The Hobbit, on NBC
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This first aired in 1977 (when I was two years old). My first experience with the movie was probably in the early 80s, as a read-along picture book with audio on either a tape or record. I feel like I must have seen the actual movie sometime later, but I'm not sure when or how. Many years after that, I got the movie on VHS, but that was probably still before I started writing reviews. In 2025, I finally watched it online, so that's when I'm writing a review. Wikipedia calls it a special, so I thought that would be the section where I'd put my review if I ever saw it again, but I changed my mind because it's long enough (78 minutes) to be considered a TV movie.