Thanks for that info, superman1! Both of those TV movies are currently on YouTube for anyone who's curious -- just type the title into the YouTube search bar. Both have all-star casts.
Honeymoon with a Stranger (they say it's from 1969, just seven years before OoMWIM) has a middle-aged husband disappearing, on his honeymoon in Spain. It stars Janet Leigh as the wife and Rossano Brazzi as the cop.
Vanishing Act (they say 1986, just ten years after OoMWIM) stars Mike Farrell, Elliott Gould, Margot Kidder, and Fred Gwynne. Judging by the synopsis, it's fairly similar to One of My Wives.
Back then, of course, just about everything on TV was seen once (or twice, counting summer reruns) and then disappeared. Some series (e.g., I Love Lucy) were syndicated, but the TV movies didn't fit that five-days-a-week system. So apparently, instead of re-showing an "old" TV movie, they'd remake it with a different title and different actors, and people would watch the "new" movie. Some of them might think it seemed kinda familiar, but by then they'd already watched it and made the Nielsen Ratings happy.
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