Originally posted by: RIJIR
I believe I still have my tape of the original broadcast of Aliens on TV. So, if there is something special there I want to know. I doubt it though. Has any deleted footage (other than the director's cut stuff) ever made it out?

I doubt you have the middle version too. I do not know how many times they aired it, but surely no more than few times. All other broadcasted Aliens are the basic short version, except for the Sci-fi Channel - it aired the longest 91 version. Deleted stuff: See the great Aliens Illustrated Screenplay by Paul Sammon. If you compare the final shooting script with the longer DC, you get only two very short missing scenes. Everything else is exactly as seen in the movie word-by-word. Foster's novelization is older, it reflects the original script and gives you a hint about other missing stuff. But not all of these scenes were actually shot. It includes the famous "cocooned Burke" scene (three photos of it you can find on disc Q4 in photogallery), so this one really exists. I am unsure about the others (and legendary Ripley's snakers as well). But I bet my soul that the FSS script is accurate and that the two short scenes were shot. First one takes place in the middle of the council. They take a short break and Burke instructs Ripley how to answer forthcoming series of questions. He buys a donut in an automat. Second one takes place right before Hudson says Smoking or no smoking? and finds the colonists marks on the floor plan. Ripley and Hicks are escorting Newt towards the rest of the team as she suddenly sneaks under a table and tries to escape. Hicks is more careful this time and watches his hand since she bited (bitted? sorry, I do not know this word well) him already before. He says something like "Hope she got no rabbies" (again, I do not know if this is the word for an infection...). THE ONLY ONE shot of these you can watch yourself is the latest one. Check disc Q4, a 10 sec excerpt of this shot is in the main documentary, part Post-production (I hope).

And hey, US people, it reminds me of something. Can you please explain to a dumb Czech what this "Smoking or no smoking?" sentence means? I never understood it and our stupid translators (both in Czech dubbing and subtitles) did not translate it into something understandable. Is it a reference to some song or what? And why? What is its function in the movie? Nobody and nothing smokes there... (except for Apone, of course).