Disney Channel Premiere Films
Disney Channel movies before the Disney Channel Original Movie branding. Ranging from 1983-1997.
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- DirectorTim BurtonStarsMichael YamaAndy LeeAlison HongThis is Tim Burton's Disney Channel Halloween film short that only aired twice. It combines live action and stop-motion, making for a creepy adventure into the woods.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsTimothy BottomsEva Marie SaintArthur HillA recently blinded man becomes one of the first American users of a seeing eye dog and must fight to remove the legal barriers impeding its use.
- DirectorAlan ShapiroStarsLindsay BarrDave BokasChris BremerAlex and his father are Detroit Tigers Fans. The team is not doing well and Alex's favorite player "Billy Young" isn't either. The team's and Billy's luck turn around after Alex experiences a tragedy that hits close to home.
- DirectorGabrielle BeaumontStarsHarvey KormanSusan AnspachRobert HoganAfter the Daye family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuade them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective Mitchell gets the job to hide the four until the trial. But how will he keep the two nervous adults and their two teenagers under control?
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsArt CarneyChris MakepeaceLen BirmanAn elderly man discovers that his son wants to put him in an old-age home. However, the old man's grandson refuses to allow it, and the man and his grandson wind up becoming roommates.
- DirectorPeter BaldwinStarsMartin MullAnnette FunicelloFred WillardAn ordinary family wins the lottery and they soon learn that winning is not all it's cracked up to be.
- DirectorMark RosmanStarsPeter CoyoteHuckleberry FoxArt CarneyHave you ever thought of traveling through time, going forward or backward to any date? That's the intriguing question aviator and inventor Max Knickerbocker asks Jonathan Knicks. Max is unaware that Jonathan is his grandson, already an adventurous time traveller, thanks to a machine built by his neighbor, Henry Coogan. Can Jonathan save his grandfather from a fatal solo flight across the Atlantic and alter the course of history?
- DirectorRon MaxwellStarsHayley MillsTom SkerrittCarrie Kei HeimTwo best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New York City.
- DirectorMark RosmanStarsMike the DogBarret OliverNatalie GregoryThe story about a boy who discovered that his dog knows where the blood money were buried.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsBruce BoxleitnerBo HopkinsMichael WrenTwo young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion through Utah.
- DirectorFrank ZunigaStarsDoug McClureMichael SharrettMarj DusayThis is about a runaway orphan boy and a man at the end of his rope financially who is a pilot that studies migrating animals. The boy stole away on the plane and while the man was looking for migrating Whooping Cranes had mechanical difficulties and crash landed in a remote area of Canada. After crash landing they find egg, hatch it, and the three together brave the elements to try to make it back to civilization.
- StarsMegan FollowsColleen DewhurstMarilyn LightstoneAnne Shirley accepts a teaching position at a girls boarding school in a town dominated by a rich and belligerant family determined to make her life miserable.
- DirectorSteven Hilliard SternStarsJay UnderwoodAlan ThickeRobyn LivelyDr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his former employer decides to try and make a profit by stealing the mechanical boy.
- DirectorPaul AaronStarsCindy WilliamsKatherine HelmondTom PostonBecky wants to become an actress. After an audition for a dog food ad she has best chances to get the part - but the day after her dog Petey becomes very ill. She has to come up with $700 until 5 pm for the operation - else Petey will be put to death! Lacking only $70, she takes a job as messenger. She needs only one delivery, but her car breaks down and bad luck delays her again, and again, and again...
- DirectorRobert WiemerStarsPernell RobertsEddie CastrodadMilla JovovichA young girl leaves for Nepal with her parents and brother. She is unhappy to leave her home at first, but soon isn't when she meets a handome young man. The story unfolds into a romantic and daring quest in search of the "Invisible City."
- DirectorDick BartlettStarsJean ShepherdJames SikkingDorothy Lyman14-year-old Ralph and his All-American family head off on their annual trek to summer resort Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss.
