The reel story

There's a great addendum to Monday's listings that was brought to my attention by one of our readers, and for a moment I'd considered using it as the little coda to the listings, but upon further reflection I decided this might deserve a piece of its own. (It's also true that I didn't have anything else planned for the day, but we'll overlook that for now.)It concerns the 1962 movie The Notorious Landlady, which was shown on the CBS Thursday Night Movie. It's not a particularly controversial movie, not one that sparked a huge uproar or anything like that. (In case you're curious, you can read a decent summary of the movie here.) Nor was the movie interrupted by a breaking news story, or anything like that. No, what happened here was, for lack of a better description, a very special something: the film reels were run in the wrong sequence.You read that right. Back in the day, movies on television were shown the same way they were in theaters: by playing them on reels. And while various…