>>>>I agree with Shelia on this TV land thing. Before the show is really over you get an ad! And not only that a lot of scene are being deleted from the TVLand shows! Funny scenes! Some of us should express our views. There is strength in numbers! Liz "Citizens Arrest" Roberts<<<<<
Sorry, but us old timers just have to grin a little. Here is a little history lesson, though history is not really my subject. If the era of Griffith watching BTL (that's before TVLand) WGN and WTBS and all those station had most of those scenes included, but they cut off the epilogs. We whined and we moaned and we pleaded for years...oh please let us see what happens in the epilog!!! (the last few minutes after the plot is really solved) you can cut any thing but let us see the epilog!!!!. There was a nice website Elinor's Epilogs that you could go read about what happens in the epilogs that we never saw. Only the folks lucky enough to have local stations that showed episodes in their entirety, or the Colombia House VHS tape collection ever saw Epilogs. They were about as big a mystery as Mr. Scwhamp to most of us. Then came TVLand. In the reality of broadcast/cable TV business today, they are not going to show as many minutes of a show as they did back in the 60's, so something had to be cut. The something they have to cut has to be something that does not ruin the story line, or cause the resulting episode to make no sense. They heard us whining fans and decided to reinstitute the epilogs. So they end up cutting scenes that are not critical to the story, but sadly are some of the funniest, most memorable moments. So its our fault (the old fans who used to complain about the other cable channels cutting the epilog) I guess. Now, for the uptiumpth time..the DVDs are uncut except for one or two reported epilogs missing. There are no missing scenes. Overheard at TVLand headquarters "You give 'em partial Epilogs, they want the whole epilog" "You give 'em the whole epilog, the want deleted scenes" "You give 'em deleted scenes, they want to see the credits run" "You give 'em credits, they want to see the original commercials" "You give'em 5 episodes a week they want 10" You give 'em 10 they want 15" Andy "Now you see son, there's "a ratio" of people out there, about 3 and half boys per 10 that don't even get cable or Tvland..Now isn't that really the people that should be sad. Poor Horatio...lets not forget those half-a-boys with no cable The Untrained Voice spoiled rotten with local station, TVLand, DVDs and VHS tapes. I hate it when I get obtuse _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
