I’m wondering if it has something to do with a fire that apparently happened at Universal some years ago. Apparently many film reels/spools were lost in that. Could it be that the copies that were scanned for HD are the only ones known to exist? Or is it just that they were being lazy and just took the first ones they came across without paying any attention to the content.
I would agree I know another tv show I liked “the Law and Harry Mcgraw” was lost in the fire and all they had was desaturated SD TV reels that Germany placed out on DVD and that is all that is left of the TV show, but the A team considering how famous it was around the world shouldn’t be down to us to recreate the teasers from the HD remasters, takes us several hours so really its just lazy of them, agreeded a couple of seconds of footage doesn’t appear in the episodes so maybe lost i.e. alternate takes, so if lost just replicate alternate scenes like I did for "harder than it looks’ only die hard fans would know.