- DirectorArthur Allan SeidelmanStarsEdward AsnerStephen MachtJenny LewisIn 1930s Vienna, two best friends, a Jewish girl and a fascist's daughter, both witness the unification of Germany and Austria, and question the impact it has on their lives.
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Chris SarandonChantal ContouriThis movie is the inspiring true-life drama of seventeen-year-old Niki Janus. After fleeing persecution in Greece, Niki and her family immigrate to West Virginia and begin living the American Dream. Among their friends is Big John Creed, a wise and helpful handyman. But Niki's friendship with him and her belief in freedom unwittingly bring the wrath of the Ku Klux Klan to her doorstep. Full of courage and passion, Niki challenges the powerful Klan and, at the same time, must overcome her own fears to help the townspeople survive a horrible flu epidemic.
- DirectorEric LukeStarsJay UnderwoodAlan ThickeRobyn LivelyChip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and in love with Roberta, another android. Will there be a happy ending?
- DirectorKevin SullivanStarsMairon BennettSam WaterstonPatricia PhillipsJane, a young Toronto girl, tries to reunite her estranged parents during the 1930's, sick of her strict private school and abusive, nasty grandmother.
- DirectorEd KaplanStarsBrandon DouglasNed VaughnPaxton WhiteheadMisfits Danny Stauffer and Chips (a chicken-chasing German shepherd) are teamed up in the Army's "Dogs for Defense" program during WWII.
- DirectorJeff SteinStarsHarry AndersonBrian BonsallElayne BooslerThere's a crisis in Rhymeland. All the Rhymies (the characters from nursery rhymes) are disappearing. Mother Goose's son, Gordon, and Little Bo Peep set off to find them.
- DirectorPiers HaggardStarsHayley MillsHayley CarrAdam StevensonDuring World War II, young Virginia "Rusty" Dickinson was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and she returns to her native country, England. From the family she hardly remembers to snobby classmates and rule-filled boarding schools, she must adapt to a whole new way of life.
- DirectorDonald ShebibStarsCharlton HestonBruce GreenwoodPatricia GageTwo young orphans have to relocate to Nova Scotia and endure their bitter and jerky grandfather, but when they find a baby washed up on the beach, everything changes.
- DirectorTerry MarcelStarsEmma SammsParis JeffersonDirk BenedictAn American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and recover them.
- DirectorPaul KrasnyStarsRaphael SbargeMitchell AndersonMegan FollowsThis is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to clear their friend Jim of murder charges.
- DirectorWill MackenzieStarsPeter ScolariDarren McGavinCatherine Mary StewartIn a private school in the U.S. South, Mr. Sanders, a new choirmaster tries to reduce some of the prejudice and hostility of some of the students in his choir. Paul, a bully who feels he should be lead boy, is the worst offender. Taylor Bradshaw on the other hand is impressed by the music of Landy, a black boy, grandson of Zeke, the school caretaker. Zeke joins in some of the activities of the black community known as River Town. Sanders is also impressed by Landy's abilities and attempts to get him involved with the choir. A tragedy in the community brings the race issue to a head.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsJason RobardsTalia ShireR.H. ThomsonDorothy Quick, a young girl, befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, during the final years of his life.
- DirectorEric LukeStarsAlan ThickeChristopher NeameBetsy PalmerChip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carson is kidnapped and replaced with an android. Can Chip and his newfound friends save Dr. Carson from a dangerous competitor?
- DirectorEric LaneuvilleStarsMorris ChestnutRobert AlexanderSteven AllenFollows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
- DirectorKevin ConnorStarsDavid DukesShiloh StrongGail StricklandLong Island, 1942. 12-year-old Harry detects spies everywhere. But suddenly things get serious, as he and two evacuated London kids, Ned and Flo, stumble onto a real adventure. The children end up with America's destiny in their hands.
- StarsJason RobardsJane SeymourPatricia NealAfter charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair.
- DirectorKevin ConnorStarsAlan BarryAdam BlackwoodTom CourtenayWhen young Nell Trent's grandfather loses the investment money of wharf owner Daniel Quilp with cards, Quilp develops an everlasting urge to get him put in the madhouse. Nell and her grandfather flee the city.
