Thanks for taking the time to...demo just how dreadfully bowdlerized the official DVD release of this series was.
Actually I see that it's worse than I'd even imagined (I've never actually watched the DVDs beyond bits here and there to get the captures that I've posted from them). I noticed that in today's capture for the slideshow Sam's eye was so high that it was probably cut off, and sure enough it is:
Today's capture from the MPI tape:
The same moment on the DVD (I added the black bars at the top and bottom so it would be the same dimension - though unless one has a widescreen TV/monitor, I presume that's the way it plays on regular TVs/monitors).
Willie gets to talk to Sam's nose rather than actually showing that he's looking Sam right in the eye.
And if that wasn't bad enough, just look at how different the color is on the DVD! And lest anyone think the color on the DVDs is correct, here's a capture from the same moment taken from the VHS tape I made the night the pilot originally aired. As anyone can see, it's virtually identical to the MPI tape version:
(But I'm not bitter about the DVD transfer. Nope.)