The CBS Wednesday Night Movies (1979-1980)
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- DirectorJackie CooperStarsJoby BakerWarren BerlingerFrank BonnerTwo attractive divorcees discover that their newly-realized independence continues to be guided by their respective parental obligations.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDavid JanssenSusannah YorkPaul CoufosIn San Francisco, a police detective, aided by a Catholic nun, investigates the case of a priest who falls to his death from the Golden Gate bridge.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsJerry ReedTom SelleckMorgan FairchildEx-cowboy and his side kick travel the highways and byways of America in search of adventure. Along with Morgan Fairchild they find plenty of it.
- DirectorFrank De FelittaStarsLindsay WagnerMarc SingerAlan FeinsteinJennie Logan discovers an antique dress in her attic that allows her to travel back in time. Soon she's torn between life with her philandering husband and a romance with a handsome artist who was murdered at the turn of the century.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsAngie DickinsonGordon PinsentZohra LampertAn unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her for his father's death.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsRichard ThomasErnest BorgnineDonald PleasenceA young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsAnthony HopkinsRichard CrennaJenny AgutterIn 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. This movie tells the adventurous journey of the Pilgrims to an unknown land and future.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsJean StapletonMartin BalsamHarold GouldA disabled woman starts a Little League baseball team to help the children in her poverty-stricken neighborhood.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsEdward AsnerMeredith BaxterPaul ClemensA happily married family man, owner of a parking garage in Manhattan, drifts into a romance with one of his customers.
- DirectorStuart MargolinStarsTimothy BottomsAllyn Ann McLerieConstance ForslundThe fact-based story of John Baker, a former collegiate track star turned elementary school phys ed teacher who, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, spends his remaining time coaching a losing girls' track team to a winning season.
- DirectorDick LowryStarsRalph WaiteDavid BirneyTalia BalsamRalph White plays Floyd Wing, a conservative Midwest farmer who rallies his neighbors against a power company who plans to use their land to erect huge towers across the area. Floyd then turns to Jack Coker (David Birney) a schoolteacher and political activist who agrees to help Floyd organize an effective bloc.
- DirectorGerald I. IsenbergStarsLeonard NimoyPenelope MilfordChristopher AllportA young music student has a seizure forcing her to undergo brain surgery. She comes out of the surgery unable to count or read and has difficulty adapting to life.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsSuzanne PleshetteTony RobertsArte JohnsonA wife and mother tries to cope with her husband's emotional problems while trying to balance her new job as an assistant director on a local children's TV show and caring for her family.
- DirectorJackie CooperStarsBob NewhartHerb EdelmanDick GautierA middle aged man spends his free time running. Especially since his wife spends more of her time on her work. He later meets another runner, a younger woman who inspires to compete in a marathon.
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsScott BaioLance KerwinEd LauterA popular high school hockey player hides the fact that he is an alcoholic.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsTimothy BottomsKay LenzMiguel Ángel SuárezThe true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri prison where he endured brutal conditions. With the help of his wife, Barbara, he escaped the prison by disguising himself as a woman. He was the first prisoner to escape Lecumberri since Pancho Villa.
- DirectorJackie CooperStarsBette DavisErnest Harden Jr.Eileen HeckartA poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsSteve GuttenbergRandy QuaidMark L. TaylorThe story of Harold Krents, who became totally blind at nine years old, but graduated Harvard and Oxford and became a lawyer.
- DirectorGuy GreenStarsAlex KarrasMadge SinclairEddie BarthReal-life story detailing the relationship between a popular Detroit restaurant owner and a young black youngster whom he tries to adopt.
- DirectorJames Cellan JonesStarsChris SarandonColin BlakelyKeith MichellThe Crucifixion of Christ seen more from a political and historical point of view than a spiritual one.
- DirectorJohn A. AlonzoStarsElizabeth MontgomeryCliff PottsMichael CavanaughBelle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsMichael LearnedRobert ReedTom AldredgeMichael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot for the short-lived TV series.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsPowers BootheNed BeattyIrene CaraThe real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.
- DirectorRobert L. CollinsStarsHenry FondaJosé FerrerJohn HousemanThe story of Clarence Earl Gideon and his fight for the right to have publicly funded legal counsel for the needy.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsNatalie WoodRobert FoxworthRoddy McDowallA young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a cruise ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of her mother's death 30 years previously, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman.