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The A-Team Broadcast Restoration (Released) — Page 2

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Yes I agree cuts in the episodes are the most important thing to tackle. It’s only the completist in me that wants to do the teasers. In some ways I don’t actually like them as I think they often give away too much of the episode!

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The more I read about the little edits the more I remember and the more it bothers me, the pilot movie been one with the music replacement.

I downloaded the pilot off Google play in HD and still the same cut messed with version so I purchased an old VHS of the pilot to check if the music is replaced in that version, it should arrive in the next day or so.

I loved the pre credit teasers when originally shown in the 80’s and hated it when I found out they where missing off the DVD’s.

The episodes I listed previous have the teasers in place on the episodes.

I only wish I had kept all my pre recorded episodes before I upgraded to the DVD’S I purchased the original release of season 1 & 2 then purchased the small box set version with all seasons in the UK but still have missing teasers.

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Baobab Archiver said:

Yes I agree cuts in the episodes are the most important thing to tackle. It’s only the completist in me that wants to do the teasers. In some ways I don’t actually like them as I think they often give away too much of the episode!

Haha you nailed how I feel exactly! I kinda want them re-inserted, but I also want all episodes without the teasers too! They really do giveaway too much of a spoiler. Just for purist sakes (I always remember them being there growing up) I want them. Be nice to have them as seamless branching on a BD set to choose to watch the episodes with or without them. I also think the teasers would have worked better if played after each episode concludes instead of before an episode. Like a “on the next episode…” kinda thing to get you hooked for the next episode, if they used teasers at all.

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The more I read about the little edits the more I remember and the more it bothers me, the pilot movie been one with the music replacement.

I downloaded the pilot off Google play in HD and still the same cut messed with version so I purchased an old VHS of the pilot to check if the music is replaced in that version, it should arrive in the next day or so.

I loved the pre credit teasers when originally shown in the 80’s and hated it when I found out they where missing off the DVD’s.

The episodes I listed previous have the teasers in place on the episodes.

I only wish I had kept all my pre recorded episodes before I upgraded to the DVD’S I purchased the original release of season 1 & 2 then purchased the small box set version with all seasons in the UK but still have missing teasers.

That’s great! I hope it includes the scene and music uncut. Be nice to at least see it in decent quality. I saw it before but was a low quality video on youtube.

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Do either of you use iTunes at all? I don’t go near it myself but they have been known to contain complete versions of series that are edited elsewhere. I don’t even know if iTunes has the A-Team but if it does it’s a potential source, and should be HD

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I used to sometimes buy rare stuff on iTunes and I use it to play my music collection. I looked and A-Team is available on there. I may buy the pilot to see if it is uncut. I keep searching for leads to decent quality videos of the pilot but haven’t found any uncut as of yet. I’ll report back.

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That’s great, look forward to hearing how you get on. Like I said, unfortunately my only sources (aside from the BD set of course!) are the UK DVD box set, and any current broadcasts on UK TV.
If only I’d kept some off air recordings from years ago (like I did with Knight Rider) we may be in a better position! 😞

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My old A Team VHS tape of the full length pilot movie arrived and its uncut with jumping jack flash music intact.

Ive just recorded it to my hard drive but was a lttle static for around 30secs in the the opening of the movie so had to replace it with a colour and sound adjust snippett from the Dvd.

I can edit an MPEG file of just the missing section with the original music and upload some where.

There are quite a lot of UK tapes out there that could be a source for the missing music.

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Thanks Lorang, good to know. If possible could you provide a link to the VHS you bought? I’m interested to see which one it is!
As far as sharing files is concerned, I often use Google drive, which is free and easy to set up,but I’ll leave it to you to choose how you want to share if you are able to.

Thanks!

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Thanks Lorang, good to know. If possible could you provide a link to the VHS you bought? I’m interested to see which one it is!
As far as sharing files is concerned, I often use Google drive, which is free and easy to set up,but I’ll leave it to you to choose how you want to share if you are able to.

Thanks!

This was the one I purchased

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/VHS-VIDEO-TAPE-COLLECTABLE-THE-A-TEAM-VOL-1-PG/322862620412?hash=item4b2c1c9efc:g:hgYAAOSwPh5ZDc2q
Interesting to note maybe the german or dutch market, I have purchased other tv shows from there that have had TV shows with music intact that has been replaced on UK and USA dvd releases. Examples include Hunter season 1 and 2 full music in place on every episode with lots of big name music, Baywatch again full music intact across all episodes bonus is they have english audio tracks but german or dutch menus.
Could be an option to explore.

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Cool thanks for that and yes, foreign DVDs are potentially a good source. The trouble with things like this is that it potentially ends up with money being wasted trying to find out what’s good and what’s not!

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Ok, I am now halfway through Season 4 of the UK BD set and my updated report is with the following Season 3 DVD edits that I listed before:

SEASON 3
Cup A’ Joe: The song “Cheeseburger in Paradise” has been removed.
Beverly Hills Assault: The songs “The Heat is On” and “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” have been replaced with new music.

The UK BD set corrected the song “The Heat is On” on Beverly Hills Assault but “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” was missing if I recall correctly. I would need a timestamp to know for sure but I can’t recall hearing it in the episode. "Cheeseburger in Paradise on the Cup A’ Joe episode is missing for sure. That one is just missing without scenes edited. And so the Beverly Hills Assault needs “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” fixed. I believe that’s all the news I have at the moment.

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Thanks for the update. Just to check, are you saying you believe Beverly Hills Assault is missing a scene, rather than just needing the audio fixed?

