Her nephew Craig (Michael Douglas – The Game) is a psychologist at the nearby institute for troubled youths. Helen (Ashley – Coma) lives on a ranch with her daughter Peggy (Karen Pearson – Tom Sawyer), and shares custody with her ex-husband, Doremus (Gazzara – Road House). The only problem is he died 15 years earlier. WHEN MICHAEL CALLS (Saturday, 8:30pm, ABC)Ī woman starts to receive phone calls from her nephew. Let’s crack open our fair weathered faux TV GUIDE and see what’s in store: But ABC’s Movies of the Week (on Tuesday’s, and here) almost always won out with viewers, providing exciting, original fare. Originally broadcast on Saturday, February 5 th, as the ABC Movie of the Weekend, When Michael Calls had the normal competition from CBS’ New Dick Van Dyke Show/Mary Tyler Moore Show and NBC’s Saturday Night at the Movies. Regardless, this one provides a platform for a solid thriller with a pedigree behind and in front of the camera. When Michael Calls (1972) is a telefilm that measures out its chills, leading to a logical conclusion (for a small screen sinner) instead of an iconic screen shot for nostalgic viewers. It also appears under the title Shattered Silence.A lot of great TV horror movies rely on a final image, a real shocker, to hammer home the fear. The film has been released on VHS and DVD by various small labels. The television film was first broadcast as an ABC Movie of the Week on February 5, 1972.
When mysterious happenings began taking place and she begins receiving phone calls from the supposedly dead Michael, Helen begins to wonder if Michael is really dead or if she is losing touch with reality. She is close to Michael's brother, Craig. She is separated from her husband, Doremus. Helen Connelly is a woman whose nephew Michael died fifteen years earlier.
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