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GONE WITH THE WIND
February 6, 2015  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

Sometimes, I unearth some TV statistics that positively astound me. Here’s one. For the decade of the Seventies, the Top 20 programs for the entire 10-year period didn’t have a single TV series on the list – just miniseries, Super Bowls, specials and theatrical films, in those days before premium cable and VCRs changed the delivery system for movies on TV. The concluding episode of ABC’s Roots topped the list, but – getting larger audiences than any other Roots episode, or any Super Bowl that year, or any Oscar telecast or Bob Hope Christmas special – guess what ranked second and third on that list? NBC’s two-part 1976 TV premiere of 1939’s Gone with the Wind. And now, almost 40 years later, that same movie appears, without commercials or fanfare, as a cable presentation on TCM. But it’s still an epic film, and the always cinema-respectful TCM is an epic network on which to watch it. Vivien Leigh stars.

 
 
 
 
 
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