I saw your post and was so disappointed. I noticed this coming up on tvnow.com and made a note about it a few weeks ago. I was excited about seeing this Family Holvak two part tv episode. I just checked what you said by looking at the details for this show at the Lifetime network, essentially the synopsis, of the program, and it is a different version as you said with different actors. I emailed Lifetime and asked for clarification mentioning what we see at tvnow.com.
Thanks much for telling us. It's a shame if true. I don't know where to get the TV series, there were only six episodes. I was hoping Lifetime was going to air them !
Also, The Long Way Home is not the Family Holvak Movie. The pilot movie is called "The Greatest Gift" (1974). There were 6 tv episodes that followed. Two of the episodes were two-parters. The Long Way Home was the first tv episode in 1975 and was also a two-parter. You can see these listed on imdb.
