and wherefores of Bridges' torment are revealed bit by bit throughout the film's 73 minutes. Co-starring Janet Leigh, Leif Erickson, and Don Stroud, The Deadly Dream was the September 25, 1971 installment of ABC's Movie of the Week anthology.

DEADMAN'S CURVE DVD (1978) $14.99
run time: 100 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Richard Compton
description: Deadman's Curve is a made-for-TV biography concerning "California sound" rock-n-rollers Jan and Dean. Richard Hatch plays Jan Berry, while Bruce Davison is seen as Dean Torrence. The meat of the story is Jan's grueling efforts to fully recover from a disastrous 1966 auto accident. The film's most powerful scene occurs when the still-shaky Jan attempts a concert comeback, only to be booed offstage when the audience realizes that he's lip-synching. First telecast February 3, 1978, Deadman's Curve is seasoned with cameo appearances by Dick Clark, Wolfman Jack, and Beach Boys Mike Love and Bruce Johnson.

DEATH CAR ON THE FREEWAY DVD (1979) $14.99
run time: 91 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Hal Needham
description: Former stuntman Hal Needham employed several of his old professional comrades in his made-for-TV Death Car on the Freeway. Shelley Hack plays a TV reporter investigating a series of freeway murders. Some demented van driver is swerving around and about, killing female motorists. This being Los Angeles, Shelley has at least a million suspects-daily-to choose from. This otherwise standard thriller is pepped up by the presence of several TV veterans, including George Hamilton, Frank Gorshin, Peter Graves, Dinah Shore, Harriet Nelson, Barbara Rush and Abe Vigoda. Death Car on the Freeway first aired September 25, 1979.

THE DEATH OF OCEAN VIEW PARK DVD (1979) $14.99
run time: 100 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: E.W. Swackhamer
description: The demolition of a real-life amusement park in Norfolk, Virginia was excuse enough for made-for-television movie The Death of Ocean View Park. Factual footage of the park's destruction is blended into a fictional plotline by screenwriters John Furia Jr. and Barry Oringer. Mike Connors, Diana Canova, Perry Lang, Caroline McWilliams and James Stephens are among a group of funfair revellers who attend OceanView Park on the Fourth of July. It isn't long before Mother Nature puts on a real fireworks display-a devastating hurricane. WATCH CLIP

DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Robert Butler
description: Death (Monte Markham) takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman (Yvette Mimieux). This 1971 TV movie remake of the 1934 film of the same name, Death Takes A Holiday is a very tender story for fans of romance with supernatural undertones.

DISCO BEAVER FROM OUTER SPACE DVD (1979) $14.99
run time: 51 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Joshua White
description: National Lampoons mockery of everything that is wrong with cable TV. For anyone who remembers the 70's it is a real blast from the past on the attitudes and stupidity of that time, with some seedy comedy that is funnier than anything going on today. A collection of completely disconnected sketches that are portrayed as if the viewer is channel surfing, this is the perfect movie for a group of immature high-school kids or a group of immature older people to pop in the VCR and laugh at and remember the 70's. Credited cast: Lynn Redgrave, Rodger Bumpass, Alice Playten, James Widdoes, Lee Wilkof, Michael Simmons, and Sarah Durkee. Writing and producing staff includes Tony Hendra and Harry Shearer of Spinal Tap fame.

DO NOT FOLD, SPINDLE, OR MUTILATE DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 74 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Ted Post
description: Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Myrna Loy and Sylvia Sidney star as four elderly pranksters devoted to practical jokes. When one of the ladies gets hold of a computer-dating questionnaire, the others invent a mythical girl and feed the falsified information into the computer. Alas, the description matches a very real young lady, who becomes the target of a murderous rapist (Vince Edwards). Attacked at the time of its release for making light of a potentially deadly situation, Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate led to the casting of Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick in the weekly detective series The Snoop Sisters.

