Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Season one: an expensive experiment -- Season two: ratings and relevance -- Season three: from Brian's song to the night stalker-something for everyone -- Season four: feeding the beast twice a week -- Season five: every night of the week: TV movie saturation -- Season six: diminishing returns -- Epilogue -- Appendix I- A chronological list of the movie of the week -- Appendix II- An alphabetical filmography -- Appendix III- List of movie of the week pilot films -- Appendix IV- A comment on available sources