Series·1982·1 season

The Executioner's Song

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The Executioner’s Song first aired in 1982, as a two-part miniseries on NBC (188 minutes overall), earning an Emmy nomination for Norman Mailer, and an Emmy win for star Tommy Lee Jones, who played convicted murderer Gary Gilmore. Divided into two parts: the story of the days leading up to Gilmore’s crime spree, and the story of the days leading up to the firing squad.

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Part IE1 · 96 min

The story of the days leading up to Gilmore’s crime spree…

Part IIE2 · 92 min

The last nine months in the life of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who demanded that he be put to death and was eventually executed by a firing squad in 1977.

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5 credited

Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee JonesGary Gilmore
Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna ArquetteNicole Baker
Christine Lahti
Christine LahtiBrenda Nicol
Eli Wallach
Eli WallachVern Damico
Steven Keats
Steven KeatsLarry Samuels

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