THE FAILING OF RAYMOND DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 73 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Boris Sagal
description: Jane Wyman makes her TV-movie debut in The Failing of Raymond. She plays a middle-aged schoolteacher on the verge of retirement. Just before packing up and heading out, she is terrorized by former student Dean Stockwell. Having flunked out of her class ten years earlier, the demented man intends to kill his ex-teacher unless she changes his grade. Talk about your "permanent record"! The Failing of Raymond debuted November 27, 1971.

A FAMILY UPSIDE DOWN DVD (1978) $14.99
run time: 98 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: David Lowell Rich
description: A Family Upside Down stars Fred Astaire and Helen Hayes as a retired married couple. Always proud of his independence and resilience, Astaire suffers a sudden heart attack. Though he recovers, Hayes is unable to care for Astaire herself, so she and her husband are compelled to move in with son Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and daughter-in-law Pat Crowley. Astaire's heart problems persist, and the family must face the unpleasant alternative of placing him in a nursing home. Though A Family Upside Down threatens to become an uninterrupted wallow in misery, the film takes several unexpected twists and arrives at a reasonably upbeat conclusion. A Family Upside Down co-stars Patty Duke Astin as Astaire and Hayes' emotionally overwrought daughter. The made-for-TV film, which won Fred Astaire the last of his many Emmy awards, originally aired April 9, 1978.

FEAR NO EVIL DVD (1969) $14.99
run time: 98 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Paul Wendkos
description: Richard Alan Simmons, scriptwriter of Fear No Evil, evidently held fond memories of the old British chiller Dead of Night (a cornucopia of inspiration for programs like The Twilight Zone). The "Mirror Sequence" in the earlier film was gussied up for the basic plotline of this 1969 TV-movie. Bradford Dillman purchases an antique mirror, which turns out to be the portal for a supernatural world. Upon Dillman's death, his fiancee (Lynda Day George) discovers that the mirror might be able to bring back her lost lover. Fear No Evil did so well in the overnight ratings that it spawned a sequel, 1970's Ritual of Evil.

THE GREAT AMERICAN BEAUTY CONTEST DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 74 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Robert Day
description: An unsubtle but effective TV-movie satire of the "Miss America" syndrome, Great American Beauty Contest stars Joanna Cameron as a fire-breathing feminist who enters the contest of the title. She plans to win the crown, then utterly destroy the contest by delivering a scathing attack on exploitation and sexism instead of an acceptance speech. A subplot concerns contest judge Louis Jourdan, who uses his position to extract sexual favors from the more desperate contestants. We won't spoil the twist ending, but we will note that one of the contestants is played by Farrah Fawcett, whose specialty is an endearingly ridiculous belly dance.

HAUNTS OF THE VERY RICH DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 75 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Paul Wendkos
description: A group of people, all of whom, we can only assume, are Very Rich, are on a plane flying to an island resort. When they land, they are greeted by a mysterious black man (Moses Gunn), and the plot thickens. Cloris Leachman gets a makeover from a mysterious black woman in a scene laden with homoerotic undertones, and Lloyd Bridges falls in love with her. We come to find out that Robert Reed is a minister tormented by his own conflicted spirituality. We also come to find out that just before setting off on their journey, each of the "guests" had narrowly escaped death -- or had they? WATCH CLIP

"HE & SHE" TV Series DVD (1967) 3-disc $23.99
run time: 264 minutes. USA. Color.
description: Dick and Paula Hollister (Richard Benjamin & Paula Prentiss) are a witty, sophisticated couple living in New York City. Dick is a comic-book artist who has become well-known for creating a superhero called Jetman, which has been turned into a TV show starring egocentric actor Oscar North (Jack Cassidy.) 12 episodes on 3 discs.

