 On television, the American Broadcasting Company aired it for the first time on November 4, 1979 right after its theatrical re-release.The first U.S. broadcast received a Nielsen rating of 39.1 and attracted 57 percent of the total audience, the second-highest televised movie audience at the time behind "Gone with the Wind" and the fourth-highest rated.In the United Kingdom, 23 million people watched its inaugural broadcast in October 1981, the second-biggest TV audience ever for a feature film behind "Live and Let Die".