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What mild cuts in the vacation episodes? What episode removies the squares?
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Mike,
All of the vacation episodes (Grand Canyon, Season 3 and Hawaii, Season 4) omit the fill in squares on the DVD between where the last commercial break would be and the credits. In addition, the episode from Hawaii, "Pass The Tabu" is missing about 20 seconds of dialogue between when the boys are talking about what to do with the Tabu back at the hotel AFTER Mike and Carol leave the room. Greg asks "Do you guys really believe in the tabu?" Bobby says, "Yea" Peter says something like "Yea, I do too." Greg says, "Me too." (This is cut on the DVD.) The next line, where the DVD picks up is Greg (I think it's Greg) saying, "What are we gonna do?"
We don't have an offical explanation for the cuts. Some of us believe that because the Brady Bunch vacation episodes were packaged into "a mini series movie" for syndication around the late 80's-early 90's, that Paramount used that print for the DVD's. Someone thought perhaps for continuity that the fill-in squares should be removed. They also used 16mm back-up prints to restore scenes cut when it was sold to syndication and later to TV Land, which uses different edits.
"Love And The Older Man" is also missing the fill in squares on the DVD between the last commercial break and the credits. This appears to just be sloppy oversight on Paramount's part, nothing else.
Jack