My list of movie-saves, some from 50's but mostly 60's & up that wish were available as dvd release but sadly are not... or once were and went out of print. We especially enjoy the 70's 'suspicion & suspense', 'teen trauma', and 'tragic but true' made for tv movies that started airing in the 70's as a 'movie of the week'. 

The ABC Movie of the Week and others that followed brought us some of the best... casts of wonderful actors we'd often only seen on the big screen, now in our homes... and these TvMs always had something going on that sucked you in and kept you watching :)

When Looking at my lists please note there is a "Sort By" option, I prefer to look at titles by release date, earliest to latest... but can choose other options to view by using the Sort By option ;)

William R. Moses, Michelle Stafford, and Dani Kind in Like Mother, Like Daughter (2007)

Every year, a number of television pilots are filmed -- "test episodes" for potential new shows. Some of them get ordered to series, and those pilot episodes often become episode #1 of the new show. Others, however, are unable to hurdle that barrier and remain unsold -- not picked up as a full television series.

Note that "unsold" does not necessarily equate to "unaired" -- many of the pilots listed here have aired on tv, either as a backdoor pilot (shown as a tv movie, or as an episode of an already-running tv show from which it was intended to spin off) or "burned off" (aired as a tv movie or a one-off episode among the summer reruns, or incorporated into one of several anthology tv series that consisted entirely of rejected pilots). Others have seen the light of day as extra features on DVDs, or straight-to-video releases, or in a few cases were even bumped up to theatrical releases.

I've started moving ones I've seen and/or have (i.e., I know they're at least marginally available) to the top of the list -- so far that's #s 1-676.

Sources: Unsold Television Pilots, Lee Goldberg. Movies Made for Television, 1964-2004 and 2005-2009, Alvin H. Marill. Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2007 and Encyclopedia of Television Pilots, 1937-2019 and Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945-2018, Vincent Terrace. Various selective-subject (science fiction, animation, etc.) TV books. Various internet resources - IMDb, TCMDb, TheFutonCritic, etc. etc. etc.

(A work in progress.)

Robert Taylor, Robert Young, Margaret Sullavan, and Franchot Tone in Three Comrades (1938)

Kim Novak and Jeff Chandler in Jeanne Eagels (1957)

James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Corey Allen in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Junichi Kajioka in Devils on the Doorstep (2000)

Ingrid Bergman, Susan Hayward, Warner Baxter, Richard Denning, Johnny Downs, Robert Shaw, and Charles Lind in Adam Had Four Sons (1941)

As much as I love my classic movie collection my favorite film genre is the "1970's Made for Tv Movies". The ABC Movie of the Week, as well as TvMs from other networks that followed, could always be counted on for a fun 90 minutes. From the late 60's to now these telefilms showcase stars from our regular tv shows in suspenseful, scary, fun & mysterious situations! 

Since so many are still unreleased on dvd I'm lucky to have quite a large collection of original & OOP Original Vhs video releases as well as many 1st satellite saves from commercial free cable... and although I only save movies not being currently released on dvd, may notice titles on my list Amazon shows as released on dvd. My saves are listed because discovered are from budget companies not released by original studio. They are what's called Public Domain titles, various companies offer... BUT... after reading many customer reviews of their dreadful quality have added titles I also have because I own nicer versions ;)

Thankfully the Tv Movie genre has hung in there... can find them  running on one channel all day long... gotta love 'em too... those cheesy, suspenseful, scary, nutjob neighbor/lover/best friend, oh woe is me tvms! I don't even mind the ones with commercials... can't fast forward fast enough to see what's coming next :-0

Vince Gill, John Hiatt, Alison Krauss, Taj Mahal, John McEuen, Brett Wolcott, Michael McNamara, Bob Carpenter, Jeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden, and Jimmy Ibbotson in Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Farther Along (2003)

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