Hallmark Collection 20000 Leagues Under The Sea In 1867, Professor Aronnax (Richard Crenna), renowned marine biologist, is summoned by the Navy to identify the mysterious sea creature that disabled the steamship Scotia in die North Atlantic. He agrees to undertake an expedition. His daughter, Sophie (Julie Cox), also a brilliant marine biologist, disguised as a man, comes as her father's assistant. On ship, she becomes smitten with harpoonist Ned Land (Paul Gross). At night, the shimmering green sea beast is spotted. When Ned tries to spear it, the monster rams their ship. Aronnax, Sophie and Ned are thrown overboard. Floundering, they cling to a huge hull which rises from the deeps. The "sea beast" is a sleek futuristic submarine, commanded by Captain Nemo. He invites them aboard, but warns if they enter the Nautilus, they will not be free to leave. The submarine is a marvel of technology, with electricity harnessed for use on board. Nemo provides his guests diving suits equipped with oxygen for exploration of die dazzling undersea world. Aronnax learns Nemo was destined to be the king to lead his people into the modern scientific world, but was forced from his land by enemies. Now, he is hoping to halt shipping between the United States and Europe as a way of regaining his throne. Ned makes several escape attempts, but Sophie and her father find the opportunities for scientific study too great to leave. Sophie rejects Nemo's marriage proposal calling him selfish. He shows his generosity, revealing gold bars he will drop near his former country for pearl divers to find and use to help the unfortunate. During their travels Ned is almost killed by sharks. The Nautilus sinks a British battleship that provokes Nemo, killing two of his crew. When the Nautilus ventures into the Caribbean, it is attacked by a giant squid. Nemo has only a half-day of oxygen and the tentacled creature holds die submarine in a death grip. Divers sent to destroy it are killed. In desperation. Nemo promises to release his hostages if Ned kills the powerful squid with his harpoon. Ned is successful and Nemo, keeping his word, sets them free on a nearby island and returns to the deep. Title 20000 Leagues Under The Sea Genre Adventure Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring Richard Crenna, Ben Cross, Julie Cox, Michael Jayston, Paul Gross Directed by Michael (1) Anderson Produced by produced by Hallmark Entertainment The Baby Dance Prickly moral questions, grasping ambition and powerful emotions surface when an average middle-income yuppie couple attempts to buy a baby from a pregnant poor woman, in this moving social drama. Title The Baby Dance Genre Drama Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring Stockard Channing, Laura Dern, Richard Lineback, Peter Riegert Directed by Jane Anderson Produced by Showtime presents an Egg Pictures Production in association with Pacific Motion Picures Beyond The Call Love story between a Death Row inmate and his high school sweetheart who hasn't seen him since he left for Vietnam, and it's based on the true story of one of the first victims of post-traumatic stress syndrome Title Beyond The Call Genre Thriller Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring Sissy Spacek, David Strathairn, Arliss Howard Directed by Tony Bill Produced by Showtime in association with Hallmark Entertainment presents a Barnstorm Film A Chris/Rose Production Bloodknot After the death of a soldier a woman turns up at his parents' place. She pretends to have been his fiancé. But this is a lie... Title Bloodknot Genre Drama Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring Patrick Dempsey, Kate Vernon, Margot Kidder Produced by produced by All Media Productions, Chesler/Perlmutter Productions and Showtime Networks Blue River Lawrence and Edward are raised by their mother. After having continuously humiliated by his mother Lawrence turns to be a brutal guy and a cynic. One day he even becomes responsible for a person's death. The brothers' ways part, but one day Lawrence turns up at Edward's place. Title Blue River Genre Drama Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring Jerry O'Connell, Nick Stahl, Susan Dey Produced by produced by Signboard Hill Bridge Of Time International aid worker, her photographer ex, and greedy villain survive plane crash in Africa and are taken to a utopian city where she learns that she is destined to replace it's dying spiritual leader. Believing that she is needed more in the outside world, she leaves, but finally returns to accept her fate, a new love and fulfillment in the hidden city. Title Bridge Of Time Genre Sci-Fi Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring Susan Dey Directed by Jorge Montesi Produced by produced by RHI Entertainment