There was only ever one animated edition of ABC Movie of the Week, but boy, did it make it count. chlopinions looks back on Fred Wolf and Harry Nilsson's The Point:
The Night Stalker, The Screaming Woman, A Taste of Evil, Runaway!, Snatched, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Dying Room Only
… if the ABC Movie of the Week had a sweet spot, it was undeniably the dark and sleazy realm of horrors and thrillers. Despite that, across the 254 editions, the slot would feature films of almost every genre–westerns and sci-fi, rom-coms and war, superhero, documentary and sports. Once, early on in the run, it even ventured into the colorful world of animation.
These inhabitants of the Pointed Village, who look something like garden gnomes that have been entirely painted orange, are shocked at the birth of the round-headed Oblio. Still, his mom makes him his own cone hat in an attempt to minimize the difference, and he lives happily, liked by everyone and adored by his incredibly pointy blue dog Arrow.
One day, however, when Oblio and Arrow reign victorious in a game of “triangle toss,” a vanquished competitor complains to his powerful father, who conspires to have the two deported from their home . Exiled to the Pointless Forest, the duo meet a whole host of unusual characters, and learn that in reality, everyone and everything has a point–even if it doesn’t seem like it.
Although the film was well-liked upon its original airing, there were scattered complaints that the story was too thin to fill the runtime; the Associated Press posited there was “about an hour more than needed” .
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