| The Burning Bed | |
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| Genre | Crime Drama |
| Based on | The Burning Bed 1980 novel by Faith McNulty |
| Written by | Rose Leiman Goldemberg |
| Directed by | Robert Greenwald |
| Starring | Farrah Fawcett Paul Le Mat Richard Masur |
| Theme music composer | Charles Gross |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Jon Avnet Steve Tisch |
| Producer | Carol Schreder |
| Cinematography | Isidore Mankofsky |
| Editors | Richard W. Fetterman Michael A. Stevenson |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Production company | Tisch/Avnet Productions Inc. |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | October 8, 1984 |
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The Burning Bed is a 1984 television drama film starring Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, and Richard Masur. Based on the 1980 non-fiction novel of the same name by Faith McNulty, it follows battered housewife Francine Hughes and her trial for the murder of her husband, James Berlin "Mickey" Hughes. Hughes set fire to the bed her husband was sleeping in at their Dansville, Michigan home on March 9, 1977 after thirteen years of physical domestic abuse at his hands.
The film was written by Rose Leiman Goldemberg and directed by Robert Greenwald. It aired on NBC on October 8, 1984. The movie premiered with a household share of 36.2, ranking it the seventeenth highest rated movie to air on network television and NBC's highest rated television movie.[1]
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