Strange New World (Made for TV Science Fiction Movies - 1980's)
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- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsLee MajorsHal LindenLauren HuttonOn the maiden flight of the first hypersonic commercial plane which can make the flight from New York City to London in four hours, a minor disaster occurs resulting in the plane actually leaving the Earth's atmosphere and orbiting around the globe. A lack of heat-resistant tiling prevents the plane from simply re-entering the atmosphere. With oxygen (and therefore time) running out, the crew of the plane and the crew on the ground must figure out a way to return the plane and its passengers to safety.
- DirectorHisashi SakaguchiStarsHiroshi SuzukiChikao ÔtsukaKaneto ShiozawaAn astronomer discovers a black cloud approaching the earth threatening to wipe out all life, but no one will believe him, because all world governments are too busy waging war.
- DirectorWaris HusseinStarsStephen CollinsLarry GatesChristine LahtiA famous scientist, while performing experiments involving DNA, accidentally creates a monster.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsRobert HaysPam DawberZohra LampertKirby inherits only one thing from his millionaire uncle: a pocket watch that can stop time. The bad guys know that he has it and will do anything to take it from him. But they don't know that he's found the girl of his dreams, and she's got a sense of humor that, when combined with the watch, is devastating.
- DirectorFred BarzykDavid R. LoxtonStarsBruce DavisonPeyton E. ParkNiki FlacksIn a highly controlled and overpopulated society, a man who has terrifying dreams that affect reality is assigned a psychiatrist who takes advantage of the situation.
- DirectorRobert Michael LewisStarsJoe CorteseTom ClancySusan GeorgeThe year is 1996 and Michael Stringer is the only private eye left on Earth. One day, he is hired by a woman to investigate Eden Isle, a complex for people who want a perfect life started by her industrialist father named Korter. Interestingly, Korter was found on a beach and is 20 years younger than he was before. When Stringer gets into the complex, he is caught in a web of mystery that he might not get out of.
- StarsRock HudsonGayle HunnicuttBernie CaseyIn the 21st century, Earth begins the colonization of Mars. However, things do not go as planned, at first due to the hostile Martian natives and later because of the self-destructive Earthmen.
- DirectorGary ShermanStarsJohn ForsytheJames StephensPriscilla PointerTwo aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.
- DirectorNicholas MeyerStarsJason RobardsJoBeth WilliamsSteve GuttenbergThe effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.
- DirectorAlan J. LeviStarsBob DenverJonathan BanksDavid DoyleIn a research lab, a scientist's pet chimpanzee mixes up an invisibility formula. A young woman accidentally drinks the solution and becomes invisible.
- DirectorTerry MarcelStarsRichard HatchKay LenzJohn SaxonThree people are transported into a parallel reality, where they find they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsChristopher PlummerDavid MorseFrances SternhagenAn intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.
- 1980–19941h 23m2.3 (2.6K)TV EpisodeDirectorDouglas WilliamsStarsRaul JuliaArnie AchtmanPaula BarrettThe mind of a computer programmer forced to take a virtual vacation is removed by a totalitarian government and accidentally trapped in the virtual reality simulation. He must find a way out before he expires.
- StarsJane BadlerMichael DurrellFaye GrantA seemingly peaceful alien race, arrives at earth and asks for help to ensure their own planets survival. However, the visitors agenda turns out be much darker.
- DirectorBurt BrinckerhoffStarsJulie CobbBud CortKeir DulleaA man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from. However, he cannot adapt to their repressive ways.
- DirectorJim DrakeStarsJonathan BrandisMarty PollioChristy TaylorA family adjusting to life on Mars, where they live next door to a Soviet technician and his American-stripper wife.
- DirectorTibor TakácsStarsStephen MarkleDon FrancksStan WilsonA corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator.
- DirectorJeffrey BloomStarsJames SpaderBelinda BauerPeter KowankoAn alien woman is running from a deadly enemy and tries to hide on Earth where she meets a young mechanic, who helps her to get back home and to fight for the freedom of her people.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsBruce AbbottBill MaherRebecca SchaefferA cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his great grandfather to capture a master criminal.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsEric WalkerWarwick DavisFionnula FlanaganWicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.
