Neil Brock
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Questar went out of business at least a half dozen years ago so you're not putting anything in their pocket.Just wanted to bring something to everyone's attention that may be helpful if you want the complete episodes of Season 5.
I'm sure most of you are aware that a company called Questar released Season 5 on DVD a few years ago and did a really bad job of it mainly because ⓵ they used the edited, syndicated versions and without disclosing that on the outside of the box. Other errors they made were: ⓶ not putting the opening credits on each episode - they only included them once, at the beginning of the each disc, not episode, ⓷ the running order on the DVDs was not always in the order that they aired.
They also made a big deal out of their release being "authorized by the Thomas family". I'm not exactly sure what that really means, but if it means what it sounds like to most people, then the Thomas family should be as ashamed of themselves as we were .....pissed off. I would discourage everyone from buying this Questar release brand new because, I guarantee you - if you do, you'll be encouraging other dreck companies to do the same, since ALL they care about are their trips to the bank. I bought my set without waiting and reading the reviews, which I'll never do again! Now, if you buy it USED, that's o.k. because Questar won't make any money off of it.....and, due to what I'm about to tell you and how you'll use this Questar set, it would be crazy, on your part, to even think about buying it new.
As for the edits, they did a whole new set of transfers for Cozi. ME-TV airs the old versions, which are the same as the DVDs. I have the episodes recorded from 1980s syndication, coming in at 22:15 and those are probably another different set of edits. It will all be moot when SFM makes these available as BODs in their complete form soon anyway.