On November 11, 1979, a censored and shortened version was broadcast on NBC's Sunday Night Big Event, which marked the film's television premiere. It was released on VHS in 1985. In 2006, Warner Home Video released "Dog Day Afternoon" on a double-disc DVD. For the film's fortieth anniversary, a two-disc blu-ray was released in 2015. On the review aggregator website Metacritic, the film scored 86 based on fifteen professional reviews. Meanwhile, Rotten Tomatoes certified the film to be "fresh" with a score of 96%. Based on 47 reviews, the website determined: ""Dog Day Afternoon" offers a finely detailed snapshot of people in crisis with tension-soaked drama shaded in black humor."