ABC Movie of the Week (1970-1971)
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- DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsAnthony PerkinsJulie HarrisJoan HackettAfter an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister, but a mysterious boarder might be trying to kill him.
- DirectorTed PostStarsJames FranciscusLee GrantScott MarloweA man and his wife find themselves stranded in a small western town. He discovers that a strange force has turned the residents into zombies, and runs into a beautiful woman who he believes is the key to the mystery.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsHerschel BernardiShirley JonesBrandon CruzAn accountant is widowed after 18 years of marriage. He is dumbfounded to have a herd of marriage-minded women descend upon him.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsEdward G. RobinsonMartin BalsamDiane BakerEmile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsHugh O'BrianAnne FrancisMarilyn MaxwellFive female convicts are recruited to secretly transport arms into Mexican-held Texas in 1840.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckRichard EganMichael Anderson Jr.A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsDarren McGavinEarl HollimanJan-Michael VincentMarine Corps drill instructor Tom Drake, who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees, is pitted against drafted hippie Adrian, who refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsWalter BrennanFred AstaireEdgar BuchananRetired Texas Ranger Nash Crawford re-assembles his former Ranger outfit from the old days to fight crime in his hometown.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsHope LangePaul BurkeLloyd BochnerA young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsBurt ReynoldsInger StevensRoyal DanoA Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsRobert ConradCarol LynleyLee MajorsThree nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.
- DirectorJohn TrentStarsSandy DennisStuart WhitmanBurl IvesA famous heart surgeon finds out that a medical research foundation is being used for shady, and illegal, purposes.
- DirectorGene LevittStarsPete DuelBen MurphyForrest TuckerA pair of outlaws seeking amnesty from the Governor must stay incognito and out of trouble in a town while a friend pleads their case. The wait is complicated by a lovely bank manager and the arrival of members of their former gang.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyStarsJoseph CottenLloyd HaynesDewey MartinDuring the Cold War, enemy agents, posing as U.S. Navy crew, plan to sabotage a nuclear submarine and steal its anti-ballistic missile guidance system.
- DirectorTed PostStarsBing CrosbyFrank ConverseBlythe DannerDr Cook has a beautiful garden! But what's the secret to his green thumb?
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsBarbara EdenDavid HartmanJo Anne WorleyThrough unforeseen circumstances, a male chauvinist cop and a dedicated feminist become roommates.
- DirectorFred WolfStarsRingo StarrDustin HoffmanPaul FreesA father reads his son a bedtime story about young Oblio, who is banished from the fantastical kingdom of pointed heads and things for having no point.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsRyan O'NealLesley Ann WarrenPeter HaskellRyan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance who turns out to be a psychotic who will not let go of Sheila that easily.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsSally FieldEleanor ParkerLane BradburyAfter finding out that the hippie lifestyle isn't as glamorous as the media makes it look, Dennie comes home to find disapproval and judgment at every turn, and her sister Susie wanting to follow in her footsteps.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsJames FranciscusMartine BeswickBradford DillmanThe pilot for the 1971 - 1972 series of the same title. The story of Michael Longstreet, an insurance investigator recovering from an explosion that killed his wife and took his sight. He decides to remain an investigator and find those responsible for his wife's death and his blindness.
- DirectorTed PostStarsClint WalkerBarry SullivanEdgar BuchananA tough marshal is sent to clean up a lawless western town.
- DirectorDavid FriedkinStarsRay MillandSuzanne PleshetteDack RamboA pair of beach bums wind up in Acapulco, where they get involved in a search for a beautiful woman and a sunken treasure.
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsCarl BetzVera MilesRuth McDevittA college dropout convinces his family to re-examine its goals and gets them to leave it all for a cross-country odyssey in a 1928 Greyhound bus.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsOssie DavisKaz GarasKyle JohnsonA rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a white businessman raped a black college student.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsChristopher GeorgeWilliam WindomMarlyn MasonA scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.