This week in TV Guide: November 6, 1976

I've written on-and-off over the years on the sometimes tempestuous relationship between television and the movies. The big studios have variously viewed television as a novelty, a threat, and a partner; for its part, network television has gone from lusting after major studio films to owning the studios themselves, while ceding actual movies to cable and streaming services.We are, however, primarily interested not in the present but in the past, and so we go back to a time when big-screen films, interrupted by commercials and cut to fit timeslots (and broadcast standards) were not only an asset to a network, their debuts on home television were an event. And when it comes to this, there is no bigger event than the broadcast premiere of one of the biggest movies ever made, back when it was seen as a Hollywood epic and not a problematic political statement. Gone with the Wind, one of the most popular movies ever made, first hit movie screens in 1939, less than a decade before…

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