I never knew that about these three-parters... I wish to know if the 90-minute edits exist in their entirety, because I never saw these long-form edits on (W)TBS or elsewhere then.
Speaking of which... were there long-form edits of the following Mission: Impossible multi-part episodes?
* "Old...
I remain curious... do any episodes of The Brady Brides keep the original Paramount Television "Blue Mountain" logos, or not? Since these were not previously available on DVD, I may hint at them being not remastered and thus the original logos stayed.
~Ben
Regardless of whether or not the pilot will be in this box set (my mind hopes it will be!), it will also be interesting to know if the original 1980 Paramount Television logo (the one where the word "Television" never appears) will remain or not...
But this would be the intended version...
~Ben
And as I said earlier, only The Brady Brides of these two follow-ups is of any real significance to the franchise as it was the second and last time all nine cast members from the original 1969-74 series had appeared together since the season 5 episode "The Hustler."
~Ben
And for obvious reasons... the 1977 Variety series featured renditions of certain popular songs sung by the then-current version of the cast (with Geri Reischl in Eve Plumb's place as Jan), in which the money needed to clear each song they sang would make it too expensive to release in full...
And if there is anything I find about the fifth and final season of the series that they cheapened out on, besides the last-minute addition of Robbie Rist as Cousin Oliver, it is the end title sequence: they just pasted the season 3 end title audio (including that of the Paramount logo) under...
I know The Brady Brides is of far greater significance than The Bradys as it was the very last time all nine original cast members from the original 1969-74 series appeared together!
~Ben
The only real difference being the replacement of the original customized Paramount Television logos after the Filmation logo with the CBS Television Distribution logo.
~Ben
In the case of Love, American Style, I believe the initial damage occurred when the series - especially the season 2 run (except for a few single- and double-segment half-hour episodes which still to this day have their original pre-ABC Daytime/syndicated opening and closing titles, which I last...
At least one other episode is rarely shown on TV now: "What Goes Up..." It is the one where Carol misidentifies Peter as Chris (as in Christopher Knight: the real name of the character's portrayer).
~Ben
Specifically, if I know right the season 1 and 2 episodes originally had the same 10-second opening "IN COLOR" bumper placed before the closing credits when ABC originally aired the series.
~Ben
And that which possibly explains why some of the Paramount logos on scattered episodes of the season 2 DVD set do not match up right with their original air dates.
Specifically, the visual versions... the one with the copyright below the Gulf+Western byline (first seen in the link I posted...
What I would like to see in this Blu-Ray updating is the original spring 1969 test-screen version of the pilot episode "The Honeymoon." Well, that, plus the pilot episode of the 1981 follow-up series The Brady Brides, called The Brady Girls Get Married.
Also: restore the epilogue to two...