It was great that the only version I had seen of it for the first few years was a VHS recorded off of a TV broadcast that omitted the droid torture scene and the scene where threepio explains the entire trilogy complete with sound effects to the ewok village. When I finally saw the official version a few years later I didn’t understand why those scenes were necessary and have since come to see them as some of the worst scenes in the entire OT, so whoever edited down for time for TV made some good decisions.
Same here! I had a copy that was taped off TV, had to FFW through the commercials and everything. Both those scenes were edited out, as were some others, such as when that guy consoles the Rancor-keeper after the Rancor dies.
That droid torture scene… bleh.