DVD/BD sets of classic TV shows.. anything I should be warned of?

Lately I’ve been revisiting, or wanting to revisit, classic live-action shows, normally from the 80s but with some leeway.

But a thing that comes up is you can’t always trust the official releases. I saw in another thread that Quantum Leap has issues on its various releases to the extent that a fan here had to reconstruct some episodes himself.

But what about other shows?

In particular I’m wondering about Incredible Hulk, Knight Rider, MacGyver, and Golden Girls. Are these shows known to suffer from any issues like missing music, missing footage, etc?

Let me know.

Thanks in advance.

For what it’s worth I was able to find something about Knight Rider: apparently a German company called Turbine was able to release a set that had the episodes with ALL the original music intact and nothing missing.

So that’s one show covered. Checking my options about MacGyver and Quantum Leap. What I’ve found about QL is that the Fabulous Films UK set is the best way to get an uncut version of one episode, but it might be worse than the US Mill Creek set in other ways.

MacGyver I’m totally up in the air about.

Hey guys is this forum glitching? This post got two responses (not by me) and both disappeared, I think one actually had some useful info.

Keyan Farlander said:

^ spambots, or AI spambots?

Like in here: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/my-uploaded-avatar-image-is-not-showing/id/82707/page/1#1586317
 

There are some threads on the changes made to original series and films (music or edits and such) when released years later on DVD, blu ray or streaming services etc in the ‘General, Technical & Format Discussions’ category of An Index Of Projects & Help Thread for Preservation of Other Properties. They may be helpful to you?

I’ll look into those. The thing I keep running into a lot of times is there’s a lot of initial hooplah about a 2000s DVD set but then nobody ever checks if a show got fixed for a bluray or streaming.

… Here’s some updates of my own BTW:

… Someone here on the forums was able to help me get an uncut version of In The Heat of the Night TV series from a streaming service.

… someone on reddit told me Golden Girls is missing a “microwave clip” (that apparently was only shown in original broadcast and edited even out of reruns) but seems otherwise uncut.

… Incredible Hulk (Bixby/Ferrigno one) I’ve not been able to find anything that claims there was ever edits to any DVD release. For me this one is a more complex issue as I already own the DVDs so my question was more “is there a reason to upgrade to bluray?” but its sounding to me like there isn’t.

… someone told me somewhere that MacGyver’s DVDs used to have music edits but I was unable to find out what episodes were affected and if this was fixed for the bluray.