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Help: looking for... William Dozier's Batman/Green Hornet
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9-Mar-2012, 1:31 PM

bkev said:

I didn't know that the TV Land rips had time cuts... :( shame, they were fairly good quality.

The Hub aired the series in full, with your average "cut the credits for an advertisement" thing that everyone does now.  They have an HD channel but I do not get that so I didn't cap them.  Did anyone?  That might be the best plausible source, assuming someone could just splice the credits in from a lower quality version.

While The Hub HD airings would provide the best quality, they're cut (but not as bad as typical 22 minute syndicated cuts...they seem to run longer) and they're badly time compressed. Also, I would imagine the HD airings are cropped to fill the screen (the SD airings don't have any cropping, but suffer from the same cuts and time compression).

As it stands, the best source for episodes of Batman are the "Network Masters" bootleg (no network bugs at all, but VHS quality) or the TV Land Canada airings (higher quality than the "Network Masters", but TV Land logo on bottom right corner throughout the episode). Both provide the uncut, 25 minute episodes as originally aired.

I do wonder if there are any other sources for The Green Hornet episodes, though.