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The ABC Movie of the Week was an American weekly television anthology series featuring made-for-TV movies that aired on the ABC network in various permutations from 1969 to 1975 . History.
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ABC Saturday Movie of the Week is the umbrella title of a weekly American film series that airs on ABC. The series began as the replacement for ABC's Big Picture Show and as a revival of ABC's Movie of the Week theme (the network used this theme from 1969 until 1976).
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In the 1960s, movie studios viewed television as a second-rate medium but also as a threat to their theatrical revenue, so they charged high fees for the privilege to broadcast their films. The networks experimented with having films made specifically for TV to lower expenses. NBC created the first weekly umbrella for such films with their World Pr...
The movie of the week originally aired on Tuesday nights at 8:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Central. Established series "The Mod Squad" acted as a lead-in from 7:30 to 8:30, bringing the younger demographic. The shorter running time of the film freed the 10 p.m. time slot for a full 60-minute program, initially "Marcus Welby, M.D." during the first season....
The series was often used as a platform to show pilots for possible series for the network which allowed the network to air pilots that it had already commissioned and paid for, but had not ordered as regular series. As well, pilots that had already been sold as ongoing series or were being tested such as Kung Fu, The Six Million Dollar Man, Starsk...
The series proper ended in 1975 as ABC's ratings collapsed that season. Analysts laid part of the blame on ABC's reliance on the "Movie of the Week" which had suffered from ratings fatigue as well as a perceived drop in quality in its final season. After that, ABC's made-for-TV movies were either aired as stand-alone specials or shown in time slots...
Browse the IMDb list of 55 titles of the ABC Movie of the Week, a weekly TV anthology series that aired on ABC from 1969 to 1974. Find ratings, genres, summaries, directors and stars for each movie.
The following 174 pages are in this category, out of 174 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . ABC Movie of the Week. List of television films produced for American Broadcasting Company.
