In 1988 a two-part made-for-television movie of The Bourne Identity aired on ABC.
The two-part movie, shown on Sunday and Monday nights, scored the highest rating of any television movie this season, a 15.9.
In each of the past several sweep months, NBC has set aside one two-part movie for this sort of treatment.
The book has been adapted into a two-part movie, with the first part released on November 18, 2011 and the second part released on November 16, 2012.
People scurried to the premiere showing of "Ferrets Unmasked," a two-part movie that tried to set the record straight on the much-maligned creature.
Ferrets are so important to Ghandi Hurwitz that he invested $20,000 of his own money to produce the two-part movie that was shown at the convention.
Network executives in charge of mini-series might be considering consulting the help wanted listings after yet another disastrous rating for a two-part movie.
Worst of all for CBS, Sunday's was just the first part of a two-part movie that concludes tonight.
The two-part movie, which starred Jon Voight as Noah, reached about 50 million viewers on Sunday night, the largest number for any movie this season.
It was released as two-part movie on 8 May and 9 May 1980.