Casting a pall over the proceedings in season four of Gimme a Break is the serious illness of co-star Dolph Sweet, whose...
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1984
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Season three of Gimme a Break finds the Kanisky household of Glen Lawn, CA increased by two. In addition to curmudgeonly...
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1983
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The second season of Gimme a Break finds versatile character actor John Hoyt becoming a full-fledged regular in the role of...
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1982
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First telecast March 2, 1981, The Acorn People was adapted by director Joan Tewksbury from the book by Ron Jones....
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1982
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Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed...
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1981
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Season one of Gimme a Break begins as sassy ex-singer Nell Harper (Nell Carter), honoring a favor owed to her late friend...
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1981
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In this drama, an ex-hooker reluctantly accepts an undercover assignment for the cops and returns to her old stomping...
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1981
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1981
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Waitress Regina Baff would do anything to escape her go-nowhere existence. And by "anything", that means she'd be willing to...
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1980
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1980
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The year 1979 saw an epidemic of American street-gang films, including Phil Kaufman's hit period drama The Wanderers. Set in...
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1979
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Adapted from the novel by Pete Hamill, Flesh and Blood stars Tom Berenger as Bobby Fallon, a street punk who develops into a...
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1979
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This TV movie stars Jean Stapleton as the real-life "Aunt" Mary Dobkin, a physically handicapped woman living in the...
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1979
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This made-for-television biography spans the life of boxer Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight to remain undefeated during...
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1979
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Elizabeth Montgomery stars in this made-for-television movie about a liberal reporter whose views are challenged after she...
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1979
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Adapted from the once-notorious trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell, the three-part miniseres Studs Lonigan isn't quite as...
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1979
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King: The Martin Luther King Story originated as a three-part miniseries, first telecast February 12, 13 and 14, 1978....
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1978
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Opting for light entertainment after the critical satire of Shampoo (1975), producer-director-writer-star Warren Beatty...
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1978
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With Charles (Michael Landon) out of town on a job and her siblings elsewhere occupied, little Carrie Ingalls feels lonely...
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1978
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Go Tell the Spartans is set in Vietnam during that period in which American troops were euphemistically termed "advisors"....
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1978
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Impressive production values can't disguise the painfully dated premise of this TV movie which stars Robert Foxworth as an...
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1978
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Twenty-year-old LeVar Burton followed up his spectacular television debut in Roots with the made-for-TV film Billy: Portrait...
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1977
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1977
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The misfit kiddie baseball team from the first film is given the opportunity to play in a Junior League match between...
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1977
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Ingredients essential to this made-for-TV movie are a famous former pro football player, an interracial romance, and a brutal...
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1977
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Veteran black comedienne Jackie "Mobs" Mabley is featured in her first (and last) starring vehicle, Amazing Grace....
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1974
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This made-for-TV drama focuses on the plight of a family of migratory farm workers. The film was Emmy-nominated as...
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1974
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1974
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Two lawmen decide to find out if a life of crime pays better in this gritty action comedy. Joe (Joseph Bologna) and Tom...
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1973
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1973
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A reporter gets more than she bargained for when she tries to prove that a murder has occurred in Brian De Palma's disturbing...
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1973
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Joseph Wambaugh's best-seller about patrol-car cops in urban Los Angeles is given a competent yet antiseptic treatment by...
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1972
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In this film that seeks to make a comedy about obscene telephone callers, several callers and their victims are shown. Most...
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1971
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The granddaddy of all "computer run amok" films, Colossus: The Forbin Project concerns a huge electronic brain designed to...
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1970
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Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) is an angry black man who plans to rob a factory payroll. With the help of his accomplices...
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1969
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Ohio businessman Jack Lemmon is offered a golden job opportunity; all he has to do is relocate himself and wife Sandy Dennis...
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1969
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Schuyler (Kirk Douglas) is a hard-boiled detective who turns in his badge when he believes the criminals are being handled...
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1968
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John Cheever's "misery in suburbia" short stories, brief and to the point, have always proven excellent TV fodder. Director...
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1968
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Nearly 20 years after it opened on Broadway, the E.Y. Harburg/Fred Saidy musical Finian's Rainbow was committed to film. Set...
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1968
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1966
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This cult favorite began as Francis Ford Coppola's UCLA thesis, ending up with a professional cast and nationwide release....
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1966
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This slick hospital soap opera features Ben Gazzara as Dr. David Coleman, a young physician hired into the pathology...
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1961
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