The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies (known asThe New CBS Friday Night Movies in its first season) was a weekly 90-minute motion picture made expressly fortelevision. The series aired onCBS from 1971 to 1974. During its first two seasons, the program was similar toABC'sMovie of the Week, which presented a brand-new full-length feature film in a regular weekly time slot with no connecting theme or arc among the films. In the fall of 1972, the series moved from Friday nights to Tuesdays, with its Friday night slot given back to traditional previously released theatrical films underThe CBS Friday Night Movies banner (The New CBS Friday Night Movies replacedThe CBS Friday Night Movies during its first season).
During the 1973–1974 television season, CBS revised the series intoThe New CBS Tuesday Night Movies. In the revision CBS adopted both the ABC and NBC approaches. They developed two rotating series, similar toThe NBC Mystery Movie (both produced byMGM Television) and continued to premiere brand new feature-length films as television movies seen on alternating weeks.
The two series-like projects were:[1]
The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies was cancelled after the 1973–1974 television season. Television films seen on CBS would be incorporated into itsThursday and Friday night movie programs, beginning with the 1974–1975 season.
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