"Patricia Bender" <patricia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> At the end of Resolutions on the new DVDs, I was disappointed that it
> didn't include the montage of clips from throughout the series during
the
> closing credits that I had remembered from the original airing. So I
> pulled out my 20 year old tape from the original broadcast (and crossed
my
> fingers that it was still viewable) to re-watch that montage. As I was
> fastforwarding through the tape, I caught a glimpce of the ferarri
stopped
> at the military gate. What? I didn't remember seeing that on the DVD.
> Looked over at the DVD and, sure enough, it was missing. It was a very
> short bit of Magnum going through the military gate just before talking
to
> the radio guy - the DVD cuts straight to the radio guy. A real short
bit,
> so not too bad, but I was expecting the DVD to have the original airing.
> So I kept looking at the tape further and found 2 glaring cuts from the
> original that were not on the DVD (all 3 of these cuts were coming out
of
> commercials). First big cut: Magnum pulls out papers (guess military
> reinlistment forms) and starts to look at them when Higgins walks in and
> Magnum then hides them while Higgins asks 3 questions (about the tux,
> about the bachlor party, about if Magnum is bringing a date to the
> dinner), Magnum quickly answers and then shoos Higgins out as the phone
> rings, on the phone is the radio guy who says that there is definitely a
> noise but he doesn't know what yet and he'll keep looking into it, then
> Magnum calls his mom - the DVD cuts directly to his mom. Second big
cut:
> Magnum and Lt. Page are on the beach talking, Page is complaining about
> how he doesn't look like a Hawaiian even though he's lived there a while
> and eventually he gets to the reason he came to talk to Magnum, to let
him
> know about Linda Lee being attacked in the park and Page explains that
> there is a gap in the security coverage for Linda Lee which is why
Magnum
> starts following her to and from work - this whole sequence is
completely
> cut from the DVD.
>
> Very disappointing. As I said, I was expecting the original airing on
the
> DVD, but it looks like we got the syndicate/rerun shorten version. The
> hint should have been that Resolutions was divided into Part 1 and Part
2
> while the original airing was a 2 hour CBS special (and the usual
opening
> was not used at all in the original).
>
> On the brighter side, I was excited to find that Season 8 DVDs had 3
> commentary tracks. And then disappointed that the 2 tracks with writer
> Jay Huguely contained little insight and lots of errors - I knew more
> about what was going on that he did [and I had a flashback to the
classic
> SNL skit where William Shattner address a Star Trek convention and
> tells them to "Get a life"]. But the commentary with Charles Floyd
> Johnson was very good. And I also enjoyed the Rockford Files episode of
> "White on White and Nearly Perfect", which I had never seen.
>
>
> patricia
>
>
> --
> Patricia Bender pbender@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Nice observations
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