Cocopugg

It's getting to be a scary trend, but more and more shows being released on DVD have episodes with scenes that have been cut for some reason. Off the top of my head I can name The Mary Tyler Moore Show first season Christmas episode. Originally there was a scene with Mary in the office watching a Christmas show on TV. The TV is playing the song "White Christmas", and at the end of the song, Mary sings along with the final bars..."May your days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmases be white"...then she took a dramatic pause and shut the TV off. The DVD shows her singing "May your days be merry...and immediately they cut to her shutting off the TV. This sounds minor but in reality it had an impact on the episode as the original version made you feel her loneliness more. This is starting to become a scary trend on DVD. I just recently bought the LOST IN SPACE season 1 set, and found a scene cut where Will Robinson is back on earth. Originally he ran into the sherrif who said something like..."wait a minute young fellow"...now they immediately cut to Will in the next scene. I have also been told that several episodes of the show SOAP have also been cut. Is this becoming a trend in the DVD market? Who can we complain to? Why are all these shows being cut? Can anyone else name any scenes from TV shows that have been cut on their DVD release?

CP

digitalfreaknyc

They are cut most likely from wrong masters being used. I have the Will and Grace seasons 3 and 4 (coming) from the UK and I know of at least one episode that's been cut.

BassDude

What was cut from SOAP?

I've heard of songs being cut/replaced, but not enitire scenes.

NaturalMystic79

Star Trek: DS9 episode "To The Death" was edited, I believe.

StrTrkker

Lost in Space has numerous episodes where theres cuts...

On the plus side the 1st season of Gilligans Island seems to be all intact.

GoVegan

I've noticed that one episode of Buffy has changed music, but I'm sure that's a rights issue. I know it's not a really big deal, but I would have preferred the original music.

Simpson Purist

A couple of scenes were cut out of the Family Guy Volume One release. Most notably the JFK PEZ depenser scene from the episode "A Hero Sits Next Door" and the Osama Bin Laden scene from "Road to Rhode Island."

El-Kabong

Well, Rememberance of the Daleks in the UK had a couple of special effects accidently deleted. The scene is still there, but the Dalek gunfire isnt. This was fixed on the US release.

Also in Rememberance, there were snippets of two songs, one by the Beatles and one by the Rolling Stones. The BBC couldnt afford to get the rights to them, so they replaced the songs with covers.

Aside from that I think the other Doctor Who discs have been fine.

Shannon Nutt

The first season of Profiler is MISSING AN EPISODE, because of the use of the Sting song "I'll Be Watching You (Every Breath You Take).

Star Trek's "City on the Edge of Forever" has different music in some places...but it's been that way since the VHS release of the show.

I'm guessing older shows coming out on DVD are going to have these problems because rights were never secured for DVD back when these shows aired. Newer/more recent shows that come to DVD shouldn't have this problem. For example, the producers of Smallville should be securing DVD rights for every song they are using in the shows airing now...

snorlaxnut

They also edited two episodes of Mr. Bean in the DVD set. In "Merry Christmas Mr. Bean" they cut out how Mr. Bean got the turkey. And in "Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean" they cut the scene with the chair in the department store.

JPRaup

Family Guy's Osama joke and a couple other parts were removed from the dvd

Cocopugg

I'm curious about the Mary Tyler Moore Show. The scene I mentioned previously was obviously cut, but from all I've read, I was under the impression that they re-mastered the entire first season. This is why we (the fans) are being punished for poor sales, by Fox not releasing the rest of the show...because re-mastering was so expensive that Fox lost money on the poor sales of the set...Anyway, if the show was completely re-mastered, doesn't this mean the transfers were made from the original 35mm fine grain negatives? If so, does this also mean the original negative was somehow cut, and is missing the original footage? It really is frustrating. I mean, the whole reason for buying a TV show on DVD is to own it complete and uncut. If not, we could just watch it on syndication right?

CP

Upper pylon 3

I heard that on Season 2 of Sanford and Son one of the episodes is the 22 minute syndicated version instead of the full length original version.

