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The Godfather: A Novel for Television

★ 9.5 7K votes 1977–1977 1 season · 4 episodes Ended NBC
Criminal underworldOrganized crime, gangs and the criminal life seen from the inside.This show: 10/10Family sagaBonds and fractures across generations of one family.This show: 9/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 8/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10Sprawling sagaA many-threaded epic that unfolds across seasons.This show: 7/10Antihero leadA protagonist doing bad things you can't stop watching.This show: 7/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 7/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Harry Dean StantonAlex RoccoRoger CormanAbe VigodaDanny AielloVito Scotti
Starring
Harry Dean StantonAlex RoccoRoger CormanAbe VigodaDanny AielloVito Scotti
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"The saga retold as one continuous family history"

This is the two Godfather films recut into one continuous story, reassembled in strict chronological order with additional scenes not shown in theaters. Instead of cutting between generations, it follows the Corleone family's rise from Sicily and immigrant New York through to their reign as an American crime dynasty in a single unbroken timeline. The pace is slower and more novelistic, trading cinematic tension for scope and detail. It rewards people who already love the films and want to see the connective tissue Coppola originally left out.

Watch it for

the added footage and connective scenes that fill gaps left out of the theatrical cuts.

Maybe skip if

you prefer the original films' structure and don't want a slower, expanded retelling.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Miniseries1977
9.493546h 59m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode #1.19.4
24993 min
▶2Episode #1.29.4
22793 min
▶3Episode #1.39.4
22393 min
▶4Episode #1.49.3
236140 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Harry Dean Stanton F.B.I. Man #1
Alex Rocco Moe Greene
Roger Corman Senator #2
Abe Vigoda Tessio
Danny Aiello Tony Rosato
Vito Scotti Nazorine
Carmen Argenziano Michael's Buttonman #2
Fay Spain Mrs. Marcia Roth
Gianni Russo Carlo
Lenny Montana Luca Brasi

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