I Tivoed what I thought was going to be The Bourne Identity with Matt Damon, but instead got the FOUR HOUR Bourne Identity with Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith from 1988!

That same year, Matt Damon changed the spy genre forever with his starring role in the action thriller The Bourne Identity.

The Bourne Identity went through a lot of changes both after and during its production. Even on the script level, the screenplay was being fine-tuned into the film that would eventually hit theaters.

We've done our best to make sense of it below. Just to note that there is a 1988 made-for-TV movie, The Bourne Identity, but it stars Richard Chamberlain and has nothing to do with the films below ...