Class316

Also, the Seig Heil chants are gone when Stewie makes a Birthday wish in Chitty Chitty Death Bang.

By the way on R2, JFK is still there.

In Futurama’s first episode “JFK Jr Airport” has been changed to “Mutant City Hall”. (both R1 and R2)

In South Park S1 Big Gay Al’s Boat Ride, the MJ joke is gone (flame away if you wish)

The Disneyland USA tin has censorship.

I think that’s about all I can think of off the top of my head.

Josh-da-man

At least two episodes of "Angel" have been cut down.

Since Fox doesn't include the intros ("Previously on Angel"), they've removed bits that directly followed the intros on a couple of episodes in which the original material from the episode was diectly carried over from the intros.

This happened in the third season episode "That Old Gang of Mine" the episode's first line of dialogue has been removed. What happened was

And in the second season episode, "Over the Rainbow," the scene immediately following the "Previously" is cut where

rfduncan

Ugh - why am I not surprised to find this in here. This has been proven time and time again to be false...

Sex and the City - episode #2.5 "Four Women and a Funeral" the ending is changed to Samantha's story. In the original she is rescued by JFK Jr. but after his death the DVD set now has been redubbed to Leonardo DiCaprio. HUH?

Groucho

After repeated requests for proof in the other threads, do you have any yet? Or are you going to beat this dead horse even further?More specific?

ThatGuamGuy

Can't believe nobody's brought up 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' yet. There were quite a few bad cuts on that set (though they corrected "That Wacky Queen", at least). I won't re-list them again, but this thread details it pretty well.

The "Futurama" change cited below was because JFK Jr. died right after the episode aired, so they changed it and, I guess, never changed it back. [I'd guess 'Sex and the City' was the same reasoning.] Thankfully, syndicated episodes of 'Seinfeld' weren't changed, so I assume those will be given to us intact.

Class316

I’m not sure exactly what. There’s one part that has “don’t try this at home” signs inserted, then there’s a couple of other things.

As for MJ, loads of unrelated people swear it was there (I used to have it). And MJ is neither the first nor the last child molester nor is child molesting defined by MJ. So no reason people should connect one with the other without thinking.

Simpson Purist

I believe one of Cartman's lines in the episode "Death" is edited. The original line was "Kyle's mom is a dirty Jew." In video releases, the word "dirty" is bleeped out while it was left untouched during the initial broadcast.

Oh, and Homer is NOT seen falling down Springfield Gorge the second time in "Bart the Daredevil" in the season 2 DVD. That stuff was added in later in the first clip show featuring Homer's antics.

Rammsteinfan

That Mr Bean cuts really pissed me off. Two of the most classic moments in those episodes gone! I sold my set and dont care to get it again unless they put it back in. I still dont believe that Rowan would cut them... if he really did then sorry, no more sales on Mr Bean stuff.

Class316

right! That too!

cultshock

That's strange, because on the syndicated episodes (on Canadian television at least), those scenes are still intact.

Pac-Rat

Wiseguy- had Nights in White Satin replaced in "No One Gets Out of Here Alive", and in the same episode Aldo singing in the van is shortened by a couple words (can't remember the name of the song he's singing.)

Fawlty Towers- "Kipper and the Corpse" is missing a line.

Three Stooges- (yeah I know, but they were a staple of Sat. TV in many areas, as well as weekday mornings on TBS/Superstation 17.) "Three Little Beers" is missing footage of golfballs dropping out of Curly's pants on the Three Smart Saps DVD.
"Blood is Thicker than Junk" is missing scenes that appear in the TVLAND version, yet still has 3mins +/- missing.

MasterofDVD

Thanks for posting these. I'm became a fan of both Buffy and Angel when they came out on DVD and I always wondered why people got so ticked off about the Previously on Angel its. The first scene you mentioned was good to finally hear about. It's almost a cruel joke and while I don't think it was neccessary....it is a shame it was edited.