THE INVASION OF CAROL ENDERS DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 66 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Burt Brinckerhoff
description: Family Ties matriarch Meredith Baxter (before she added the Birney) plays the titular heroine in an early TV movie appearance. In the film, Baxter's Carol Enders is inhabited by the spirit of a murdered woman who needs a human vessel to tell the world that she was murdered. Carol and the victim team up to solve the mystery. WATCH CLIP

ISN'T IT SHOCKING? DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 73 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: John Badham
description: This curious made-for-TV movie stars Alan Alda as a police detective in a small New England town. The community's elderly are dying at an unusual rate, prompting Alda to investigate. He deduces that the old folks are being murdered, but can't find a motive (there are no robberies involved, and none of the victims have any enemies to speak of). The hunt for the killer becomes personal when Alda's best friend, police chief Lloyd Nolan, falls victim to the unknown assailant. With the help of his funky girlfriend Louise Lasser, Alda assembles the clues and arrives at a startling conclusion. Isn't it Shocking? is enhanced by the presence of several veteran character actors, including Ruth Gordon as a disheveled cat fancier.

KILLDOZER DVD (1974) $14.99
run time: 74 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Jerry London
description: This inventive and genuinely creepy TV movie is scripted by acclaimed science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon. The plot involves a group of construction workers building an airstrip on a South Pacific island during World War II, who disrupt an ancient native temple and uncover a strange meteorite sealed within its walls. When they attempt to move the massive rock with one of their bulldozers, the noncorporeal entity contained within it enters the machine itself, which later grinds to malevolent life and attacks the team members. Boasting high production values and excellent special effects for a TV production, Killdozer is propelled by a unique premise that has garnered the attention of the likes of Stephen King, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and Conan O'Brien.

L.A. 2017 DVD (1971) $14.99 new transfer!
run time: 74 minutes. USA. Color.
directed by: Steven Spielberg
description: "L.A. 2017" was a 1971 episode of the television series The Name of the Game. A science fiction piece shot for only $375,000, "L.A. 2017" revolves around a publisher (Gene Barry) who finds himself suddenly plunged 46 years into the future only to find that the people of Los Angeles are living underground to escape the pollution and under the thumb of a fascist government run by psychiatrists. The 24-year-old director Steven Spielberg used imaginative camera angles to drive the movie-length television episode across. Special features includes trailer and 1977 Stephen Spielberg interview.

LOVE FOR RENT DVD (1979) $14.99
run time: 100 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: David Miller
description: Lisa Eilbacher is the innocent midwestern girl who comes to wicked old New York looking for her sister Annette O'Toole. O'Toole is now gainfully employed by an "escort bureau" (note those quote marks), and Eilbacher is likewise drawn into this questionable lifestyle. The ad copy for this TV movie notes that the sisters are "forced to face reality", which is more than the scriptwriters did. Not surprisingly, Love for Rent was based on a Playboy magazine story (by Don Pierce). Its initial audience on November 11, 1979, was most likely close to zero, since a rival network was offering the TV premiere of Dog Day Afternoon.

NIGHT CHASE DVD (1970) $14.99
run time: 95 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Jack Starrett
description: AKA "L.A. Cab" Will David Janssen never stop being a fugitive? In the made-for-TV Night Chase, he's a Los Angelino on the lam after shooting his wife's lover. Believing he's killed the man, Janssen boards Yaphet Kotto's taxi and orders Kotto to head for Mexico. The film's level of suspense holds up until the end, when the logic holes begin widening. Night Chase went into production with the more appropriate title The Man in the Back Seat. WATCH CLIP

NO PLACE TO RUN DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 78 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Delbert Mann
description: The made-for-television No Place to Run stars Herschel Bernardi as a seriously ill 73-year-old grandparent. Despite his many ailments, Bernardi is roused into action when he is denied custody of his orphaned grandson (Scott Jacoby). Grandpa and grandson decide to skip town together, with the authorities hot on their heels. Ironically, production of No Place to Run had to shut down briefly when star Herschel Bernardi fell ill for real. During this period, original director John Badham had to leave for another commitment; the film was completed by Delbert Mann, who receives sole directorial credit. Advertised as a "touching film drama" (well, it was!), No Place to Run debuted on September 19, 1972.

