Seven survivors of a plane crash, all of them blind, must make their way out of the wilderness without any help.
Starring: Milton Berle, Dina Merrill, Barry Nelson, Arthur O'Connell, Alejandro Rey, Lesley Ann Warren

A man flees from a dying billionaire after his blood is found to provide almost miraculous healing and life extension properties.
Starring: Christopher George, Carol Lynley*, Barry Sullivan*, Jessica Walter*, Ralph Bellamy*

Pilot for the 1970-71 TV series of the same name; nominated for one Emmy Award.

Four elderly Texas Rangers come out of retirement to oust the corrupt crime boss mayor of a frontier town.
Starring: Walter Brennan, Pat O'Brien*, Edgar Buchanan*, Chill Wills*, Edward Andrews*, Jack Elam*, Andy Devine*, Gypsy Rose Lee*, Ricky Nelson*

Unsold pilot; followed by The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again (2.08)

A German baroness hides a bumbling Air Force airman during World War II, then stages an ongoing "war" to keep him from learning that the war has ended.
Starring: Ken Berry, Eva Gabor, Werner Klemperer, Jim Backus**, Danielle De Metz

Unlicensed private investigator Gus Monk is entangled in a scheme involving a Mob-connected lawyer who claims his boss is out to kill him.
Starring: George Maharis, Janet Leigh, Rick Jason, Carl Betz*, Jack Albertson**, Raymond St. Jacques***, William Smithers, Jack Soo, Mary Wickes

Unsold pilot. Story by Blake Edwards, based on characters he created.

A Boston attorney leaves to take control of a legal aid program staffed by students. Their first case is to defend two Black men accused of robbing and beating a cab driver.
Starring: Jason Evers, Judy Pace, Zalman King, Tom Fielding, Anjanette Comer*, Keenan Wynn*, James Shigeta*, Richard Pryor*, Dick Bass*, Michael Parks**, George Macready***, Louise Latham***, Barry Atwater***, Georg Stanford Brown***

Partly recast and returned as a series in the 1970-71 TV season.

A private investigator tries to protect a woman and her mother who are secretly hiding from the Mob.
Starring: Sammy Davis, Jr., Dorothy Malone, Victoria Vetri, Ricardo Montalbán**, Pat Boone***, Roy Glenn, Patsy Kelly, Norman Alden

Former government assassin turned private investigator John Smith finds himself caught in a web of deceit involving a notebook containing a list of names of spies.
Starring: Robert Horton, Jill St. John, Sebastian Cabot, Lee Montague, Eleanor Summerfield, Barbara Shelley

Unsold pilot. Screenplay by and produced by Jimmy Sangster, based on his novel, Private I. Filmed at Pinewood Studios and on location in London. The three main characters were reworked into another pilot, Foreign Exchange (1.17).

Struggling wedding consultants desperately try to get three couples legally married after finding out they accidentally had an actor officiate the original weddings.
Starring: Michael Callan, Ann Prentiss, Eve Arden**, Ruth Buzzi**, Christopher Connelly,** Bill Daily**, Elinor Donahue**, Herb Edelman**, Paul Ford,** Elsa Lanchester**

Produced and directed by E.W. Swackhamer. Written by Bernard Slade.

Believing his wife died, a man remarries, but when she returns years later, the accidental bigamist tries to keep his secret from both wives.
Starring: Larry Hagman, E. J. Peaker, Jessica Walter, Harvey Korman, Farrah Fawcett, Norman Fell

After nearly shooting an innocent, a famed gunslinger gives up violence but has to find a way to save a frontier town.
Starring: Lloyd Bridges, John Beck, Ed Begley, Sr., Edd Byrnes, Pernell Roberts, Susan Howard

Based on a concept by Bob Kane.

An American woman honeymooning in Spain suspects foul play when her wealthy husband disappears, but when the police investigate, a stranger appears, claiming to be the man.
Starring: Janet Leigh, Rossano Brazzi, Cesare Danova, Eric Braeden, Barbara Steele

After breaking up with Moondoggie, Gidget becomes a United Nations tour guide and begins a love affair with an older Australian agriculture consultant.
Starring: Karen Valentine, Edward Mulhare, Paul Peterson, Warner Anderson**, Bob Cummings**, Nina Foch**, Paul Lynde**

Unsold pilot; followed by Gidget Gets Married (3.27).

Independent scholars try to find a long lost Spanish galleon while an unscrupulous, wealthy thief shadows them to get the treasure for himself.
Starring: Keir Dullea, Bradford Dillman, France Nuyen, Aron Kincaid, Lana Wood, Jacques Aubuchon, Paul Hampton, Ricardo Montalbán**

Produced, directed and story by Alan Landsburg. Filmed on location in the Bahamas.

Former government agent turned private investigator John Smith agrees to participate in a scheme to be captured by the Soviets and exchanged for a double agent that the West wants to plant high in the KGB.
Starring: Robert Horton, Jill St. John, Sebastian Cabot, Eric Pohlmann, Dudley Foster, Eleanor Summerfield

Unsold pilot. Screenplay by and produced by Jimmy Sangster, based on his novel, Foreign Exchange. Filmed at Pinewood Studios and on location in London. This is a soft reboot of The Spy Killer (1.08) with the events of the earlier pilot completely ignored. John Smith is reintroduced as a traditional spy rather than a counterintelligence assassin.

A racist commando must lead an all-African-American squad of misfits on a secret mission in Nazi Germany.
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Robert Hooks, Susan Oliver, Roosevelt Grier**, Moses Gunn**, Richard Pryor**, Billy Dee Williams**, Glynn Turman**, Paul Stewart**

Also known as Black Brigade.

An archeologist creates a fake identity for herself and stages "her" murder in a complicated ploy to frame a physics professor who she believes killed her husband and stole his research.
Starring: Suzanne Pleshette, Ed Nelson, Andrew Prine, Brooke Bundy, Richard Anderson

A disgraced U.S. soldier and big game hunter is recruited to fight a one-on-one war of "surrogates" against his Asian counterpart, the nations vying to win salvage rights to a sunken nuclear-armed satellite.
Starring: Darren McGavin, Mako, Broderick Crawford, James Whitmore**, Skip Homeier, Sam Elliott

A documentary tracing the political life and career of Robert F. Kennedy.
Starring: John Huston (narrator)

Written by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The only non-fiction Movie of the Week.

Conflict and crises at a hospital run by a medical patriarch and his three sons – all doctors – including a cholera outbreak and a movie star with kidney failure.
Starring: Gary Collins, John Dehner, Susan Howard, Gordon Pinsent, Dan Ferrone, Wally Cox*, Sam Jaffe*, Terry Moore*, Sharon Farrell**

Unsold pilot.

Suave con artist Dudley Jerico and his sidekick scheme to steal a $2 million diamond from a tycoon, but they find they have competition.
Starring: Patrick Macnee, Connie Stevens, Herbert Lom, Marty Allen

Unsold pilot. Location filming in Malta with studio filming at Elstree Studios. Theme song sung by Lulu.

