I remember my mother going nutty making sure the tv was reserved for her to watch James Clavell's "Shogun", though there was nothing B rated about it. I've seen it since (read: since becoming an adult and being able to actually appreciate the story) and liked it.
I was highly disapointed in a MFTV version of David Morell's "Brotherhood Of The Rose", which I think is one of his best works. Very little in the way of accuracy to the plot or character development, which shouldn't be a problem when you are given, oh gee, lets see, accounting for commercial breaks, maybe 7.5 hours of actual footage? Add to that disapointments list Stepehn King's "Storm of the Century". His "The Stand" was much better, though a change in directors could have cleaned it up a bit.
If there was ever a book attached to it, I never read it, but with Her Royal Heineyness the Princess of Almost Everything in residence, we watch The Tenth Kingdom at least once a month and sometimes as much as once a week. Excellent MFTV movie with an all star cast, plenty of adult humor to keep us over 10 years old crowd engaged and loads of action and comedy for the little ones. The only drawback was her tendency to yell "Suck An Elf!" any time she became angry after seeing it....