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Made For TV: Bad Ronald



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Directed by Buzz Kulik, 1974 TV.
This is the classic made-for-tv thriller EVERYONE talked about the day after the 70's broadcast. A brilliant Scott Jacoby stars as a nerdy high schooler living with his single mom. After he accidently kills a neighbor's young daughter, mom panicks, fearing that cops won't believe that the whole crazy thing was an accident. Mom moves her son into a converted bathroom hiding place. Wouldn't ya know it? Mom dies, leaving her son to fend for himself in the secret room. Pretty soon Ronald is stealing food and glances as new family, complete with sexy young daughter moves in. Does he start living in a perpetual, ever spiraling, fantasy world? You bet.
Never released on dvd and not available on vhs for decades. This is a pretty sharp transfer from a great vhs tape. Sound/Picture: 8/10.
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Made For TV: Bates Motel



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Directed by Richard Rothstein 1987 TV Norman may be gone, but the hotel lives on! Alex West Bud Cort is a manwhom roomed with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After the death of Bates, Alex finds that he's in Norman's will as the inheritor of the Bates Motel, which has been vacant since the time of Norman's arrest. Alex travels to Fairview, California and with a little help from a teenage runaway,named Willie Lori Perty, Alex struggles to re-open themotel for business, only tohave strange going ons happen. Is someone trying to drive him away, or is the motel is really haunted by the ghost of Norman's mother? There was an interesting idea in this non-conventionalsequel to the popular Psycho movie series by connecting ghost stories to Norman's family members and victims, but using the motel as a setting to a Twilight Zone/Fantasy Island series was so out of left field that it just couldn't have worked for more than less a season. Bud Cort plays a guy who Norman had alledgedly befriended in the sanitarium. After his death, he inherits the hotel and the property, but the ghost of old Mother Bates won't sit still for the mockery. Lori Petty, still a relative unknown, plays his pretty female friend, and unforgettable Moses Gunn becomes his benefactor in this alternate reality to the movie series.
The movie bogs down on the suicidal guest sub-plot, an idea later used in the third movie installment, but it should have stuck to the ghost stories than to try and create a series.
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Made For TV: Brass Eye



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Funny Stuff. Directed by Michael Cumming. 1997 [TV-Series] Brass Eye is a quite awesome achievement. As I write this review, most of Britain's press is up in arms over the recent one-off episode which satirised the particularly sensitive subject of paedophilia. The majority of people claim that it is simply sick to even attempt to make a comedy based on such a theme. However, while not for the easily offended, Chris Morris' style has always been to approach serious issues using interesting methods. This particular episode managed to make some very interesting points, often highlighting the gross inconsistencies in the way in which crime and taboo subjects are dealt with. A great deal of the humour comes from Morris managing to get celebrities to say the stupidest things. The fact that they are so easily convinced to speak such nonsense, highlights the ignorance and paranoia surrounding the whole subject. Amongst other things, we are told that paedophiles can feel children's faces via computer screens, that they occupy an area of internet the size of Ireland, that they can make toxic fumes rise from keyboards to make children more suggestible, that, genetically, they have more in common with crabs than people. At one stage, Kate Thornton tells us with utter seriousness that HOECS games are used by paedophiles to interact with children. It is quite incredible to see these people saying such things with such belief. Other highlights include the Eminem spoof, JL B8; a story about a cheeky cockney ex-paedophile who does bus tours of his 'old haunts' - a brilliant spoof of the way the press treats the old east-end London gangsters these days; and an on-going news report showing a crowd lynching a paedophile when released from prison and burning him in a wicker phallus: scarily reminiscent of the mobs that ran wild in Britain in summer 2000.
To dismiss this or any other episode in the '97 series as sick and utterly unamusing, is to display an ignorance or unwillingness to address the very serious issues being dealt with. Just because there is humour involved, doesnot mean the issues are being sanitised - it actually makes them more poignant.

Made For TV: Cliff Hangers



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YESS! The supercool, short-lived series where three cliffhanger-like stories were wrapped up in a one hour format. Horror! Adventure! Intrigue! This has got it all!