- DirectorMark RosmanStarsPeter CoyoteHuckleberry FoxArt CarneyHave you ever thought of traveling through time, going forward or backward to any date? That's the intriguing question aviator and inventor Max Knickerbocker asks Jonathan Knicks. Max is unaware that Jonathan is his grandson, already an adventurous time traveller, thanks to a machine built by his neighbor, Henry Coogan. Can Jonathan save his grandfather from a fatal solo flight across the Atlantic and alter the course of history?
- DirectorAnnabel JankelRocky MortonStarsMatt FrewerNickolas GraceHilary TindallIn the dystopic near future, a crusading TV reporter investigates news stories with the help of a wisecracking computer version of himself.
- DirectorJim WheatKen WheatStarsWilford BrimleyWarwick DavisAubree MillerMarauders raid the Ewok village and steal a power supply they believe to be magical. Wicket helps Cindel escape the evil witch Charal, and they befriend a hermit who may help them save the village.
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsWilford BrimleyMichael IronsideMartin BalsamSet in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing the other crew members.
- DirectorRon SatlofStarsTerence KnoxGary KasperAimee EcclesScientists create "the perfect soldier" in a lab experiment by recombining his molecules. He is then sent out on dangerous but vital missions.
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsJay UnderwoodAlan ThickeRobyn LivelyDr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his former employer decides to try and make a profit by stealing the mechanical boy.
- DirectorBobby RothStarsLewis SmithJames LaurensonRobert PicardoAn alien lands on Earth and decides that he needs to take a job in order to raise money to build a spaceship so he can get back to his home planet.
- DirectorPeter McCubbinStarsNancy CzerJeff HolecCraig WilliamsIn this Canadian rendering of a potential "apocalypse then", in 1996, after the collapse of modern civilization (due to atomic "accidents" and the "failure" of the world's economy), a young couple tries to carry on a quiet life in an uncivilized world. They are joined by a wandering soldier-of-fortune, who helps them survive the repeated attacks of mutant packs of human scavengers that have begun to evolve (mysteriously) back into animals. Mister soldier also eats their dog at one point. But an even darker threat comes from a lone figure, shadowing them wherever they go.
- DirectorMichael SchultzStarsWilliam DevaneLauren HuttonJohn RatzenbergerScott McKenzie, a history professor, becomes involved with two time travelers from the year 2586 after making a discovery in an old photograph from 1886.
- DirectorEric LukeStarsJay UnderwoodAlan ThickeRobyn LivelyChip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and in love with Roberta, another android. Will there be a happy ending?
- DirectorPeter LevinStarsGreg EviganDeborah WakehamMitchell RyanAn astronaut's ship passes through a strange magnetic field on its way back to Earth, and when he emerges from it after landing, he finds he has acquired superhuman powers and a super-genius IQ.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsRay WiseWendy KilbourneVic PolizosUnsold TV pilot about a hardboiled special police agent prejudiced towards robots and his beautiful new female android partner hunting his nemesis, an escaped female terrorist known as Black Widow, in the noir future of 1999.
- DirectorMichael ChapmanStarsMark Lindsay ChapmanSusan BlakelyLisa BlountHumanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman who has knowledge of their existence. One of the robots is made to look like his girlfriend.
- 19891h 36mNot Rated5.9 (1.2K)TV MovieDirectorAlan J. LeviStarsLindsay WagnerLee MajorsRichard AndersonThe Bionic Woman and the Six Million Dollar Man reunite, with a few younger bionic assistants, and try to catch a bionic spy.
- StarsJoe CorteseMaryam d'AboGeorge DzundzaTwo police officers investigate a series of brutal murders in which the victims have had bodily organs removed. When one of them questions a young woman who has been seen at the crime scenes, it turns out she is an alien from an interstellar prison ship and that the murders have been committed by a powerful xenomorphic alien which had escaped.
- CreatorKenneth JohnsonStarsJane BadlerMichael DurrellRobert EnglundA small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.