Teams of benevolent and hostile aliens compete in a contest for dominion of Earth, but one falls in love with a woman he meets on a bus.
Starring: Lloyd Bridges, Angie Dickinson**, Daniel J. Travanti (as Dan Travanty), Harry Basch

Double-crosses abound as various people try to get $38,000 that was embezzled from a Santa Fe bank.
Starring: Roger Davis, Pete Duel, Walter Brennan, Joan Hackett, Wally Cox

Character names were reused with a new premise to create the movie Alias Smith and Jones (2.13).

A man blinded by guilt comes home to live with his sister, but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett, Kent Smith, Robert H. Harris

Based on a novel by Henry Farrell.

A man with a steel plate in his skull sees everyone else in a town he is visiting leave in a trance-like state every night.
Starring: James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Leslie Nielsen**, Tisha Sterling.

Based on a novel by Jerry Sohl.

A recent widower with two sons finds himself juggling several women at once.
Starring: Herschel Bernardi, Brandon Cruz, Harry Morgan, Nanette Fabray, Jerry Paris, Shirley Jones**

An elderly man sees a close friend beaten to death, but all witnesses contradict him, the police won't believe him and his son suspects him of paranoia.
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Diane Baker, Ruth Roman, Percy Rodrigues, Sam Jaffe, Martin Balsam**, Edward Asner, Martin E. Brooks, Virginia Christine

Martin Balsam and Martin E. Brooks would both later play the role of Dr. Rudy Wells at different times in The Six Million Dollar Man.

Unsold pilot.

A woman who has inherited an old Georgetown manor learns that her family property is a breeding ground for the supernatural.
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Egan, Michael Anderson Jr., Kitty Winn

Based on the novel Ammie Come Home by Barbara Michaels.

A Marine drill instructor comes to respect a pacifistic hippie draftee.
Starring: Darren McGavin, Jan-Michael Vincent, Earl Holliman

Directed by Emmy Award winner Joseph Sargent.

Three of the gang reunite to help a geriatric comrade, especially after he becomes marshal of Waco and has to face down bank robbers.
Starring: Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Chill Wills, Andy Devine, Fred Astaire**, Parley Baer, Walter Burke, Lana Wood

Unsold pilot; the sequel to The Over-the-Hill Gang (1.03).

After inheriting a farm near Salem, a woman learns that she is being targeted for revenge by a coven of witches for the actions of her previous incarnation.
Starring: Hope Lange, Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner, John Carradine, Cyril Delevanti, Milton Selzer, Patricia Barry

A Papago man just released from prison seeks revenge on the former partner who murdered his brother and framed him for the crime after the three men found turquoise.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Inger Stevens, Royal Dano, James Best, Rodolfo Acosta, Don Dubbins

Kidnappers accidentally kill their victim before they can collect the ransom, then abduct three nuns from a car to stand-in to convince the victim's father that she is still alive.
Starring: Robert Conrad, Lee Majors, Lois Nettleton, Carol Lynley, Jane Wyatt

A heart surgeon hired to do research by an ailing magnate finds his benefactor wants to steal human hearts to keep on living ... including his own.
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sandy Dennis, Burl Ives**

Two notorious outlaws work to earn amnesty, but their former gang has other plans for the bank where they are employed.
Starring: Pete Duel, Ben Murphy, Forrest Tucker, Susan Saint James, James Drury, Jeanette Nolan, Earl Holliman**

Reuses character names from The Young Country (1.25). Pilot for the 1971-73 TV series of the same name that premiered two weeks later.

Cold War intrigue with traitors trying to steal top secret anti-ballistic missile controls being tested on a U.S. nuclear submarine.
Starring: Leonard Nimoy*, Joseph Cotten*, William Windom*, Keenan Wynn*, Lloyd Haynes*, Dewey Martin*, Malachi Throne, Ron Masak

Reuses submarine footage from Ice Station Zebra, a theatrical film which Ron Masak also appeared in.

A medical intern visiting his home town comes to believe his mentor, the town's doctor, is murdering troublesome residents with poison.
Starring: Bing Crosby, Frank Converse, Blythe Danner**, Barnard Hughes, Bethel Leslie

Directed by Ted Post.

A feminist pediatrician and a chivalrous cop butt heads as roommates in San Francisco.
Starring: Barbara Eden, David Hartman, Julie Newmar**, Jo Anne Worley, Farrah Fawcett**, Harry Morgan**, John McGiver**, Herb Edelman**

Animated; narrated by Dustin Hoffman for the initial broadcast only.

A former fashion model is stalked by a relentless, violent playboy she had a fling with before her wedding.
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Haskell, Henry Jones, Jeff Donnell, Jack Mullaney, Stanley Adams

A young woman returns to her parents' suburban home after a year of living with hippies and discovers her younger sister is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life.
Starring: Sally Field, Eleanor Parker, Jackie Cooper, Lane Bradbury, David Carradine

Insurance investigator Mike Longstreet searches for the culprit who bombed his home, killing his wife and leaving him blind.
Starring: James Franciscus, Martine Beswick*, Bradford Dillman*, John McIntire*, Jeanette Nolan*, Barry Russo

Pilot for the 1971-72 TV series of the same name that premiered on CBS the following season. Stirling Silliphant was the writer and executive producer. Produced and directed by Joseph Sargent.

Yuma's new marshal finds himself facing a vengeful rancher, as well as a scheme to steal supplies meant for Indian reservations.
Starring: Clint Walker, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Kathryn Hays, Morgan Woodward, Robert Phillips, Miguel Alejandro

Unsold pilot.

A college dropout convinces his parents and grandmother to join him in an old bus converted into a motorhome on a journey of self-discovery to a hippie music festival, where he falls in love with gravely ill girl.
Starring: Carl Betz, Vera Miles, Jeff Bridges, Ruth McDevitt, Michael Anderson, Jr.*, Howard Duff*, Kim Hunter*, Renne Jarrett*, Sal Mineo*, Tyne Daly

Unsold pilot.

An African American sheriff tries to prove that a racist raped a young black girl.
Starring: Ossie Davis, Kaz Garas, Kyle Johnson, John Marley*, Edward Binns*, Lynda Day George*, Ruby Dee*, Moses Gunn*, Ross Martin*, Brenda Sykes*

Unsold pilot.

A famed escape artist has to find a kidnapped scientist who has developed a biological agent that can turn humanity into mindless slaves.
Starring: Christopher George, Avery Schreiber, Marlyn Mason*, William Windom*, John Vernon*, William Schallert*, Gloria Grahame*

Unsold pilot. Produced by Bruce Lansbury, who would create the similar TV series The Magician for CBS in 1973-74.

