The Adventures of Nellie Bly is a 1981 American made-for-television drama film starring Linda Purl as 19th century journalist Nellie Bly and human rights crusader.
[1] It is 1889 and Nellie Bly, a young female journalist, champions causes for the downtrodden.
Feisty, she is ahead of her time as an investigative journalist.
She is somewhat restless as well and soon decides make a name for herself by traveling around the world inside of 80 days.
This in an effort to make real Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days.