ORDEAL DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Lee H. Katzin
description: In this dark drama filmed in the Mojave Desert, a businessman fights to survive and get his revenge after being left to die in the desert by his wife and her lover. Starring Arthur Hill, Diana Muldaur, and James Stacy (in the last appearance that he ever made before losing his left arm and left leg in a 1973 motorcycle accident involving a drunk driver.)

OUTRAGE DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 74 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Richard T. Heffron
description: In this 1973 Movie of the Week, Jim Kiler (Robert Culp) decides to wage war against a gang of teenage punks besieging an affluent community. When he complains, one of the youths tries to run him over. Kiler files charges against the boy and harassment turns to terrorism, where the lives of his family are threatened. After a wave of destruction and violence, Kiler wages a one-man war against the marauding youths. Based on a true incident, this story originally was titled "One Angry Man."

PLAYMATES DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 74 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Theodore J. Flicker
description: Two divorced men (Alan Alda & Doug McClure) meet and become friends, but unbeknownst to each other, start dating each other's ex-wives (Connie Stevens & Barbara Feldon). More believable and three-dimensional than most quickie TV-movies of its ilk, Playmates benefits from the enthusiastic performances of its stars and the perceptive script by Richard Baer. Directed by Theodore J. Flicker (The Presidents Analyst, co-creater of Barney Miller), this made-for-television film originally aired October 3, 1972.

THE PRESIDENT'S PLANE IS MISSING DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 100 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Daryl Duke
description: While on the brink of a military confrontation with China, Air Force One crashes in the desert, killing the President (Tod Andrews). This brings Vice-President Kermit Madigan (Buddy Ebsen) to power who, having been left in the dark by the president, must now rely on his predecessor's advisor (Rip Torn) to guide him. But they have markedly different viewpoints and hidden agendas. Will he blunder his way into a nuclear exchange with the Chinese?

SHE CRIED MURDER DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 74 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Herschel Daugherty
description: Beautiful model Sarah Cornell (Lynda Day George) witnesses a woman being pushed in front of a train while riding in the subway. But when the police come to interview her, she recognizes one of them as the man who did the pushing (Telly Savalas). She spends the rest of the movie trying to convince the good cop, that Telly is a bad cop; and Telly spends the rest of the movie chasing her around the city and finally to the subway yards. Only now the police, having finally been convinced, have joined in the chase. WATCH CLIP

A SHORT WALK TO DAYLIGHT DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 73 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Barry Shear
description: Eight people are trapped in a New York subway when an Earthquake rocks the surface. In darkness, the all-TV cast struggles to make its way to the upperworld. The tie-in with Poseidon was solidified by the print ads for this film, which showed the cast members sloshing about in a flooded subway tunnel. A Short Walk to Daylight was partially filmed on location in the Big Apple.

THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE DVD (1975) $14.99
run time: 86 mins. UK. Color.
directed by: Peter Collinson
description: This made-for-television remake of a taut thriller from 1946 concerns a small-town psycho stalking disabled female victims, whom he shoots with a silencer pistol. His next intended prey is a poor young woman who cannot speak. Starring Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law, and Gayle Hunnicutt.

THE STRANGE POSSESSION OF MRS.OLIVER DVD (1977) $14.99
run time: 71 minutes. Color. USA.
directed by: Gordon Hessler
description: A perfectly coherent Richard Matheson script is accompanied by Gordon Hessler's kaleidoscopic direction in the made-for-TV The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver. Karen Black plays the title role, a dowdy, downtrodden housewife plagued by recurring nightmares. Seeking an escape from her stifling lifestyle, Black dons a blonde wig, garish makeup, and a new identity. But it turns out that the woman Black pretends to be may actually exist--and may have more than a passing knowledge of the Occult. Karen Black's unique performance is but one of many enjoyments of The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver.

