There used to be what was called "MIllion Dollar Movie" - it would feature a different movie every week, but the movie would be repeated at various intervals during the day - say 9:30 am, 12:30 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm every single day for a whole week.
I would watch my favorite movies every single time I could, thinking that the NEXT time I watched, the commercial breaks would maybe come at a different point in the film, so I could see what happened next.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - I used to beleive that in order to rewind a film the actors would have to re-act the whole movie backwards. — movies backward
- I used to believe that EVERYTHING we did was being filmed for someone somewhere to watch as a movie— KatBird_27
- I used to think that a movie is made in realtime. I tought that a 2 hour movie is made in 2 hours.— Alexander
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- "Dad, how come in every war movie there is always a man named Lieutenant?"— Chrisotpher