CBS Movies (1988-1989)
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- DirectorRobert DayStarsJohn DenverMeg WittnerDavid RenanA retired F.B.I. Agent (played by country music star John Denver) becomes a bush pilot in Alaska. There, he investigates his friends murder, and drug smuggling. He also plays guitar and sings for his friends from time to time.
- DirectorMike FarrellStarsJamie FarrFred SavageShelley FabaresA small-time down-on-his-luck private eye tries to win back his estranged wife and their disabled young son.
- DirectorDavid DruryStarsScott GlennRobert LoggiaWilliam AthertonA spy is looking for his old colleague who now works for the other side.
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsPatrick DuffyCharles DurningMichael O'KeefeDrama based on the true story of a police detective"s relentless investigation into an insurance fraud involving a woman"s murder. He"s soon convinced he"s hot on the trail of those responsible - a doctor and a minister - but his attempts to prove his suspicions look set to be foiled.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsLee RemickScott WilsonRichard MarcusIn Meredith, California (a very small town) there was no doctor (only once a week on Wednesdays would a doctor fly in) , so Jesse Maloney (a "Practical Nurse") would take his place for the rest of the week. She would deliver the babies, set the bones and saved the lives of Meredith for nearly a decade. Then one day (in this "true story"), someone called the authorities and she gets arrested for practicing medicine without a license. With the strength of her convictions and overwhelming odds , she decides to fight her case in court, and has the support of the entire town.
- DirectorStephen GyllenhaalStarsAnne ArcherSam NeillFrances Lee McCainYoung wife is told she has inoperable cancer. Her husband is in denial, her family devastated, but she refuses to give up and desperately searches for alternative means of healing. Based on true events.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsBen MastersMorgan FairchildDiane SalingerThe film follows a laid-back private investigator Kyd Thomas who gets thrust into Hollywood"s world of crime after he meets Laura Cassidy. Laura is a cocaine addict who Kyd saves from being beaten and raped.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsVictor GarberSaul RubinekMichael DolanFueled by the intense poverty of his youth, Walter Valentino Liberace is determined to become the world"s greatest entertainer. Explore the rises and falls, the libel and palimony suits, as this intensely driven man struggles for personal happiness as well as the desire for the title of "Mr. Showmanship."
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDonna MillsAndrew ClarkeJohn MeillonA girl from Beverly Hills tries to find her fathers opal mine in the Australian outback.
- DirectorGilbert CatesStarsPatty DukeJoe RegalbutoJo HendersonWhile tending a seriously ill cancer patient, the nurse administered a generous dose of morphine. The patient died, which is why the woman is now on trial for murder.
- StarsMichael CaineArmand AssanteRay McAnallyIn Victorian-era London, Scotland Yard Police Inspector Frederick Abberline battles his drinking problem while he investigates the Jack the Ripper murders and discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the Queen.
- DirectorRichard MichaelsStarsRobert WagnerLesley-Anne DownMaggie HendersonA British movie star falls for an American diplomat. Unfortunately, he is still married...or so she believes. It turns out that his claims of marriage are just a way of ensuring his bachelorhood.
- DirectorRichard T. HeffronStarsValerie BertinelliTed WassJames StephensA made-for-TV movie in which Valerie Bertinelli portrays Florence Pancho Barnes, a bored socialite who decides to learn to fly.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsJulie ChristieHugo WeavingJohn PolsonOn 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of heroin, a crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death. Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow"s desperate attempt to save her son from the hangman"s rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother"s love for her son.
- DirectorMike RobeStarsLinda HamiltonPiper LaurieJoshua HarrisA young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.
- DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsRichard CrennaKate CapshawCliff GormanA skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a young nightclub singer in Saigon during the Vietnam War. At the same time, the detective attempts to ferret out corruption in the police ranks.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsWillie NelsonDelta BurkeJack ElamIn 1895, outlaws Cross and Boone are forced to take Mexican authorities to their loot. They travel there on a train full of dynamite with a group of prostitutes. Mexican rebels, Indians, and Wells Fargo Agents are all after them.
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsHoward HessemanBrooke ShieldsDarren McGavinTwo New York police detectives (Howard Hesseman, Ed Marinaro) recruit a gallery worker (Brooke Shields) to help them head off a jewel heist.
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsHarry AndersonEd Begley Jr.Wendy CrewsonIn this spoof of spy films, Alan, a U.N. translator, and his kindergarten teacher wife, Beverly, get roped into helping foil a presidential assassination plot by an unlikely G-man-who just so happens to look like Alan"s old college buddy, Freddie. But before "Freddie" can finger the real hired-gun-a cold-hearted killer with a penchant for using kitchen tools to do the deed-he, Alan, and Beverly must first rule out some strange and unusual suspects!
- DirectorJack GoldStarsAnthony HopkinsKristin Scott ThomasDerek JacobiA wealthy Paris lawyer facing execution finds a poor prisoner willing to trade places with him in exchange for promising his fortune to the man"s family. After his release, he returns to his old home but doesn"t reveal his true identity.
- DirectorJack BenderStarsCindy WilliamsMarkie PostJohn RitterCatherine"s world goes to pieces when she learns from the police that her husband Donald got killed - shot in the apartment of a prostitute! To her he was a model husband, determined to make them wealthy by investment banking. Catherine visits the call girl Marla and they befriend each other. But soon they"re both threatened by filthy guys who are on the search for something that Donald stole from them.
- DirectorRobert ConradStarsRobert ConradJennifer O'NeillShane ConradA married middle age man with two children who are in college, who also didn"t finish college decides to go and enroll at his kids" college. He also decides to try out for football, and makes the team. He becomes a phenom. But all of this causes friction between him and his son, and also trouble between him and his wife, who wants him to quit the team. But he chooses to stay with it.
- DirectorPeter BaldwinStarsFlorence HendersonRobert ReedAnn B. DavisThe entire Brady family manages to overcome personal obstacles to spend a happy holiday together.
- DirectorRoy Campanella IIStarsPam DawberMichael NouriBess MeyerA real-life story about a high school teacher and football coach who is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig"s disease but refuses to give in.