That Certain Summer

“That Certain Summer,” an ABC made-for-TV movie aired on this day in 1972.  It starred Hal Holbrook and Martin Sheen as lovers. 

In the film a teenager must deal with his divorced father’s homosexuality.  The made-for-tv movie was written by the Emmy-winning writing team of Richard Levinson and William Link (Columbo, Mannix). Hal Holbrook stars as a middle-aged divorced man, whose son played