5/13/2023 0 Comments Book the winds of war![]() ![]() ![]() Then ABC saw a way of stretching it to 18. Originally, Herman Wouk's TV adaptation of his own tubby novel was supposed to last 12 hours. Since ratings weeks begin with Sunday, that means "Winds" will blow up heady Nielsens for ABC during two ratings weeks instead of just one.Īnd blow it does-it blows hot, it blows cold, it blows up, but mostly it just blows long. ABC will blitz America with "War" for a week, starting tonight at 8 on Channel 7, continuing through Sunday, Feb. ![]() This sounds like a conversation with someone who has sat through "The Winds of War," the bulbous and bloated 18-hour ABC serial about the months preceding World War II, but it is actually a conversation from it. ROBERT MITCHUM AS Commander Victor (Pug) Henry has just returned from a bombing raid when his London honeybunch asks him, "It was bad, wasn't it?" To which Mitchum grimly replies: "It was long." ![]()
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