TV Movie Night!

We have another question in November, and it's about Ellen. Can she be saved? Mark and Andrew dig into this question, as Ellen appears to be wrapped up in a bunch of cult nonsense. And John Saxon and Leslie Nielsen are also hot on the case. While we answer this question, answer one yourself: Won't you let TV Movie Night into your heart (or at least your streaming device) and listen in, how about?

It's I Don't Know-vember here on TV Movie Night, where all of our titles ask the questions. The first query this month is from 1973, entitled "Isn't It Shocking?" Small town police chief Alan Alda is on the hunt of somebody electrocuting old people, while also ducking his girlfriend's three rowdy kids. Join Andrew and Mark as we find out if the shocks are shocking enough, or if this question was b...

It's time to look toward the altar of TV Movie Night's patron saint, Guerdon Trueblood, as Mark and Andrew enjoy another one of his made-for-tv offerings. After bees and ants, it's now time for spiders, with CBS' "Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo." Venomous creepy crawlies arrive via a crashed plane in a California town, and it's up to the townsfolk to get educated via a scientist man on how to stop t...

The scares continue into November as Mark and Andrew buckle up for a late-night ride called "Night Terror." Starring Rhoda's Valerie Harper, "Terror" (or "Night Drive" in some other universes) has Harper on the run after witnessing a murder. Which is a real bummer for her. Anyway, put the hammer down and listen in, how about?

Andrew and Mark continue the march through October with an even more spine-tingling, but just as commercial conscious, event in ABC's "Tower of Terror." Based on the Walt Disney World ride of the same name, "Tower" stars Steve Guttenberg, Kirsten Dunst and the best damn ride queue you ever did see. Saddle up as we get in on the ground floor of this gem. Listen in, how about?

TV Movie Night's October starts with the two scariest things imaginable: pirates and massive product placement. This time, Andrew and Mark look into the forgotten NBC foray into paid primetime programming with "Treasure Island: The Adventure Begins." Part swashbuckling adventure, part family drama and all shill, "Island" asks the question: What if you could live out your wildest pirate fantasies,...

Monster March ends with the most monstrous creature of all: a dopey looking dog, in CBS' "Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell." Mark, Andrew and Richard Crenna dive into the wild world of Satanic cults that are focused on making devil dogs. But, the real challenge these filmmakers undertook was trying to make a fuzzy, adorable puppy look intimidating. Did they succeed? Probably not. Is it entertaining? A...

March is all about monsters! Mark and Andrew don our snow suits and head into the great wintery wilderness in this week's TV Movie Night, as we hunt down NBC's Snowbeast. It's just like Jaws, except with a yeti, and not a good movie. But, still interesting as TV Movie Night alumni Clint Walker and Silvia Sydney also drop in to bag that dang Bigfoot. Listen in, how about?

Andrew and Mark look back to a simpler time, when we could enjoy Bob Hope making topical references about the movie Cocoon and having a jalopy of a car. This week, the fellas look at Hope's first made-for-tv offering with NBC's "Masterpiece of Murder," which also stars Trading Places Don Ameche. This movie has it all: meandering plots, odd politics, Jamie Farr. And did someone say date of air comm...

February is knock-off month here on TV Movie Night, and we've got a genuine Twister called "Tornado!" Debuting days before that OTHER tornado movie in 1996, Tornado sports Bruce Campbell, an Oscar-nominated writer and more matte paintings than you can shake a stick at. Come for the tornados, stay for the specific warnings about global warming in 1996 that seemed somewhat laughable by the mainstrea...

Andrew and Mark look to the headlines as they round out their 30-year look back at 1991. This week, it's "Wife, Mother, Murderer" with Who's the Boss' Judith Light, playing criminal Marie Hilley. Follow the fellas as they look at the winding wild world of Marie Hilley, as Light plays her own fake identical twin, gaslights her daughter and bamboozles Major Winchester from MASH, all within a tidy 90...

Andrew and Mark continue their 30 year look back to 1991, with the comedy "Frankenstein: The College Years." What if Ferris Bueller, and his buddy Ferris Bueller, had to get a Frankenstein monster into college? Does that sound interesting? Well, too bad, because it's what we've got this week. Larry Miller is here, too, so it's not all awful. Listen in, how about?

It's 2021, so no better time to look 30 years ago into the past for this month of TV Movie Night. First up, Mark and Andrew join Barbara Eden as she takes down a rival news upstart in "Her Wicked Ways." Sometimes called "Lethal Charm," Eden and Heather Locklear butt heads over the best way to break the story: either through lying or not as MUCH lying. Tune in, how about?

