 Jurassic Park was broadcast on television for the first time on May 7 , 1995 , following the April 26 airing of The Making of Jurassic Park . Some 68 @.@ 12 million people tuned in to watch , garnering NBC a 36 percent share of all available viewers that night . Jurassic Park was the highest @-@ rated theatrical film broadcast on television by any network since the April 1987 airing of Trading Places . In June – July 1995 the film was aired a number of times on the TNT network . 
