Titleness Is the Mother of All Evil

Recently I've been spending some time in the '70s.

I'm expanding the trivialTV Schedule database, which means I'm entering a lot of movie titles for the '70s. One thing really struck me — the number of theatrical films that were later shown on the telly with a different name. (Some made-for-TV movies even changed names for their second airing.)

So I queried the entire database and found the same thing happened in the '70s, '80s and early '90s. Here's the alphabetical list of theatrical films named differently on TV (with links to imdb):

• Beautiful But Deadly (1973) (a.k.a. The Don Is Dead)


• Death of Her Innocence (1974) (a.k.a. Our Time)


• Deep Cover (1985) (a.k.a. Code Name: Emerald)


• The Double Con (1973) (a.k.a. Trick Baby)


• Earth's Final Fury (1980) (a.k.a. When Time Ran Ou…)


• Escape to Freedom (1988) (a.k.a. Judgment in Berlin)


• For Better, For Worse (1974) (a.k.a. Zandy's Bride)


• Forbidden Paradise (1979) (a.k.a. Hurricane)


• Girls of Summer (1988) (a.k.a. Satisfaction)


• Hard Driver (1973) (a.k.a. The Last American Hero)


• Home Is Where the Heart Is (1987) (a.k.a. Square Dance)


• A Horse Named Comanche (1958) (a.k.a. Tonka)


• Invasion Force (1980) (a.k.a. Hanger 18)


• The Neptune Disaster (1973) (a.k.a. The Neptune Factor)


• Never Give an Inch (1971) (a.k.a. Sometimes a Great Notion)


• Olympic Visions (1973) (a.k.a. Visions of Eight)


• On the Road Again (1980) (a.k.a. Honeysuckle Rose)


• Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers (1975) (a.k.a. Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins)


• Sky Terror (1972) (a.k.a. Skyjacked)


• Summer of Innocence (1978) (a.k.a. Big Wednesday)


• Volcano (1969) (a.k.a. Krakatoa, East of Java)


• You Can't Steal Love (1975) (a.k.a. Murph the Surf)

I'll update the list as I find more films like these.

Note: The film titles have the following format:

    TV Title (Year of Theatrical Release) (a.k.a. Theatrical Title).