The Curse of Dracula

Now living in San Francisco and teaching history at South Bay College, (Evening Division, of course) the Lord of Vampires gets to have his pick of attractive students while fending off his enemies Kurt von Helsing and Mary Gibbons (whose mother has already been bitten and turned into a vampire).

Cool!

The Secret Empire

An homage to the cliffhanger serials of the '30s and '40s. In the 1900's a wild west Marshal stumbles upon a secret underground city known as Chimera while chasing a gang of robbers. Chimera and evil master Thorval rules with a despotic hand. The Marshal teams up with the resistance rebels in their effort to overthrow Thorval, while at the same time investigating the gold robberies on the surface.

Stop Susan Williams

A real modernized 'damsel-in-distress' kinda serial. Susan Williams is a journalist whose investigation of her reporter brother's murder takes her around the world in pursuit of bad guy Anthony Kort. Susan narrowly escapes death episode after episode.

Two discs! Picture/Sound a 8/10 -due to it's rarity - picture a little "soft".

Made For TV: Cruise of the Gods



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Directed by Declan Lowney 2002 TV Andy Brydon is a struggling actor who has never quite reached the success of his first role as Romak in sci-fi series Children Of Castor. When he finds himself as a hotel porter he decides it time to go on that fan-club cruise he's been putting off for a while. Whilst there he meets Nick Coogan, his co-star from the TV series. Nick is now a Hollywood success staring in Sherlock Holmes...In Miami. This is the story of the cruise and the surprising events that happen along the way.
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Made For TV: Day Today



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Funny Stuff (1994) The first of the BRILLIANT TV news parodies helped launch the careers of the amazing Chris Morris and Steve Coogan. This series parodied the 'hard-hitting', loud, logo-obsessed Gulf War-era style of journalism, skewering sports journalism, weather reports, American news programs, business reports, soap operas, and more. A MUST HAVE! Perfect Picture and Sound from an out of print international PAL dvd source with menu and chapter stops. Sound/Picture 10/10 Complete series in a 2 Dvd-R set.

Made For TV: Dead Ringers, Season One



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(2002) Directed by John Birkin /Jonathan Gershfield. A great sketch show from the UK that skewers everyone from radio to TV, in really funny, quick paced sketches. No one and nothing is safe. Dead Ringers mixes up Doctor Who, Tony Blair, George Bush, the Office and tons more unexpected and totally funny sketches and stunts. What's more impressive is that all of these characters (and more) are brought to you by a cast of just four regulars (Kevin Connelly, Jon Culshaw, Mark Perry and Jan Ravens).

Those Brits are damn funny. Perfect Picture and Sound from an international PAL dvd source with menu and chapter stops. Complete season one on 2 Dvd-Rs. Sound/ Picture 10/10

Made For TV: Dont Be Afraid of the Dark



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Directed by John Newland. 1973 TV Horror
Now you see them, now you don't...now you die.
A neurotic housewife named Sally and her business exec husband move into Sally's family house, a spooky two story Victorian mansion. When Sally starts the redecorating along with her pompous decorator she comes across a locked room in the house. After arguing with the handyman who insists she should leave the room locked, she finally gets the key. But once she opens her father's old study and has the bricks from the fireplace removed, strange things begin to happen. Sally begins to see small creatures everywhere, but no one will believe her. Her husband dismisses her as neurotic and her friend thinks Sally may be loosing her mind. But things take a deadly serious turn when the decorator trips at the top of the stairs and falls to his death. Sally sees a rope lying across the place where he tripped, but when she picks it up to take it, a horrifying little creature pulls it from her grasp. Is she crazy? Or has Sally released demons in the house, demons her father summoned?
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Made For TV: Dr. Terribles House of Horrible



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Directed by Matt Lipsey 2001 [TV-Series]
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Made For TV: Friday the 13th, Series



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(1987) [TV-Series 1987-1990] Created by Frank Mancuso Jr. / Larry B. Williams. Okay I have NO idea why (apart from the fact that they had the rights to the name) the choice of "Friday the 13th" as the title for this show.I tuned in to the first show of the series expecting it to be based on the films but noooo. I was so pissed off I turned it off and didn't watch it again for a couple years. Stupid kid.

