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hiphats
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Idea: Has anyone done an edit of JOURNEY BACK TO OZ: Extended TV Version?
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1-Sep-2008, 11:58 PM
Mitch said:

This would be an interesting project  I never even knew a TV cut existed, lol I tought I was the GURU on Tv cuts....

 

I like this project idea. To be honest I have never knew anyone to have this.

?Just how much footge is missing? What scenes are not on the disc? Please details?

From IMDB.om

 

  • There was no Wizard in the theatrical release...but in the network TV version there was! He was played in live-action sequences by Bill Cosby, and the sub-plot was to get the children back to Kansas to join Dorothy for Christmas. The TV version runs 96 minutes.

    • The supplementary section of the current DVD has the Bill Cosby interstitials from the first half of the network version, the very last segment being the scene where the Wizard and the Munchkin children secretly begin their plan to help Dorothy.  The segments last around six minutes.  Incidentally, some of the segments end with a few seconds of the animation that is joined in progress in the TV cut.

    To my recollection, here's some of the Cosby segments that I saw in the TV version that are missing from the DVD...the Wizard handing Pumpkinhead a book, the Wizard and the children crying over Pumpkinhead's "death", the superimposing of the live action segments over the final animation scene, and Cosby wishing the viewers a Merry Christmas.

    Again, I'm going from memory here since the VHS I have of the TV cut is back in Northern California (I'm in SoCal right now), and I recorded this on Extended Play pre-hi-fi, so the sound isn't really up to speed with today's DVD technology (to you it would sound like AM radio).  And I personally chopped it up a bit to try and fit another movie (again, this was EP).  But most of the "missing" Cosby segments are on my VHS, and obviously I cannot just fly up to get it.

    All the animation in the TV cut is intact in the theatrical version included on the DVD.  The other major change is the theatrical version opens with the opening Kansas segment up until Dorothy is knocked unconcious, then segues into the main titles.  The TV version starts off with the first Cosby segment (with the Wizard discovering Kansas--this serves as its prologue) before the main titles, then the second Cosby segment (where the children are introduced), followed by the film where it would have started theatrically.

    Note in passing: the last known airing of the TV version was in 1983 on the old SFM Holiday Network on syndication.

     

    Hope this helps