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CBS Thursday Night Movie
''CBS Thursday Night Movie'' was CBS's first venture into the weekly televising of then-recent theatrical films, debuting at the start of the 1965-66 season at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). CBS was the last of the three U.S. major television networks to schedule a regular prime-time array of movies. Unlike its two competitors (NBC and ABC), CBS had delayed running feature films at the behest of the network's hierarchy.〔Edgerton, Gary T. ''The Columbia History of American Television''. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2007. p. 250.〕 Indeed, as far back as the late 1950s, when Paramount Pictures had been offering a huge backlog of pre-1948 titles for sale to television for $50 million,〔Segrave, Kerry. ''Movies at Home: How Hollywood Came to Television''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. p. 75.〕 James T. Aubrey, program director at CBS, negotiated with the studio to buy the package for the network. Aubrey later summed up his thinking this way: "I decided that the feature film was the thing for TV. A $250,000 specially-tailored television show just could not compete with a film that cost three or four million dollars."〔Oulihan, Richard and William Lambert. "The Tyrant's Fall That Rocked the TV World." ''Life'' (Magazine). Vol. 59, No. 11. (Sept. 10, 1965): p. 95.〕 However, CBS's chairman, William Paley, who considered the scheduling of old movies "uncreative," vetoed the Paramount transaction.
It was not until after Aubrey's controversial ouster from CBS in early 1965 that Paley finally conceded on the issue and cleared the way for the network to embark on its own prime-time weekly movie broadcast.〔''Ibid''〕 After initial rounds of negotiations with various studios had been completed that year, CBS finally acquired the exclusive rights to televise a total of 90 titles from Columbia Pictures, United Artists, Paramount, and Warner Brothers—news of which resulted in rumors that the network would actually slate films for two prime-time nights rather than just one.〔Adams, Val. "CBS May Offer 2 'Movie Nights': $8 Million Deal Suggests Plan for 2d Series in '66." ''New York Times.'' (August 27, 1965): p. 59.〕 This scheduling addition, however, would not be made until a season later; but reports of further meetings between CBS and Columbia over the acquisition of 20 more titles signaled that the network was now a serious movie-night contender.〔"A.B.C. and M-G-M Close 21-Film Deal." ''New York Times''. (August 23, 1965): p. 51.〕 The series thus began on September 16, 1965, with the TV debut of the original ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (1962), starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey.
== Controversy ==
Unfortunately, CBS's new anthology was not to escape notoriety, as the network learned the evening of September 30. During its running of the Jack Lemmon-Kim Novak comedy, ''The Notorious Landlady'', someone at the controls of the film's broadcast inadvertently got the reels mixed up, and it was with some chagrin that a network announcer issued an apology during a commercial break before a substantial portion of the movie was then replayed just to get the continuity back on track. What started out, therefore, as a 2-hour-and-15-minute airing wound up lasting approximately three hours.〔(Erickson, Hal. "Movies on Network TV: 1961 Onward (Part 3)." ''Radio Discussions.''. ) See also (Trivia for ''The Notorious Landlady'' at the Internet Movie Database. )〕 Then a month later, when the Burt Lancaster film ''Elmer Gantry'' (1960) was televised with approximately 30 minutes total in various deletions from its original 146-minute length, viewers called en masse to complain that because of all the omissions, the movie made little sense.〔''Ibid''.〕 In fact, quite a few entries in the Thursday night anthology during the first season were over 2 hours long—and this was ''without'' commercial interruptions. These included ''The Counterfeit Traitor'' (1961; 140 minutes), ''Parrish'' (1961; 138 minutes), ''Ocean's 11'' (1960; 127 minutes), ''Mary, Mary'' (1963; 126 minutes), and ''Sunrise at Campobello'' (1960; 144 minutes). Before their broadcast, each of these films was cut to accommodate what CBS executives deemed a feasible running-time. ''Sunrise at Campobello'', in particular, suffered a loss of nearly an hour from its footage after the network pared it down to a 2-hour broadcast including advertisements. Even so, CBS's affiliated stations were still forced on many occasions to delay the start of their local 11:00 (ET) nightly newscasts until well past 11.
In one case, however—that of the Anthony Quinn film ''Requiem for a Heavyweight'' (1962) -- the network considered the entry too short. ''Requiem'' had an original running time of 85 minutes, but this was judged untenable by CBS executives. Columbia Pictures, the film's theatrical distributor, was contacted and arrangements were made to "pad" the film with extra footage. According to the film's producer, David Suskind, there were 40 minutes of outtakes from the film in the studio's vault that had to be located. It was from these that an extra 10 minutes was assembled and added to the CBS print. In fact, this is believed to be "the first time television has added footage to a movie."〔Adams, Val. "10 Minutes Will Be Added to Feature Film for TV." ''New York Times.'' (December 27, 1965): p. 51.〕
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