MADE FOR TV

In this section there may be a few movies that contain TV station logos.  Most are mastered from VHS or European DVD releases, for example: "SATAN'S TRIANGLE" comes from a French DVD.
Keep in mind that not everyone has satellite TV and not all stations are available on all cable carriers.  I have done by best to make note of movies in this section that may have been recorded from a TV airing in which a TV logo may appear.  Absolutely NO COMMERCIAL breaks or edits of commercial breaks.  The few that have been recorded from TV airings are from NON-COMMERCIAL cable/satellite channels.

ALL DVDs COME WITH FULL COLOR BOX ART, EVEN IF NO BOX ART IS SHOWN HERE.

ALL  DVDs I N T HIS  SECTION  ARE  $15  EACH  UNLESS  SPECIFIED  AT  THE  END  OF  THE  DESCRIPTION.

A TASTE OF EVIL (1971, USA, TV, 73 min.)
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Perkins, Roddy McDowall. Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
After spending several years in a mental institution due to a horrible rape, Susan (Barbara Parkins) thinks that someone is out to deliberately drive her crazy.

THE CAT CREATURE  (1973, USA, TV, 72 min,)
Director: Curtis Harrington. Cast: Meredith Baxter, David Hedison, Gale Sondergaard, John Carradine. Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police consult scholars from the local University to help with the investigation, which is taking a more serious turn as people connected with the case are killed by wounds that seem to be from a housecat.

THE DEAD DON'T DIE  (1975, USA, TV, 74 min.)
Director: Curtis Harrington. Cast: George Hamilton, Linda Cristal, Joan Blondell, Ray Milland, Yvette Vickers.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn in the occult world.

DEATHMOON  (1978, USA, TV, 90 min.)
Director: Bruce Kessler. Cast: Robert Foxworth, Joan Freeman and Charles Haid.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
An overworked executive vacationing in Hawaii finds that his romance with an attractive businesswoman he meets there is threatened by the supernatural powers of a strange native curse.

DAVICANSKA SVIRKA  (1973, Yugoslavia, TV, 56 min.)
Director: Đorđe Kadijević. Cast: Olivera Katarina, Goran Sultanović, Ivan Jagodić. 
Language: Serbian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Early Made-For-TV horror from the director of  “Leptirica” and “Sveto Mesto”(A Holy Place).  Ivan is a young man who travels by carriage and eventually wants to rest in a remote inn somewhere in the plain which has been deemed by locals as a haunted place. The coachman refuses to get any closer to the castle inn and so Ivan continues on foot. When he arrives to the castle he hears strange music coming from within. A young kid who passed nearby warns Ivan about the castle, and just shortly after that the carriage kills him. Sibylle, a beautiful but strange woman comes out of the carriage and helps Ivan to carry the dead child into the castle, which is her home. After her husband's death, she lives there only with her coachman Bartholomew. Ivan and Sibylle soon fall in love with each other, but the mystery of the music will not be found out until the end. AKA: “Song of Virgins”.

THE HAUNTING OF HELEN WALKER  (1995, USA, TV, 88 min.)
Director: Tom McLaughlin. Cast: Valerie Bertinelli, Florence Hoath, Aled Roberts and Michael Gough.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children haunted by the spirits and deeds of their former care givers.

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS  (1972, USA, TV, 73 min.)
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey. Cast: Jessica Walter, Sally Field, Jill Hayworth, Julie Harris, Walter Brennan. Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
An ailing man summons his three daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.   

I, DESIRE  (1982, USA, TV, 95 min.)
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey. Cast: David Naughton, Brad Dourif, Marilyn Jones and Dorian Harewood. Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
A coroner’s aide can’t understand why one of the corpses in his care has been completely drained of blood. Doing a little detective work on his own, he follows a trail of clues that leads him to sexy streetwalker Cheryl. Could it be that this lady of the night is really a vampire?   

NOTE: May have occasional TV station logos.

MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION: CURSE OF THE MUMMY  (1970, UK, TV, 75 min.)
Director: Guy Verney. Cast: Isobel Black, Patrick Mower, Donald Churchill.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen. 
The mummy of an Egyptian queen is unearthed by an archaeologist whose daughter resembles the queen. Based on Bram Stoker's "Jewel of the Seven Stars".

MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION: DRACULA  (1968, UK, TV, 75 min. B&W)
Director: Patrick Dromgoole. Cast: Denholm Elliot, Bernard Archard, Nina Baden-Semper, Michael Da Costa. Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
Dracula has made the journey from his ancestral homeland to England where he meets the Weston family - lining up Lucy Weston for a snack before moving on to Mrs. Harker. It is up to Professor Van Helsing and Dr Seward to do what they can to save poor Lucy before she becomes one of the undead.

MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION: FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER + THE OPEN DOOR  (1968, UK, TV, 2 episodes on 1 DVD, 50 min. each, B&W)
Directors: Kim Mills and Joan Kemp-Welch. Cast: David Buck, Denholm Elliott, Dudley Jones, Jack Hawkins, Rachel Gurney, Mark Dignam.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
"Fall of the House of Ushar" - A young man seeks the woman he has fallen in love with at an isolated old house, and comes into conflict with her neurotic brother.
"The Open Door" -  Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill and tormented by a wailing voice but is it in the boys imagination or not?

MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION: FRANKENSTEIN  (1968, UK, TV, 75 min.)
Director: Voytek. Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Badel, Richard Vernon.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
A version of the famous story in which the same actor plays both Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature he puts together from parts of dead bodies and brings to life in his laboratory.

MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION: SWEENEY TODD  (1970, UK, TV, 75 min.)
Director: Robert Collin. Cast: Freddie Jones, Heather Canning, Leon Collina.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. 
A fiendish barber in early 19th century London has many dark secrets in his past and also in his present day activities.

NIGHT TERROR  (1977, USA, TV, 73 min.)
Director: E.W. Swackhamer. Cast: Valerie Harper, Richard Romanus.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
A housewife is stalked by a psycho after she sees him  murder a highway patrol officer.

SATAN'S TRIANGLE  (1975, USA, TV, 74 min.)
Director: Sutton Roley. Cast: Kim Novak, Doug McClure, Alejandro Rey.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean known as Satan's Triangle.

THE SCREAMING WOMAN  (1972, USA, TV, 73 min.)
Director: Jack Smight. Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Ed Nelson, Joseph Cotton and Laraine Stephens.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
Olivia de Havilland as a mental patient trying to prove someone's buried alive on her estate.

NOTE: Taken from SCREAM TV channel which may no longer be available on many cable carriers.  It used to be available on my cable carrier but was eliminated around 2011.

SPECTRE  (1977, USA, TV, 98 min.)
Director: Clive Donner. Cast: Robert Culp, Gig Young, John Hurt, Ann Bell.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
Renowned criminologist and occult investigator William Sebastian (Culp) recruits his old friend Dr. Hamilton (Young) to aid him in his current case. Anitra Cyon (Bell), the sister of prominent British businessman Geoffrey Cyon (Villiers), believes her brother is dabbling in the black arts. In turn, Geoffrey claims that she is mentally unfit. Sebastian and Hamilton travel to the Cyon estate to investigate the matter. Complicating the issue is Sebastian's debilitating heart condition that was induced by his own experimentations with the black arts.

NOTE: Taken from an HD non-commercial TV airing. Contains occasional logo.

VAMPIRE  (1979, USA, TV, 100 min.)
Director: E.W. Swackhamer. Cast: Richard Lynch, Jason Miller and E. G. Marshall.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
San Francisco is being plagued by a series of gruesome murders and local police are baffled by their haunting resemblance to a 30 year old chain of unsolved homicides. Former police officer Harry Kilcoyne believes the killings are the work of a modern day vampire. With the help of friend John Rawlins, they set out to uncover the truth about the mysterious art collector, Prince Anton Voytek.

