This is the 1973 TV-movie with Kim Darby and Jim Hutton. It's about the three nasty creatures conspiring to capture Darby while slowly driving her crazy.

I finally broke down and bought the DVD off EBAY.

I was fully expecting to be disappointed since I hadn't seen it since I was 11. Usually, those kind of movie memories are sadly dashed when watching as an adult. Much to my surprise, it stands the test of time very well.

I thoroughly enjoyed it and my daughter has been turning the lights on throughout the house since it ended. Some of the effects hold up better than others, but there are some truly creepy shots and director John Newland uses them with restraint.

Has anyone else seen it lately?

I remember that!

Now if someone would only release Crowhaven Farm and The Poeple. :)

... and Trilogy of Terror and The Dark Secret of Harvest Home.

Killdozer!!!!!

I need to get a copy of that myself!!
also the Reincarnation of Peter Prowd (sp)

Got "dark" from Monsters In Motion a couple months ago. John P, thanks for the reminder on Crowhaven Farm, Hope Lange I believe, one of my favorites of that ABC movie of the week era. Speaking of which, I also have Go Ask Alice and Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)(Sally Field, David Carradine), great artifacts of the time.

I'd like to see Jim Hutton's Ellery Queen episodes again, Encore ran them once.

There are several of the early movies of the week I'd like to get: Night Slaves, Satan's Triangle, Cold Night's Death, Tribes, The Last Child.

My personal favorite was "Satan's School for Girls". And let's not forget Lloyd Bridges and Angie Dickenson in "The Love War". Oh, and does anyone remember "The Norliss Tapes"? Great stuff!

I had a crush on Kim Darby (and Shirley Jones) hee hee

I remember that!

Now if someone would only release Crowhaven Farm and The Poeple. :)
Oh, God no! Not The Poeple! Those horrible creatures from... Poeple-ville!

Aaaaaahhhhhh!

ABC Movie of the Week: "How Awful about Allan", another creepy one.

With Bradford Dillman, right? I was going to mention that one too. He was blind? Which reminds me, anyone remember See No Evil with Mia Farrow? That one really creeped me as a kid.

"Bad Ronald" (with a post-Zira Kim Hunter).

Re: "The People" ... Didn't Francis Coppola produce this? And wasn't Shatner in it? I seem to recall it was directed by someone like Hal Barwood or Matthew Robbins or John Korty -- one of the 70's-era Zoetrope gang.

Love to see it again.

The Old Man Who Cried Wolf with Edward G. Robinson. Also, Bad Ronald was great, oh yeah! Because I did Fantasy art, had curly brown hair and a bad attitude, and my name is Ronald, there was this girl I used to like who called me "Bad Ronald". I guess she just didn't "get" me. My current love "gets" me. It's a nice feeling.

Scott Jacoby, in the above, also was the son in That Certain Summer, a landmark TV moment with Martin Sheen and Hal Holbrook that there wasn't anything wrong with (that).

With Bradford Dillman, right? I was going to mention that one too. He was blind? Which reminds me, anyone remember See No Evil with Mia Farrow? That one really creeped me as a kid.

See No Evil is available on DVD. It's theatrical. Although from a later time, I'd like to have The Key to Rebecca mini-series. Not as good as the book(what is) but still pretty good. I can still remember the very first ABC Tuesday movie of the Week when it premiered as a weekly series. Had something to do with a plane load of blind people that crashes on a mountain and the survivors try to make it back to civilization(a la Poseidon Adv.), all blind. Seem to remember had Sally Struthers and Barry Nelson in it. Still remember everybody talking about Night Stalker at school the next day. What other shows started as a ABC movie of the week? I can think of The Immortal, Kung Fu, Alias Smith and Jones, Six Million Dollar Man, Get Christie Love.

Pray for the Wildcats
Pray for the Wildcats
Pray for the Wildcats
Pray for the Wildcats

also,

WHERE HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE GONE

DEATH CRUISE

THE HORROR AT 37000 FEET

MURDER ON FLIGHT 502 (I actually saw this on dvd for 2 bucks at Walmart last year and hesitated ... he who hesitates ... )

There were a load of well-told stories on the ABC movie of the week (especially the Tuesday one.) One of those David Janssen helicopter ones hit DVD last week, BIRDS OF PREY, and I'm thinking about getting that, as it is quintessential Janssen, with Ralph Meeker too.

Loved the theme song and the Trumbull slitscan credit logo on the ABC MOWs, too!

I loved those old Police Story movies that spawned Police Woman and SWAT and usually starred "Dandy" Don Merideth.

THE HORROR AT 37000 FEET

My god, I haven't thought of this movie in over 30 years, the the mere mention of the name brings back the scene where the "horror" kills the german shepard in the cargo hold...

Or am I thinking of a different horror movie set on a jet?

There were a load of well-told stories on the ABC movie of the week (especially the Tuesday one.) One of those David Janssen helicopter ones hit DVD last week, BIRDS OF PREY, and I'm thinking about getting that, as it is quintessential Janssen, with Ralph Meeker too.
Right, that was the one with Janssen as a former military pilot who's bored with his traffic-reporting job — until he gets a chance to play the hero again by chasing a gang of robbers who make their getaway in a helicopter (!). There's a scene where Janssen's chopper is low on fuel, so he lands in the middle of a highway, flags down a passing gasoline tanker truck, and the driver obligingly lets him fill 'er up! And, to add inaccuracy to implausibility, Janssen's helo is a Hughes 500 — which, like all modern helicopters, is turboshaft powered and runs on JET FUEL!

Loved the theme song and the Trumbull slitscan credit logo on the ABC MOWs, too!Some trivia about the theme music: Composer Burt Bacharach and then-wife Angie Dickinson had a daughter, Nikki, who was born extremely premature and was thought to have virtually no chance of surviving. To celebrate the baby's survival despite the odds, Bacharach wrote an instrumental piece titled "Nikki" — which eventually became the "ABC Movie of the Week" theme.

I loved Birds of Prey. I'd love to see it again.

Anybody remember a 1969 film called "Last Summer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064573/)?" It starred Barbara Hershey and, I think, John Boy Walton. It was about a group of teens summering at the beach. Had a very dark edge to it. Nothing spooky about it, just a darksocial commentary. It was also notable as the catalyst for Barbara Hershy to change her last name to "Seagull" for a few years. Hey, it was the 60s.

Then, of course, there was the classic ghost-story romance "Sandcastles (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069217/)" with Bonnie Bedelia and Jan-Michael Vincent. Much better than the awkward Demi Moore/Patrick Swayze "Ghost." I'd love to see that one again!

Another great 70s spooky movie that I do have on tape is "The Mephisto Waltz (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067419/)". Alan Alda and the radiant Jaqueline Bisset star as a couple that get caught up in a Svengali-like Kurt Jurgens' devli-worshipping coven. There was a scene of summoning Satan that scared the crap out of me, and the ending was a true shocker.

Some of these old tv movies are on dvd. The is a box set called Beasts of Terror that has Moon of the Wolf(David Jansen as sherriff and Bradford Dillman as werewolf). Scream of the Wolf(directed by Dan Curtis with Peter Graves and Clint Walker). Snow Beast(schlock with Yvette Mimieux and abominable snowman terrorizing ski resort).
A box set called Killer Snakes has the tv movie Fer-De-Lance also with David Jannsen and Hope Lange. Killer snakes on submarine cause it to crash on ocean floor. This is a Leslie Stevens(Outer Limits) Daystar Production. The other movies in the set suck.

I typically don't care very much for movies that try to scare me ... although I appreciate them far more now than when I was younger. I remember being absolutely freaked out when I saw Let's Scare Jessica to Death as a fairly small child. Much more recently, the freakiest thing I saw was an hour (or maybe half-hour) TV adaptation of "Gotcha!" -- I think that's a Ray Bradbury short story (correct me if I'm wrong). Some bizarre visuals in it that I found quite disturbing.

Qapla'

SSB

I typically don't care very much for movies that try to scare me ...
SSB

it's the ones that do scare you everybody likes

Gargoyles

Daughter of the Mind

Moon of the Wolf

- GJS

Gargoyles is actually available.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000IO3W/ref=ase_imdb-adbox/102-1059383-8740121?v=glance&s=dvd

I'd plum forgot that Jennifer Salt was in it (what a cutey!) and danged if Scott Glenn wasn't in it too.

My god, I haven't thought of this movie in over 30 years, the the mere mention of the name brings back the scene where the "horror" kills the german shepard in the cargo hold...

Or am I thinking of a different horror movie set on a jet?


That's the right one, the dog freezes I think. Stewardesses had non-functional (but decorative) short skirts, Shat is a priest who lost his faith, and I thin Paul Winfield and Buddy Ebsen are in it as well (maybe Robert Hooks?) There's a superhokey matte shot at the end when somebody goes airborne w/o a plane around him, but that was part of the appeal.

I loved those old Police Story movies that spawned Police Woman and SWAT and usually starred "Dandy" Don Merideth.

Joe Forrester (a knockoff from BLUE KNIGHT) was another POLICE STORY original, I think, though SWAT was spun off from a ROOKIES episode (ABC, y 'know.)

