Hurricane (1974)

ABC Movie of the Week
Directed by Jerry Jameson
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)

Episodic TV-movie treatment of a hurricane bearing down on south Mississippi. Larry Hagman is the skipper of the SS Minnow caught in the eye, Grandpa Walton and Olivia struggle to convince us that they are meteorologists in Miami, a man and his dog disregard evacuation orders and then can't get his pick-up truck to start while Sgt. Carter from Gomer Pyle gets drunk at a hurricane party. It should be awful, and to most it will be, but my rating is influenced by the hazy memory of a 9-year-old kid in south Mississippi who thought it was the greatest movie ever made. Fairly interesting stock footage can be glimpsed between all of the bad acting and it looks like the old home of the real Hurricane Center in Miami.