Bye Bye Birdie In a delicious, tuneful parody of the Elvis pop phenomenon, "Bye Bye Birdie" chronicles the life and times of "Conrad Birdie", a wildly popular, hip-gyrating '50s rock-n-roll star. Title Bye Bye Birdie Genre Drama Category TV Movie Format four hours Starring Jason Alexander, Vanessa L. Williams, Chynna Phillips, George Wendt Produced by Production Services provided by BBB Production Services Limited Partnership in association with RHI Entertainment The Canterville Ghost When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She campaigns to go back home, and her dad, believing the ghost's pranks are Ginny's, is ready to send her back. But then Ginny actually meets the elusive 17th-century Sir Simon de Canterville (not to mention the cute teenaged duke next door), and she sets her hand to the task of freeing Sir Simon from his curse. Title The Canterville Ghost Genre Family Entertainment Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring PATRICK (1) Stewart, Neve Campbell, Edward Wiley, Cherie Lunghi Produced by produced by Signboard Hill Productions, Inc. in association with Hallmark Entertainment Captains Courageous On a cruise, a spoilt 14-year old boy who has lost his parents goes overboard and is picked up by fishermen. Life on board of their cutter profoundly changes the boy. Based upon a novel by Rudyard Kipling. Title Captains Courageous Genre Drama Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring Robert Urich, Ken Vadas, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Duncan Fraser Produced by produced by Hallmark Entertainment and The Family Channel The Color Of Justice What initially seems to be an open and shut case against four black youths who murdered a white woman during a carjack attempt becomes a media-hyped forum on the issues of race and justice, angering the husband of the vic- tim, who then takes matters into his own hands when the youths get slaps on the wrists. Title The Color Of Justice Genre Drama Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring F. Murray Abraham, Bruce Davison, Gregory Hines Directed by Jeremy Kagan Produced by produced by Showtime in association with Hallmark Entertainment The Courtyard After an architect moves into an LA courtyard, one of his neighbors is murdered...by mistake, as it turns out. He was the intended victim... Title The Courtyard Genre Thriller Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring Andrew McCarthy, Maedchen Amick, Cheech Marin Produced by Showtime presents a Haft/Nasatir Company Production Daisies in December When a former exchange broker and a deathly sick woman meet at a sanatorium, they want to enjoy together the time they have left. Title Daisies in December Genre Drama Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland Directed by Mark Haber Produced by produced by HTV International for Signboard Hill Productions Dalva As a young girl, Dalva falls in love with an Indian boy. When she gives birth to their child, the baby gets adopted against her will. For the rest of her life she keeps searching for the child. When the family diaries get released after her grandfather's death she finally finds her son. Title Dalva Genre Drama Category TV Movie Format two hours Starring Farrah Fawcett, Peter Coyote, Rod Steiger, Carroll Baker Produced by produced by Hallmark Entertainment Deadly Web In „Deadly Web,“ based on a true story, Terri Lawrence (Gigi Rice) and her young son Spence (Andrew Lawrence), make a new friend on the Internet after Terri, recently separated from her husband, takes a job at a hospital library. To Spence, CeeGee is a computer playmate. But to Terri he becomes a stalker who knows intimate details of her life. Ominous things happen to people around her. The annoyance turns into terror when a doctor at the hospital is killed. Frightened, wary of everyone, Terri suspects computer whiz co-worker Barry Fox. Even flirtatious Dr. Todd Stanton (John Wesley Shipp) makes her uneasy. Frank Jones (Ed Marinaro), a former police investigator, offers help, believing this could be the stalker whose screenname is CyberGod, whom he has been tracking for years. Frank wants to draw him out using the family as bait, but Terri is afraid. Maliciously, the stalker accesses Spence's school computer and inputs his birth certificate, revealing that the man he thought was his dad was not his biological father. His real father is dead. Distraught, Spence runs recklessly into the street and is struck and injured. When Barry Fox is killed in an auto accident, Terri thinks the nightmare is over. Frank, too, believes Barry was the stalker and killer, but in winding up the case he discovers Barry was cleverly framed. At his computer, playing his favourite game, “Deadly Web,” Spence is lured outside to meet CeeGee.