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Idea: The New Scooby-Doo Movies?

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I’ve thought about this since being able to source the R1s…

I’m wondering about the possibility of sourcing the 9 eps missing from the R1s, and maybe the correct opening…

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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Are these the episodes that aren't likely to be released on video, due to monetary issues with the celebrities involved?

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Where were you in '77?

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Yeah, mostly.

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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Hm.  That might make for a decent copy of the original OP too, if it's on the LD...

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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Those episodes are still part of the cable packages aren't they? I know that at least one current torrent collections over at TPB includes them as rips from Boomerang... complete with the original, non-mangled opening.

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Yeah, they aired them on Boomerang/CN.

I'd like to avoid random xvid rips if I can help it.

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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That's fair criteria. I just wasn't sure if you knew, as it had not yet been mentioned.

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I didn't.  But I didn't bother to look as I didn't have any reason I should expect to find anything better than some cruddy, 10-year-old xvid rips, since that seems to be all that usually turns up on public trackers.

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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I've heard from a Scooby fan that the modern-day masters are edited for time. Supposedly 1-2 minutes are missing from even the DVD releases. I've only read his descriptions of the missing scenes from the first Batman appearance.

Could these scenes possibly be intact on old Worldvision/Goodtimes VHS releases? I know that there was a crappy LP mode release of at least that first Batman episode...

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I fell into luck: Boomerang UK's still airing it, and my friend in Portugal's able to cap for me.

While not perfect, from Puto's test cap and with a little help from GonbeFAN, I now have a reasonable-quality copy of the OP without the edits.

I'm able to do a mostly passable job getting rid of the station logo, too.  Hopefully x264 compression will fudge out the artifacts a bit more.

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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Here's the guy's description of the alleged cut scene from "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair":

One of the most interesting pieces of dialogue, between Batman and Velma was actually edited out, both on the currently playing version, and the DVD! Something about counterfeiting "undermin[ing] the national economy", and that "for the same of world stability, we must capture this criminal here and now".
It is hard to determine where exactly this sequence was. The editing was very good. It was when they first followed the hooded man into the toy warehouse. IIRC, Batman opens the hatch, and then goes up alone, and then brings the others. I try to listen to the background music to tell where something was cut out. It was probably during the next blackout (or "batout") after which they begin following him in the warehouse.

Of course, this could just be an incorrect memory of his. I could buy that 1-2 minutes were cut, because the episodes as shown on TV are short enough to show *with ads* and still run a 7-minute filler cartoon afterward. About 10 years ago, I mentioned this on ToonZone and someone said they had a 16mm print, with ads, and it ran 55 minutes - still shorter, but not AS short. The extra time was originally filled by CBS' "In the News".

Unfortunately, the cover of the Kids Klassics tape says "The Caped Crusader Caper", so this episode likely never had had a video release before the 2000s VHS/DVD. (But if his claim is true, it could also contain extra scenes.)

Anybody got any USA Cartoon Express airings? They may have answers.

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Here’s the guy’s description of the alleged cut scene from “The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair”:

One of the most interesting pieces of dialogue, between Batman and Velma was actually edited out, both on the currently playing version, and the DVD! Something about counterfeiting “undermin[ing] the national economy”, and that “for the same of world stability, we must capture this criminal here and now”.
It is hard to determine where exactly this sequence was. The editing was very good. It was when they first followed the hooded man into the toy warehouse. IIRC, Batman opens the hatch, and then goes up alone, and then brings the others. I try to listen to the background music to tell where something was cut out. It was probably during the next blackout (or “batout”) after which they begin following him in the warehouse.

Of course, this could just be an incorrect memory of his. I could buy that 1-2 minutes were cut, because the episodes as shown on TV are short enough to show with ads and still run a 7-minute filler cartoon afterward. About 10 years ago, I mentioned this on ToonZone and someone said they had a 16mm print, with ads, and it ran 55 minutes - still shorter, but not AS short. The extra time was originally filled by CBS’ “In the News”.

Unfortunately, the cover of the Kids Klassics tape says “The Caped Crusader Caper”, so this episode likely never had had a video release before the 2000s VHS/DVD. (But if his claim is true, it could also contain extra scenes.)

Anybody got any USA Cartoon Express airings? They may have answers.

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This scene has surfaced from an '80s local syndication airing and is available in its original 480i DVD-R on a certain filesharing organ.

Here is the scene in full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Zv-Z29Pl0

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