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No I was saying I believe Beverly Hills Assault is only missing the song “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” but the song “The Heat is On” was restored for the BD set. It was missing on DVD. No missing scenes except for the pilot that I know of so far.

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Good news, I looked into the Italian DVD sets of the A Team and the music is in place to a degree.

The pilot movie has Jumping jack flash music playing but cuts a few seconds of Murdoch singing it, I assume the dubbing artist didn’t wish to sing, strange how this would play out on the English audio track on the DVD, I downloaded off a fan site the Italian version so no English option but the DVD does so it is better than a VHS rip.

As previous the UK VHS has the full scene that I have, I could upload to You Tube or just the scenes in question and do a private torrent for you?

Assault on Beverly Hills Italian DVD has all the music intact also, there is a poor You Tube version of this but the sound isn’t great and the frame rate is slightly sped up, just search A-Team stagione 3 episodio 24

The Italian DVD’s are out there, season 1 and 4 easy to find but season 3 or Stagione 3 is a little harder amazon have it but very expensive unless you can find it other ways.

It may be worth checking the dutch and german version as these are more available and cheaper classed as staffel 3 or DAS A Team and have English audion tracks they are under amazon.de.

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Thanks for that info, lorang. Between us 3 we are getting a lot of useful information.

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Thanks Lorang, very interesting. Unfortunately my personal financial situation has taken a sudden turn, so I am not in a position to invest in DVDs etc for now. This will hopefully change around April next year.
If you are able to share the clip from the VHS, along with the Italian dvd source, I’ll see what I can pull together if you like? I’m happy with whatever sharing method you choose to use. Google drive always works well for me so if you want to do that method send me a pm so I can share my email with you.

EDIT - sorry just seen you don’t have the Italian dvd. Like I said I’m happy to get it in the future but can’t right now. Is it still missing footage, or is it silent where murdock is singing? If it’s just silent that would be the best visual source, which should combine well with either the English track from that DVD, or as a fall back the audio from the VHS you have. Perhaps the Italian download you have will be good enough (if it hasn’t been compressed), so I’m happy to give it a shot with that and the VHS audio

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I will see what I can sort over the weekend.

One to cross off is the Russian Blu Ray and DVD’s as they are the same as the UK with removed music and chopped up 2 parters, I did get hold of the Italian season 4 episodes full season with both English and Italian Audio so if there is any cuts in them hopefully I will have the uncut episodes.

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I’m on disc 4 of Season 4 and haven’t noticed any cuts or missing music. Hopefully there aren’t any edits. They all seem to have the teasers as well, unlike Season 2 and 3. Weird 2 and 3 have none when Season 1 had them all.

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I have just now finished watching the entire series of the UK BD set and wanted to update everyone in the thread on what edits we will need to fix. I posted a list of edits much earlier but they were from the DVD set and now I will only list what needs fixed on the UK BD set because some edits on the DVD sets were fixed.

The only edits that exist on the UK BD set are as follows:

SEASON 1
Mexican Slayride: “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” has been replaced with new music and footage of Murdock singing along has been cut.

SEASON 2
Teasers are missing from all episodes.

SEASON 3
Cup A’ Joe: The song “Cheeseburger in Paradise” has been removed.

Beverly Hills Assault: The song “Dedicated Follower of Fashion” have been replaced with new music.

Teasers are missing from all episodes.

That is all that needs fixed. All other previous edits missing from this list have been fixed since the DVD sets were released.

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That’s great news, thanks for the update.
The teasers will be a lot of work so I’ll put that down as a project to complete in the future.
The audio fixes are easy once we can get a source for them. It appears from what Lorang says that the Italian set is a possible source for them. If no one else has done so beforehand I’ll try to obtain that some time next year.
The pilot is the only episode that may not be fixable in a seamless way. I’ll wait to see the quality of Lorang’s source and we can go from there.
Loving the enthusiasm in this thread 😄

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Guys I have uploaded all season 2 teasers and the deleted scene and a quick fan edit from the pilot onto everyone’s favourite organ, the fan edit of the scene was just a very quick attempt at using the sound source from the VHS to mix it with the HD footage however I’ve had to use a few seconds from the VHS due to missing footage, more could be used but as said it’s just a quick attempt.

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Thanx, lorang! I appreciate it! I am acquiring it at the moment. This project is really taking a few great steps in the right direction.

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Well done Lorang 😀
I’m not going to get a chance to grab it until I get on my PC, but I’m looking forward to to taking a look!
Out if interest what is the source of the teasers?
I’m pretty sure the UK DVD set has the Season 3 teasers (not sure about season 2) so between us we should be able to get the full set.
Also, it is showing on Forces TV at the moment in the UK. The bad news is there’s only 1 episode a week, but the good news is they’re currently on season 3,so I’ll make sure I record the episodes listed above to see if they contain the missing music.

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Season 2 teasers are from unknown DVD source, they are missing off the UK DVD’s and the Blu Rays but I was trying to trace every release I could and was surprised to find these intact.

The UK DVD’s on season 3 have the teasers but think the blu rays they are missing.

Some of the tv showings across Forces TV on the 1st set of showings was missing some of the teasers across a lot of the seasons.

The missing scene from the pilot I have included is VHS and my quick edit of it is a mix of HD and VHS I have tried mixing as a lot a little silly seconds missing of the blu ray such as a longshot of the plan taking off, additional shot of Lynch, Murdock howling then of course his singing.

The VHS has the jumping jack flash playing all the way through this scene but the blu ray when it does cut back in the music is removed so the back ground noise is silent whilst face and Murdock are talking, this scene is cut different ways on different DVD and blu ray releases.