ABC Sunday Night Movie Open: "The Ten Commandments" - 1984

ABC's annual airing of "The Ten Commandments" on 4/15/84, preceded by a Newswatch 13 promo.

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• 1984

[beanut520]

Shit, TV was actually worth watching back in those days.

[AmericatheBabylon]

We watch it every Easter!!!!LOL

[DimeraFan28]

I Just Love This Movie, It's Unbelievable, My Family and I watched this movie Every Easter, I hope when Easter comes again (2012), I'll be able to stay awake, and see the whole movie.

[bradywahl]

Aw, no Hardcastle & McCormick tonight!

[neneshubby]

Wow, memories

[FutureNewsAnchor]

@lilgiggler35 Actually, the Saturday airing wasn't commonplace until '05. In 2004, the film aired on Palm Sunday.

[Laceykat66]

@lilgiggler35 Thanks for that bit of information. I agree that Saturday is a better time as they use to start at 7:00 and run it past 11. I actually love the "campy" grandeur also.

[lilgiggler35]

@Laceykat66 they originally showed on Easter Sunday night until 2003. Then they switched to Saturday night. Timewise Saturday was better because people didnt have to get up for work or school the next day. I remember watching it on Sunday night because it was to only night of the year besides New Years Eve that I was allowed to stay up past midnight as a child. A truely magnificent movie. It has moments of campiness, but that only adds to its grandeur.

[Laceykat66]

@Fab4geek2010 Actually they did. They just showed it on Saturday.

[Fab4geek2010]

No doubt my mom would have been in fornt of the TV watching this Every Easter Sunday that was a tradition for us. Funny ABC didn't show it this year. So of an end of an era.

[tsntana]

Everything about this intro is powerful. From the logo for Closed Captioning. To the title card for the Sunday Night Movie. And of course, Ernie Anderson announcing the timeless classic,

"The Ten Commandments...Next"

Happy Easter folks.

[benhurfanclub]

I enjoy The Ten Commandments, but I've always been perplexed as to why this is the only movie ABC (or any other mainstream network) runs at Easter. After all, it's not a Christian movie. The best thing would be to run TTC on Saturday, and maybe Ben Hur on Sunday. Two classics back to back, and it covers both Easter and Passover.