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nocomments87
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TV Shows on DVD ruined by music replacement or cuts/edits: Restoring them back to original state (a project) (Update: The Andy Griffith Show: Season 3 DONE)
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17-Dec-2011, 2:43 PM

Another update: The Birds of Prey is completely done and ready to go. It was an easier project with only 13 episodes (14 including the unaired pilot). The episodes were widescreen, but non-anamorphic. I've remedied that in this project. The music replacement was worse than I thought. The way the reviews made it seem, it was only the theme and the last song from the last episode that was replaced. Not the case at all. Although, there were quite a few songs still intact. Luckily, the show's score is still intact. It breaks down like this:

Pilot was completely intact. No problems whatsoever, audio-wise.

Episodes 2, 4 and 11 had all songs intact except the theme.

Episode 5 had all songs replaced except the last song before the credits.

The rest of the episodes had every song replaced. It gets even more interesting, though. Somewhere along the way, WB screwed up the audio completely on episodes 7-10, and the audio ended up being mono instead of stereo. I had to replace the entire audio with broadcast versions, which were stereo.

The unaired pilot had the score changed to what was used on the show. The songs were also replaced (no surprise there). Originally, the pilot didn't have a set score ready, and they ended up using the score from another source. That source was Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. The unaired pilot is easy enough to access, so I was able to change that too.

I kept the menus and everything the same, and I even changed the menu music to Aimee Allen's Revolution.

All in all, a successful project, and another step in making things right again with TV shows...