This is one of those worthless, trivial questions that serve no other purpose than to waste time being nostalgic. It is just for fun.
I first saw "Sleeper" as a kid in the 1970s on ABC. I remember being thoroughly entertained although I did not actually sit down and watch it again until it was on AMC last night. I had forgotten how funny it was. It got me to thinking who else may have remembered seeing it on ABC around 1975 or so.
I think I caught a bit of it when it was broadcast. My friend taped it one New Year's eve during the 80s at his house during a party. We totally forgot about it until a year later when we watched it. :)
shareI don't remember the details, but I was born in 1969 and I saw Sleeper on TV when I was a kid. So 1975 on ABC (Friday Night Movie?) is probably a safe bet. I don't know if I saw the whole thing, because the only things I really remembered over time (until I finally saw it again a few years ago on DVD) are from the beginning; the doctors unwrapping his foil, trying to spoon feed him blue goop, cars that looked like big glowing Tic-Tacs, him dressing up as a robot. I never forgot any of that stuff.
shareI remember seeing most of it on ABC when I was a kid. I remember I was in hysterics when Allen was beating the fudge (or whatever it was) in the kitchen when he was impersonating a robot:)
shareI don't know about the ABC network, but in my area in the early-mid 1970s when I was a kid we had Sleeper air often on a new cable-TV network, HBO (cable-TV was just getting introduced around here). That movie, along with other 1973-74 movies such as "The Sting," "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3," and "For Pete's Sake" aired every other week, it seemed. Later in the 1970s and into the 1980s Sleeper aired on non-cable TV stations but the commercials were somewhat annoying compared to HBO.
shareMy first viewing WAS on ABC back in 1970s. If memory serves, it actually aired for the first time within about a year of its original release, on a Friday. At the time, I honestly didn't know the difference between Woody Allen and "Laugh-in" comic Dennis Allen. (At least I didn't confuse either of them with Steve Allen.) Anyway, a friend of mine in fifth grade declared it the funniest movie he'd ever seen, so I watched it based on his recommendation. For the first hour or so, I thought it very well could be the funniest movie I'd ever seen. The last hour was less impressive to me, (and still is.)
shareI saw at the movie theater .
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