A television movie (also known as a television film, TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, made-for-television, original movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, or telefilm) is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network.
Though not explicitly labelled as such, there were early precedents for "TV movies," such as the 1957 version of The Pied Piper ...
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A television movie (also known as a television film, TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, made-for-television, original movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, or telefilm) is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network.
Though not explicitly labelled as such, there were early precedents for "TV movies," such as the 1957 version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, starring Van Johnson, one of the first filmed "family musicals" made directly for television. (Most "family musicals" of the time, such as Peter Pan, were broadcast live and preserved on kinescope, which is not precisely the same as film or even videotape.) Hundreds of live, feature-length dramas aired on television from the 1940s through the 1950s, including such famous productions as 1956's Requiem for a Heavyweight by screenwriter Rod Serling; as was typical but not universal, this live broadcast was preserved on kinescope for...
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