The ABC Movie of the Week: Big Movies for the Small Screen

by Michael McKenna

On September 23, 1969, five years after the first made-for-television movie premiered, the ABC network broadcast Seven in Darkness. This was the first television film for an anthology show called the Tuesday Night Movie of the Week. Dedicating ninety minutes of weekly airtime to a still-emerging genre was a financial risk for the third-place network-a risk that paid off. The films were so successful that in 1972 the network debuted The Wednesday Movie...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810891565
• ISBN13: 9780810891562
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"