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1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak

The name "The Night of the Twisters" comes from the semi-fictionalized book of the same name by author Ivy Ruckman, which in turn inspired a 1996 made-for-TV movie seen on ABC Family.

A Winner Never Quits

A Winner Never Quits is a 1986 TV movie based on the true story of baseball player Pete Gray, the first one-armed man ever to play major league baseball, hired in 1943 as a "freak attraction" and wartime morale-booster by the Memphis Chicks, Class-A minor league ball club.

Alan Landsburg

Adam -- Recounted the story of Adam Walsh, who was abducted from a Florida shopping center.

Alta View Hospital hostage incident

The incident was portrayed in the 1992 TV movie Deliver Them From Evil: The Taking of Alta View starring Harry Hamlin and Teri Garr.

Breaking the Surface

As a follow-up to the success of the book, Canadian television and film director Steven Hilliard Stern directed Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story in 1997, starring Mario Lopez as Louganis, with Louganis also appearing in certain scenes of the made-for-TV movie and as narrator.

Christy: Return to Cutter Gap

Christy: Return to Cutter Gap (also known as Christy: The Movie) is a 2000 made-for-tv movie starring Lauren Lee Smith, Stewart Finlay-McLennan, James Waterston, Diane Ladd, Dale Dickey, Andy Stahl, Bruce McKinnon, and Claudette Mink.

Clinton Derricks-Carroll

He also had guest appearances in a number of other series, notably Hill Street Blues and Sliders and he wrote the music for the 1979 TV movie When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate.

Daniel and the Towers

Daniel and The Towers is a Made-for-TV movie featuring the famous folk art masterpiece, the Watts Towers (located in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles), and their creator Simon Rodia's friendship with a 10-year-old neighborhood boy.

David Marshall Grant

Grant went on to play roles in various television shows and movies, including Happy Birthday, Gemini, Legs, Labor of Love, CSI: Miami, Law & Order, Criminal Minds, and Alias.

Dr. Loveless

According to the 1979 TV movie The Wild Wild West Revisited, in 1880, Loveless eventually died from anger and frustration at having his plans consistently ruined by West and Gordon.

Family of Spies

Family of Spies, also known as Family of Spies: The Walker Spy Ring is a 1990 TV movie based on the espionage of John A. Walker Jr..

Ira Angustain

Ira Angustain (born August 6, 1958 in Glendale, California) is an American actor best known for his roles as Ricardo "Go Go" Gomez on The White Shadow and as the late Freddie Prinze on the made-for-TV movie Can You Hear The Laughter?: The Story of Freddie Prinze.

Julian Orchard

He played Snodgrass in the TV musical Pickwick for the BBC in 1969, and appeared in several of the comedy Carry On films and the sex comedy Adventures of a Private Eye (1977).

Karen Ann Quinlan

A 1977 TV movie, In The Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, was made about the Quinlan case, with Piper Laurie and Brian Keith playing Quinlan's parents.

Kävik the Wolf Dog

A made-for-TV movie based on the book aired under the Sunday Big Event umbrella on NBC in 1979.

LaVyrle Spencer

Her first novel, The Fulfillment, was developed as a CBS TV movie starring Cheryl Ladd and Morning Glory, which Spencer wrote in 1989, was released as a major motion picture under the same title, starring Deborah Raffin and Christopher Reeve.

Lilah Richcreek

Lilah Richcreek is an American actress who has guest starred in several popular shows, such as 2 Broke Girls, Criminal Minds, Two and a Half Men, and was reportedly going to co-star in ABC Family's Work Mom, a TV movie.

Marla Hanson

The story of the attack on Hanson was made into a TV movie entitled The Marla Hanson Story in 1991 where she was portrayed by Cheryl Pollak.

Mayhayley Lancaster

In the 1983 same-titled made-for-TV movie, she was portrayed by 54-year-old June Carter Cash whose husband, Johnny Cash, played the key role of the persistent sheriff determined to bring to justice the arrogant John Wallace (Andy Griffith).

Roberto Enrique

He also starred in the Nickelodeon TV movie "The Brothers García - Mysteries of the Maya", which was directed by Jeff Valdez.

S. S. Minnow

The S.S. Minnow II was a successor boat purchased by the Skipper from insurance money for the first in the 1978 made-for-TV movie Rescue from Gilligan's Island.

Secret Cutting

Secret Cutting (also known as Painful Secrets) is a 2000 Made-for-TV movie directed by Norma Bailey, starring Kimberlee Peterson and Rhea Perlman, about a self-injurer teenager, focusing on and her relation with family, friend and acquaintances.

Sony HDVS

World War II: When Lions Roared (also known as Then There Were Giants) is a 1994 TV movie, directed by Joseph Sargent, that stars John Lithgow, Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins as the three major Allied leaders.

Stuart Diver

Diver's experiences were also made into the Australian TV movie, Heroes' Mountain, where his character was played by actor Craig McLachlan.