A Vietnam War POW, returning home after five years of captivity and interrogation, finds that his wife has remarried, his whole world has changed and he is beginning to suffer PTSD flashbacks.
Starring: Dennis Weaver, Anne Francis**, Lois Nettleton, Pamelyn Ferdin, Percy Rodriguez, Andrew Duggan, James Hong

An OSS officer tasked with smuggling a nuclear physicist out of Nazi Germany plots to fly themselves out of a POW camp located in a mountain castle using a handbuilt glider.
Starring: Doug McClure, Rene Auberjonois, Richard Basehart**, Max Baer Jr.**, Chuck Connors**, Tom Skerritt

Fictionalized story based on the account of the Colditz Cock. Released as a feature film overseas as Escape of the Birdmen.

A swinging bachelor has to grow up after a young adult illegitimate son that he did not know about shows up and wants to spend time with him.
Starring: Bill Bixby, Diane Baker, Jack Albertson*, Ann Sothern*, Karen Jensen, Darrell Larson, Jeff Donnell, Tom Bosley, Robert H. Harris, Judy Strangis

An overworked researcher questions reality when people, places and events from a recurring dream where he is pursued and persecuted for an unknown crime start appearing in the real world.
Starring: Lloyd Bridges, Janet Leigh, Leif Erickson, Carl Betz, Don Stroud, Richard Jaeckel

Former girls' school classmates having a reunion on a private island realize that either of the male staffers may be a murderous escaped convict.
Starring: Robert Conrad**, Anjanette Comer, Bradford Dillman, Joan Hackett, Denise Nicholas, Stephanie Powers, Julie Sommars

An ESP researcher investigates mysterious happenings surrounding a widow to find out if she is being gaslighted by someone with psychic powers.
Starring: Alex Dreier, Stefanie Powers**, Pat Hingle, Louise Latham, Steve Ihnat, Brenda Scott, Chris Robinson

Concept heavily reworked and recast to create the 1972 TV series The Sixth Sense.

In an overpopulated future U.S. with a one-child policy, an expectant couple who had previously lost a newborn try to flee to Canada with the help of a former US senator.
Starring: Michael Cole, Harry Guardino, Janet Margolin, Edward Asner, Van Heflin**, Barbara Babcock

An urbane burglar struggles to raise money to cover his gambling debts and regain custody of his son.
Starring: Richard Crenna, Angie Dickinson, Cameron Mitchell, Hurd Hatfield, Robert Webber**

After years in a psychiatric hospital, an heiress returns to her family mansion and realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Parkins, Roddy McDowall, William Windom, Arthur O'Connell

A blinded movie star disguises himself as a sighted man in order to murder his cheating wife and frame her lover for the crime.
Starring: Richard Boone, Suzanne Pleshette, John Marley, Stella Stevens**, Fred Beir, Whit Bissell

A newly divorced middle-aged man finds himself torn between two women, a young free spirit and a mature real estate agent.
Starring: Hal Holbrook, Barbara Rush, Margot Kidder, Agnes Moorehead, Michael Constantine, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman

Death takes human form and falls in love with a woman who was supposed to die, so people stop dying.
Starring: Yvette Mimieux, Monte Markham, Myrna Loy, Bert Convy, Melvyn Douglas

First remake of the 1934 film; followed by Meet Joe Black in 1998.

A KGB sleeper agent who adopted a new identity finds himself and his wife in jeopardy when his former superior discovers that he is still alive.
Starring: Doug McClure, Richard Basehart*, Darren McGavin**, Rosemary Forsyth, Meg Foster, Dana Elcar

An angry and hostile boy, returning home from military school for the holidays, clashes with his stepfather and sparks suspicions that he killed a schoolmate.
Starring: Ed Nelson, Diane Baker, Katy Jurado, Howard Duff, Mark Gruner, Christopher Shea

Two young people – one buttoned-down and the other free-spirited – are detained together for a day as suspects after they unwittingly encounter a traitorous scientist passing secrets on a park bench.
Starring: Patty Duke, Ted Bessell, Andrew Duggan, John Astin, Alice Ghostley Terry Carter, Dick Balduzzi

A deranged and vengeful mother imprisons in her basement the man that she believes is responsible for seducing her daughter.
Starring: Shelley Winters, Bradford Dillman, Stuart Whitman, Roger Perry, Gary Clarke

Four elderly women create a fake profile at a computer dating service as a prank, but "she" attracts a murderous stalker.
Starring: Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy, Mildred Natwick, Sylvia Sidney, Vince Edwards, John Beradino

A driver finds himself inexplicably targeted and harassed by a truck and its mysterious, unseen driver.
Starring: Dennis Weaver

Steven Spielberg's feature-length film directorial debut.

Facing an unexpected pregnancy, a teenage couple gets married over the objections of their families, one well-off and one middle class.
Starring: Desi Arnaz Jr., Christopher Norris, Dan Dailey*, Dina Merrill*, Tom Bosley*, Lynn Carlin*, Susan Strasberg*, Jessie Royce Landis**, Larry Wilcox, Nicholas Hammond

Based on the novel by Ann Head.

An Army historian uses his knowledge of historical tactics and languages to lead a unit under attack at a mountain observation post during the Korean War.
Starring: Ken Berry, Jim Hutton, Trini Lopez, Don Marshall, Ralph Meeker, Cameron Mitchell, Warren Oates, Soon-Tek Oh

An escaped mental patient stalks the English literature teacher who he blames for failing him in high school.
Starring: Jane Wyman, Dean Stockwell, Dana Andrews**, Paul Henreid, Tim O'Connor, Priscilla Pointer

Dramatization of professional football player Brian Piccolo's friendship with teammate Gale Sayers and Piccolo's battle with cancer.
Starring: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, Shelley Fabares

Eight Emmy nominations, four wins.

A settler couple – the wife having second sight – is tormented by an outlaw prisoner they're escorting, who is also imbued with the gift and a silver tongue.
Starring: Gene Barry, Janice Rule, James Drury, Slim Pickens, Donald Moffat

Originally promoted as The Glass Hammer.

After a kidnapper dials the wrong number and calls his phone, a B movie actor secretly impersonates the victim's father in order to steal a cut of the ransom.
Starring: Robert Culp, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, June Allyson

Music by David Shire.

An African American U.S. Marshal helps a homesteader track his daughter's abductors, but faces racism at every turn.
Starring: Sammy Davis Jr., Ernest Borgnine**, Jim Davis

Sammy Davis Jr. was an executive producer on this film.

Moondoggie gets a job at a defense contractor, but Gidget, bored as a new wife, starts a rebellion against the rigid social structure in the planned community owned by his employer.
Starring: Monie Ellis, Michael Burns, Don Ameche**, Joan Bennett**, Corinne Camacho**, MacDonald Carey**, Elinor Donahue**, Paul Lynde**, Roger Perry**

Unsold pilot; the sequel to Gidget Grows Up (1.15); produced and directed by E. W. Swackhamer.

When the first astronaut on Mars mysteriously dies, the space agency tries to save the program by hiring an impersonator to fool the President, the public – and his wife.
Starring: Jackie Cooper, Monte Markham, Susan Clark**, Richard Anderson, Robert Lansing, James Sikking

Produced by Harve Bennett, who would later hire Richard Anderson to co-star on The Six Million Dollar Man and Monte Markham to guest star on the same TV series as the Seven Million Dollar Man.

Newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak tries to convince the authorities in Las Vegas that a series of murders was committed by a vampire.
Starring: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Carol Lynley, Claude Akins

Not officially a pilot; but followed by The Night Strangler (4.29) and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

A wealthy villainess with a brainwashing device plans to steal a Polaris submarine, with help from a disgruntled American agent she recruited.
Starring: Bette Davis, Robert Wagner, Denholm Elliott, Gordon Jackson, Dudley Sutton, Catherine Schell

Filmed on location on the Isle of Mull. Studio filming at Pinewood Studios. Robert Wagner was executive producer.

Two New York City couples pursue imagined bliss by buying and moving to a small, rustic island near Maine.
Starring: Larry Hagman, Barbara Feldon, Gary Collins, E. J. Peaker, Vivian Vance*, Jim Backus*, Burgess Meredith*

A teacher hired by an insular, Amish-like farming community finds the residents have unusual powers of the mind.
Starring: Kim Darby, William Shatner, Diane Varsi, Dan O'Herlihy

A former mental patient is haunted by the cries of a woman that she believes is buried alive on her property. Based on a short story by Ray Bradbury.
Starring: Olivia de Havilland, Ed Nelson, Joseph Cotten, Walter Pidgeon

A soldier presumed dead who returns from the Moro Rebellion kidnaps the Mexican Revolutionary leader who married his wife, seeking ransom and revenge.
Starring: Clint Walker, Stefanie Powers, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Alex Karras

First live action feature film production by Hanna-Barbera.

A woman begins receiving phone calls from her supposedly dead nephew Michael and begins to wonder if Michael is really dead, or if she is losing touch with reality.
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Douglas, Marian Waldman, Al Waxman

A world-weary stockbroker buys a ghost town and invites people who want a second chance in life to populate it.
Starring: Brian Keith, Elizabeth Ashley, Kenneth Mars, William Windom, Avery Schreiber, Rosey Grier, Juliet Prowse**

Unsold pilot.

Sherlock Holmes investigates a supposed curse stalking the heir to Baskerville Hall.
Starring: Stewart Granger, Bernard Fox, William Shatner and Jane Merrow.

First pilot for the unsold anthology series Great Detectives.

Facing expulsion for lacking a house mother, the rowdy APE fraternity hires a feisty young waitress for the job.
Starring: Connie Stevens, Charles Nelson Reilly*, Jim Hutton*, Van Johnson*

Unsold pilot.

A fugitive Shaolin priest in the Old West tries to help oppressed coolies forced to lay railroad tracks under inhumane conditions.
Starring: David Carradine, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn, Barry Sullivan*, Albert Salmi*, Wayne Maunder*, Benson Fong, James Hong, Robert Ito, Radames Pera

Pilot for the 1972-75 TV series of the same name premiering in the fall season.

Two ex-cops starting out as private eyes take their first case – to find a wily young man who murdered a family twelve years earlier then vanished without a trace.
Starring: Robert Hooks, Stephen Brooks, Walter Brennan*, Catherine Burns*, Neville Brand*, Shelley Fabares*, Anne Revere*, Mercedes McCambridge**, Richard Dreyfuss

Unsold pilot.

After his uncle's death, a businessman learns the family trait of clairvoyance has been passed to him, while an heiress who believes her brother is dead seeks his help.
Starring: Peter Haskell, Barbara Rush*, Sharon Farrell*, Bradford Dillman*, Adam West*, Joan Bennett*

Unsold pilot.

Unsold pilot.

Pilot for the 1972-76 TV series of the same name premiering in the fall season.

A wealthy father and the FBI urgently try to save his kidnapped daughter, buried in a box with only a seven day supply of air.
Starring: David Janssen, James Farentino, Phyllis Thaxter, Skye Aubrey, Mike Farrell, Sallie Shockley, Joel Fabiani, Richard Anderson, Jason Bernard (uncredited)

Based on the true story of the kidnapping of Barbara Mackle in 1968.

A farmer convinces a prostitute, a con artist and a pickpocket to pose as his daughters in order to fend off a rival who is trying to steal his land using the homesteading law.
Starring: Buddy Ebsen, Karen Valentine, Lesley Ann Warren, Sandra Dee**, Jack Elam, Leif Erickson**, Don Stroud, Henry Jones

First pilot for an unsold series, followed by The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return (6.29).

Visitors at a mysterious luxury resort begin to suspect that they're actually in Hell when conditions inexorably deteriorate.
Starring: Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Edward Asner, Anne Francis, Tony Bill, Donna Mills, Robert Reed, Moses Gunn

In Louisiana bayou country, a sheriff faces murders committed with supernatural strength, possibly by a werewolf.
Starring: David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Bradford Dillman, John Beradino, Geoffrey Lewis

A recently widowed research doctor joins a Chicago clinic to try to escape her grief, where she befriends a young girl dying of leukemia.
Starring: Susan Hayward, Darren McGavin, Michael Constantine, Michele Nichols, Dane Clark**, Beverly Garland**, Jeanette Nolan**, Richard Anderson

Theme song sung by Dusty Springfield.

Two divorced men meet and become friends but, unbeknownst to each other, they start dating each other's ex-wives.
Starring: Alan Alda, Connie Stevens, Barbara Feldon, Doug McClure

A woman is paralyzed and pursued by enforcers for a crime syndicate who are looking for an unknown item left in her possession.
Starring: Donna Mills, Martin Balsam, Chuck Connors, Agnes Moorehead, Catherine Burns

Directed by Jeannot Szwarc. Produced by Thomas Miller and Edward Milkis, who would go on to produce successful sitcoms for ABC.

When an NYPD lieutenant is murdered and accused of corruption, his widow is determined to find out who set him up and to clear his name.
Starring: Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Don Galloway, Nehemiah Persoff, Eartha Kitt, Paul Burke**

Produced and co-written by Steven Bochco.

The travails and frustrations of a desperate, middle-aged aerospace professional downsized in a tight job market.
Starring: George Kennedy, Vera Miles, William Windom, James Woods, Kevin McCarthy*, Robert Mandan

After an earthquake in New York City collapses a subway tunnel, survivors from a subway train try to find a way out.
Starring: James Brolin, Don Mitchell, James McEachin, Abbey Lincoln, Brooke Bundy, Laurette Spang

A family in a small plane downed in Baja California during a storm struggles to fix the plane, clear a runway and fly back to civilization.
Starring: Rod Taylor, Dina Merrill, Kristoffer Tabori, Janet Margolin

Produced by Harve Bennett, who would incorporate parts of the plot and footage into "Pilot Error", a 1974 episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, a TV series for which he was executive producer.

