Something that I find very interesting regarding the listing of bonus interviews on The Collector's Series VHS tapes is that we've been led to believe all the interviews on the VHS tapes were put on the subsequent The Beginning Collection DVD release. But I see no listings for the DVDs for interviews with Louis Edmonds(CS #13) or Nancy Barrett(CS #17) or John Karlen(CS #41) or Dennis Patrick(CS #37) (or Clarice Blackburn(CS #25) or Lela Swift(CS #33) or Jonathan Frid(CS #45 & #49) or Sharon Smyth(CS #53)). Perhaps they're on the DVD releases somewhere, though it seems odd they wouldn't be paired on DVD with the eps they were paired with on VHS. Though I'm simply judging all this based on listings for the DVDs - I haven't actually watched the entire series on DVD.
SG #70 from October of 1994 shared what was then the latest newsletter (Summer/Fall 1994) from MPI's DS Video Club. Interestingly enough, it managed to muddy the waters even more so far as who appeared in bonus interviews when it came to The Collector's Series VHS tapes, as this portion of the newsletter shows:
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Rather than what all the MPI catalogues that listed them say, that Lela Swift is the bonus interview on Collector's Series #33, the above says Louis Edmonds is the interview on that tape. But considering all those MPI catalogues came out not only after, but with some, long after that newsletter, I'm going to chalk up the discrepancy to it being a misprint.
But when it comes to where did those The Collector's Series interviews go when it came to The Beginnings DVD releases, I think I've solved most of the issue because it seems that most didn't appear on The Beginnings DVDs at all because they had already appeared on The Collection DVD releases and, therefore, not always with eps they were paired with on VHS. For example, I checked The Collector's Series #17 tape, which is one of the few I still have, and Nancy Barrett's interview on that tape, which covers Eps #81-85, appears on The Collection #2, Disc #2, which covers Eps #261-270.
Shocking that DS Vampires & Ghosts and DS Resurrected were postponed to 1995 - no one saw that coming, right?
Also interestingly enough, the newsletter also mentions how those tapes were postponed.