I watched the original series and loved it. I don't think I've ever seen it rebroadcast. "Jesus of Nazareth" is still rebroadcast from time to time,for several years on the History Channel("Movies in Time") around Easter, and it, too was originally a TV miniseries.
shareBecause it is a cheesy, overacted mess. If this didn't deal with Jesus, nobody would recommend it.
shareBecause it is too Roman Catholic in treatment. Remember that it follows the Catholic tradition that Peter was the leader of the Apostles and at the very end it shows that Linus (listed as the second Pope) succeeded him. On the other hand, movies on Old Testament subjects (e.g. 10 Commandments, "Sodom and Gomorrah," David and Bathsheba, Solomon and Sheba, etc.) which the Christian Reconstructinists, Dispensationalists, Dominionists absolutely love are replayed again and again. The strange thing is that they are played on Holy Week when they hardly touch, even tangentially, on Jesus and Christianity.
shareAD was a bit of 80s hokum hence why it never gets repeated.
Its that man again!!
Prism: The refractions of light from your prism confuses you. Hokum? A.D. at least is more faithful to Acts and Church history than your revered Ten Commandments was to Exodus. The same goes for most of the other "biblical" movies like Solomon and Sheba which has a completely made up story with no useful relevance to the First Book of Kings.
They all have major problems, A.D. is a unique anomaly, it averts many Historical problems other films have, but still makes some huge blunders of it's own.
The Earliest sources agree Linus was given his position by Paul, the only Biblical reference to him is one of Paul's Epistles.
Yeshua's passion fulfilled the Passover, that's why The Ten Commandments is very relevant to "Easter" I don't like that name since it's a Pagan goddess. We should be celebrating it when the Jews Celebrate Passover.
you can watch it here http://watchseries.eu/serie/a.d.
put so far has only 4 eps. there was 5. i completely forgot about this mini series til i was looking over on the A's when i saw that. didnt know what it meant at first til i saw a short snyopsis about it. dont think i ever saw it again on tv since it was aired in 1985.
It was a very dramatic mini series loosely based on during biblical era. I don't think it ever aired again in America it was a British mini series and didn't gain much attention like others we are so use to seeing every year. I too forgot the title of the series it was unfortunately taped over on vhs but it is available on DVD now just google.
shareA.D. received extremely harsh treatment from critics when it aired in the U.S., and its ratings declined as it moved closer and closer to its conclusion, perhaps also to some extent due to all the hits it was taking in the media at the time. That's very likely why it's never been shown again, at least not to my knowledge either.
shareI remember watching all of the episodes of this miniseries when it was shown back in 1985. I was enthralled by it. I particularly remember the excellent interpretation of the Emperor Claudius by actor Richard Kiley. It is a shame that it has not been shown on American television since.
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Hardly any of the miniseries from back then get rerun, unless some sort of specialty items like the V miniseries airing on Scifi.
I don't think I've ever come across any of those '80s miniseries airing anywhere.
They were all considered forgettably hokey.
I finally ordered Pompeii on DVD to see it again, which likewise has never aired anywhere else, because back then, Pompeii aired against the second V miniseries.
I saw the whole thing, from beginning to end, on the History Channel, 14 years ago. Back then, as someone already mentioned, they had a program called, "Movies In Time", in which they would show an historical movie or miniseries, and instead of a commercial break, they would break to discuss the historical accuracy of the piece with historians, critics, authors, etc. I would say that it is not shown nowadays because we now live in a PC world. Ridiculous.
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