The ABC Movie of the Week Companion: A Loving Tribute to the Classic Series

by Michael Karol

Overview

Movies made for television were in their infancy when ABC came up with a novel idea: a weekly series of films made exclusively for the small screen. The ABC Movie of the Week became a great success and a cultural touchstone for a generation of Americans.

In this loving tribute to the classic series of TV films, more than two hundred films in the series are reviewed, including well-remembered titles such as Duel, Tribes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Go Ask Alice, Brian's Song, The Night Stalker, Bad Ronald, Starsky and Hutch, Trilogy of Terror, That Certain Summer, and Killdozer. In addition, choice bits of trivia about the actors and films and exclusive pictures are sprinkled throughout the book.

So bit back, relax, and return to a time when the counterculture was in full swing and you could tune in every week for one or more original films made just for you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780595616619
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/13/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Award-winning editor and writer Michael Karol is a movie and television trivia expert. Karol has spent more than twenty-five years in publishing, including his current job as copy chief of Soap Opera Weekly. He has been awarded the Cahners Publishing Editorial Medal of Excellence and the Art Director's Club 65th Annual Exhibition Merit Award. Currently living in New York, Karol is the author of nine books, including The Lucille Ball Quiz Book, Funny Ladies: Sitcom Queens and Kiss Me, Kill Me. Visit him online at www.sitcomboy.com.

What People are Saying About This

Paul Talbot

I want to congratulate you on your new book, The ABC Movie of the Week Companion. Like many others of our generation, I had fond but vague memories of those elusive classics, and your book is a valuable, much-needed, and very entertaining reference tool.

Editorial Reviews

TV historian Michael Karol is someone self-styled TV historians should learn from. His own TV movie book, The ABC Movie of the Week Companion: A Loving Tribute to the Classic Series, with a foreword by actress Denise Nickerson ($11.95, iUniverse soft cover), is much shorter than many similar books—138 pages—but still is a very entertaining, affectionate look at the 243 TV movies produced between 1969 and 1975. ‘Few series have become cultural touchstones in a way that The ABC Movie of the Week has,’ writes the author. ‘Its lengthy run and ambitious goal (to present an original film every week to a demanding audience, one that was much larger than the typical audience of today) were partly the reason, but mostly it’s because these short films—most running about 77 minutes to fill a 90-minute time slot—were funny, sad, real, horrific, and yes, cheesy. Memorably so. Karol does an outstanding job. With humor, fun trivia, in a short amount of space, his concise, colorful reviews will inspire many to go out and look for these gems and not-so-gems. And that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?

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