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1970s TV covers some Very Important Issues
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- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsLinda BlairLarry HagmanVerna BloomThis movie is a teaching tool about a teenage girl struggling with alcoholism to cope with her feelings of insecurity and the usual problems of adolescence.
- DirectorRandal KleiserStarsEve PlumbLeigh McCloskeyLynn CarlinA 15-year-old girl runs away from home and arrives in Hollywood, but winds up becoming a prostitute to support herself and gets involved with a tough-talking pimp.
- DirectorJohn ErmanStarsLeigh McCloskeyEve PlumbJuliet MillsA teenaged boy arrives in Hollywood to become a movie star, but winds up becoming a male prostitute and gets involved with a gay football star.
- DirectorSteve GethersStarsLeVar BurtonOssie DavisDolph SweetA young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all the animals begins to affect his outlook on life.
- DirectorRobert GreenwaldStarsTrish Van DeverePatrick O'NealJanet MargolinA woman's inability to make a lasting commitment results in her having a string of affairs with married men.
- DirectorRobert GreenwaldStarsKim BasingerVivian BlaineFabianA naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
- DirectorJohn A. AlonzoStarsLesley Ann WarrenEdward HerrmannVic TaybackThe touching portrayal of a young mother (and dance student) who travels to California after the death of her husband. In order to pay the bills she takes up burlesque dancing. To her dismay, the club she works at is sold to new owners who transform it into a hardcore strip club, where the dancers must bare all. Reluctantly, she performs. Unfortunately, a photographer hired by her father-in-law is in the audience, who snaps some naughty pics of her performing. He uses these to try and get custody of his grandson.
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsLesley Ann WarrenRita MorenoDianne KayThe story of three Las Vegas showgirls, each at a different stage in her career.
- 1978–19831h7.4 (29)TV EpisodeDirectorWilliam P. D'AngeloStarsMaureen TeefyAllen FawcettLaura DeanTeenager becomes involves in the thrill of shoplifting with her friends, until she is inevitably caught in the act.