A bounty hunter bringing in a notorious outlaw has to fend off a rival hunter's gang, who also want the bounty.
Starring: Clint Walker, Richard Basehart, John Ericson, Margot Kidder*, Gene Evans

Seminal film dealing with homosexuality; seven Emmy nominations, one win.
Starring: Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen, Joe Don Baker, Scott Jacoby, Hope Lange

Two elderly swindlers unwittingly target each other through a dating service, and one may be a lonely hearts killer.
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rosalind Russell, Ross Martin, Michael Murphy, Maureen O'Sullivan

A wealthy woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.
Starring: Elizabeth Montgomery, Eileen Heckart, George Maharis, Jess Walton

Unsold pilot; followed by My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (5.23).

An aging father is convinced that his second wife is trying to poison him and he summons his four daughters home for protection.
Starring: Sally Field, Eleanor Parker, Julie Harris, Jessica Walter, Jill Haworth, Walter Brennan

Marital woes ensue when a busy working couple hires a sexy, young, multi-talented woman as a "wife" to manage their household and children.
Starring: Bill Bixby, Paula Prentiss, Myrna Loy, Valerie Perrine**, Robert Goulet**, Nanette Fabray**, Larry Storch**

Directed by Jerry Paris.

A cunning political extremist plays cat and mouse with a federal agent after stealing a powerful nerve gas to kill the President at a political convention.
Starring: Ben Gazzara, E.G. Marshall, William Windom, Joseph Wiseman, Jim McMullan, Martin Sheen

Michael Crichton's debut as a film director; based on Crichton's novel Binary. Originally promoted by ABC under the title, Explosion!

A chauvinistic architect facing legal action for sexual discrimination agrees to hire a female architect for 30 days.
Starring: Connie Stevens, Ken Berry**, Gail Fisher*, Steve Franken*, Henry Gibson*, Jerry Paris*, Louise Sorel*, Nancy Walker* (voice only), Carol Wayne*, Stanley Adams

Produced and directed by Jerry Paris

A cloistered nun has her eyes opened when she enters the outside world to work as a juvenile probation officer during the week.
Starring: Joanna Pettet**, Vic Morrow*, Ann Sothern*, James Gregory*, Beverly Garland*, Kay Lenz

Unsold pilot. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc. Produced by Thomas Miller and Edward Milkis, who would go on to produce successful sitcoms for ABC. Inspired by the motivational teachings of former nun Joyce Duco. Kay Lenz's professional debut.

A newly-hired Black firefighter faces a serial arsonist and racism from a colleague.
Starring: Richard Roundtree, Andrew Duggan, Richard Jaeckel, Val Avery, Sheila Frazier, Vince Edwards**

Pilot for the 1974 TV series of the same name. Filmed and set in New York City while the series was relocated to Los Angeles.

A young woman is told by a satanic cult that she is the daughter of Satan and was conceived to be betrothed to a demon.
Starring: Shelley Winters, Belinda Montgomery*, Robert Foxworth*, Jonathan Frid*, Martha Scott*, Joseph Cotten**, Ian Wolfe

Directed by Jeannot Szwarc. Produced by Thomas Miller and Edward Milkis, who would go on to produce successful sitcoms for ABC.

Carl Kolchak investigates killings in Seattle that seem to be tied to an immortal who needs blood for an elixir to rejuvenate himself every 21 years.
Starring: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jo Ann Pflug, Richard Anderson, Scott Brady, Wally Cox, Margaret Hamilton, John Carradine

Not officially a pilot; the sequel to The Night Stalker (3.29), followed by the 1974-75 TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

A thief fleeing his former gang helps a wagon train of women and children fight them off.
Starring: Dennis Weaver, Ida Lupino, Sally Ann Howes, Linda Evans, Albert Salmi, Nina Foch

Two scientists doing research on monkeys at a remote, snowbound research laboratory where a lone colleague had mysteriously died face strange happenings of their own.
Starring: Robert Culp, Eli Wallach**, Michael Gwynne

Made with the cooperation of White Mountain Research Center.

Three business executives' wives are held for ransom, including an insulin-dependent diabetic and a conspirator.
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Howard Duff, John Saxon, Sheree North, Barbara Parkins, Tisha Sterling, Robert Reed, Anthony Zerbe

Rashomon-style story with dueling accounts of events leading to a divorce. The first half is from the husband's perspective.
Star vehicle for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Continuing from Divorce His the night before. The second half is from the wife's perspective.

Behind the scenes melodrama unfolds for both contestants and officials at the "Miss American Beauty" pageant.
Starring: Eleanor Parker, Bob Cummings, Jo Anna Cameron, Farrah Fawcett, Christopher Norris, Larry Wilcox

A teacher at a school for unwed mothers takes a personal interest in her students.
Starring: Shirley Jones, Mercedes McCambridge, Pamela Sue Martin, William Windom, Sissy Spacek

After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple are surprised to find that they are expecting their first child.
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Martin Balsam, Marge Redmond, Gene Nelson, Mildred Dunnock

Stories of lives changed when mail is lost for a year. A cheating husband writes a breakup letter to his wife before reconciling. A wealthy woman writes her sister about her newfound happiness before she's murdered by the treacherous pianist they competed for. A wrongly accused man chased off by his girlfriend's mother dies after writing of his intent to clear his name.
Starring: John Forsythe, Pamela Franklin, Ida Lupino, Dina Merrill, Ben Murphy, Leslie Nielsen, Jane Powell, Barbara Stanwyck, Lesley Ann Warren, Henry Jones

First unsold pilot for an anthology series from Aaron Spelling, similar to his The Love Boat and Fantasy Island shows; followed by Letters from Three Lovers (5.09).

Former astronaut Steve Austin is critically injured in the crash of an experimental aircraft and is given bionic body parts as replacements.
Starring: Lee Majors, Darren McGavin**, Martin Balsam**, Barbara Anderson

First of three TV movies which would lead to the 1973-78 TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.

A female police detective volunteers to act as a lure to trap a serial rapist-murderer.
Starring: Donna Mills, Michael Constantine, William Devane, Noam Pitlik, Thalmus Rasulala, June Lockhart

Unsold pilot; based on Dorothy Uhnak's first novel; her third novel, The Ledger, was adapted to become Get Christie Love!, a 1974 Movie of the Week and pilot.

A college reunion is the setting for a messy love triangle between a successful executive, his wife and her egotistical former boyfriend.
Starring: James Brolin, Joan Hackett, Cliff Gorman**

Rare producing credit for renowned casting director Lynn Stalmaster.

Three embittered disabled men - a paraplegic, a double amputee and a blind man - plot to steal priceless jewels off a gold statue in a museum.
Starring: Mike Connors, Kent McCord, Michael Cole**, Joel Fabiani, Russell Johnson

Suspenseful teleplay written by Paul Playdon, who wrote many similar scripts for the 1966-73 TV series Mission: Impossible

Pilot for the 1973-74 TV series of the same name premiering on October 4.

Six backpackers in the northern Rockies kill a parachuting skyjacker and decide to keep the $600,000 ransom, but they gradually fall prey to the brutal conditions of the wilderness.
Starring: George Kennedy, Jan-Michael Vincent, Bradford Dillman, Charles Aidman, Jim Davis, Jack Weston**

Mostly filmed on location at Mount Hood National Forest.

