November 17, 1979 –
The two-part miniseries based on the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King, Salem’s Lot, directed by Tobe Hooper and starring David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, and Lew Ayres, first aired on CBS TV on this date.
Director George A. Romero was originally approached to direct a feature film version, but after the announcements of John Badham’s Dracula and Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre, Warner Bros. decided to turn Salem’s Lot into a TV mini-series. Romero dropped out, feeling he wouldn’t be able to make the film the way he wanted to with the restrictions of network television.
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