BrianB
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Definitely Dana
Though I still want the US releases to not be edited together!
Though I still want the US releases to not be edited together!
In Boston, they were never aired that way either. They were one half hour episode at a time. I've never ever seen a "compiled story episode" ever; this is the first I've ever heard of that - I'm skeptical if it is even true.There's no doubt it's true - when I first started watching (around '82), my PBS station did an episode every weekday, but within about a year, they switched to showing the edited together "movie" versions on Friday and Saturday night, and that's how I watched them for years. Dana is right that the editing was very subpar, and you could usually tell that this was where the episode was supposed to end. Add in the fact that sometimes the lead-in to the cliffhanger isn't exactly the same as the start of the next episode, and you can see what a mess it is when they edit them into one movie.