The ABC Friday Night Movie

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The ABC Friday Night Movie was a television program that aired on Friday nights from 1975 to 1983 (and again, briefly, in 1999) on ABC. The program presented theatrical feature films as well as made-for-TV movies. The feature films were edited (1) for content, to remove objectionable material (2) for time, to reduce the film's running time to fit into the 2-hour timeslot, and (3) for resizing, so the image would fit the standard 4:3 television screen (as opposed to letterbox format).

From 1962 to 1988 ABC ran a movie series on Sunday nights, under the title The ABC Sunday Night Movie.