The Big Event (1978-1979)
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- DirectorDaniel HallerStarsMichael LearnedAnne BaxterGlynnis O'ConnorBiography of tennis star Maureen Connolly, the first woman to win all Grand Slam titles in one year.
- DirectorLou AntonioStarsLloyd BridgesMelinda DillonBuddy EbsenA two part made for television movie centering on Dr. Dan Lassiter. In the first one, he goes up against a lawyer who likes to sue doctors over the smallest infractions. When the lawyer goes after a doctor whom Dr. Lassiter doesn't believe is incompetent, he decides to join a campaign against the lawyer, but he discovers something else is going on. In the second, the President wants to appoint him to a government position, but an old friend who is looking into the governments mishandling of funds intended for underprivileged, tells him of what he is doing, and that maybe the President is aware of this, and prefers to keep it under wraps, and being an honorable man, Lassiter tries to look into it, but there are people who will do anything to stop him, and that includes silence him, permanently.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsKaren GrassleLeVar BurtonMike FarrellGritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsLinda BlairLee PurcellJeremy SlateA teenage girl's life is turned upside down after her cousin moves into her house, and as time goes by she begins to suspect that she may be a practitioner of witchcraft.
- DirectorRalph NelsonVincent ShermanStarsDyan CannonArmand AssanteZohra LampertA dramatization of the life of Sally Stanford, who operated a bordello in the northern California town of Sausalito, and eventually went on to be elected mayor of the town.
- DirectorRichard MichaelsStarsSally StruthersTony MusanteJames HongA young American woman travels to North Vietnam to search for her husband, an American pilot who was shot down during the war. She is joined by a Canadian reporter, who is looking for a human interest story and sees this as his ticket to the big time.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsCicely TysonJason BernardClifford David
- DirectorLeo PennStarsSonny BonoLee PurcellLucille BensonA songwriter buys a detective agency as a tax shelter, but stumbles into a real case when a dead body turns up in suite he and his new bride are staying in.
- DirectorMark L. LesterStarsBo SvensonAnita EkbergDonald PleasenceAn adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.
- DirectorAlan J. LeviStarsJeff OsterhageCarl FranklinRobert DaviDuring the American Civil War, after his family is killed by Confederate raider William Quantrill, a young farmer seeks the help of a famous gunfighter in order to exact revenge on Quantrill.
- DirectorGeorg FenadyStarsSam GroomPatty DukeJoyce BulifantA group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.