Dandy Don played a pilot in an NBC plane movie ... that might be the ONLY airplane movie from the 70s I never saw (figured Dean Martin as a pilot stretched credulity to a point that I couldn't accept Don, even as a teen.) But he was pretty natural and good in the cop things with Tony Lobianca.

Dandy Don played a pilot in an NBC plane movie ... that might be the ONLY airplane movie from the 70s I never saw (figured Dean Martin as a pilot stretched credulity to a point that I couldn't accept Don, even as a teen.)
With all the news lately about commercial pilots flying while intoxicated, perhaps Dean Martin as a pilot isn't so far-fetched after all!

It's really odd how somebody mentions a movie and all of a sudden I get a 35 year old memory of watching The Love War on a Sunday afternoon when I was around 9 or 10.
I never saw the Norliss Tapes but it sounds pretty cool.
How about we start a petition to get these gems released on DVD?

wasnt "dark" (as well as a number of the other scary abc tv movies) a dan curtis production?

yeah i remember that one too..... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr really creepy stuff!

7 In Darkness was the blind people/air crash one.

"When the people still fly with no sight in the eye that's amore"

(Scottpens - you killed me with that Dino/Dandy Don post)

OH yeah JOhn P, remember all 3 from your post and loved 'em all.

Do you know that I'm startin' to think stuff was better back then? Could it be?

Do you know that I'm startin' to think stuff was better back then? Could it be?It always seems like stuff was better "back then." But, as Billy Joel once said: "The good old days weren't always good/And tomorrow's not as bad as it seems."

Do you know that I'm startin' to think stuff was better back then? Could it be?

A greater percentage was better.

There was plenty of bad stuff back then. And plenty of good stuff. There's just a whole lot more of both now.

Any 70's MOW fan would do well to check out "Cyborgs, Santa Clause, and Satan: Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Made for Television" by Fraser A. Sherman (McFarland & Co., 2000). This terrific, exhaustively researched book will tell you everything you want to know about movies with titles like "The Stranger Within", "Black Noon", "The Cat Creature", "The Dead Don't Die", "Devil Dog: Hound of Hell", "Night Slaves", "The Stranger", "The Dark Secret of Harvest Home", "Madame Sin", The Eyes of Charles Sands", "The UFO Incident", "Haunts of the Very Rich", "Moon of the Wolf", etc.

The Eyes of Charles Sands",

Was that the one where Leonard Nimoy was a mystery-solving race car driver with esp?

Was that the one where Leonard Nimoy was a mystery-solving race car driver with esp?

No, Charles Sand was played by Peter Haskell.

"A young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave. He helps a girl investigate her brother's alleged murder."

The only thing I remember about the movie is the opening nightmare sequence in which the title character's dead uncle suddenly sits up in the grave and points at him. I'll never forget those blank white eyes...

Spooky!

I was thinking of Baffled!:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068248/

Though from their imdb descriptions they'd be easy to mix up!

I also remeber a UFO abduction movie with James Earl Jones
"lookit the little bunny!" Any know the title of that? I'd love to se it again!!

I also remeber a UFO abduction movie with James Earl Jones
"lookit the little bunny!" Any know the title of that? I'd love to se it again!!

"The UFO Incident", NBC, airdate 10/20/75.

Any 70's MOW fan would do well to check out "Cyborgs, Santa Clause, and Satan: Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Made for Television" by Fraser A. Sherman (McFarland & Co., 2000). This terrific, exhaustively researched book will tell you everything you want to know about movies with titles like "The Stranger Within", "Black Noon", "The Cat Creature", "The Dead Don't Die", "Devil Dog: Hound of Hell", "Night Slaves", "The Stranger", "The Dark Secret of Harvest Home", "Madame Sin", The Eyes of Charles Sands", "The UFO Incident", "Haunts of the Very Rich", "Moon of the Wolf", etc.
This would be a neat book to have if not for the fact of the frustration of reading about these cool movies and no way to get them, now, if ever. Don't know for sure if it's legal, or allowed here, but would be nice if those of us who are collectors could swap tapes of this stuff.

There was plenty of bad stuff back then. And plenty of good stuff. There's just a whole lot more of both now.I believe it was Theodore Sturgeon who said, "90 percent of science fiction writing is crap. But then, 90 percent of everything is crap."

This would be a neat book to have if not for the fact of the frustration of reading about these cool movies and no way to get them, now, if ever. Don't know for sure if it's legal, or allowed here, but would be nice if those of us who are collectors could swap tapes of this stuff.

The way TV is going, somebody will probably start up "The ABC Tuesday Night Movie of The Week Channel" soon enough.