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The network’s censorship of the grislier sequences, along with the commercial breaks sprinkled liberally across the film’s many hours and the four-night broadcasting schedule, all combined for an experience that many criticized as unsatisfying and incomplete. Having strongarmed approval from a Francis Ford Coppola, who was hard up for cash while making Apocalypse Now, NBC hacked up the film like some jamoke run afoul of the Mafia, adding deleted scenes while also dispensing with some of the more violent footage. In 1977, NBC ran a massive seven-and-a-half-hour edit of The Godfather Part I and Part II called The Godfather Saga.
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