3rd Rock Syndicated Cuts?
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3rd Rock Syndicated Cuts?
Does anyone know if the season one release of 3rd Rock from the Sun is the full episodes or syndicated cuts? They seem a little short, and some have bad edits I don't remember seeing when it ran on NBC. Other Carsey-Werner productions have been released edited, so this wouldn't surprise me. Thanks in advance.
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Tvshowsondvd says the 3rd Rock cuts are the syndie ones http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3975
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This is an insanely old thread, but I saw my dad watching a 3rd Rock episode the other day and I remembered how much I enjoyed watching the show. I looked it up on Amazon and saw this business about syndicated cuts.
I was wondering if Anchor Bay ever was able to obtain the original broadcast episodes, or at least did so for future seasons past the first one, or did the trend continue through all six seasons?
I was wondering if Anchor Bay ever was able to obtain the original broadcast episodes, or at least did so for future seasons past the first one, or did the trend continue through all six seasons?
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Re: 3rd Rock Syndicated Cuts?
Despite seasons 3-6 claiming "uncut episodes" on the boxes, they contain the syndication cuts just as the first two season box sets did. This does not seem to be common knowledge however, as the complaints surrounding the first two season box sets were much louder. But as someone who watched the later seasons in their original run (I even have VHS recordings of many of the original broadcasts to compare) the cuts are definitely still there on the DVDs.
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Re: 3rd Rock Syndicated Cuts?
I was just upgrading my DVD Aficionado page and there's an "Out Of Print" notation next to 3rd Rock season one. Has anyone heard if the set is to finally be replaced with an unsyndicated one?
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Despite seasons 3-6 claiming "uncut episodes" on the boxes, they contain the syndication cuts just as the first two season box sets did. This does not seem to be common knowledge however, as the complaints surrounding the first two season box sets were much louder. But as someone who watched the later seasons in their original run (I even have VHS recordings of many of the original broadcasts to compare) the cuts are definitely still there on the DVDs.
Anybody else have specific cuts they know about?
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Geez, I forgot all about this...I went ahead and picked up all the season sets in region 1 (though I was contemplating region 2) and forgot about this. I didn't even notice the cuts.
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Looks like the UK DVDs are the winners in most cases here...
http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/search.php
However, I noted that the later seasons show longer running times on the US versions than on the UK versions.
I don't know...shoot...I am just glad we got the series on DVD. Why they choose syndication versions over original broadcast versions bugs me but I am still glad to have the show.
HOWEVER, if I realized all this before I bought them, I would have gladly paid a few bucks more to get the region two editions. So if you're somebody shopping around for them, you know more about these than I did when I bought them (As far as I can recall, I couldn't find any info online about the differences from region one and region two when I decided to just by the US versions.)
http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/search.php
However, I noted that the later seasons show longer running times on the US versions than on the UK versions.
I don't know...shoot...I am just glad we got the series on DVD. Why they choose syndication versions over original broadcast versions bugs me but I am still glad to have the show.
HOWEVER, if I realized all this before I bought them, I would have gladly paid a few bucks more to get the region two editions. So if you're somebody shopping around for them, you know more about these than I did when I bought them (As far as I can recall, I couldn't find any info online about the differences from region one and region two when I decided to just by the US versions.)
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I guess it depends. Is anything really huge cut out or are they all as mentioned here, just little minor trims like people entering and exiting a room?
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Re: 3rd Rock Syndicated Cuts?
Sorry to bump this topic again, but I was just watching some of my 3rd Rock DVDs, and the later seasons seem to be complete, based on running times being consistent with shows from that era (about 22:07 in seasons 3 and 4, and 21:38 in seasons 5 and 6). Not that I have statistics about that, of course, and I did check around online, but couldn't easily locate a resource. It's just that 22 minutes seems about right for that era. And suddenly there was a change of about 30 seconds, so it seems that NBC decided to throw in one more commercial spot that year.
Looking at DVDCompare, they claim there are no cuts on the episodes, and show the same running times as my region 1 DVDs do.
"cuzzin," in this thread above, claimed there were cuts. calhoun07, you say there are "two plus" minutes difference between the region 1 and the UK releases, but the difference is only about 49 seconds. Since the PAL speedup is 4%, a 22:07 episode should come out to about 21:14, which is just about exactly what the PAL episodes are listed at on DVDCompare.
So it does look like, according to DVDCompare and my DVDs that the episodes in seasons 3-6 are complete.
Looking at DVDCompare, they claim there are no cuts on the episodes, and show the same running times as my region 1 DVDs do.
"cuzzin," in this thread above, claimed there were cuts. calhoun07, you say there are "two plus" minutes difference between the region 1 and the UK releases, but the difference is only about 49 seconds. Since the PAL speedup is 4%, a 22:07 episode should come out to about 21:14, which is just about exactly what the PAL episodes are listed at on DVDCompare.
So it does look like, according to DVDCompare and my DVDs that the episodes in seasons 3-6 are complete.