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  1. AndyMcKinney

    Universal Shows - List of other shows they own, pre 1990

    Yep. The copy I saw was from Australian television around 1980, as there was a voice-over about David Janssen's death on the end credits.
  2. AndyMcKinney

    Universal Shows - List of other shows they own, pre 1990

    I absolutely hate that forced subtitles seems to be inevitable on any releases from France. The Frenchies have lost several sales from me for that very reason. Don't understand why they wouldn't do like Germany and offer English-language shows in the original language with a subtitles-off...
  3. AndyMcKinney

    Universal Shows - List of other shows they own, pre 1990

    or, from Madman in Australia, who gave us Darkroom... I'm willling to wager that this series has (likely) never been converted to digital. Hec, it might never have been transferred to tape at all, as it was surely broadcast from film at the time, and probably had limited foreign distribution...
  4. AndyMcKinney

    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    I'm sure you're aware that Kirk did come back in Generations, since you mention Scotty and Chekov's appearances. He was, in fact, a major part of that particular movie.
  5. AndyMcKinney

    Can Someone Tell me Why Chico and the Man is MIA?

    Moonlighting is streaming now on Hulu. All five seasons. You can also purchase digital downloads on Google Play.
  6. AndyMcKinney

    Three's Company - The official 40th Anniversary Collection Coming December 22nd!

    For those interested in the three original British productions (Man About the House, George & Mildred and Robin's Nest) I would recommend not waiting too long to purchase those. The video company that released those in the UK (Network Video) went out of business last year, so once stock sells...
  7. AndyMcKinney

    Keeping Up Appearances (disc replaced?)

    That is the one with the messed-up picture quality (fake film-like appearance). I see that I never revealed what happened with my defective disc back in 2015. I ended up contacting the US BBC/Warner office and they sent me an entire replacement boxset (not just the problem disc) for free. All I...
  8. AndyMcKinney

    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    Those shots looked bad on CED disc on a 19-inch tube TV, too. Scotty's 'tobacco mouth' in the self-destruct sequence was very distracting!
  9. AndyMcKinney

    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    I wonder if Doohan ever gave an interview discussing his time on Jason of Star Command, which was shot prior to Star Trek: The Motion Picture?
  10. AndyMcKinney

    5 Movies You'll NEVER Watch Again...

    Okay, I'll bite (unless I did earlier in this thread and forgot about it): Police Academy: City Under Siege. One of the absolute worst pieces of garbage I paid to see in a theatre (I had skipped the fifth installment, hadn't really wanted to see this one). I knew I was in trouble when I had the...
  11. AndyMcKinney

    Production Order vs. Broadcast Order

    I get what you're saying, but in this instance, I think it was borne of necessity, as ABC Standards & Practices wouldn't have allowed them to use the word 'prostitute' for a regular character in early evening in 1978.
  12. AndyMcKinney

    Battlestar Galactica (1978 film) on 4K UHD Blu-ray

    I think it would take some decent extras, such as the "Starbuck's shirt off in turbo-lift" scene (that was in the Canadian theatrical, as I recall) or some as-yet previously unreleased deleted scenes to get most folks to bite on this. I doubt Universal gave them that kind of access to the archive.
  13. AndyMcKinney

    American TV shows that only got complete disc releases in other countries

    Are you sure it's sped-up, or just making an assumption since it's a UK release? PAL speedup only affects titles that were produced using a duplication master that came from a "24fps film-to-PAL" transfer. As we all know, most TV series since the 1990s were mastered/assembled on NTSC video or...
  14. AndyMcKinney

    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    Katherine Leigh Scott was also on 1999, BTW. She had a minor role on the Year Two episode "Dorzak."
  15. AndyMcKinney

    Paramount+ Star Trek: Discovery - Official Thread

    But, then, what would the majority of Star Trek and Doctor Who fans talk (gripe) about on the interwebs? (smile)
  16. AndyMcKinney

    Paramount+ Star Trek: Discovery - Official Thread

    Quite. That's the easiest, most logical explanation. That whole "women can't be captains" think didn't even ring true decades ago, even before Madge Sinclair's cameo in The Voyage Home. There's no point trying to go through acrobatics to make things "fit" into continuity (as fan production, Star...
  17. AndyMcKinney

