Weekend TV : Marathon Bill Moyers Interview and Movies, Movies, More Movies

Viewers looking for an intellectual perspective on the new year are in for a marathon TV treat Sunday. Beginning at 2 p.m., Channel 28 will repeat 11 “Bill Moyers’ World of Ideas” interviews with some of the world’s great thinkers, historians, writers and scientists.

The 5 1/2-hour program bloc includes talks with film maker David Puttnam, ethicists Michael Josephson and Sissela Bok, novelist Tom Wolfe, educator Arturo Madrid, anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson and pediatrician Dr. Berry Brazelton.

Those in the mood for something less taxing Sunday will also find it a sweet new year because movies, of all shapes, sizes and genres, abound.

“Gone With the Wind,” all four hours and 45 minutes of it, kicks things off at 4 p.m. on TNT cable network.

Two Mel Brooks classics, “Young Frankenstein” at 6 p.m. followed by “The Producers” at 8 p.m. provide a night of laughs on Channel 5.

Channel 13 counters with the 1981 Oscar-winning “Chariots of Fire” at 6 p.m. followed by the Alfred Hitchcock-thriller “Frenzy” at 8 p.m.

Pay cable features Michael Douglas struting his Oscar-winning best in “Wall Street” at 8 p.m. on HBO and Steven Spielberg’s “Empire of the Sun” at 9 p.m. on the Z Channel.

The three commercial networks get into the movie act as well Sunday at 9 p.m. CBS offers a new made-for-TV film, “The Karen Carpenter Story.” NBC will show the 1984 prickly horror/comedy “Gremlins,” while ABC finishes up New Year’s Day with Roger Moore in his last James Bond adventure, “A View to a Kill.”