SUDDENLY SINGLE DVD (1971) $14.99
run time: 73 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Jud Taylor
description: Suddenly Single is an assembly-line ABC Movie of the Week, given extra value by its attractive star lineup. The ball gets rolling when pharmacist Hal Holbrook is served divorce papers rather than dinner by his wife. Having been out of circulation since his marriage, the handsome but befuddled Holbrook plunges into the '70s singles scene. Comedy alternates with drama until the finale. The all-TV cast includes Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman here seen at their least excessive in their pre-Mel Brooks days.

SUPERDOME DVD (1978) $14.99
run time: 100 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Jerry Jameson
description: An upcoming Super Bowl provides the framework for this suspenseful thriller set in New Orleans. The trouble begins when a murderous stalker begins threatening assorted lovers, gamblers, and con artists who typically surround the big game. It seems that the syndicate doesn't want the highly favored Cougars to win. They tried to get the teams trainer to drug or incapacitate some players, and when he refuses he is killed. So, the team's manager has to try and find out who the killer is, before he does some real damage. Featuring a roster fill of familiar TV faces including David Janssen, Edie Adams, Clifton Davis, Donna Mills, Ed Nelson, Tom Selleck, and many many more! WATCH CLIP

TERROR ON THE BEACH DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 74 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Paul Wendkos
description: Terror on the Beach stars Dennis Weaver and Estelle Parsons as the parents of a family vacationing on the shores of California. A gang of vicious, marauding teenagers invade the campsite and proceed to make the family's life hell. Weaver resists giving into violence until the fierce climax, where he proves just as capable of evil as his tormentors. The highlight of this grim charade is a dune-buggy chase, far better staged and photographed than most of the violent set-pieces. Made for television, Terror on the Beach was filmed on location at California's Pismo Beach. WATCH CLIP

THAT CERTAIN SUMMER DVD (1972) $14.99
run time: 73 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Lamont Johnson
description: A teenager must deal with his divorced father's homosexuality in this made-for-tv movie written by the Emmy-winning writing team of Richard Levinson and William Link (Columbo, Mannix). Hal Holbrook stars as a middle-aged divorced man, whose son played by Scott Jacoby cannot fathom the reason for his parents' split. During a summer visit, Jacoby meets his father's much-younger "best friend," played by Martin Sheen. Holbrook hedges, but finds he can no longer hold back the truth from his son: Sheen is Holbrook's male lover. Originally telecast on November 1, 1972, That Certain Summer was the first TV film to take a mature and non-remonstrative approach to the subject of homosexuality. WATCH CLIP

TRAPPED DVD (1973) $14.99
run time: 90 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Frank De Felitta
description: Trapped stars James Brolin as an casual shopper who is mugged in the men's room of a huge department store. Rendered unconscious, Brolin awakens late at night, long after the store has closed. That's when he discovers himself at the mercy of six vicious guard dogs, trained to tear apart any and all intruders. Instead of simply remaining in the bathroom until morning (that would be too logical), Brolin tries to outsmart his bare-fanged canine foes in order to make his way to the exit. The made-for-TV Trapped stretches its already attenuated premise way beyond its value by adding a gratuitous subplot.

ZUMA BEACH DVD (1978) $14.99
run time: 104 mins. USA. Color.
directed by: Lee H. Katzin
description: Rare made-for-television movie written by John Carpenter! A fading rock singer (Suzanne Somers) goes to the beach to get away from it all and winds up getting involved in the lives of the teenage beachgoers. With Kimberly Beck, Perry Lang, Michael Biehn, Rosanna Arquette, Steve Franken, PJ Soles, Tanya Roberts, Timothy Hutton and Janus Blythe. Carpenter's Halloween (also with Soles) was released the same year this aired on NBC-TV. WATCH CLIP