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Book Review! The Case of the Alliterative Attorney: A Guide to the Perry...
I admit that I have a mostly casual relationship with the long running Perry Mason TV series. This association was so informal, in fact, that the only guest star I could rattle off the top of my head...
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Visions... (1972)
Network: CBSOriginal Airdate: October 10, 1972On the surface it would seem Professor Mark Lowell (Monte Markham) has an enviable life. He’s a well to do academic with a gorgeous and doting girlfriend...
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Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium, 1964-1999... Edited by...
Anyone who visits Made for TV Mayhem certainly has a deep affection not just for retro television, but also for the classic Movie of the Week. In the 1970s, the ABC MOW was churning out film after...
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Must See Streaming Movie of the Week: Mind Over Murder (1979)
Network: CBS Original Airdate: October 23rd, 1979 In 1979, the Golden Age of made for television horror movies was arguably in the rearview mirror, but that’s not to say that good genre TVMs weren’t on...
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TV Terror Blogathon: The House that Wouldn't Die (1970)
Just in time for Halloween, this post was part of the Terror TV Blogathon hosted by the Classic TV Blog Association. There are tons of creepy reads ahead, so check out what's scary to others in the...
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Monster Fest is right around the corner!
So, like, as you probably already know (cuz I've said it a thousand times and I apologize for that), I have a book coming out titled Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium: 1964-1999! And to...
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End of Year Stuff... and 2017 Goals!
Sometimes you can't go Home for the Holidays again!So, for the last 100 years or so I've been writing at least one annual holiday post for my blog. I do it because it gets me in the spirit and because...
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City Killer (1984)
Network: NBCOriginal Airdate: October 28, 1984As a genre that sort of falls somewhere in the middle of highbrow and lowbrow entertainment, the made for television movie was able to play around with...
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TV Spot Tuesday: Sharing Richard (1988)
Network: CBSAirdate: April 26th, 1988To promote the airing of Sharing Richard, the network released a brief statement declaring the film "explores a timely phenomenon: the shortage of single men for...
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The Classic Film and TV Cafe Present a TV Movie Blogathon: Strange Homecoming...
Welcome to a fantastic TV Movie Blogathon, hosted by the fine folks at The Classic Film and TV Cafe! You can check out all of the entries here. And, keep the TV movie love alive, y'all (and...
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Oh my gosh! Will I ever have time to blog again... is the name of this blog post
Here I am, again, writing a post about why I can't write a post. It's a little annoying on this end. But only a little. I have a lot of really great stuff happening, and just wanted to update anyone...
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Talking TV at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies: The Films
For those of you interested in what I discussed whilst I was in London last week attempting to sound scholarly (see how I used "whilst"... I've become so British!), or if you came and were interested...
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An Element of Truth (1995)
Network: CBS Original Airdate: September 26th, 1995 After taking a couple of years off from her bad girl role as Abby Cunningham Ewing on Knots Landing, Donna Mills revisited her femme fatale roots in...
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Update!
Here I am, with yet another update, but I will posting a new review soon too! Hooray! I've really missed this place.That's my name on there!!! I think the biggest news that I haven't posted here is...
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Cry Rape (1973)
Network: CBSOriginal Airdate: November 27, 1973Fresh off of the daytime drama, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Andrea Marcovicci took another dramatic turn in the harrowing but flawed Cry Rape, which...
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Staying AfterSchool with Lance Guest
It's so difficult not to gush here. I'm a life long lover of Lance Guest, having discovered him as a teenager in The Last Starfighter. I remember his stint on Lou Grant, and always love when he shows...
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Let's Talk Summer of Fear: An Interview with Lisa Holmes of Music Box...
Lee Purcell as Julia Trent in Summer of Fear. © Micheline Keller/Courtesy ofDoppelgänger ReleasingUmmm... can we just call 2017 the Year of the TV Movie? With the release of The Spell, the...
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The Alamo Drafthouse's Terror Tuesday Presents The Made for TV Mystery Movie!...
OK, so the title pretty much tells you all you need to know! But just to reiterate, I was asked by Joseph Ziemba of the Alamo Drafthouse if I'd like to help him program some mystery tele-terrors every...
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The Classic TV Blog Association Presents The Classic TV Villain Blogathon:...
Network: ABCOriginal Airdate: January 15th, 1972Sometimes you run into something so (wonderfully) bonkers, you are left a little beyond words. When the thing that is loopy happens to be a TV movie, you...
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News, News, and Some News
I'm exhausted, but undeniably glamorous!I'm so sorry I haven't been able to keep things moving on my blog in the ways I'd like, but I have lotsa news that I'm, like, crazy excited about! I guess we'll...
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More News!
Just popping in a with a little news. Also, do you have a cup of sugar I could borrow?While it's true I don't want my blog to just become a bookmark for other things, I have been so incredibly busy...
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Hollywood Television Theater: The Scarecrow (1972)
Network: PBSOriginal Airdate: January 10th, 1972When Percy MacKaye wrote his play The Scarecrow in 1908, he only meant for his audience to make the loosest connections to its obvious inspiration,...
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Miskatonic Talk (No. 3): A list
I just gave my thirdMiskatonic Institute of Horror Studies talk on February 7th. Again, it was all about TV genre movies, but since it was longer than my talk in London, a few things have changed....
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Hooray! Rondo Nominations and other MFTVM News!
If you follow my social media, you may have seen that I was nominated for three Rondo Awards this year! But in case you haven't, I just wanted to spread the word on ye old blog, with a little info on...
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Must See Streaming TV Project: Insight (1960-1985)
If you follow any of my social media, you've probably seen my recent posts on TV movies streaming on Amazon Prime. I have found a gazillion amazing TVMs and the feedback on my posts has been quite...
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