The Kent Family Chronicles

The first two novels in the series were made into telefilms in 1978 and 1979, both starring Andrew Stevens as Philip Kent, with the third adapted as a 1979 telefilm starring Randolph Mantooth as the son, Abraham Kent.

The Lateness of the Hour

Jack Smight (1925–2003), a director of numerous TV episodes, made-for-TV movies and theatrical films, helmed four Twilight Zone episodes, including three of the six videotaped ones.

Washington Preparatory High School

It was the location for a 1986 TV movie entitled Hard Lessons depicting Denzel Washington as the new principal, who sets out to rid the school of gang violence and drugs and restore educational values to the school.


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A Guru Comes

A Guru comes is a 1980 German TV movie starring Donald Arthur.

Amy Robbins

Robbins has also appeared on film, playing the part of Maureen in the 2001 film Strange Relations alongside Julie Walters and Paul Reiser, Bryony in the 1997 musical film Up On The Roof alongside actor Adrian Lester, Darla in the 1998 TV movie Nightworld: 30 Years to Life for American channel HBO starring actor Robert Hays, and Sylvie in the 2002 film Killing Me Softly.

Arthur Hailey

This story started as the CBC TV movie Flight into Danger, then became the 1957 Paramount Pictures movie Zero Hour!, and was finally published as the novel Runway Zero-Eight (ISBN 0-440-17546-1).

Berardo Carboni

Together with Favaretto, he also worked in 2003 on the TV movie Buco Nell'Acqua, a docudrama with Sandra Milo, produced by Kublakhan for Mediatrade.

Betty Anderson

In the first TV movie, Murder in Peyton Place (1977), Betty was married to a man named David Roerick, with whom she lived in another city.

Carl Benton Reid

His stern, cold demeanor quickly stereotyped him in villainous, and/or unpleasant characters, although he could play a sympathetic role, as he did occasionally in such films as the 1957 TV-movie version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Chelli Goldenberg

During those years she played in several films - "The Ambassador" (1982) directed by Lee Richard's, "Girls" directed by Nadav Levitan, "The Delta Force" (1986) directed by Menahem Golan, "Abba Ganuv 3" directed by Ayelet Menahemi and the TV movie "Hatulot Hara'am" (1998) directed by Irit Linor.

Clarence Williams III

He also played a supportive role as George Wallace's fictional African-American butler and caretaker in the 1997 TNT TV movie George Wallace, and as Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Johnson in American Gangster in 2007.

Daniela Bobadilla

Per Bobadilla’s rep, it was actually George Lopez who made the introduction after the actress starred with the former late-night host in the 2009 TV movie, Mr. Troop Mom.

DeVeren Bookwalter

His film appearances include Andy Warhol's Blow Job (1964), The Omega Man (1971), The Enforcer as Bobby Maxwell, and the TV movie Evita Perón (1981) co-starring Faye Dunaway, as well as numerous appearances on the soap operas Ryan's Hope and Another World.

E. J. Peaker

She co-starred with Robert Morse in the 1968 musical television series That's Life and played Minnie Fay in the 1969 movie Hello, Dolly! She was the associate producer of the 1993 made-for-TV movie Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back.

Fanny Kemble

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (1999), fictionalised made-for-TV movie adapted from her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839, starring Jane Seymour and Keith Carradine.

Get Smart, Again!

Get Smart, Again! is a made-for-TV movie based on the 1965-1970 NBC/CBS television series, Get Smart!, which originally aired February 26, 1989 on ABC (the network that rejected the original pilot for the Get Smart! TV series).

Graveyard Disturbance

Graveyard Disturbance (aka A Night in a Cemetery and Una notte al cimitero) is a 1987 Italian horror made-for-TV movie directed by Lamberto Bava and written by Dardano Sacchetti.

J. California Cooper

J. California Cooper also wrote a short story entitled, "Funny Valentines", which was later turned into a 1999 TV movie starring Alfre Woodard and Loretta Devine.

Ja'net Dubois

Dubois won an CableACE Award for her work on the TV movie Other Women's Children based on the novel by Perri Klass, and she also two Emmy Awards for her voiceover work on the animated program The PJs.

Jeffrey Nordling

The 1997 TV movie Soul Mates, starring Nordling and Kim Raver, is shown by market researchers at Television Preview as a "new" pilot.

Jeffrey Rogers

Rogers starred in the 1984 TV movie Young Hearts (1984) and has made guest appearances on TV series such as St. Elsewhere, The Facts of Life and CHiPs.

Jesse Nilsson

Nilsson was cast as Eric Singer, one of the central characters in the Disney TV movie Model Behavior, which was released on 12 March 2000 in the USA.

Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects

The film was a follow-up to the series The New Adventures of Jonny Quest (1986) and the earlier TV-movie Jonny's Golden Quest (1993), with the same actors voicing Dr. Quest (Don Messick) and Race Bannon (Granville Van Dusen), and was made as part of a "Year of Jonny Quest" campaign.

Jordan Frieda

He had a small part in Steven Spielberg's TV mini series Band of Brothers and took the lead role in a controversial American TV movie called Prince William, filmed in 2002, in Dublin, Ireland, about Prince William of Wales, with whom Frieda attended Eton College.