A college couple desperately seek out methods of treatment after the woman is diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma.
Starring: Desi Arnaz, Jr., Season Hubley, Anthony Zerbe**, Michael Margotta, Jack Soo, Jay Robinson

The movie featured the song "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce; his death in a plane crash eight days after the movie premiered eventually drove ABC Records to release it as a single, which subsequently reached #1 on the U.S. music charts.^[11]

At an isolated diner, a woman returns from the restroom to find her husband missing and nobody willing to give her an explanation.
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Ross Martin**, Ned Beatty, Louise Latham, Dabney Coleman

A young woman investigating her sister's suicide at a private girls' school finds herself battling a Satanic cult.
Starring: Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Lloyd Bochner, Roy Thinnes, Cheryl Ladd

Two long-haul truckers carrying a secret load for a defense contractor must contend with a mysterious and murderous group who wants to steal their cargo.
Starring: David Janssen, Keenan Wynn, Lee Purcell, William Schallert

A train with nonfunctional brakes coming down a mountain from a ski resort careens toward the end of the line.
Starring: Ben Johnson, Ben Murphy, Darleen Carr, Ed Nelson, Martin Milner**, Vera Miles***

A small-town sheriff is confronted with an ingenious killer when elderly citizens begin to die mysteriously.
Starring: Alan Alda, Louise Lasser, Edmond O'Brien, Ruth Gordon, Will Geer

Tales of lives changed when letters are delayed for a year. A young woman writes to her jailed boyfriend about her continued devotion, who had pushed her away after he was sent to prison. A busy executive's wife begins a monthly affair at a hotel, and her companion is supposed to mail a letter if he cannot attend. Two office workers in the same building mistake each other for wealthy people in Palm Beach, with the man writing a confessional letter declaring his unworthiness and begging her forgiveness.
Starring: June Allyson, Ken Berry, Juliet Mills, Belinda J. Montgomery, Martin Sheen, Robert Sterling, Barry Sullivan, Lyle Waggoner, Henry Jones

Second unsold pilot for an anthology series from Aaron Spelling, similar to his The Love Boat and Fantasy Island shows; follows The Letters (4.42).

A parole officer facing mandatory retirement recruits three of his parolees to steal gold bullion from an armored truck.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Leonard Nimoy, James McEachin, Larry Hagman**, Elena Verdugo, John Marley, Vic Tayback, James Sikking

Unsold pilot; a rare TV appearance by Henry Fonda.

Starring: Starring: Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, William Demarest, Pedro Armendáriz

A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping her to murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.

Reluctant secret agent Steve Austin pursues a black market arms dealer who is offering stolen nuclear missiles to hostile nations.
Starring: Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Alan Oppenheimer, Britt Ekland*, Eric Braeden*, Earl Holliman*, David McCallum**, Michele Carey

Sequel to The Six Million Dollar Man, followed by The Solid Gold Kidnapping (5.26).

A news agency reporter suspects a conspiracy when Air Force One crashes during an international crisis, but the President's body is not found.
Starring: Peter Graves, Buddy Ebsen, Arthur Kennedy, Rip Torn, Louise Sorel, Joseph Campanella

When an abrasive millionaire is injured in the desert, his long-suffering wife and their guide plot to let him die, but he discovers a fierce will to live.
Starring: Arthur Hill, Diana Muldaur, James Stacy, Macdonald Carey**, Michael Ansara

A woman's life is upended when her childish ex-husband moves back in, with his second wife and baby in tow.
Starring: Barbara Eden, Dean Jones, Kenneth Mars, Susanne Benton, Reta Shaw, Todd Lookinland, Diana Herbert

An engineer struggles to prove his innocence in a small town after his wife and her lover frame him for murder.
Starring: Stella Stevens, Ed Nelson, John McIntire, John Saxon**

Based on a novel by John D. MacDonald

A brilliant but homely college girl who becomes beautiful after a car crash and reconstructive surgery creatively murders people who had wronged her.
Starring: Stockard Channing, Ed Asner**, Jim Backus**, Joe Flynn**, Chuck McCann**, Fred Grandy, Ruth McDevitt, Warren Berlinger, Larry Wilcox

Story by Joan Rivers, who also co-wrote the teleplay.

Unsold pilot; the sequel to All My Darling Daughters (4.19).

Two American pilots in a P-40 with a damaged wing are pursued across the desert by an obsessed Nazi general in a commandeered Panzer tank.
Starring: Doug McClure**, Roy Thinnes, Lloyd Bridges, Eric Braeden

Also known as State of Division.

A man trapped overnight in a department store must fight to survive vicious guard dogs patrolling the store.
Starring: James Brolin, Susan Clark, Earl Holliman, Robert Hooks**

Bionic man Steve Austin is assigned to find an important treaty negotiator who has been kidnapped for $1 billion in gold bullion.
Starring: Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Alan Oppenheimer, Elizabeth Ashley*, Terry Carter*, John Vernon**, Maurice Evans**, Luciana Paluzzi**, Leif Erickson**

Preceded by The Six Million Dollar Man and Wine, Women and War.

A sculptor hires a young college girl to take care of his mother and his supposedly insane sister.
Starring: Bette Davis, Ted Bessell, Sian Barbara Allen, Christiane Schmidtmer

A doctor in an idyllic suburb takes extreme action when nobody wants to stand up to uncontrollable young residents terrorizing the community.
Starring: Robert Culp, Marlyn Mason, Beah Richards, Jacqueline Scott, Ramon Bieri, Mark Lenard, Nicholas Hammond

Based on a true story.

An Egyptology professor helps investigate feline-tinged deaths that stalk everyone who comes in contact with a cursed amulet.
Starring: Meredith Baxter, David Hedison, Gale Sondergaard, John Carradine*, Keye Luke*, Stuart Whitman**

Teleplay credit and story co-credit to Robert Bloch.

A disgraced cop is reinstated and recruited to infiltrate a "death squad" within the department that is killing criminals who escaped justice on technicalities.
Starring: Robert Forster, Michelle Phillips, Claude Akins, Mark Goddard, Melvyn Douglas**

A small-town bank robber is forced to single-handedly defend a fortune in cash from a gang of vicious outlaws.
Starring: Richard Crenna, Stefanie Powers, Jack Elam, Michael Ansara

Second live action feature film production by Hanna-Barbera.

A Pinkerton detective leaks a rumor that the Sundance Kid was not killed in Bolivia in order to lure Etta Place out of hiding so that she can lead him to the Wild Bunch.
Starring: Elizabeth Montgomery, Robert Foxworth, L. Q. Jones

A disgruntled former employee's sabotage strands a group of passengers in an aerial tram high above a mountain as high winds approach.
Starring: Bobby Sherman, Ross Martin, Stefanie Powers, Tige Andrews, John Astin**, Joseph Campanella, Ruth McDevitt, Severn Darden

Exteriors filmed at the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway.

