After trying a million different things, I think that I am just going to leave The Great Heep episode at 25fps.

I can't seem to get a straight 25fps->23.976fps (no decimate or SRestore) to work without it having a slight hiccup. As it is removing a frame just about every second it gives it a little stutter on pans/zooms.

If anyone else wants to give it a shot let me know if you can produce better results :)

So the plan is to render the episode twice, once with SRestore and once with just a plain deinterlace. I can then edit them together using the SRestore scenes when the camera is stationary while using the deinterlaced encode for the pans/zooms. I think that this should lend the best results, although it will be time consuming.

And this sort of rules out a DVD set unless this episode is by itself. Then again, I could probably just convert the footage to 29.97 fps instead of 23.976. That would probably help with the stutter but at the same time introduce even more blending.