Josh Saviano

Other roles were as Kid Belz in the movie The Wrong Guys in 1988 and Max Plotkin in the made-for-TV movie Camp Cucamonga in 1990.

Judi Farr

Her film and television roles of the 2000s include Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004) TV movie, The Alice (2004) TV movie, Thunderstruck (2004), Go Big (2004) TV movie, Walking on Water (2002) and Changi (2001) (miniseries).

Kathy Greenwood

In 1999, Kathy was cast as Denise Stanton in the TV movie Switching Goals, starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

Laura Leighton

Leighton was seen in the made-for-TV movie Love Notes on Lifetime the western/horror/thriller The Burrowers directed by J.T Petty and the Hallmark Channel movies Daniel's Daughter and Mending Fences, opposite Angie Dickinson.

Lillian Gordy Carter

In 1977, Lillian Carter appeared in a cameo, as herself, in the made-for-TV movie, "Lucy Calls the President", starring Lucille Ball.

Lynne Spears

A Mother's Gift was a novel released in 2001 and has been adapted into a TV movie, Brave New Girl.

Manon Rhéaume

She guest-starred as herself in the made-for-TV movie A Beachcombers Christmas with Tiger Williams and Jyrki Lumme.

Maria Korp

This story was portrayed in the 2010 TV Movie Wicked Love: The Maria Korp Story, starring Rebecca Gibney as Maria, Vince Colosimo as Joe, and Maya Stange ( as Maya Elliot ) as Tania, and is narrated by Maria herself, from her point of view, as if from beyond the grave, detailing the events from the Korps' wedding to the beginning of Joe's affair, and its consequences, postulating the theory that her husband was involved in her murder.

Mogg

They also recorded soundtracks for "adult movies" including one 1992 TV movie starring Shannon Tweed, wife of Gene Simmons from Kiss, until they finally went their separate ways back in Sweden 1995.

Mongo's Back in Town

Mongo's Back in Town (1971) is a crime TV movie, directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, with Telly Savalas, Joe Don Baker and Martin Sheen.

Morton Freedgood

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, his novel about the hijacking of a New York City Subway train, was a best seller in 1973 and was made into the 1974 movie starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, a 1998 TV-movie remake of the same title, and a 2009 theatrical-feature remake, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.

Robert Boulin

Boulin was portrayed by François Berléand in the 2013 TV movie Crime D'Etat (lit. Crime of State) directed by Pierre Aknine.

Same Place the Fly Got Smashed

The made-for-TV movie came out in 1990 and starred Lindsay Wagner.

Sniper: Reloaded

It is a continuation of the 1993 theatrically released Sniper, the 2002 TV movie, Sniper 2, and the 2004 direct-to-video Sniper 3.

T. Cullen Davis

Davis was also the subject of the book Texas Justice by Cartwright, which was made into a TV movie starring Peter Strauss as Cullen and Heather Locklear as Priscilla.

The Gary Coleman Show

The half-hour series was based on Coleman's 1982 made-for-TV movie The Kid with the Broken Halo.

The Greene Murder Case

Czech television produced TV movie Vyvraždění rodiny Greenů in 2002, directed by Jiří Strach and starring Jiří Dvořák as Philo Vance.

The Hound of London

Previously, Macnee had portrayed Watson three times: once to Roger Moore's Sherlock Holmes in a 1976 TV movie, Sherlock Holmes in New York and twice with Christopher Lee (Incident at Victoria Falls and Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady).

The Invisible Band

"Side" can be heard briefly in The Offices second-season episode titled "Email Surveillance" and the Daria 2002 TV movie and series finale, Is It College Yet?.

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

The Marcus-Nelson Murders is a 1973 TV-movie written by Abby Mann from a book by Selwyn Raab, directed by Joseph Sargent, and starring Telly Savalas, Marjoe Gortner, José Ferrer and Ned Beatty.

The President's Man

The President's Man is a TV-movie released in 2000, and starring Chuck Norris.

Thomas E. Knight

Knight was portrayed by actor Ken Kercheval in the 1976 TV movie Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys.

Three Wise Guys

The Three Wise Guys is a 2005 American TV-movie, directed by Robert Iscove and starring Eddie McClintock, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Judd Nelson, Nicholas Turturro, Roddy Piper, Tom Arnold and Katey Sagal.

Two in a Million/You're My Number One

The album version of "Two in a Million" and the Boyfriends & Birthdays version (so named as it was the theme song of their BBC TV movie) are almost exactly the same, except the Boyfriends & Birthdays version has a slightly more robust instrumentation, taking on a more orchestral and R'n'B approach, and pauses the music during the last line of each verse right before the chorus.

Willie Morris

One of Morris' books, Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood was made into a TV movie for Public Television by Disney and PBS Wonderworks and later re-titled The River Pirates in 1988 not far from where Morris lived.It starred Richard Farnsworth, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dixie Wade, Ryan Francis, Caryn West and Richard E. Council.