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To my knowledge, these are the changes that were made by MTM in the '80s (and are therefore probably baked into the master tapes this DVD set was working from): Hold-Up: The removal of the first song and the cut of the second half of the first scene in act 1 (I don't know why they cut it, but...

Maybe? But Mill Creek didn't do this set, Shout! did. And I don't know why they couldn't or wouldn't use the commentaries. You'll have to ask them. Nobody's saying every aspect of this set is perfect, just that it's overall a good job that exceeded expectations.

And remember, those sets may have music that isn't on this set, but it will be also missing 3-4 minutes of scenes from every episode that are on this set. There's no perfect version except the ones you may make yourself (IN THEORY). Yeah, it's too bad the commentaries couldn't be 'ported over...

I don't remember much about the versions shown on the CBC, but I've been told by those with better memories than I that yes, they did include stuff like Bailey's daydream that we didn't see on the Comedy Network. In all likelihood the CBC was showing the same master tapes Shout! is using (with...

I don't think that would explain the two separate versions - if they just punched it up, they wouldn't have had a whole separate master of the episode with a full credit for the actor who later got replaced. A lot of videotaped shows shot two shows (sometimes both shows used an audience...

Brian, thank you so much. This is amazing, comprehensive work. The work on this set is so much better than my expectations that I can't really complain much about anything, even the cuts and redubs that found their way in (if only because I expected so many more). I feel bad that no one knew...

There are a couple other small music edits I noticed in season 3: the Candi Staton song in "Venus and the Man" isn't there (this is one of the better edits from the '90s syndication package, though; they managed to do it without overdubbing or cutting) and in "Clean Up Radio Everywhere" Mr...

I think I just realized what someone meant when he said there were changes cut into the original masters: he didn't mean the '90s version, he meant earlier, in the mid-'80s. Shout! is mostly using broadcast masters here, but there were a few changes (like the dubbing of "Thank Heaven For Little...

I've asked a couple of people who worked on the show about "The Contest," but... they don't remember so far. (It was 35 years ago, after all.) Maybe someone's memory will be jogged after they see the set. If I had to speculate on what happened - and this is only speculation, you understand - I...

No, syndicated versions are about 22 minutes. Some episodes of WKRP, like "Fish Story," originally timed out at a little under 24 minutes. In the first half of season 4 all the episodes were that length, so I guess the network cut the running time by a minute for a while. If there's an episode...

Who here will miss "Hold my order, terrible dresser?"

Thanks, Doris. And thanks to Shout! for going the extra mile to find the full-length versions of these episodes. Some of these episodes haven't been broadcast uncut in a generation.

Thanks again, Brian. If you have a chance, could you check the timings on the following episodes and see if they're full length? - Les's Groupie (season 2) - Herb's Dad (s2) - The Baby (season 3) - Baby, It's Cold Inside (s3) - Frog Story (s3) - I Am Woman (s3) - Changes (season 4) - Dear Liar...

The replacement of Chevalier with "We've Only Just Begun," and the voice dubbing with it, was one of the first changes made for syndication in the '80s - the original is quite rare. It seems funny that with all the expensive songs in the show, a song from an MGM musical was the first to go...

To show you how funny licensing can be: in the '90s syndication package, "Rock around the Clock" is cut in this final scene and Johnny's daughter's voice is overdubbed, but the Eagles are intact. Now "Rock Around the Clock" is back (according to someone else I asked about this scene; I don't...