"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
It's every man and woman for themselves on an island where convicted murderers are dumped, rather than kept in prison. 
