@Franko Thank you for the promo and the song. Weird how I did not remember Cathryn Damon, even though I adored her on Soap, but I remembered Loretta Swit. Maybe this was before I watched Soap...

As @Paul Raven said, what a killer cast. And how nice that it was all-women even in major roles behind the scenes. And they didn't have to fly up in a Jeff Bezos junker for ten minutes to show equality...

NBC really was letting it all hang out in the late '70s and early '80s to try to get interest. Many times, it failed, but what fascinating failures - some of the most fascinating in TV history.

Edited April 17Apr 17 by DRW50

 A very negative review of Friendship, Secrets and Lies

http://hillplace.blogspot.com/2013/07/gaggle-60s-starlets-friendships-secrets-lies.html

10 hours ago, DRW50 said:

NBC really was letting it all hang out in the late '70s and early '80s to try to get interest. Many times, it failed, but what fascinating failures - some of the most fascinating in TV history.

THIS! I'm no revisionist historian, but the Fred Silverman era deserves some credit for trying.

Claire Labine wrote a few tv movies in the early 90s, I always wondered why soap writers didn't think to write tv movies in between soap opera writing gigs.

The Bride in Black - 1990 - Starring Susan Lucci

 

She Woke up - 1992 - Starring Lindsay Wagner

 

Star - 1993 - Starring Jennie Garth (A Danielle Steel Adaptation)

"The Bride in Black" is probably Susan Lucci's best role outside of AMC.  She had a good script to work with and a good co-star in David Soul; and even though seeing her work in a deli was a stretch, it ended up not being as soul-crushing as watching her play a dual role ("One is a NYC cop; the other, a stone cold killer!") in "Double Edge."

Please say that Tony and/or Shelley did a high kick at one point in the movie.

Kicks aired Monday March 11 1985.

A wealthy man with a penchant for living on the edge and engaging in dangerous, life-threatening activities becomes romantically involved with a female university professor who has the same proclivities.

It ranked 50th for the week 13.2/21 share. 3rd in it's timeslot.

Sharing Richard - 1988 Tv movie

A tv movie that featured soap actresses and one not talked about much.

Basically these three women are good friends that each meet a man that turns out to be the same guy.   So naturally the three women decide to share him without letting him know that this is being done.  What can go wrong with an arrangement like this LOL

An interesting bit of trivia that one of the writers of this tv movie went on to create CSI Miami, CSI NY, and CSI Cyber.

Edited November 10Nov 10 by Soaplovers

Well, at least they played it for laughs (or so it seems in the promo), lol.

4 hours ago, Khan said:

Well, at least they played it for laughs (or so it seems in the promo), lol.

I will confirm that it was a rom com/chick lit tv movie.

It is comical how we as a nation have allowed fundamentalists to dictate media so much. Because TV was way more intense when I was a kid, and they were also more graphic, and TV Movies were often risqué. And if their was backlash it amounted to very little compared to now when every little thing is scrutinized.

The Burning Bed was aired on NBC, was a real high point in Farrah Fawcett’s career, and is incredibly intense and very good. TV movies used to be the place to tell a ripped from the headlines type of story before Law & Order really dominated that trope.

Less critically acclaimed but one I loved from USA was Body Language, starring executive Heather Locklear and her Fatal Attractions assistant, Linda Purl. It’s pretty trashy but a lot of fun!