- DirectorJoan TewkesburyStarsRobert BenedettiWayne BradyBill CoatesSet in the late 1950s, Floyd (Carl Lumbly), Martha Ree (Juanita Jennings), and Jimmy "Jim-Jam" Ween (Norman D. Golden II) live on land that was promised to Floyd's father and then to Floyd for work they had done. The landowners, the Appletree family, used the promise of the land to keep Floyd Ween working for them.Through a series of events involving Jim-Jam, the young son of Floyd and Martha Ree, the Appletree sons put the transfer of the land in doubt and force the Weens to make a life-changing decision.
- DirectorSyd MacartneyStarsTruan MunroNic KnightKaren SaltPrince Horace is the spoiled and arrogant heir to the throne whose continual pranks are designed to get his distant father's attention. Young Jemmy is a desperate streetwise orphan trying to survive with his sister.
- DirectorPeter RaderStarsRobert VaughnElisabeth MossErik von DettenA brother-sister duo possessing psychic powers are pursued by a millionaire who intends to use them for his gain.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsTom GuiryChristine LahtiKevin DunnYoung Christopher Millard fantasizes about being a squire of the Round Table and studies the stars. But when his difficulty breathing turns out to be caused by a tumor, his fantasies turn into a means to battle the disease. Chemotherapy eats his summer and instead of writing the standard "What I did during my summer vacation", his teacher lets him write a fictional story, and Chris makes characters from the people around him. As Chris battles with doctor, treatments, and the illness, Squire Millard goes on a quest against an evil sorceress to gain the four diamonds of Courage, Wisdom, Honesty, and Strength: qualities that Chris himself attains as his health fails.
- DirectorKevin ConnorStarsPaul ScofieldNoley ThorntonRosemary HarrisYoung American Joanne Hunter is stranded in the German-occupied Holland with her Dutch grandparents. The German CO, Captain Kessel begins to wage war on the village's morale, and Joanne's house must quarter another German officer, Lt. Braun, who finds himself torn between his duty and distaste of Kessel's methods. When Kessel threatens the lead statues of 16th-century freedom fighters in the town clock, Joanne and her grandparents rally the villagers to save Kirkendam's "little riders".
- DirectorCharles BurnettStarsBeau BridgesCarl LumblyBill CobbsFacing a life of servitude in the Antebellum South, a young slave named Sarny meets Nightjohn. He teaches her to read and write, and together they set to free other slaves - until one planned escape is discovered.
- DirectorBlair TreuStarsKatherine HeiglDanielle HarrisDonnie JeffcoatA younger sister wishes to switch places with her popular older sister and the two bickering siblings awaken to find the wish has come true.
- DirectorJohn BlizekStarsAmy Jo JohnsonErnie PrenticeBentley MitchumA boy, grieving the recent death of his father, comes to befriend the ghost of a young girl haunting his house, learning that the ghost, nicknamed "Susie Q," is still coming to terms with the car crash that took her life in the 1950s.
- DirectorBlair TreuStarsKyle HowardRobert EnglundTravis WesterGunther Wheeler, fourteen, a tough guy from New York City, moves to a small town called Pleasant Valley. Gunther isn't making very many friends in his new town. Until he meets Allison Robbins a beautiful blonde girl his age, the girl of his dreams. Gunther is anxious to score on Allison by taking her out on a date. When Chad, Luke, and Wylie, a couple of neighborhood bullies give Gunther a chance to see Screamin' Banchees, an awesome band, but the tickets for the concert are one hundred fifty dollars. Gunther doesn't have that kind of money. So the only way for him to get the money is to work as a paperboy with Charlie, Gus, Henry, and Fish, which are known as the "nerd herd".
- DirectorLinda YellenStarsDiane KeatonMaury ChaykinJoseph CrossA stranger's call informs Roberta (Diane Keaton) that her estranged brother Frank has died in a small town under bizarre circumstances. Ben, his best friend from college, also gets the call.