Upon re-visiting the series years later I discovered, hey, this was a pretty good TV show. The premise of the series is this: Years before, an antique dealer made a pact with the Devil to sell cursed antiques. He dies, and his store is inherited by his niece Micki and her cousin Ryan. When they find out the evil that had been unleashed from the store they decide (with the help of Jack Marshak), to save the people who bought them by getting back the cursed items.

A predecessor to shows like The X Files. A cool vintage show. The print is from an original broadcast source and a little "soft" but VERY watchable with menu and chapter stops complete series on 8 Dvd-rs. Sound/Picture 8/10 & 9/10.

Made For TV: Global Frequency



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Directed by Nelson McCormick. 2005 TV
Writing credits Warren Ellis, graphic novel
The Global Frequency is an independent, illegal, covert intelligence agency determined to prevent international politics from undermining the security of the global community. Led by the former NSA agent Miranda Zero, GF is everywhere and nowhere - and it's mankind's best defense against everything that occurs outside our peripheral vision. This marvel of brains and machinery is hacked into every satellite, mainframe, cell phone and database across the globe. With the help of her central command dispatcher, the feisty but brilliant Aleph, Zero is just a phone call away from tapping anyone anywhere to volunteer their skills to help save the world. GF's newest "recruit," suspended cop Sean Flynn, is paired with introverted Kate Finch, a mastermind of the scientific inner workings of the covert network.
There are dangers in our world of which we are completely unaware. The intelligence agencies of the world won't cross national borders. We're in trouble. Thank goodness, there is the Global Frequency.
The idea behind this show is a super secret organization exists and its operatives work outside the nation loyalties to stop horrible things from happening. Our hero gets drawn into this world by finding a half a body and chooses to answer the body's ringing "cell phone." In the course of the story, our hero meets the "hot female scientist who hides her beauty with a hair bun and thick horn rimmed glasses," does important if not obvious detective work, and saves the day. While our hero is on the ground, the leader of the Global Frequency kicks butt as she breaks into a prison and extracts needed information from a political prisoner held there. There is a certain amount of cliché in this story, but it's a fun ride.
I found this show on a CD left in the computer lab. It seems to be a pilot for a series, but there are no credits on the copy I found. I'd like to know more about the actors and the show. It is a great set up for a series and I'd like to see more of it.
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Made For TV: The Garry Shandling Show - 25th Anniversary Special



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Directed by Tom Trbovich. 1986 TV
Gary spoofs 'The Tonight Show' and Johnny Carson himself makes a cameo appearance. Originaly made for pay T.V.
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Made For TV: The Green Hornet



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[TV-Series 1966-1967] Created by George W. Trendle. Oh yeah! I ALWAYS thought the Green Hornet was a pretty cool superhero, Britt Reid, owner/publisher of "The Daily Sentinel," fights crime in a pretty snappy suit and cool mask as The Green Hornet with the ULTIMATE sidekick Kato (Bruce flikkin' Lee!). The cops and public think the Hornet's a ruthless criminal (jerks), but the District Attorney knows Reid's secret identity, and welcomes his assistance in fighting the scum o'the city. All this plus one of the coolest cars ever on tv: "Black Beauty," the Hornet's armed to the hilt car.

This is the complete series on 4 Dvd-Rs. A really good print from original broadcast sources with good menu with chapter stops.

Made For TV: Human Remains



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Directed by Matt Lipsey. 2000 [TV-Series] This series of "days-in-the-life" 6 is without a doubt one of the funniest and best-acted pieces I've ever seen. The two principles, Julia Davis and Rob Brydon, have a very well-defined sense of comedic timing, and their characters are at once hilarious and pitiful.
The makeup deserves credit as well; I was half-way through the second episode before I realized that I was watching the same acters, that's "acters" as opposed to actors, as opposed to actresses. This is good stuff, and I can hardly wait until this is available on DVD. I just hope we can get at least another six out of Davis and Brydon...

