TV Spot Tuesday: Toma
I shouldn’t be too ashamed to admit that I’ve never seen Toma. According to Wikipedia, the short-lived series never ran in syndication. For years, I’ve heard of the infamous show but had no idea it was...
View ArticleMe-TV's Summer of Classic TV Blogathon
As a non-cable-renting-retro-TV-loving gal, I adore Me-TV. It is our home's one stop shop for great entertainment. You can imagine my excitement when the folks at the Classic TV Blog Association and...
View ArticleTV Spot Tuesday and an Announcement: It’s Soapalicious!
I wasn’t joking when I said that soap operas were just like their characters – they never truly die. And it looks like All My Children and One Life to Live will be resurrected yet again when they...
View ArticleIt's the Summer of Amazon Prime!
As a full time student, I know how important it is to stretch a penny so thin you can see through it. Tuition is expensive enough, but add the extra costs of textbooks, parking and other sundries and...
View Article10 Reasons You Should Be Watching All My Children and One Life to Live
Lust, sex, betrayal and fabulous hair are all synonymous with soap operas. And All My Children and One Life to Live have lost little of that sometimes-elegant/sometimes-tawdry luster during their movie...
View ArticleColumbo: The Most Dangerous Match
This post is part of Me-TV's Summer of Classic TV Blogathon hosted by the Classic TV Blog Association. Please visit the Classic TV Blog Association website to view more posts in this blogathon. You can...
View Article(Re)Construction Worker Wanted: Reconsidering Joe Gerard on Rhoda
This post is part of Me-TV's Summer of Classic TV Blogathon hosted by the Classic TV Blog Association. Please visit the Classic TV Blog Association's website to view more posts in this blogathon. You...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Bert Convy!
Anyone who visits my blog has probably, ahem, noticed how much I adore Bert Convy. His unflagging likability and boyish good looks have always impressed me, and he was a mainstay of my more formative...
View ArticleTV Spot Tuesday: SOAP!
When SOAP premiered on ABC on September 13th, 1977, I was not allowed to watch it. I remember it came on fairly late at night (9:30 on Tuesdays), and I must have been getting ready for bed at that...
View ArticleChildren of the Lotus Eaters (aka God Bless the Children, 1970)
Network: NBCOriginal Air Date: December 14th, 1970As a genre, the made for television movie often gets pushed to the back of the line with regards to its importance. The “message film,” which was a...
View ArticleTV Spot Tuesday: All That Glitters (1977)
Perhaps it was somewhat meant to be when I ran across the above scan I took for the short-lived series All That Glitters. I remember scanning it because I thought it was for a mini-series. Seriously,...
View ArticleNews, Links and Summer Fun!
It's been a long and strange summer (if I'm going to be honest about it) but as the season draws to a close and school looms just around the corner (egads!), a couple of cool things appeared along my...
View ArticleWhoopee for Me! Me-TV that is!
Last night Me-TV announced their new fall schedule and they weren't joking when they said they had some big announcements.First of all, they are going to be showing Love Boat on Sundays at 2 pm! I'm...
View ArticleHitchhike! (1974)
Network: ABC Original Air Date: February 23rd, 1974 Despite Cloris Leachman’s impressive career before she joined the Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970, I knew the actress best as Phyllis Lindstrom....
View ArticleLive Tweet TV Movie Party?
Me-TV listed the first made for TV movie they'll be airing on their Made for TV Movie Friday! Looks like Perry Mason goes to bat for my favorite channel on September 6th at 8 PM with the 1989 flick The...
View ArticleThose Secrets (1992)
Network: ABCOriginal Air Date: March 16th, 1992OK, maybe I’ve been taking too many critical theory classes, but I think the bizarre and fascinating TVM Those Secrets may be the first post-structuralist...
View ArticleCrowhaven Farm (1970)
Network: ABCOriginal Air Date: November 24th, 1970The 1970s were all about duking it out with the devil.We saw it on the big screen with films like The Exorcist and The Omen, making it inevitable that...
View ArticleHaunted by Her Past (aka Secret Passions, 1987)
Network: NBCOriginal Air Date: October 5th, 1987I’m not really sure what rock I was hiding under in 1987, but by all indications, I should have not only seen Haunted by Her Past but I also should have...
View ArticleScream Factory Getting Into TV Terrors!
I was ridiculously excited when I saw the news yesterday that Scream Factory is releasing The Initiation of Sarah and Are You in the House Alone on a DVD two pack!This is some kind of awesome double...
View ArticleUpdate
Me after mid-termsThere's so much going on here at Casa By Night that the entire month of September has passed me by and I haven't had a chance to write about, much less watch any, TV movies... Sad...
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