Posted by Diane on 12/22/2006, 8:45 pm, in reply to "Re: Why is Encore running cut episodes?"
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Well, this certainly has been an education. I guess those who have been associated with the television business would truly have an understanding of this. I am not of the age where I would remember the original airing of these episodes. I just know that there are much longer commercial breaks now than there were many years ago. As such, I can not tell that there have been any edits. I have seen episodes of other westerns from that era in reruns and could tell that there were scenes cut out or plot lines lost. It would be great to be able to view these episodes in their original form. I am unsure how hard Mr. Whitman has tried to locate the missing minutes. You would think that since he owns the rights, he would have access/control over every aspect of it.
I'm just glad I have the chance to see CS now. Without Encore I guess I would never have had the opportunity. At least it is not being cut up as terribly as when it aired on WGN.
--Previous Message--
: Mark is absolutely right: 70 - 72
: minutes is too short for a 1960s
: 90-minute series original print.
: The episodes should be in the range
: of 74-78 mins. each like 1960s
: 90-minute series "The
: Virginian," "The Name of
: the Game" and early 1970s
: 90-minute series
: "Columbo." I'm
: speculating these "CS"
: copies that Encore is airing and
: that are used for the DVD sales are
: dubbed from the first master
: syndication prints made nearly 40
: years ago, after the original
: 1967-68 run on CBS. The
: Silverbach-Lazarus Co. (I'm pretty
: sure that was the name) was I think
: the first company Stu contracted
: with to syndicate "CS."
: Somehow the clipped scenes have not
: been recovered/located in the
: intervening years. I interviewed
: Stu in May 1996 for profiles that
: ran in June 1996 in the NY Post,
: L.A. Times and San Antonio
: Express-News about the VHS
: availability and WGN airings of
: "CS." Wonderful interview.
: I questioned him about the
: abbreviated running times (RT). He
: was kind enough to have his attorney
: provide me with photocopies of the
: cue sheets from the (supposed)
: master prints he had at a film
: vault. These documents, one for
: each episode then available on VHS,
: listed the length of each act and,
: most interestingly, the length of
: each commercial break (black, i.e.
: no image). I immediately realized
: something was amiss when I saw
: commercial breaks with three minutes
: of black. Anyone old enough to
: remember TV from the 1950s and '60s
: or who's gone to the Museum of
: Television and Radio in NYC or
: Beverly Hills knows that the
: traditional break was usually a
: minute and no more than a minute and
: a half (unlike today's 5-minute
: commercials/promos blocks). It's
: very frustrating to be a
: "CS" fan and feel/know
: you're not seeing the entire print.
: My guess is that the material edited
: out approximately 35 years ago is in
: a film vault somewhere, or (horrors)
: tossed or lost. Certainly a nice
: extra on the DVDs and Encore airings
: would be, if ever located like the
: missing minutes, the original
: network trailers/previews for the
: following weeks' shows. Mark, thanks
: for being so observant and
: concerned! Wouldn't it be nice to
: see a happy ending to this dilemna!
: Merry Christmas everybody. David
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