On television, the parallels between the weekly series that became the mainstay of prime-time programming and the Hollywood series films of an earlier day had long been clear. In the 1970s, original feature-length programming increasingly began to echo the B movie as well. As production of TV movies expanded with the introduction of the "ABC Movie of the Week" in 1969, soon followed by the dedication of other network slots to original features, time and financial factors shifted the medium progressively into B picture territory. Television films inspired by recent scandals—such as "The Ordeal of Patty Hearst", which premiered a month after her release from prison in 1979—harkened all the way back to the 1920s and such movies as "Human Wreckage" and "When Love Grows Cold", FBO pictures made swiftly in the wake of celebrity misfortunes. Many 1970s TV films—such as "The California Kid" (1974), starring Martin Sheen—were action-oriented genre pictures of a type familiar from contemporary cinematic B production. "Nightmare in Badham County" (1976) headed straight into the realm of road-tripping-girls-in-redneck-bondage exploitation.