Name that show

Fargo · Post by **Fargo** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:31 am

I am posting this topic for everyone who knows of a movie, tv show, book, etc from its storyline, but does not know the name of it. Perhaps someone else here can help.

When I was a kid in the early-mid 70's I remember a show on tv, I think it was a movie. I have mentioned the storyline to a few people but no one seems to know what show it was. From what I remember of the cars in the show I would say it was made in the late 60's or early 70's

It went like this; A girl drives to visit a female friend of hers. The house seems to be in the middle of no where. when she arrives, her friend is not there but a man is at the house who claims to be a friend of her female friend.

The electrical power was either out when she arrived or it went out after but the house is dark and there is thunder and lightening. The man tells her that friend has gone out, yet her friend's car is in the garage. As she talks to the man the things that he says do not add up. There are things that he should know about her friend that he does not know, there are things that he claims to know about her friend, that are not true. She makes a few attempt to leave but the man keeps her there, telling her that she should wait until the storm is over until she leaves. On one attempt she gets into her car but it will not start. The man comes out of the house and brings her back inside. She gets outside again and lifts the hood of her car to find out that someone has deliberately disabled her car.

She goes back into the house and after going through a few drawers in the kitchen she finds the keys to her friends car. She gets in her friends car that is in the garage. After a bit of trouble she gets the car ( a station wagon ) going, as she backs out of the garage she looks back toward the rear window of the car. Of course the inside of the car is in darkness. While she is looking back and backing the car up, lightning flashes and she sees her friend lying dead on the back seat of the car. She screams and keeps driving, geting the car out of the garage as she goes to leave the yard the man runs out in front of her to stop her. She runs him down with the car and keeps on going.

That is about all I remember about it. Can anyone name that show?

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:10 am

I don't recognize that show. Do you know who starred in it? Could it have been a "Twilight Zone" or "Outer Limits" TV show? Sounds almost like an episode of "The Avengers" but I know it's not.

You could join an "Old TV Show" forum and ask those members. Someone would probably know it. Perhaps your mind connected two different shows together? That can happen sometimes.

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Fargo · Post by **Fargo** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:45 am

Thats the thing, being at that age I never paid attention to who the actors were. I ran into the same thing with the movie the California Kid.

I seen it when I was a kid. I couldn't remember the name of it, or who stared in it. Years later I was describing the show to an older friend of mine and he told me name of it. I watched it and recognized actors like Martin Sheen that I knew of, but did not know were in that show.

The mystery show I mentioned, I am pretty sure it was a movie, it seemed to go on for quite awhile but then again I was very young when I watched it. I didn't know there were old tv show forums but then again I guess there is every kind of forum. Maybe I will look into that.

There was another movie like that, I seen it when I was a kid but I didn't know the name of it or who was in it. I seen it years later and recognized actor Paul burke in it. It was called Crowhaven Farm. I knew who Paul Burke was years later, but didn't realize it was him in that movie back then.

Fargo · Post by **Fargo** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:48 am

I found it. Thank you ddnoe. A mystery of many years is finally solved !

After reading the Elizabeth Montgomery whittling in the Hatchet. The storyline mentioned from Montgomery's 1972 movie "The Victim" sounded like it might be the movie I was looking for, it was. I just watched the final scene on you tube.

There were a few things different from how I thought it was but then again I was 5 years old when I watched it. Her friend was her sister and the stranger was her sisters husband. I was right about the station wagon in the garage with the body in the back.

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:36 pm

My sister has been trying to find that film on DVD for years. It was a good one. It was filmed in Monterey, California. I saw it in '72 and never forgot it.

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Fargo · Post by **Fargo** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:35 am

Here is another show I remember watching in that Era. It might have been made years before though because I don't recall anything in the show like cars that would help tell me when it was made.

This was a different kind of a show. I remember this man who was an intruder in some kind of a complex, that had sliding shiny metal doors dividing each section.

The men in the complex had sort of a uniform with white hats I think, possibly hard hats. They had remote controls to open and close the metal doors. The intruder rolles under one of these doors before it closes and has a confrontation with one of the men in uniform. Then the intruder gets one of these remotes and uses it to go from section to section, until he finds one door that the remote will not open. I think the metal doors slid upwards. I remember one of the men in uniform getting knocked out by hitting his head on a beam or something.

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:20 am

Are you sure it wasn't a James Bond movie, Fargo? Sounds like an action or spy film of some sort. Could the guy bumping his head have been 7' 4" Richard Kiel in "The Spy Who Loved Me" or "Moonraker?" It may have been a Matt Helm movie with Dean Martin from the late '60s. I don't recognize it from The Avengers episodes. A lot of action/spy films have sliding steel doors.

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Fargo · Post by **Fargo** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:23 pm

1bigsteve, I know it wasn't Moonraker or the spy who loved me, as I have seen both of them.

I am pretty sure it was a movie as back then we had a movie channel that would play a different movie every day but the movie of the day would be played repeatedly over and over all day long. I remember watching this show a few times over and over.

I think each area between the metal doors was only a small area, like maybe 30 feet. The intruder would open one door and walk through the doorway, close the door behind him and then have to open the next door right away. It was sort of like he was walking through several garages built end to end with metal doors between them.

