#1971s

This highly-acclaimed winner of five Emmy Awards is one of the best-loved movies ever made for television. It's the true story of a special relationship between two professional football players, Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) and Brian Piccolo (James Caan). Both star players for the Chicago Bears, Sayers and Piccolo soon became roommates and best friends.

When Sayers suffers a knee injury in mid-season, it is Piccolo who prods and inspires him to work toward a complete recovery. Then fate deals a cruel blow: Piccolo is stricken with malignant cancer.

The constant support and friendship of Sayers plays an important role in Piccolo's heroic fight against the disease. Also starring Shelley Fabares (TV's Coach) as Piccolo's loving wife, BRIAN'S SONG is a moving and unforgettable film.

Director: Buzz Kilick.

Based on Gayle Sayer's and Al Silverman's book, "I Am Third."

Screenplay by William Blinn.

Producers: Paul Junger Wii and Tony Thomas.

Composer: Michel Legrand.

The Chicago Bears players, coaches and staff are featured in the movie.

Hanky Rating: Between six to 10 kleenex.

Dr Robert Neville (Charlton Heston) has developed an experimental vaccine which makes him the only immune survivor of a biological catastrophe. A gang of homicidal mutants blame science for their condition and attempt to kill him.

Director: Boris Sagal.

Based on Richard Matheson's novel, "I Am Legend."

Remake of 1964's "The Last Man on Earth. "

Screenplay by John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington.

Producer: Walter Seltzer.

Composer: Ron Gruner.

Being the adventures of a young man...who loved a bit of the old ultra-violence...went to jail, was brain washed...and came out cured...or was he?

In a futuristic welfare state, Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a vicious young hoodlum, sleeps all day and spends his nights roaming the city with his droogs (friends), assaulting innocent people in the streets and in their homes.

Finally captured by the police, Alex undergoes rehabilitation in the form of aversion therapy as brutal and horrifying as any of his offenses.

Director: Stanley Kubrick.

Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess.

Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick.

Producers: Stanley Kubrick, Si Litvinoff and Max L. Raab.

Composer: Walter Carlos.

In 1857, con man Quincy Drew (James Garner) and his black friend Jason O'Rourke (Louis Gossett, Jr.) swindle slave owners into buying Jason, who's a free man, and later share the profits when Jason escapes captivity.

Director: Paul Bogart.

Story by Richard Alan Simmons.

Screenplay by Peter Stone.

Producers: Meta Rosenberg and Harry Keller.

Composer: David Shire.

When a killer calling himself "Scorpio" (Andrew Robinson) menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.

Director: Don Siegel.

Screenplay by: Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink and Dean Riesner.

Producers: Robert Daley, Don Siegel, Carl Pingitore.

Composer: Lalo Schifrin.

A crime lord (Moses Gunn) hires black private eye, John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter (Gwenn Mitchell).

Director: Gordon Parks.

Based on Ernest Tidyman's novel.

Screenplay by John D.F. Black and Ernest Tidyman.

Producers: Stirling Silliphant, Ernest Tidyman, Joel Freeman and David Golden.

Theme from Shaft (musics, lyrics, performed by) Isaac Hayes.

A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond (Sean Connery) to Las Vegas where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon (Charles Gray).

Based on the novel by Ian Fleming.

Director: Guy Hamilton.

Screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz.

Producers: Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman and Stanley Sopel.

Composer: John Barry.

Theme song sung by Shirley Bassey; lyrics by Don Black; music composed by John Barry.

Los Angeles homicide detective, Lieutenant Columbo (Peter Falk_, uses his humble ways and ingenuous demeanor to root out even the most well-concealed crimes.

Created by Richard Levinson.

Writers: Richard Levinson and William Link.

Producers: Roland Kibbee, Richard Levinson and Dean Hargrove.

Composers: Dick DeBenedictis and Bernardo Segall.

Holy cow! There are also made-for-TV Columbo movies - a grand total of 15, between 1968 and 2003.