Now that’s a thought, what edits were made to the TV version, if any?
I don’t have the tape any more but the only thing I recall being edited was when Indy says “holy shit” when he sees the nazi sub. None of the violence was edited that I remember and the melting/exploding heads were not censored.
IMDB (yes, I know - not always a reliable source of info) claims that 24 seconds were edited from the ABC broadcast.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/alternateversions?ref_=tt_ql_trv_5
Someone has uploaded the first three minutes of the ABC premiere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hAuu0-5rDo
Here’s another clip from the ABC premiere, this time with Indy and Marion being trapped in the Well of Souls. Indy’s exclamation of “Jesus” when his whip is mistaken by Marion for a snake, has been truncated to “Jeez.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwrKdM-45nk
I imagine the goddamn’s uttered throughout the film would’ve been altered or removed. 😄
That’s fun to watch, wish I still had the tape. I didn’t have much motivation to keep it at the time since it didn’t have any extra scenes and my own VHS copy looked better. 24 seconds sounds excessive, I don’t recall footage actually being removed, just language toned down, but I’m curious if they actually did cut some things. Maybe some of the gunshot hits or skewered Satipo.