When She Was Bad... (TV 1979)
In her first starring role in a made-for-TV movie, Cheryl Ladd is a young wife and mother whose ambitious, often-absent, upwardly mobile husband leaves her unhappy and her growing loneliness leads to frustrations she takes out on her pre-school daughter. This child abuse film, originally to have been called "A New Life," was co-produced by Cheryl Ladd's then-husband David (son of veteran actor Alan Ladd).