WHERE HAVE ALL THE PEOPLE GONE  (1974, USA, TV, 74 min.)
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey. Cast: Peter Graves, George O’Hanlon Jr., Kathleen Quinlan.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the de-populated Earth.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK,  (1989, UK, TV, 100 min)
Director: Herbert Wise. Cast: Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton and David Daker.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Fullscreen.
In this spine-chilling Victorian ghost story, a lawyer is sent to settle up the estate of a dead client, and to sell her remote mansion out on the marsh. During the course of his work, he is haunted by the sight of a sinister, mysterious woman dressed in black, who according to local legend has put a curse on the village. He soon feels the wrath of the specter and is driven to the brink of insanity.

CARMILLA  (1989, USA, TV,  50 min)
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont. Stars: Roy Dotrice, Roddy McDowall and Ione Skye.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Full screen.
Set in the antebellum South, the story concerns a mysterious woman named Carmilla, who connives her way into the household of a widower and his lonely daughter, Marie. Her arrival sets off a string of vampire-related deaths. 

FRANKENSTEIN, UNE HISTOIRE D'AMOUR  (1974, France TV, 98 min)
Director: Bob Thénault. Stars: Gérard Berner, Karin Petersen and Françoise Lugagne.
Language: French. Subtitles: English.
Obsessed with the idea of creating life, Count Victor Frankenstein turned to science that he considers capable of generating a new man. He began, at first, to research on animals and cadavers, to the grief of his teachers and community leaders in Geneva. His family is also terrified by his experiences. Condemned to isolation in the mountains, he takes this opportunity to experiment on a human being.

LEPTIRICA  (1973, Yugoslavia, Made-For-TV, 65 min.) -BD
Please see the BLURAY-R section for full description and ordering of this title.

SUPERSONIC SAUCER  (1956, UK-TV, 50 min., B&W)
Director: Guy Ferguson. Stars: Fella Edmonds, Gillian Harrison and Tony Lyons.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
A small, friendly Alien from Venus is found and "adopted" by a group of school children from an English countryside school. The alien is pursued by criminals who want to use its various powers, including telepathy, to commit robberies. It's up to the children, with the help of their little alien friend, to round up the thugs and have them captured by the authorities. (Sound familiar?)

THE TIME MACHINE  (1978, USA, TV, 100 min.)
Director: Henning Schellerup. Stars: John Beck, Priscilla Barnes, Andrew Duggan and Whit Bissell.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.

TRAUMNOVELLE  (1969, Austria/Germany, TV, 73 min.)
Director: Wolfgang Gluck. Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Erika Pluhar and Kurt Sowinetz.
Language: German. Subtitles: English.
Thoughts and psychological transformations of Doctor Fridolin over a two- day period after his wife confesses having had sexual fantasies involving another man. In this short time, he meets many people who give clues to the world Schnitzler creates. This culminates in the masquerade ball, a wondrous event of masked individualism, sex, and danger for Fridolin as the outsider. Re-worked by Stanley Kubrick in 1999 as "Eyes Wide Shut". 

HRABE DRAKULA  (1971, Czechoslovakia, TV,  76 min., B&W)
Director: Anna Procházková. Stars: Ilja Racek, Jan Schánilec and Klára Jerneková.
Language: Czech. Subtitles: English. Fullscreen.
Though it drops a few characters (no Renfield) and plot threads (Lucy has just one suitor) to fit the sprawling plot into a tight, trim 76 minutes, this Czechoslovakian television production is among the most faithful adaptations of Bram Stoker’s novel (certainly covering far more of the text than the roughly contemporary Jesus Franco version Count Dracula). It also has the distinction of being the first Dracula directed by a woman, Anna Prochazkova (who co-scripted, with Oldrich Zelezny).
The image quality of this rare movie was the best available so far. No known factory produced VHS or DVD has ever existed.

MINDBENDER (1996, USA/Israel, Made-For-TV, 93 min.)
Director: Ken Russell. Stars: Ishai Golan, Terence Stamp, Idan Alterman and Hetty Baynes.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
The true story of renowned psychic Uri Geller. Growing up in Tel Aviv, Geller struggled to make it as a stage act and soon started to amaze people with his ability to start stopped watches and read thoughts. Geller was spotted by parapsychological researcher Joe Hartman who took him to the US to conduct extensive tests into the scope of his abilities. Geller made a controversial appearance on a tv talkshow where he started watches and clocks across the country.