One last week before we kill this awful year, so it's a murder mystery holiday movie on TV Movie Night. Sally Field is looking to try and prevent her father from being poisoned to death, while also dealing with all the OTHER family BS that happens at Christmas. Same old, same old. But, it's Mark and Andrew's job to get to the bottom of this who-done-it before the ball drops in NYC, ringing in the...

Tis Christmas week and Mark and Andrew have a gift they've been asking for all year. On TV Movie Night, the fellas watch the hotly anticipated follow-up to "Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus" with "Meet the Santas." The entire gang is here: Steve Guttenberg, Not Bernard and actual Crystal Bernard. Get ready for some mildly inconveniencing drama this week as you gather round the virtual yule log and ce...

It's a Hobo's Christmas on TV Movie Night! Grab your finest bindle and hop aboard this made-for-tv boxcar with Cincinnati Andrew and Mark "The Topeka Kid" Gonzales. This week, Barnard Hughes is a drifter who drifts back into his son, Gerald McRaney's life. And it's also Christmas!? We're gonna need more beans for this hobo stew! Pull out your favorite hobo knife and listen in, how about?

Andrew and Mark continue their holiday joyride through the world of Christmas made-for-tv movies with 1990's "Guess Who's Coming for Christmas," which appears to have forgotten the Christmas part of its title. The discussion gets off-track quickly as the fellas discuss Richard Mulligan's secret relationship in the woods with an alien and how his life changes because of that. It's a close encounter...

Andrew and Mark awake from their hibernation and board Santa's sled to begin their journey into the world of made-for-tv Christmas movies. This week, it's HBO's The Christmas Wife with TV Movie Night alum Jason Robards as a widower coming to grips with his first Christmas alone. Will he find love? Will he get scammed by someone who may or may not be a pimp? There's only one way to find out!

It's only April, but Andrew and Mark are looking toward the end of the year this week, taking a gander at what to get each other for Christmas. And there's ideas abound in NBC's "A Mom for Christmas." What happens when you breathe life into the non-living for the sake of having a parent? Well, a lot of ethical questions, that's what, and they are laid bare here in this week's movie. Olivia Newton-...

Andrew and Mark abandon ship in order to check out a sci-fi remake of a Hitchcock classic. This week, we take a look at Fox's "Lifepod," starring Robert Loggia and Ron Silver. You know it's sci-fi because they got rocket ships in this one. Join the fellas as they stare out the porthole, waiting for this murder-mystery to develop as a group of passengers escape a sinking space ship. But, it seems t...

Mark and Andrew invite you into the seedy world of weird cults and even weirder prank phone calls with CBS' "Prophet of Evil." Ripped from the headlines of the 1970s, we watch Brian Dennehy get his followers to do anything he wants, from murders to probably getting him a meatball parm, because the Lord willed it or something. You can also join the Cult of TV Movie Night, and all it'll take is just...

Mark and Andrew work our way to the top of the financial ladder in this Fox romp starring two of the biggest names in comedy: George Carlin and Buddy Epsen! Also, some guy named Ben Stiller is here, too. Listen in as we explore the first made-for-tv offering from the Fox network, and see the humble beginnings that would give us Fox's magnum opus: Generation X. Stay safe and listen in, how about?

Mark and Andrew turn back the clock to a simpler time, the 1990s, when we could look at an even simpler time, the 1950s. Our look back at looking back brings us to the comic adaptation "Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again." It's got all your favorite parts of Archie, from cringey rap versions of "Sugar, Sugar" to 8-year-olds being weird perverts. Open up your funny books and listen in, how about?

Social distancing is here, and Andrew and Mark are never one to buck a trend. But, that doesn't stop TV Movie Night as the fellas tackle a time-traveling tale in "My Mother was Never a Kid." This after school special has Victoria finding out how much of a dirtbag her mom actually was, while Mark finds out just how cribbed 1985's Back to the Future was from this 1981 special. Our flux capacitor is...

The afterschool specials continue this month, and Andrew and Mark learn all about the birds and the bees and what happens after those things have sex. This week, we're watching ABC's "Schoolboy Father." Rob Lowe is a 16-year-old finds out he's a father, and it turns out that babies aren't the easy to raise creatures that the TV would lead us to believe. Grab some hand sanitizer, cough into the cro...