Madame X 16 March 1981, NBC Role: Dr. Terrence Keith Watch it here. This made for TV adaptation from the 1966 classic stars Tuesday Weld who portrays an airline stewardess who marries "outside her class". After being disgraced, she gives up her baby to her wealthy in laws and sinks into a life of degradation. 25 years later, she's accused of murder and is defended by her a court-appointed lawyer, who - unbeknownst to her - is her grown-up daughter. Washington Post TV columnist Tom Shales wrote about Madame X: The new NBC movie version of the old, old story is a felicitous surprise. It's a tear-jerker you can watch with a smile on your face.

Edward Anhalt wrote and Robert Ellis Miller directed this seventh screen version of a venerable weepie that began life as a French play in the 19th century. The new version, starring the eerily luminescent Tuesday Weld, isn't kitsch and isn't camp. You really don't have to hate yourself for loving it, either.

Tuesday Weld, now 36 ... ages convincingly 20 years in the course of the picture and has her best moments when callled upon to suffer. ... Weld's competition in knocking people for loops is chiefly supplied by Jeremy Brett, who pops by as a Dublin doctor who helps snap Weld back after an overdose of liquor and Nebutol. Marching her around the hospital room, he says to her, "Good. That's better than being dead, isn't it?"

Brett's scenes with Weld are so bright and crisp --  he has a dashing, David Nivenny kind of debonair masculinity -- that viewers may wish the decline and fall would be aborted so this handsome twosome could play out some other love plot together. IMDb page