An undercover female police detective tries to stop a huge drug empire.
Starring: Teresa Graves, Harry Guardino

Pilot for the 1974-75 TV series of the same name premiering September 11.

Complications upon problems as a young, expectant couple try to escape a brutal heat wave by fleeing to a cabin in the countryside.
Starring: Ben Murphy, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, David Huddleston*, John Anderson*, Robert Hogan, Dana Elcar

A men's magazine publisher experiencing a midlife crisis falls in love with a naive Wisconsin girl sent to him as a gag "gift" for his birthday.
Starring: Richard Long**, Karen Valentine, Louise Sorel, Tom Bosley, Dave Madden, Reta Shaw, Farrah Fawcett

Richard Long's penultimate role, before Death Cruise (6.14).

An extraterrestrial force from a meteorite possesses a bulldozer and starts killing a construction crew working on a remote island.
Starring: Clint Walker, Carl Betz, Neville Brand, James Wainwright**, Robert Urich

A driver who accidentally hits a man on a dark road finds himself ensnared in a small town's conspiracy to hide the victim's death.
Starring: John Forsyth, Earl Holliman, Ralph Meeker, Norman Alden, Claudia McNeil, Anne Francis**

Tensions rise as a group of people, including a claustrophobic armed robber, are trapped in an overloaded elevator in a skyscraper after hours.
Starring: James Farentino, Roddy McDowell, Craig Stevens, Don Stroud, Teresa Wright, Myrna Loy**, Carol Lynley**, Arlene Golonka**, Barry Livingston

A successful public relations writer develops a serious drinking problem that threatens his marriage and his life.
Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Lynn Carlin, Don Porter, Linda Lavin, Joshua Bryant

A young woman is the first person to be revived from cryogenic suspension, but someone wants to ensure that her resurrection is brief.
Starring: Cliff Potts, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Mills, Mike Farrell, Geraldine Page**, Vera Miles**

A woman driving to San Francisco picks up a hitchhiker, unaware that he had just murdered his stepmother.
Starring: Cloris Leachman, Michael Brandon, Henry Darrow, Cameron Mitchell, Sherry Jackson

A man takes his girlfriend home to his disapproving mother, who has unusual control over a swarm of "killer bees" that reside in her vineyard.
Starring: Gloria Swanson, Kate Jackson, Edward Albert, Craig Stevens**, John Getz

Kate Jackson and Edward Albert would play another romantic couple in another Movie of the Week, Death Cruise (6.14) airing later in 1974.

Fictional tales about family and health problems besetting flight controllers at Mission Control as they labor to bring Apollo 13 home safely.
Starring: Robert Culp, Clu Gulager, Gary Collins*, Sandra Dee**, Ed Nelson***, Steve Franken

A young adopted woman tries to find her birth parents, with help from a fellow adoptee she meets at a support group.
Starring: Beau Bridges, Meredith Baxter, Walter Brooke, Neva Patterson, Whitney Blake**

A schoolteacher, frustrated by his ex-wife's refusal to let him see his surrogate son and his own reputation for meekness, becomes an increasingly unhinged and violent stalker.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jean Seberg, John Vernon, Sam Wanamaker

Also known as Cat and Mouse. Star vehicle for Kirk Douglas. Douglas's son Michael would later star in Falling Down, a movie with a similar plot about an estranged father pushed over the edge. Filmed at Pinewood Studios and on location in Montreal.

Wonder Woman races to recover a secret list of American agents from a criminal mastermind.
Starring: Cathy Lee Crosby, Ricardo Montalbán**, Andrew Prine*

Unsold pilot; not related to the 1975-79 TV series of the same name.

A gunfighter who miraculously returned to life after his execution helps a young widow keep her land from a ruthless silver baron.
Starring: Steve Forrest, Dean Jagger**, Will Geer **, Sharon Acker*, Brendon Boone*, Rafael Campos*, Barbara Luna*, Cameron Mitchell*

An American kung fu master and his Chinese blood brother search for his sister, kidnapped by human traffickers in Hong Kong.
Starring: Jared Martin, Katie Saylor, Robert Ito, Joseph Wiseman**

An American-produced chopsocky movie filmed on location in Hong Kong.

Suspecting rabies from a skunk bite, a farmer chains himself in his barn to protect his wife and son, making them promise not to release him, but he doesn't know that a flash flood is coming.
Starring: George Kennedy, Joanna Pettet, Lee Montgomery, Collin Wilcox-Horne

A headstrong gunslinger assumes the identity of a murdered preacher and convinces a town to stand up against a crime boss.
Starring: Marjoe Gortner, Slim Pickens, David Huddleston, Geoffrey Lewis, Pamela Sue Martin, Estelle Parsons**, Jeff Corey

Paul Junger Witt was the executive producer.

An idealistic but irascible doctor in 1936 Brooklyn fights the frustrations of the medical profession and the world.
Starring: Pat Hingle, Lynn Carlin, Paul Jabara, Tracy Bogart, Sorrell Booke, Andrew Duggan*, John Hillerman

Pilot for the series premiering in the fall. First of two Movies of the Week this night.

Unsold pilot. Second of two Movies of the Week this night.

20th-century man Dylan Hunt, awakened from suspended animation in a post-apocalyptic world, visits a female-dominated society to find a missing surgeon.
Starring: John Saxon, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, Diana Muldaur*

Second unsold pilot for a Gene Roddenberry concept; a reboot of his 1973 pilot Genesis II on CBS. Another unsold pilot without Roddenberry's involvement followed in 1975, Strange New World, also on ABC but not a Movie of the Week. That final reboot reused the PAX name, a plot point of prolonged suspended animation and had John Saxon return as lead actor, but had a completely different premise and backstory.

A sadistic hunter recklessly kills a prospector, then torments his young hunting guide and tries to frame him for the crime.
Starring: Andy Griffith, Sam Bottoms, Noah Beery, James Best, Randy Boone, Jim Antonio, Jim Chandler

Based on the novel Death Watch by Robb White.

Fictional biography of a Marilyn Monroe-like movie star.

Aerial photographers race to save the residents of a tiny town when their photos indicate an earthquake is imminent.
Starring: Jackie Cooper, Cleavon Little, Stella Stevens**, William Windom

Bobby Sherman was one of the producers.

In Depression era Canada, a man who once survived the plunge over Niagara Falls wants his sons to follow in his footsteps.
Starring: Richard Boone, Michael Sacks, Randy Quaid, Jennifer Salt, Burt Young

Filmed on location in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

When a sailor's car is pushed over a cliff by a sadistic sheriff at a speed trap, his hot rodder brother comes to town to investigate and to get revenge.
Starring: Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow, Michelle Phillips, Nick Nolte, Stuart Margolin

Produced by Howie Horwitz.

