James Franciscus & Lee Grant in Night Slaves (1970)

Clay Howard (a very sexy James Franciscus) has decided to chuck it all and drop out of the rat race. He sells his part of the business to his partner and heads home to tell his wife Marjorie (Lee Grant). On the way he has a terrible accident that kills two people and severely injures him. Once recovered, with a metal plate in his head, he and his wife leave on a vacation. They stop in a small town in rural California and decide to stay over night in a charming guest house. That evening Clay wakes up to find a strange girl in his room and his wife missing. He looks out the window and sees the townspeople climbing into the back of a pickup truck. Among them is his wife. When he tries to stop her, they throw him to the ground and drive off. The next morning he wakes to find his wife next to him in bed acting as if nothing strange had happened. He's inclined to think it's all a dream until he finds burrs on his wife's dressing gown. When it happens the next night he tries to get some answers out of the strange girl, but she's very vague and cryptic. Is he suffering from hallucinations or is something strange happening in this small town?

This sci-fi thriller is a kinder, more pensive version of the classic B movie It Came from Outer Space (1953). Look for Leslie Nielsen as the sheriff. It's not on DVD, but can be found in its entirety on YouTube, thanks to an upload by TVTERRORLAND. The entire film is above.

Obscurity factor: 9 (not on DVD, not well remembered, available on YouTube)

Lee Grant in Fay (1975)

Fay Stewart has just divorced her husband, Jack and gone out on her own. She has a new job and has begun dating. This sea change has created some turbulence in her life with her daughter and herself as well. Being 40-something and starting over is never easy, doing it in the sexy seventies is a real challenge.

This short-lived series for NBC was smart, funny, and canceled after only 10 episodes were made, which is a shame, because there were so few examples of strong, funny women over 40 on TV back then. Below is a promo for the series which will give you the gist of what it was all about.

This hasn't been released on DVD, and there's very little online video of it available. It was somewhat notorious because of Grant's rant on The Tonight Show after the show was canceled. The video above was uploaded to YouTube by MattTheSaiyan.

Obscurity factor: 10 (not on DVD, hard to find, relatively unknown)