It was the movie Heidi.
Child actress Jennifer Edwards (daughter of Blake Edwards) is 60 years old (birthdate: March 25, 1957).* known for the TV movie Heidi, broadcast November 17, 1968.
about the life of Heidi.
1937
King Kong was the first full-length movie to be broadcast on television.
Heidi Wyrick now lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband. The movie "The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia" is taken from Heidi's experiences as a child living in Georgia.
The first movie ever broadcast on television was 'The Crooked Circle.' It aired on a Los Angeles station on March 10, 1933.
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February 1993
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Heidi was/is a self-contained Drama like Christmas Carol, and as far as I know was not produced as a serial. There were literary sequeles- Heidi and Peter, for example, but as a television show it was a one-shot or contained drama in one movie tin, so to speak.
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The Wizard of Oz used to be broadcast every (US) Thanksgiving.