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Current Talk '06 II / Re: The Missing Episode & Kinescopes
« on: July 13, 2006, 10:12:48 PM »The first time I saw this was on a tape that someone gave me that, I guess, they'd taped off their local syndicated run wherever it is they lived (my copy was like a 4th or 5th generation and I got it from someone in Jersey, but it could have originated anywhere in the country), and it was definately a kinoscope.
That's extremely interesting because according to everything I've ever read as well as experienced firsthand, that episode was never released into local syndication. The third year of locally syndicated episodes ended quite frustratingly with Ep #1007 [spoiler](with Quentin having witnessed Real Time's Liz and Julia discussing Barnabas' disappearance only to then be confronted with Hoffman standing behind him)[/spoiler]and Eps #1008-1245 were never released because the cost to stations was too prohibitive. I'm strongly suspecting that somehow you'd gotten your hands on a bootleg copy of Ep #1024.
It's probably also interesting to note that Ep #1024 was shown in color during the various Sci-Fi runs. But then, that happened with several episodes that had originally been locally syndicated in kinescope. And what's also frustrating to note is that in several of those cases Worldvision was in possession of the color master tape, but they chose to locally syndicate the kinescope copy anyway.