# Weekend of Terror > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Weekend_of_Terror > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Weekend_of_Terror.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_of_Terror > Source revision: 1357307486 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1970 television film directed by Jud Taylor Weekend of Terror Genre Thriller Written by Lionel E. Siegel Directed by Jud Taylor Starring Robert Conrad Carol Lynley Lois Nettleton Jane Wyatt Lee Majors Kevin Hagen Theme music composer Richard Markowitz Country of origin United States Original language English Production Producer Joel Freeman Cinematography Les Shorr Running time 74 min. Production company Paramount Television Original release Network ABC Release December 8, 1970 (1970-12-08) ***Weekend of Terror*** is a 1970 American [made-for-television](/source/Television_film) [thriller film](/source/Thriller_(genre)) directed by [Jud Taylor](/source/Jud_Taylor) and starring [Robert Conrad](/source/Robert_Conrad), [Carol Lynley](/source/Carol_Lynley), [Lois Nettleton](/source/Lois_Nettleton) and [Jane Wyatt](/source/Jane_Wyatt). It was aired on December 8, 1970, in the *[ABC Movie of the Week](/source/ABC_Movie_of_the_Week)* space.[1] ## Plot A nun returning from a sabbatical is met at a bus station by two of her colleagues. En route to their convent, their car breaks down on a desert road, so they decide to flag down a passing motorist. Meanwhile, two escaped convicts have abducted a local businessman's niece with a scheme to collecting a ransom, only to have the woman die while attempting to flee the abandoned house they are holed up in. Eddie, the kidnapper under whose watch the victim died, passes the nuns in their disabled [Plymouth Belvedere](/source/Plymouth_Belvedere) and decides to stop. The nuns mistake him for a helpful motorist and he tows them with his Volkswagen Type II to his hideout (in the opposite direction from [Victorville, California](/source/Victorville%2C_California), where repair facilities would be accessible). The nuns soon learn their fate and are held hostage in a locked room with boards nailed over the windows. The kidnappers devise a plan to get the ransom money from the rich uncle (who is unaware his niece is dead) by having one of the nuns pose as the dead girl. Eddie orders accomplice Larry to take Sister Ellen to a wig shop, then to a phone booth where she can call her convent and give false information to explain their not showing up. Larry is something of an unwitting party, not wishing to commit further crimes. Larry tells the hostages to hide and tells Eddie they have escaped. Eventually the captives are discovered hiding in a closet by Eddie, after which a commotion occurs and he is killed by his own gun. Larry feels forced to take Sister Ellen hostage and attempts to flee by stealing a light aircraft, but before he gets away there is a climactic scene on the runway. ## Cast - [Robert Conrad](/source/Robert_Conrad) as Eddie - [Carol Lynley](/source/Carol_Lynley) as Sister Meredith - [Lois Nettleton](/source/Lois_Nettleton) as Sister Ellen - [Jane Wyatt](/source/Jane_Wyatt) as Sister Frances - [Lee Majors](/source/Lee_Majors) as Larry - [Kevin Hagen](/source/Kevin_Hagen) as Lt. Papich - [Gregory Sierra](/source/Gregory_Sierra) as Police Sergeant - [Ann Doran](/source/Ann_Doran) as Sister Nadine ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["TV Listings for December 8, 1970"](http://www.tvtango.com/listings/1970/12/08). TV Tango. Retrieved 18 August 2014. ## External links - [*Weekend of Terror*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066552/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Jud Taylor Weekend of Terror (1970) Revenge! (1971) Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole (1972) Fade In (1973) Winter Kill (1974) The Disappearance of Flight 412 (1974) Search for the Gods (1975) Return to Earth (1976) Tail Gunner Joe (1977) Mary White (1977) Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977) City in Fear (1980) Act of Love (1980) Packin' It In (1983) License to Kill (1984) Out of the Darkness (1985) Broken Vows (1987) Foxfire (1987) The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988) The Old Man and the Sea (1990) Kaleidoscope (1990) Guinevere (1994) A Holiday to Remember (1995) Clover (1997) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Weekend of Terror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_of_Terror) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_of_Terror?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.