SilverWook said:
I have my doubts the ABC broadcast was time compressed. It ran in a three hour timeslot. (ThisTV is running it in a two hour thirty minute slot.) There were less commercials per hour in those days as well.
It may have more to do with my horrid analog cable system at the time, combined with being recorded in the four hour LP mode.
As I said, I have no data regarding the TWOK airing. They may not and, given the time slot you mention, probably did not in this case. But they definitely were using time compression at the time.