Showing posts with label Eve Plumb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eve Plumb. Show all posts

Monday, March 23, 2009

Secrets of Three Hungry Wives (1978) TV Movie

Secrets of Three Hungry Wives (1978) TV Movie
Cast: Craig Stevens, Eve Plumb, Gretchen Corbett, Heather MacRae, James Franciscus, Jessica Walter, John Reilly

Monday, March 16, 2009

Night the Bridge Fell Down, The (1983) TV Movie

Movies' "disaster master", Irwin Allen, was the man behind this adventure yarn that strands a group of motorists and fleeing bank robber, Desi Arnaz, Jr., and his girlfriend, Char Fontane, on a bridge that is collapsing because of shifting sands near the pylons. Its unique history is more interesting than its premise: made in 1979 as a two-part four-hour film called "The Night the Bridge Collapsed", it was set to premiere in early January 1980. Pulled from the schedule at the last minute, it was given its first showing in this form in Australia several months later. Subsequently cut to three hours as a single-part film, it was re-scheduled for a mid-October 1980 showing but was pre-empted by the World Series. It then went into limbo until finally being dragged off the shelf for its ultimate U.S. premiere in early 1983. Its star, James MacArthur, hot off "Hawaii Five-0", at the time the film was shot long had been in semi-retirement from acting.

The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1983) TV Movie
Cast: Char Fontane, Desi Arnaz Jr., Eve Plumb, Gregory Sierra, James MacArthur, Leslie Nielsen, Philip Baker Hall

Saturday, March 14, 2009

House on Greenapple Road (1970) TV Movie

"House on Greenapple Road" was an off-length TV movie (135 minutes instead of the usual 100), first telecast on The ABC Sunday Night Movie on January 11, 1970. Christopher George heads a stellar cast as Lt. Dan August, probing a homicide case in suburbia. The accused, a meek clerk (Tim O'Connor), had plenty of motive to kill his faithless wife (Janet Leigh). Only there's no weapon...and no corpse. After a series of revelatory flashbacks, August deduces that there may be a lot more people and issues involved than a missing housewife. Audience response to "House on Greenapple Road" was positive enough to spin off into a Dan August TV series. But Christopher George was too busy to be involved, so the role of August went to a fellow who wasn't working all that often; a guy named Burt Reynolds, or something like that. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

House on Greenapple Road (1970) TV Movie
Cast: Barry Sullivan, Christopher George, Edward Asner, Eve Plumb, Geoffrey Deuel, Janet Leigh, Julie Harris, Keenan Wynn, Lynda Day George, Walter Pidgeon, William Windom