CBS Sunday Movie (1986-1987)
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- DirectorDelbert MannStarsGeorge C. ScottRichard DysartMurray HamiltonJuly 1945. The war in Europe is over and General George S Patton is now military governor of Bavaria. True to form he doesn't always see eye-to-eye with his superiors and is prone to making comments that they don't approve of.
- DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsBarry BostwickPatty DukeJeffrey JonesThe life of George Washington as the first President of the United States of America and his 8 years running his country. The trials he faces dealing with mobs and riots while keeping the country together.
- DirectorThomas CarterStarsAndy GriffithSeason HubleyPaul ProvenzaNoah Talbot is a long-time alcoholic whose drinking begins to have a devastating effect not only on his personal life but on his family as well.
- DirectorSimon WincerStarsLinda EvansJack ThompsonJason RobardsA single mother from LA marries an Australian cattle rancher following a whirlwind courtship. He returns to Australia ahead of her and her two children, and dies before they arrive. His widow is left with a debt-ridden ranch during one of the worst droughts in Australian history. In addition, she has land-grabbing neighbors to contend with.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsTuesday WeldGeraldine FitzgeraldPeter BonerzGeorgia Benfield is at a difficult place in her life: her husband Pete has left her for a younger woman her teenage son Chris is unmanageable, and she's struggling financially when her widowed mother Charlotte moves in. Amid juggling a new full-time job, raising two children, and her failing marriage, the constant bickering between mother and daughter continues as it has ever since Georgia was a child. Finally at her wits' end, Georgia loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia herself had been abused as a child. As family and friends slowly start to learn of the abuse and long-buried family secrets come to light, both mother and daughter must learn to accept the past to change what is happening at present, to create a better future.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsLee RemickPatrick McGoohanGottfried JohnEngrossing tale of a mother investigating her son's mysterious death and finding much more than she bargains for. While casting director Alicia Browning (Remick) takes leave of her job in NYC to investigate what happened to her son Mark (Browning) in Germany. Her persistence uncovers perplexing details that lead to the discovery of some very unsettling, and dark personal memories!
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsMare WinninghamJameson ParkerJeffrey DeMunnTwo young women's lives are changed forever in one moment. A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful woman's brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Jane's husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful woman's husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsEllen BurstynTuesday WeldPatrick CassidyA young man and a nice woman in her forties fall in love. His mother goes berserk when he tells her about it and when the girlfriend comes to meet the mother, she wants to jump out of her skin. Accepting her son's choice won't be easy.
- DirectorJeff BlecknerStarsCarol BurnettDabney ColemanGregory HarrisonRaisin baron Tyler Cane seeks to cut off the Kensington Ranch water supply so he can control the raisin crop of Fresno, but Cane Kensington will fight him for every last drop.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsSusan SarandonKristy McNicholAlberta WatsonDuring World War II, a group of U.S. Army nurses in the Philippines are captured and imprisoned by Japanese troops.
- DirectorLee PhilipsStarsBurt LancasterHanna SchygullaJohn RoneyThe amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsGeorge C. ScottRebecca De MornayIan McShaneA detective comes out of retirement to help his daughter's fiance prove that he did not commit a series of murders.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsJames GarnerJames WoodsPiper LaurieWhen his mother dies, Bob not only inherits her house, but also the custody of his younger brother, who suffers from schizophrenia and epilepsy. At the age of 21, Bob promised to look after his brother. Although he has barely seen him in the many years since then and strives against the commitment, he doesn't dare to put him in a home either.
- DirectorMichael PressmanStarsJohn DenverJane KaczmarekEdward WinterA widowed New York City architect and his young daughter take a Christmas vacation and end up in a small mystical town in Colorado where everyone believes in Santa Claus.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsRod TaylorWilliam LuckingCharles NapierFive time-tossed 1890's cowboys find themselves in the 1980's and start a detective agency.
- DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsStann BabbRay BakerGeorge BartenieffA dysfunctional mother with daddy issues takes revenge on her father by manipulating her teenage ne'er-do-well boys to steal from him.
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsTim MathesonMargaret ColinBarry CorbinThe Byrds are a young couple both working as reporters but for different newspapers. When Mike invents the story of how they had the idea to make a baby his wife at first becomes furious about his article but then she adapts to it and starts to write the story from her side in the other newspaper. Making the articles reality, they are now expecting their first child.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsMatt SalingerLisa EilbacherBonnie BartlettNew mother Laurie is lured into a trap that ends with her death and the kidnapping of her baby. The police consider it a murder-suicide caused by post-partum depression, but her husband Jack begins to suspect their son is still alive. Suddenly old memories surface which might be the key to the baby's whereabouts.
- DirectorDavid AnspaughStarsCheryl LaddJason MillerJennifer SaltTrue story about a nurse's descent into the nightmarish world of substance abuse which endangers her life and the lives of her patients.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsSuzanne PleshetteTom AtkinsPaul BenjaminA wealthy widow lives moments of tension when she decides to spend a few days in a beach house of a mysterious young man.
- DirectorPaul KrasnyStarsJack WardenJohn RubinsteinPenny PeyserHarrison Fox Snr (Jack Warden) and Harrison Fox Jnr (John Rubinstein) are two of San Francisco's most successful private eyes. During a vacation in England they inadvertently become the prime suspects in a murder case, and must go on the run in the British countryside with the whole of the police force on their trail.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsAlan ArkinJoanna PaculaRutger HauerGerman death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.
- DirectorRobert ConradStarsRobert ConradChristian ConradShane ConradT.J. Cousins is a mountain man who committed some grisly murders a few years ago. Currently he is in prison. Now a drug dealer also in the same prison hires T.J. to lead him through the Sierras. Now the "High Mountain Rangers" a group who's assigned the task of bringing T.J. and the other escapees back, are on the case but T.J. proves to be too wily for them, and kills one of them. So Matt Hawkes, one of the rangers, decides to get help from the man who caught T.J., his father, Jesse Hawkes. Now it seems that Hawkes felt that T.J. should have been executed but that sentenced was reduced to life imprisonment, so he left the rangers and lives in a cabin up in the mountains. Jesse at first decides not to do it but eventually changes his mind. But as I said T.J. is too wily. And he also wants to get his hands on Hawkes.
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsEllen BurstynTeri GarrSammi DavisLondon in the early 1960s. The life of a couple is upset by the coming of a British Secret Service Agent who moves in across the street.
- DirectorMike RobeStarsKeith CarradineJoBeth WilliamsKathy BatesBased on the true story of a bedroom-eyed Kansas preacher who decided that getting rid of his wife, and his secretary's husband, was the will of the Lord.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Richard WidmarkHolly HunterA regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white racist, whom one of their members has shot. As the Sheriff confronts the suspects, the young plantation owner stands alone in her daring defense of this group of men, provoking racial tension that makes a compelling drama.
- DirectorMichael MillerStarsLisa HartmanBruce DernJoe PennyIn a small town in Appalachia, Autumn's young husband is killed in a suspicious mine explosion. She vows vengeance on mine owner Douglas Osborne and dedicates her life to destroying him, even at the cost of her own happiness. When her attempts at financial ruin fail, she manipulates Osborne into marriage by claiming she is carrying his child. After Osborne dies from cyanide poisoning, Autumn is arrested for his murder, but she professes her innocence.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsJohn LithgowMary Beth HurtLinda KelseyThe story of the Scotts, a young couple whose first child is born dangerously early, weighing less than a pound and a half. As they endure the anguish and struggle to help keep their baby alive, they discover what real love, courage, and triumph are in the face of tragedy.