The Executioner's Song

📊 Series Specifications

Network Network Broadcast
Episode Runtime ~92 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 2
Original Language EN

The Executioner's Song (1982)

⭐ 3.5 / 5 (1 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 2 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

The Executioner’s Song first aired in 1982, as a two-part miniseries on NBC (188 minutes overall), earning an Emmy nomination for Norman Mailer, and an Emmy win for star Tommy Lee Jones, who played convicted murderer Gary Gilmore. Divided into two parts: the story of the days leading up to Gilmore’s crime spree, and the story of the days leading up to the firing squad.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Part I

The story of the days leading up to Gilmore’s crime spree…

E2 Part II

The last nine months in the life of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who demanded that he be put to death and was eventually executed by a firing squad in 1977.