Inaccurate date?
I don't know what the copyright date on the film is - but this aired in 1979, not 1975. It seems odd that a film would hold a copyright date 4 years earlier than the time of its first run.
sharegatorDawg,
That's simply not true. On what do you base your claim that it originally aired in 1979? I have - sitting next to me at this very moment - the book adaptation of the film (written by Thomas Keneally and published by Harper & Row), which features many photos from the film. The copyright date of the book is 1975.
Jesus Of Nazareth was made released in 1977 as a follow-up to Moses: The Lawgiver. Both projects involved the participation of Incorporated Television Company (ITC), Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), Executive Producer Bernard J. Kingham, Producer Vincenzo Labella, and Costume Designer Enrico Sabbatini. This was done at the request of Pope John Paul I, who had enjoyed Moses: The Lawgiver and requested that they do for Jesus what Moses: The Lawgiver had done for Moses. How could this have happened two years before Moses: The Lawgiver even aired?
Perhaps you first saw it when it was re-aired in 1979...
I'm sure you're correct. I was basing it on the fact that I most definitely watched the series on television in a house that I only lived in during the year 1979. I know this to be the case because I actually still have a photo that a friend snapped of me while watching television, and it just so happens that a title screen for Moses the Law Giver is plainly visible on the T.V. screen in the snapshot.
However, if this did re-air on network T.V. in 1979, then I'm sure that this is what I remember watching. Thanks for the info.