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nocomments87
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Help: looking for... William Dozier's Batman/Green Hornet
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7-Mar-2012, 12:43 PM

The Green Hornet episodes that are online were actually capped from the Encore Action channel, back when they were airing the show. The Action logo pops up only once or twice for like 15 seconds, and again during the end credits, but for the most part, it's a logo-free presentation. Also, for the most part, the episodes are unedited, except for the first episode (missing epilogue...syndicated cuts have it intact for some reason) and the Part 1 recaps on all Part 2 episodes.

As for Batman, I have the "Network Masters" bootleg that is circulating around the market. I have the one that's on 30 discs, with 4 episodes to a disc, so less compression. The quality is basically high quality VHS transfers. They're decent, but you can only get so much out of VHS. I'm still more than satisfied with them, though. What's cool about those is that most of the episodes start with "ABC Color Presentation" intro, followed by the "Batman In Color" logo. The 2nd parts of most episodes have a quick promo for "next week's villain" before the end credits. Some of the season 2 episodes have an "Insert Commercial Here" logo between scene breaks. On the bootleg, someone slipped up and one of the episodes isn't from the "Network Masters", but rather, it's from TV Land Canada. The episode is uncut at least, but still, I would've rather had consistency.

One thing I ended up doing with the Batman episodes is put together the original narration by William Dozier for the first episode "Hi Diddle Riddle" (which can be found on YouTube) with the audio for the episode itself, matching quality and everything, and synced it to the "Network Master" version. Turned out pretty good.