Episode #451 blooper restored

[Bill Malloys Ghost]

I've read that episode #451 has been restored with all bloopers intact and included in the complete DS boxed set. Does anyone know if it is also available in the repackaged DS collection 6 set?

[retzev]

Is that the Bathia Mapes episode?

[Bill Malloys Ghost]

Yep. That's the one.

[retzev]

I've been trying to find that out myself. If it isn't, MPI should fire somebody.

[Bill Malloys Ghost]

Agreed! I'm surprised that no one seems to know anything about this. The only thing that makes me think the restored ep actually is also on Collection 6 is that it immediately sold out on Amazon & has been on a 6 to 10 day back-order evere since!
I'd love to purchase the complete series boxed set, but I just spent the last couple of years buying all of the separate collections  and I haven't quite managed to rationalize shelling out another four to five hundred bucks. Then, again....

[Gothick]

I really wish ALL the cuts from those first 7 or 8 volumes had been restored.  I don't think MPI wants to pay for that, though.

G.

[Joeytrom]

I didn't mind the removal of that blooper as it was from a voice off stage.  Makes that scene better to me.

[Bill Malloys Ghost]

"I really wish ALL the cuts from those first 7 or 8 volumes had been restored.  I don't think MPI wants to pay for that, though."

Hmmm... I have wondered about that. I remember reading that when MPI mastered the DVDs they supposedly _had_ restored those cuts. Obviously not. It's always so jarring when they occur and I always wonder how much was excised.

Guess I should point out that I'm a first time viewer having only made it to episode #839 so far.

[Gothick]

That's very good, Bill Malloy's Ghost!  Did you start with the introduction of Barnabas, or episode 1?

Welcome to our funhouse!

G. (a viewer since June 1968)

[Bill Malloys Ghost]

Thanks. Oh, I started with episode 1.  During the original run I was unable to watch DS and later on I always managed to miss out on the syndicated reruns. When they came to VHS I was ready to dive in until I heard the set just dove in head first with Barnabas' introduction completely ignoring all the storylines & character development that came before. So I cooled my heels until MPI finally released the first episodes on DVD. I'm glad I waited. I fell in love with the show from the opening shot. Watching DS evolve from its modest Gothic beginnings into the wild, weird, and wonderful show it was to became has been a tremendous amount of fun. I'm on track to finish off the remaining episodes in the next few months. The hardest part of being a DS newbie is avoiding the avalanche of spoilers lurking in every article, interview, book, and post so I've learned to scan carefully before diving in.

[Gothick]

Glad to hear you have been enjoying it! 

Several of us here have a special enjoyment and appreciation of the "pre-Barnabas" period.  It's frustrating to see the hoary old chestnut repeated in some of the recent press around the movie implying that the series was tanking in the ratings until they unveiled Barnabas.  Some of us think that in some ways the series reached its artistic height with the original 1966-67 Laura Collins storyline.  (And then, there are the devotees, respectively, of the "bleeder valve" storyline, and ... indubitably ... THE PEN!)

Welcome again,

G.