It seems like we get a new Stephen King adaptation every other month nowadays (there were four King-based feature films released theatrically just this year), but in 1990, movies and TV series based on King books were much less common.
When the two-part miniseries adaptation of King’s novel “It” debuted on ABC in November 1990, only one previous King novel (“Salem’s Lot”) had been brought to the small screen. For 10-year-old me — as well as other, more seasoned King fans — it was a major event, and it still holds up as one of the most significant small-screen takes on King’s work.
