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Old 03-13-2006, 04:10 PM   #361 of 388
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That thread linked to has shown no proof of edits. Nobody has watched the episodes side by side with original broadcast and scribed the exact content edited. So far everyone that has posted in that thread has managed to agree on is that at the chapter breaks it appears the normal commercial fades were snipped.

Now if this is the case and all that is gone is a fade to black for smoother scene and act transitions where commercial breaks were then a boycott of the sets and contacting disney is only going to make fans out to look like whiners and nit pickers and isn't going to look good when we go up againts harsher edits like removing segments of footage and dialog.

So I'll ask if someone could please scribe an exact list of cuts made if they truely exist. As I recall it from reading what was said by disney was that they would be uncut but that was back when it was annouced they would be doing the DVDs. A list of confirmed, using original broadcast recordings, footage and/or dialog missing will hold a much stronger case than the sketchy comments of assumed missing parts based on the info provide in that thread.
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Old 03-14-2006, 08:03 PM   #362 of 388
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It seems like it would now be easier to keep an "Archive of Complete TV DVDs".
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Old 07-30-2006, 03:24 AM   #363 of 388
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Re: The Archive of Incomplete TV DVDs - Buyers Beware! (Updated 3/27/05)


I hate asking stupid questions, but I have tried to find a way to post a submission to Gord's alterations list, and I can't find any way to do so. I am a logged in member, and I've gone to the alterations page, to the page of the show I'm trying to submit (Buffalo Bill), but I cannot find any way to submit an alteration. Can someone help me, please?
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Old 08-02-2006, 02:40 AM   #364 of 388
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Re: The Archive of Incomplete TV DVDs - Buyers Beware! (Updated 3/27/05)


Submission of alterations was disabled for a while back last year, and apparently it isn't back yet.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3656


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Old 08-04-2006, 06:53 PM   #365 of 388
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Re: The Archive of Incomplete TV DVDs - Buyers Beware! (Updated 3/27/05)


Thanks, Wezzo. I thought I was just really, really stupid (jury's still out). ;-)
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Old 09-20-2006, 03:35 PM   #366 of 388
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Re: The Archive of Incomplete TV DVDs - Buyers Beware! (Updated 3/27/05)


Now you can add "Mama's Family" to the list. A sitcomsonline.com reviewer got the disc and found that all 13 episodes are the edited syndication versions.



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Old 10-02-2006, 03:32 PM   #367 of 388
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Re: The Archive of Incomplete TV DVDs - Buyers Beware! (Updated 3/27/05)


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Now you can add "Mama's Family" to the list. A sitcomsonline.com reviewer got the disc and found that all 13 episodes are the edited syndication versions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't "Mama's Family" always been syndicated? I don't think it was ever on network TV. So maybe it isn't edited.
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Old 10-03-2006, 12:40 PM   #368 of 388
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Re: The Archive of Incomplete TV DVDs - Buyers Beware! (Updated 3/27/05)


Elena,

The first two seasons were on NBC. There is no way a network sitcom in 1983 would have run less than 24 minutes sans commercials. NBC cancelled the show in 1984 (they showed reruns in prime time in the summer of 1985), but it was revived for first-run syndication in 1986.

Warner's excuse makes this release doubly insulting. Smore Entertainment, a small independent company, gave better treatment to "Lotsa Luck", a show that ran a year, was never syndicated, and is not remembered by too many people.



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Old 10-09-2006, 03:33 PM   #369 of 388
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Re: The Archive of Incomplete TV DVDs - Buyers Beware! (Updated 3/27/05)


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Starsky & Hutch - Season 2: There were two feature-length episodes in this season when the show originally aired, but the syndication two-parters have been used instead (Las Vegas Strangler and Murder At Sea).


There were some parts of Murder at Sea which were terrible looking.
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