An expectant mother begins to suspect that her actions and emotions are being controlled by her unborn baby.
Starring: Barbara Eden, George Grizzard, Joyce Van Patten, David Doyle, Nehemiah Persoff

Starring: Cloris Leachman, Laurence Luckinbill, Nick Nolte, Alan Oppenheimer, William Schallert

A seductive assassin wants to leave her lethal profession behind and goes on the run with her lover.
Starring: Yvette Mimieux, Joseph Campanella, Clu Gulager, Dack Rambo, Keenan Wynn

Written by Yvette Mimieux.

During World War II, a young Navy pilot who washed out of training returns to his farming community, where he's shunned by his father and neighbors and faces an impending locust swarm.
Starring: Ben Johnson, Ron Howard, Katherine Helmond, Lisa Gerritsen

Fictional Coast Guard inquest into the failed rescue of four men trapped in a civilian research submersible entangled in a sunken wreck.
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Joshua Bryant*, Paul Michael Glaser*, Barra Grant*, Warren Kemmerling*, Cliff Potts*, Laurie Prange*, Martin Balsam**, Howard K. Smith (voiceover narration)

Inspired by the Johnson Sea Link accident.

Ronald's ill mother builds a hiding place inside their house to fool the police after he accidentally kills a neighborhood girl, but when she unexpectedly dies, Ronald spies on the family who moves into the house.
Starring: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman, Kim Hunter, Lisa Eilbacher, Cindy Eilbacher, Cindy Fisher, John Fiedler

Don Diego, returning from Madrid, secretly takes up the mantle of Zorro after finding that his father has been usurped as alcalde of Los Angeles by an oppressive despot.
Starring: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalbán, Gilbert Roland, Louise Sorel, Robert Middleton, Anne Archer, Yvonne De Carlo

Unsold pilot, remake of The Mark of Zorro, with the teleplay adapted from John Taintor Foote's screenplay and music adapted from Alfred Newman's score.

Three couples given free tickets to a Caribbean cruise experience marital problems before they are murdered one by one.
Starring: Richard Long, Polly Bergen, Edward Albert, Kate Jackson, Tom Bosley, Celeste Holm, Michael Constantine, Cesare Danova

Produced by Aaron Spelling, with the non-mystery aspects very similar to his later 1977-86 TV series The Love Boat; Richard Long's final role before his sudden death.

A gang of thieves separately pull diamond heists along the West Coast and gradually assemble on a Greyhound bus with their spoils, but they have to contend with a dogged retired cop on board who is obsessed with the case and beginning to see a pattern.
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Gig Young, Matt Clark, Robert Walden, Geoffrey Lewis, Grayson Hall**

A photojournalist finds himself a captive of an orphaned family in a remote farmhouse who want new parents.
Starring: Stacy Keach, Samantha Eggar, John Savage, Robby Benson

A pistol passes from frightened homeowner to potential workplace shooter, barrio family, theater robbery, police disposal and, finally, a child's accident.
Starring: Stephen Elliot, David Huffman, John Sylvester White

Anthology of stories about a single firearm.

A middle-aged family man hitchhiking home is abducted and molested by a beautiful young woman, then finds himself disbelieved and ridiculed.
Starring: Paul Sorvino, Michael Learned, Adam Arkin, Bob Dishy, Jo Anna Cameron, Graham Jarvis

Three armed men rob a private lounge car full of wealthy passengers on a Metro-North commuter train.
Starring: Bernie Casey, Lynda Day George, Andrew Duggan, Dana Elcar, Laurence Luckinbill, James Sloyan, Robert Walden, Eduard Franz, Reni Santoni, Linden Chiles, Robert Mandan, Ina Balin

Produced by Quinn Martin.

Remake of 3 Godfathers.

A Cro-Magnon clan struggles against misfortune, sparse prey and hostile Neanderthals.
Starring: Victor French, Warren Vanders, Henry Wilcoxon, Adriana Shaw, Stewart Moss

Music by David Shire.

A mild-mannered father tries to regain the admiration of his young son by setting the Guinness world endurance record on roller skates.
Starring: Tim Conway, Barra Grant, Jan Murray, Scott Brady, Robert Hogan, Henry Jones, Ruta Lee

Written and produced by Bill Persky and Sam Denoff (That Girl).

A harried housewife and a frazzled women's magazine editor-in-chief swap careers and families for a week to experience how the other half lives.
Starring: Barbara Eden, Barbara Feldon, Barra Grant, Penny Marshall, Joyce Van Patten, Richard Schaal, Pat Harrington, Ron Glass

A teenage boy steals a lab mouse from his father's virology institute to get attention, not knowing it is infected with contagious, deadly bacteria.
Starring: Ed Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Gary Morgan, Kathleen Quinlan, Marjorie Lord, José Ferrer**

A Coast Guard team answering a distress call in the Bermuda Triangle finds a sole survivor on a boat and possibly demonic forces at work.
Starring: Kim Novak, Doug McClure, Alejandro Rey, Ed Lauter, Jim Davis, Michael Conrad

Condensed but relatively faithful retelling of the legendary Hatfield–McCoy feud.
Starring: Jack Palance, Steve Forrest, Richard Hatch, Karen Lamm, James Keach, Robert Carradine, John Calvin, Gerrit Graham, Morgan Woodward

The "daughters" settle down to life on the Cabe farm, but the real father of one of the women – a treacherous deserter – arrives with a scheme to use her.
Starring: Dan Dailey, Dub Taylor, Ronne Troup, Christina Hart, Brooke Adams, Kathleen Freeman, Carl Betz**

Second unsold pilot for a TV series; the first of two sequels to The Daughters of Joshua Cabe (4.02), followed by The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe (which, unlike the other two movies, was not an ABC Movie of the Week).

The story of the only Naval chaplain and officer ever court-martialed on charges of adultery after accusations by two Navy wives.
Starring: James Franciscus, Joanna Miles, Lynda Day George, Dorothy Tristan, Harris Yulin, Charles Durning**

Based on the autobiographical account by Andrew Jensen, with Martin Abramson.

A cynical radio talk-show host who insults his audience changes his behaviour when he receives a call from a suicidal teenage girl.
Starring: Robert Culp, Elayne Heilveil, Ken Swofford, Julius Harris, Michael Lerner

Self-contained anthology with Karen Black in three unrelated roles. Followed by two sequels, Dead of Night (1977) and, years later, Trilogy of Terror II (1996) (neither of which, unlike the first movie, was an ABC Movie of the Week). The first two movies were unsold pilots for a horror anthology TV series to be called Dead of Night.

Starring Martin Milner and Cameron Mitchell.

Pilot for Irwin Allen's 1975-76 TV series The Swiss Family Robinson.

Remake of The Best Years of Our Lives.

Two unorthodox LAPD detectives set out to find a pair of hit men responsible for the murders of two teenage lovers.
Starring: Paul Michael Glaser, David Soul, Michael Lerner, Michael Conrad

Pilot for the 1975-79 TV series of the same name premiering in September.

Matt Helm, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with gun runners.
Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Ann Turkel, Laraine Stephens, Patrick Macnee, John Vernon

Pilot for the 1975-76 TV series of the same name premiering in September.