The Best and Worst Made for TV Movies or Mini-Series

This is a list of the Best and Worst Made for TV (or streaming) Movies or Mini-Series:

(this list also includes streaming networks) 

THE BEST:

All Quiet on the Western Front (CBS: 1979)
An American Christmas Carol (ABC: 1979)
Anne of Green Gables (PBS: 1985)
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (HBO: 1983)
Behind the Candelabra (HBO: 2013)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (CBS: 1965)

Chernobyl (HBO: 2019)
A Christmas Carol (CBS:1984)
A Christmas Carol (FX: 2019)
Christmas Eve (NBC: 1986)
A Christmas Memory (ABC: 1966)
Christmas on Division Street (CBS: 1991)
The Christmas Tree (ABC: 1996)

Dahmer (Netflix: 2022) 

Dr. Cook's Garden (ABC: 1971)
Door to Door (TNT: 2002)

Ebbie (LIFETIME: 1995)

11.22.63 (HULU: 2016) 

Ellis Island (CBS: 1984)
Escape at Dannemora (SHOWTIME: 2018)
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (NBC: 1993)

Fosse/Verdon (FX: 2019)
A Garfield Christmas (CBS: 1987)
Garfield's Halloween Adventure (CBS: 1985)
Gia (HBO: 1998)
Grey Gardens (HBO: 2009)
The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix: 2018)
Here Comes Santa Claus (CBC Canada: 1984)
A Hobo's Christmas (CBS: 1987)
Homecoming: A Christmas Story (CBS: 1971)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (CBS: 1966)

I Know This Much is True (HBO: 2020) 
Iron Jawed Angels (HBO: 2004)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (CBS: 1966)
James Dean (TNT: 2001)
Joan of Arc (CBS:1999)
Katie and Eilish: Siamese Twins (ITV, U.K. 1992, Discovery Channel U.S. 1993)

The Laramie Project (HBO: 2002)

The Legend of Lizzie Borden (ABC: 1975) 
Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (ABC: 2001)
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (NBC: 1979)
Manhunt: Unabomber (Discovery/Netflix: 2017)
Making a Murderer (Netflix: 2015)

Midnight Mass (Netflix: 2021)

Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (Netflix: 2021)

One Special Night (CBS: 1999) 

The Patient (Hulu: 2022) 
The Peanut Butter Solution (CBC Canada: 1985)

Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (CBS: 1975)
RKO 281 (HBO: 1999)
Rich Little's Christmas Carol (CBC Canada: 1978)
The Ryan White Story (ABC: 1989)
The 60s (NBC: 1999)
That Guy...Who Was In That Thing (SHOWTIME: 2012)

Salem's Lot (CBS: 1979)

Scream, Pretty Peggy (ABC: 1973)

The Screaming Woman (ABC: 1972)
See Jane Run (ABC: 1995)
Stephen King's It (ABC: 1990)

The Stand (CBS/Paramount: 2020) 
Stone Pillow (CBS: 1985)

The Story Lady (NBC: 1991) 
Stubby Pringle's Christmas (Hallmark Hall of Fame: 1978)
Sybil (NBC:1976)

Tell Me Where It Hurts (CBS: 1974) 
Tuesdays with Morrie (ABC: 1999)

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (NBC: 1987) 

Vanishing Act (CBS: 1986) 

When the Leevees Broke (HBO: 2006)
Wild Wild Country (Netflix: 2018)
Wit (HBO: 2001)
You Don't Know Jack (HBO: 2010)


THE WORST:

The Amy Fisher Story (ABC: 1993)
Babes in Toyland (NBC: 1986)

Black and Blue (CBS: 1999)

Carol for Another Christmas (ABC: 1964) 
Chasing Christmas (ABC Family: 2005)
A Christmas Carol: the Musical (NBC: 2004)
Christmas Do-Over (ABC Family: 2006) 

Christmas Mail (ION: 2011) 
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (NBC: 2003)
Cinderella (CBS: 1965)
The Day After (ABC: 1983)

Deadly Lessons (ABC:1983)

The Demon Murder Case (NBC:1983) 
Desperation (ABC: 2006)
The Girl (HBO: 2012)
Gypsy (CBS: 1993)
Home For the Holidays (ABC: 1972)
If These Walls Could Talk (HBO: 1996)

Isn't It Shocking? (ABC: 1973) 
It Happened One Christmas (ABC: 1977)
Killing Mr. Griffin (NBC: 1997)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (NBC: 1980) 
Lethal Lolita: Amy Fisher, My Story (NBC: 1992)
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (Lifetime: 2014)
Lonesome Dove (CBS: 1989)

Maniac (Netflix: 2018) 
Miracle on 34th Street (CBS: 1973)
National Lampoon's Family Reunion (TBS: 2003)

The Night They Saved Christmas (ABC: 1984) 

Nightmare in Columbia County (CBS: 1991) 
Not Quite Human (ABC: 1987)
Ocean of Fear (Discovery: 2007)
Peter Pan (NBC: 1960)
Phil Spector (HBO: 2013)
Roseanne (FOX: 1994)
The Stand (ABC: 1994)
The Shining (ABC: 1997)
Snow White: a Tale of Terror (SHOWTIME: 1997)

Something Evil (CBS: 1972) 

Sometimes They Come Back (CBS: 1991) 
Super Shark (SCI-FI: 2011)

A Taste of Evil (ABC: 1971) 
The Watcher in the Woods (Lifetime: 2017)