GONE WITH THE WIND
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Still ranked as the highest-rated theatrical movie ever to be broadcast on television, Gone with the Wind gets a prime-time showing tonight, but in a different media landscape. NBC’s 1976 two-part telecast of this 1939 Civil War epic, starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara, still ranks at the bottom of TV’s all-time Top 10 – but that was in the last year before home video recorders were introduced, via the Sony Betamax, and before HBO caught on as a national cable outlet for unedited, uninterrupted movies. Now Scarlett and company are slipped into a midweek slot on TCM, with little fanfare – but hey, on TCM, it’s still unedited and uninterrupted. And on TCM, it’s shown all on one night. So enjoy. By the time it’s over, tomorrow is another day.