Made For TV: Killdozer



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1974 Directed by Jerry London. Few movies can rightfully be called a “classic” but this is definitely one ALL made-for-TV of sf horror fans need. When it originally aired the ratings were HUGE and it's still really fun to watch once you get past the idea that somehow a bulldozer can “sneak up” on someone. Scripted by the original author of the short story it goes like this:

Construction workers are building an airstrip on a small Pacific Island during WWII when they accidentally release an ancient energy-like lifeform when clearing a path. The entity takes over the crew's bulldozer which never runs out of gas! and methodically tries to kill them all. I know it doesn't sound great but it's lotsa fun. Another Flikka fave and a must have for fans of the great writer Theodore Sturgeon or “lost” made-for-TV films. Never before available on ANY format and THAT'S a crime. This copy if from an original broadcast of this rare film and while it's very watchable, it's not the best: I'd say the picture quality is a 7 out of 10 while the sound is a 8 out of 10. We're always lookin' for a better print but haven't located one yet. The minute we do we'll send gratis an upgrade to anyone who buys this from us!

Made For TV: Land of the Giants, Season 1



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(1968) [TV-Series ran from 1968-1970] Directed by Harry Harris / Sobey Martin.

You all remember this classic SF TV show, but if not here's the premise to this cool series: While on a commercial flight from New York to London a spaceship becomes lost when it passes through a weird cloud in the ship's orbit around Earth. The ship manages to land on what ends up being an alternate Earth-type planet, where the inhabitants were roughly twelve times the size of the ship's passengers. Our heroes include the ship's captain (Steve Burton), co-pilot (Dan) and stewardess (Betty); an arrogant engineer (Mark); a sexy jet-setter (Valerie); a young boy (Barry) and his dog Chipper; and a mysterious rogue known as Commander Fitzhugh. Together they battle the planet's totalitarian government, try to avoid capture, and attempt to repair their ship so they can get back home.

Complete 1st season on 8 Dvd-Rs are beautiful from an original long-out-of print Columbia House discs.

Made For TV: Land of the Giants, Season 2



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Land of the Giants. Complete 2nd season of the fantastic Irwin Allen series on 12 Dvd-Rs. These are beautiful, the first 6 are from an original long-out-of print Columbia House discs while the rest were never released by CH and are great conversions from broadcast.

Made For TV: Logans Run, Series



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(1977) [TV-Series 1977-1978] Directed by Michael Caffey /Nicholas Colasanto. Who DIDN'T watch this tv show? You? Okay lets see: this was a television series based on the movie (you gotta have seen that) where in the future, Earth, having been devastated by a nuclear holocaust. It's surviving populace slowly pulled themselves together and and in the 23rd century various societies sprout everywhere, totally oblivious of each other. One of these is the City of Domes. It's citizens live in total controlled bliss in a domed city - always told that the outside world is still uninhabitable because of the nuclear radiation - but because of limited space and resources, everyone who reaches the age of 30 is executed in a sham of a contest called Carousel where they are told that they may be renewed. This of course never happens and there are those that don't believe stories of the outside being uninhabitable. These people believe in a place called Sanctuary where they can live a looong life in peace. Runners, they're called and they're hunted by men called Sandmen. Our hero is Logan, a Sandman who decides to run and seek Sanctuary with Jessica. Hot on their' heels is Francis, Logan's ex partner...

This is the complete series on 3 Dvd-Rs. A really good print with good menu with chapter stops.

Made For TV: Mr. T The Animated Show



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(1983) I've got to say it.. the urge is just too great... "I pity the fool that don't have this collection!" Good, that's out of my system. Yup, it's the short lived animated exploits of Mr. T and his team of gymnasts which include a kid (a Mr T wannabe complete with sleeveless denim shirt) and a dog with a mohawk. The gang would tour around, encounting crimes and mysteries ...and making the badguys PAY! In best Scooby Doo fashion, most of the episodes followed the pattern of some crime or other happening, the kid finding out about it.. and getting into trouble... then Mr.T and the gang would catch up and take care of bidness. The dog, of course, is comic relief... At the end of each episode the real live Mr T. would appear and tell us the moral of the story, how the kid could have avoided trouble, and what you can do in your own neighborhood. Yaay.. T!