I can't remember if the show was in colour or not. Back then we may have still had our black and white TV.

augusta · Post by **augusta** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:16 am

"The Victim" is on YouTube???!!! I've been wanting to see that for YEARS! I thought the body was in the basement in a wicker trunk?

"Crowhaven Farm" was one of those movie of the week's ABC used to make. I had heard they were all going to be released on tape several years ago and I don't think they ever were.

I did find someone online who was selling VHS's of them and I ordered it but they cancelled the order (darn!).

Here's one I've been wanting the title to for years: It starred Sandy Dennis and Johnny Whitaker and they move into this farmhouse. A commercial is shot there, and something spooky happens during it. A face in the window or something? I remember this big witch's star painted in the middle of this room, and the mom and two kids (I think there was a smaller girl in it) had to huddle inside that while something evil was happening. I think it was an ABC movie of the week.

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:42 am

Augusta, that was "Something Evil" from 1972. Darrin McGavin was in it too. You can read about it on IMDb.com.

That movie doesn't ring a bell with me, Fargo. I have been scratching my brain over that one. I'll keep trying.

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Fargo · Post by **Fargo** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:57 am

Another show, I am guessing it was a movie.

There were people trapped inside an Elevator or something. I remember this thing moving with people in it, but it looked like an elevator being moved outside of the elevator shaft, perhaps by a crane or something.

There was a man who didn't want to go into what looked like a machinery area but he was being coerced into going in there. I am thinking that he went in there to help the trapped people. At the end of the show it shows the trapped people saved I think, and the man dead with what looked like a bunch of machinery around him.

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:15 am

The only movies I can think of that might be what you remember Fargo are:

1. "The Poseidon Adventure" 1972

2. "Crack In The World" 1965

3. "Towering Inferno" 1974

4. "When Time Ran Out" 1980

They all had scenes of elevators and machinery and people getting trapped.

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augusta · Post by **augusta** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:48 am

Thanks, Big Steve, for the title "Something Evil"! I couldn't think of that title for years.

Thanks to Fargo, I watched "The Victim" on YouTube. Very nostalgic. Still good. I don't know why they don't show that on tv.

I cannot for the life of me find the movie "Games" with Katherine Ross anywhere. Every time I go to a site and type in 'Games', I pull up video games. I saw it once, about 10 years ago, offered on vhs for $14.95 and thought 'I'll get it later'. Well, later never came and now I can't find it again.

Another movie I used to love as a kid, and would enjoy seeing it today, is "See How they Run" with John Forsythe. Leslie Neilson played the father of three kids, and he was a spy who got murdered. The kids knew they had to run away and somehow got taken in by Senta Berger, who was a sculptress. George Kennedy was a bad guy in this movie, chasing the kids. At the end, the oldest child, Pamela Franklin (?) saw this political movie John Forsythe was showing her and she suddenly remembered all of the dialogue of this movie that was pivotal in the case her father had worked on - she had read the lips or memorized a code or something.

I don't know where I was online, but I found that "Prisoner Cell Block H" (my favorite show when it was on, until they pulled it because mothers complained of its content) was put out on DVD's - the entire series ... in Australia. It's like $1,200 or $1,500 and wouldn't play in our vcr's. To date, I haven't seen it offered for the U.S.

Fargo · Post by **Fargo** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:23 am

1bigsteve, I have seen "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno", it wasn't either of those.

I don't know if I have seen "when time ran out" but the date of 1980 is too late, it would have been earlier than that.

I don't think I have seen crack in the world but I read the plot summary and I would guess it's not that either, although I would have to watch it to be sure.

It was real neat seeing The Victim again after such a long time, over 35 years.

Debbie · Post by **Debbie** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:18 pm

It has been many years since I watched "The Towering Inferno", but I thought at the end of the movie they were lowering people in some thing that sounded a lot like what was described.
Guess I need to watch it again.

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:21 pm

Debbie @ Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:18 am wrote:It has been many years since I watched "The Towering Inferno", but I thought at the end of the movie they were lowering people in some thing that sounded a lot like what was described.
Guess I need to watch it again.

I think it was a chopper that had to lower the elevator to the ground. It was a cool movie.

I liked Steve McQueen in it. I only wish he had smiled more often in his films. It's hard to "bond" with a "grump."

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Fargo · Post by **Fargo** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:45 pm

I watched the elevator scene from The Towering Inferno on you tube and that was definatly not the same one.

Here is another one 1bigsteve. When I was a kid I watched this one at the Saturday matinee. I was in the early- mid 70's but a lot of the stuff they played was older shows from years before then.

This ogre or something had captured these children and he was going to cook them and eat them. I remember one kid said he didn't want to be the first and then another kid said he didn't want to be the last.

There was also a woman who told the children that she used to be a magical fairy or something. The ogre overheard her and he said something to the effect of "yah and now your just an old hag."

The woman told the children that the oger had taken her magic wand from her. Somehow she gets the wand back and saves the children and turns the ogre into a gentleman.

stargazer · Post by **stargazer** » Wed May 26, 2010 9:57 pm

I am not even sure if it was in the 80's or 90's, but it was a series. I recall one character, and maybe 2 ? There was a young man with big blue eyes, and he loved dogs. He even helped people find lost dogs. I am not certain, but I think there was a woman he liked ? who worked in a bakery and I think she sold dog biscuit cookies ? The rest is fuzzy. I want to say there were several families/situations involved in this series. Maybe it could have been a veterinarian ?