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Economy was the key to a solid TV movie back in the day; sure, now you can stretch out a story over ten episodes and watch ‘em all at once. *Pulls up pants even higher* But back in my time you had 75 to 90 minutes tops to get your point across, and we liked it! Even better, a small screen flick like She Cried Murder (1973) does it in a speedy 66, omitting unnecessary tropes such as love stories, secondary characters, and plot.

Okay, I’m just being cheeky; She Cried Murder is so lean that all it really has time for is a cat and mouse chase between a woman who witnessed a murder and the fella who did it; motive is covered quite tidily so it isn’t all chase, and what it does accomplish is effective enough. Not enough to deter folk from watching the ABC Tuesday Movie of the...

Being a popular TV star can be a double edged antennae; great, steady income and national (sometimes international) fame. But the downside is you can become so popular that as a performer, what you’re known for is all you become known for, and it can be difficult to step beyond people’s perception. Such is the case with Elizabeth Montgomery, as the Bewitched actress took on the somber lead role in The Victim (1972), an entertaining little mystery that showed a welcome serious side to the star.

Originally broadcast on Tuesday, November 14th as an ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week, The Victim would have to go up against Hawaii Five-o and NBC’s own movie night; and while Jack Lord always won out, ABC had the particular market cornered for mystery and horror with The Victim being a fine addition to their roster.

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A new generation that was raised on anthology films and TV shows like Creepshow, Tales from the Crypt, and The Twilight Zone has begun paying homage to those masterworks through films like Trick R’ Treat, V/H/S, The ABCs of Death - and even comic books like Archaia’s Moon Lake and the re-born Creepy and Eerie. However, when it comes to anthology storytelling, television is still lagging behind.

It isn’t just the long and impressive tradition of these shows (which dates back to the dawn of the medium and visionaries like Alfred Hitchcock, Merwin Gerard, and Rod Serling) that makes TV’s anthology-deficiency surprising – it’s more perplexing that the deficiency exists within the current climate of horror domination on TV.

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