Two discs - complete series. Good, not Great Picture and Sound from a from various broadcast sources and as is the case with old VHS recordings, resulting in the picture being a bit "soft" - with menu and chapter stops. Sound/Picture 7 /10

Made For TV: The Wonder Years Vol. 1



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(1988)TV-Series 1988-1993. Created by Carol Black /Neal Marlens. I looved this show. The Wonder Years really was a great television sitcom. For those of you who missed out: The show is basically a recounting of events in the life of Kevin Arnold, a typical all American teenage boy. We follow his daily trials and tribulations. Sounds ho-hum? The Wonder Years could make you laugh, make you cry, make you remember what it was like to be 12 years old,and in love. A really nice (and I say that with NO irony or apologies) masterfully written and acted mini TV lost masterpiece.

Great Picture and Sound from an out of print international PAL dvd source with menu and chapter stops. Letterboxed in English. Sound/Picture 10/10

Volume 1 - Price: $15.00 ( + Tax, where applicable)

Made For TV: The Wonder Years Vol. 2-3



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(1988)TV-Series 1988-1993. Created by Carol Black /Neal Marlens. I looved this show. The Wonder Years really was a great television sitcom. For those of you who missed out: The show is basically a recounting of events in the life of Kevin Arnold, a typical all American teenage boy. We follow his daily trials and tribulations. Sounds ho-hum? The Wonder Years could make you laugh, make you cry, make you remember what it was like to be 12 years old,and in love. A really nice (and I say that with NO irony or apologies) masterfully written and acted mini TV lost masterpiece.

Great Picture and Sound from an out of print international PAL dvd source with menu and chapter stops. Letterboxed in English. Sound/Picture 10/10

Volume 2 & 3 - Price: $15.00 ( + Tax, where applicable)

Made For TV: The Wonder Years Vol. 4-5

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The Wonder Years

(1988)TV-Series 1988-1993. Created by Carol Black /Neal Marlens. I looved this show. The Wonder Years really was a great television sitcom. For those of you who missed out: The show is basically a recounting of events in the life of Kevin Arnold, a typical all American teenage boy. We follow his daily trials and tribulations. Sounds ho-hum? The Wonder Years could make you laugh, make you cry, make you remember what it was like to be 12 years old,and in love. A really nice (and I say that with NO irony or apologies) masterfully written and acted mini TV lost masterpiece.

Volume 4 & 5 - Price: $15.00 ( + Tax, where applicable)

Made For TV: The Wonder Years Vol. 6-7

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The Wonder Years

(1988)TV-Series 1988-1993. Created by Carol Black /Neal Marlens. I looved this show. The Wonder Years really was a great television sitcom. For those of you who missed out: The show is basically a recounting of events in the life of Kevin Arnold, a typical all American teenage boy. We follow his daily trials and tribulations. Sounds ho-hum? The Wonder Years could make you laugh, make you cry, make you remember what it was like to be 12 years old,and in love. A really nice (and I say that with NO irony or apologies) masterfully written and acted mini TV lost masterpiece.

Volume 6 & 7 - Price: $15.00 ( + Tax, where applicable)

Made For TV: The Wonder Years Set

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Set. (1988)TV-Series 1988-1993. Created by Carol Black /Neal Marlens. I looved this show. The Wonder Years really was a great television sitcom. For those of you who missed out: The show is basically a recounting of events in the life of Kevin Arnold, a typical all American teenage boy. We follow his daily trials and tribulations. Sounds ho-hum? The Wonder Years could make you laugh, make you cry, make you remember what it was like to be 12 years old,and in love. A really nice (and I say that with NO irony or apologies) masterfully written and acted mini TV lost masterpiece.

Get the whole set for $45.00 ( + Tax, where applicable)

Made For TV: Wonder Woman The TV movie



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The 1974 TV movie with Cathy Lee Crosby! Plus Extras

Wonder Woman as you've never seen her before - but that's not necessarily a good thing. Wonder Woman movie in name only. She doesn't even wear the WW costume! The plot is more akin to a lower budget James Bond. No superhuman strength. No invisible plane. No lasso.

But it sure is a real rarity! Comes with a second disc of a variety of real Wonder Woman rarities to make up for the lack of the Amazon in the costume. Picture/Sound varies but the movie is a very watchable 7/10!