    Fawlty Towers (Reboot) Tv Series

    Yep. John himself once said that there would never be another Monty Python film ("Graham has seen to that" was more of less the comment, referring to Chapman's death). Chapman was one-sixth (or one-fifth, depending on how one counts Terry G) of the group. In the case of Fawlty, one-half of the...
  18. AndyMcKinney

    Fawlty Towers (Reboot) Tv Series

    Yes, as was common for TV on video releases in the early-to-mid 1980s: one set of opening/closing credits. For Fawlty, they remade the closing credits to include all the guests for all 3 episodes. Instead of just text, they played a brief clip of each guest actor under their individual credit.
  19. AndyMcKinney

    Fawlty Towers (Reboot) Tv Series

    I don't understand your comment, if it was directed at me (rather than Keith). I love Fawlty Towers and I'm an American. I was just explaining to Kevin that when I was a teenager (around 1986), I didn't warm to it the first time around, but did come around to liking it just a few years later.
  20. AndyMcKinney

    Fawlty Towers (Reboot) Tv Series

    The very first time I watched it (when I was about 17), I didn't much like it, either. I bought one of the 3-episode VHS tapes, watched it once, and didn't give it another try until I was about 20. Then, I "got it", I guess, and had to see the rest of them! Maybe it's just that it's (even...
  21. AndyMcKinney

    Fawlty Towers (Reboot) Tv Series

    I don't care if Cleese is involved, I just don't see this working very well. While it's good that he's involved, for once, some of his projects of late (Hold the Sunset, anyone?) have been, shall we say, less than good. I fear he's just cashing-in. The fact that it's been about 45 years now...
  22. AndyMcKinney

    Retro gaming

    I wish somebody would put Gauntlet Legends or Gauntlet: Dark Legacy on a modern platform... or, at least, finally the Xbox version compatible with the 360. It's one of the reasons I keep my Dreamcast around. I also wish somebody had brought CarnEvil to a home platform of some kind. And, while...
  23. AndyMcKinney

    Netflix Wednesday (Addams) - Live Action Series by Tim Burton

    As some others have said, this show seems to be aimed at the teenage/CW demographic, but I still liked it in spite of all that. I suspect that is also why there is some swearing (of the scatological variety), but they stop just short of dropping F-bombs. Wisely, it's the non-Addams characters...
  24. AndyMcKinney

    Netflix That '90s Show (Netflix)

    I've only watched the pilot so far and found it a bit 'meh', but, as we all know, one shouldn't judge a show by the pilot alone. There weren't as many anachronisms to 'take me out of the show' as there were on the parent series (mainly, the use of non-vintage food packages, etc), but I did find...
  25. AndyMcKinney

    Shows cut before broadcast

    The pilot episode of Quark (which I mentioned earlier in thread) qualifies, though the syndicated reruns were, admittedly few (just on the HA! TV comedy network around 1990).
  26. AndyMcKinney

    Shows cut before broadcast

    As per Paul Vanezis, a pro in the industry (who's also a part of the Doctor Who Restoration Team): The ending of "Zeus, By Jove" was indeed deleted from the transmission tape after the first transmission and before the repeat and has effectively been lost forever. I remain hopeful though that...
  27. AndyMcKinney

    Shows cut before broadcast

    It was cut not long after its original BBC airing. Audiences were so shocked, that the BBC wiped the master tape themselves, and since it was cut so soon after broadcast (so, before it was sold to other countries), the chances of this missing scene ever turning up are slim to none, unless one of...
  28. AndyMcKinney

    Shows cut before broadcast

    The pilot episode of NBC's Quark had a brief scene cut by the network before air. There was some (IMO) mild innuendo there that might have been the reason. It must've been cut by the network, though, because when the episode was re-run on the short-lived HA! TV comedy network, the missing/extra...
  29. AndyMcKinney

    Bring 'Em Back Alive Bad News

    By "suitable masters", the whole "edited on film vs. edited on tape" thing doesn't really matter as much when there's no budget for restoration. Yes, Bring 'Em Back was edited on film, but it wasn't exactly a rerun staple (it might have had a run on basic cable), so any copies used for 1980s...
  30. AndyMcKinney

    Favorite Christmas Episode or Ones You Watch Every Year

    Most of my "go-tos" are from British shows, especially comedies: Are You Being Served? "Christmas Crackers" and "The Father Christmas Affair." I often also spin "The Punch and Judy Affair" and "Roots?", both of which were those Christmas specials that weren't Christmas-themed (unless you count...
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