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Thursday's Game (1974). A made-for-TV movie, but it sounds good. (Anything with Gene Wilder, Rob Reiner, Valerie Harper and Bob Newhart couldn't be all bad.) This is about a game show producer who gets depressed, or something like that. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. Color, 2 hours...
...that 1974 will enter such television annals as there are as the year made-for-TV movies came of age. Already, three of them have imposed themselves with unusual if mixed force on audience and industry decision makers alike. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which used a fictional character to dramatize a huge chunk of black history, has been the season's critical success. A Case of Rape attracted a record-breaking audience for a realistic, if dramatically ill-resolved, study of the one crime in which the victim can almost count on being further punished...
...Indeed, made-for-TV films are already performing a cultural service by keeping alive the traditional commercial genres that, aside from the cop dramas, are seldom available now in movie houses. Across from Private Slovik, for example, ABC ran The Hanged Man. It was a tidy western-like many of these films a pilot for a possible series-about a sometime hired gun trying to reform himself by helping out the widows and orphans he had formerly oppressed. The picture's highlight was a hellishly ingenious finale in which the hero walked down the heavy into a steamy, bubbling...
E.D.T.) is not the first made-for-TV movie that takes on a serious subject, but it is one of the very few that sticks uncompromisingly to its intentions from the first frame to the last. Miss Jane is not a real person. Her "autobiography" is, in fact, a narrative convention adopted by Novelist Ernest Gaines in order to create an archetypal "life"' encompassing the essence of the black experience in the U.S. from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the civil rights movement. The year is 1962, and Miss Jane...
...ingredients of a made-for-TV movie. The newly appointed colonial governor of a subtropical resort isle is taking the evening breeze in the manicured gardens of the governor's mansion. At his side are his handsome young aide-de-camp and his pet Great Dane. Suddenly a shadow comes to life, gunfire shatters the calm and the Governor and his aide fall dead. Even the dog lies lifeless. A state of emergency is declared, the airport is monitored and homicide experts are flown in from Scotland Yard...