Roll, Freddy, Roll!

The last regular season of "The ABC Movie of the Week" was very weak. Apart from a few surprise hits (such as "Trilogy of Terror"), too many of the films in 1974-75 were incredibly lame...such as "Let's Switch" and this movie, "Roll, Freddy, Roll".

When the film begins, you learn that Freddy Danton (Tim Conway) is a divorced father of a young son. The son, however, seems to really admire his new step-dad and Freddy is worried he'll lose his son's love and respect. So, when a chance accident occurs and the skating rink loses his shoes, he decides to keep the skates and try to brake an endurance record for how long someone keeps their skates on without taking them off. This movie was filled with a LOT of kooky and incredibly stupid situations but it was interesting see just to actually see Conway performing his own stunts. But that was it when it came to why to see the movie. Apart from seeing Conway skate about and fall a lot, the plot is filled with stupid writing and made me annoyed the more I watched....and the ending was REALLY stupid. A huge mistake of a film that I hope never to see again.

My Mom has been talking about this movie for years! I remember watching this in the TV room in the basement of our house in Wilton, CT. My Mom was laughing so hard her stomach was shaking and tears were rolling off her face. I was four years old and I remember crystal clear. She asked me to run upstairs to fetch a box of Kleenex for her. The only part of the movie I remember is Tim Conway rolling down a hilly road, I think out of control.

If there is any way to get this on DVD it would be the best gift I could get her so she too could see if it really was that funny or if she is nuts!!

Can anyone let me know if this is available on DVD? I have looked around for it but come up empty

After all these years, I've finally found someone else who remembers "Roll Freddy Roll". Maybe we are the only two demented minds to have reacted similarly when it was viewed, but it has been an ongoing project to obtain a copy of this movie in any form as a means of either validating the absolute comic genius of this movie; or to finally denigrate my ability to assess what is funny. As I read the previous comment, I kept saying "YESSS!!!" after each sentence as if it came from my keyboard. All I can say is if Disney, Persky, Conway, or anyone else with access to this movie can make it available to the public, they have a confirmed customer in me.

I remember seeing "Roll, Freddy, Roll" when it first aired on December 17, 1974; I had just begun junior high school in Lansing, Michigan.

Seeing this film again would bring back many great memories; unfortunately, the last time I saw "Roll, Freddy, Roll" was in 1987 when an independent station here in Detroit ran it. Naturally, the station cut the film in order to fit the time slot (without commercials, "Roll, Freddy, Roll" ran about an hour and 40 minutes).

I discovered Disney now owns "Roll, Freddy, Roll;" in mid-1995 they purchased ABC, whose former ABC Circle Films division produced the film (ABC Circle Films was later responsible for "Moonlighting").

In unity there is strength, and the more requests Disney receives about "Roll, Freddy, Roll," the quicker they'll dig into their vaults, unearth it, and put it on DVD!

(Postscript, May 12, 2020: I discovered about five years ago *MGM* now owns the rights to "Roll, Freddy, Roll." It's part of an ABC Films portfolio MGM distributes for all media including such other ABC Circle Films made-for-TV movies as "Can Ellen Be Saved?" and "The Day After," as well as such ABC Motion Pictures theatrical films as "Silkwood." So all I can suggest now is to try contacting MGM and/or Universal Studios Home Entertainment, who now distributes all MGM product - with the exception of the pre-June 1986 MGM films, which are owned by Warner Bros. - on DVD. If either or both companies are hounded enough, then hopefully they'll put "Freddy" on DVD.)

This movie had my husband and I "rolling" on the floor in laughter. I have been searching for years for "Roll Freddy Roll". This the the first time I have even seen it come up on a website, THANK YOU. Now to get Disney to bring it out on DVD or even VHS would make me very happy.Tim is one of my favorite actors and everyone should see this hilarious film. We were newly married when we watched this on TV and I have never forgotten it. I have searched the web over and over and was beginning to think I had the wrong title, I knew that Tim Conway was the main actor so continued to search. I will be using this site to search for movies that I would love to buy. Please stress that this movie needs to be brought back for my children and my grandchildren to see. Come on Disney, bring it back!