Beware this DVD release!
I have seen the two-part mini-series whenever it has been shown on TV and I was pleased to find a DVD release on the Universal/Studio Canal label. I must admit I was a little concerned to see a straight 2 hour running time, but went ahead and bought it.
Most of the original is here but notable scenes have been trimmed. I particularly remember a short scene where Wilbur Peterson mentions Hughes's obsessive hand-washing to Noah Dietrich, and a scene with Hughes hiding under his bed in Las Vegas during an A-bomb test. The Glomar Explorer story has been entirely cut.
In truth, the mini-series was always a potted biography (Hughes makes "Hell's Angels", breaks air speed record, then dates Billie Dove/Ginger Rogers/Katharine Hepburn, then flies round the world, buys TWA, sells TWA) but this feels like an extended trailer. At least Tommy Lee Jones's breakthrough performance survives reasonably well