lovekrallthetime

Hey Baobab,

If you have the season 3 teasers can you share them? Thanks in advance.

Just keep in touch. I will Amazon Prime the US set when it comes out. Makes no sense how the US DVD’s have the season 2 and 3 teasers intact (with some missing season 4) and the blu rays have the entire season 1 intact, missing season 2 and 3 and have the entire season 4 intact.

The quality of the UK release overall though is great. I’m enjoying rewatching the episodes…

For those that want a review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWt0CE1v_s&t=1508s

Baobab Archiver said:

lovekrallthetime said:

Baobab Archiver said:

Mexican Slayride now up in the usual place.
This was a tricky restoration and I’m not 100% happy with it, but will have to do unless a better source turns up.

Now to crack on with more of HD versions of the pre-credits teasers from season 3. Soul destroying but worth it in the end (well for me at least!)

I know sometimes they use scenes not in the episode…FYI.

Yes, that’s part of the challenge and why they take so long.
I use the HD source wherever it exists, and have to resort to upscaled DVD for the bits that don’t.
The real challenge is ensuring you don’t miss a part that actually exists in the episode 😃

Hey there might be season 2 and 3 teasers on this just available blu ray set. Plus if you watch the teaser posted its kind of cool 😃

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=343047

The teaser for the new set is at this url

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_ikiTib9Y&t=91s

If anyone wants to take a gamble it might be worth it.

Baobab Archiver said:

lovekrallthetime said:

Mexican Slayride has a teaser, its an NBC narrated one similar to Knight Rider. Can It be recreated? Sure. I dont see any scenes that were not in the episode other than the black screens for the characters and the bubbles with their photos at the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3zhzR_j0nw

Thanks for the heads up with that!
Although it might look easy, there are a lot of scenes with text overlayed.
Recreating a “plain” version without the text is straightforward, but I don’t have the technical knowhow to recreate the text faithfully. If someone does and wants to do a combined effort just let me know.

The other consideration is that the audio is very poor. Some clean will help but I can’t work mircales. It seems that the quality improves greatly in the last 5 seconds or so - shame it’s not like that for the whole trailer!

I have been out of the restoration arena for a little while for various reasons. Not sure when I’ll be back in full swing but it’s definitely on my list to finish the Season 3 teaser reconstructions. I’ve got about half way through the season so far.

I noticed there was a US BluRay release planned. Did it go ahead, and I’m assuming they were the same versions as the UK releases?

Heard nothing about a US Blu Ray release. If you finished the season 2 teasers do you have a link you can PM? Thanks for your efforts. As for recreating Mexican Slayride’s teaser thats the only source I know of. It is a miracle we have that. The quality on the Blu ray’s from the UK is impressive though.

lorang said:

Season 2 teasers are from unknown DVD source, they are missing off the UK DVD’s and the Blu Rays but I was trying to trace every release I could and was surprised to find these intact.

The UK DVD’s on season 3 have the teasers but think the blu rays they are missing.

Some of the tv showings across Forces TV on the 1st set of showings was missing some of the teasers across a lot of the seasons.

The missing scene from the pilot I have included is VHS and my quick edit of it is a mix of HD and VHS I have tried mixing as a lot a little silly seconds missing of the blu ray such as a longshot of the plan taking off, additional shot of Lynch, Murdock howling then of course his singing.

The VHS has the jumping jack flash playing all the way through this scene but the blu ray when it does cut back in the music is removed so the back ground noise is silent whilst face and Murdock are talking, this scene is cut different ways on different DVD and blu ray releases.

Mexican Slayride has a teaser, its an NBC narrated one similar to Knight Rider. Can It be recreated? Sure. I dont see any scenes that were not in the episode other than the black screens for the characters and the bubbles with their photos at the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3zhzR_j0nw

Here are the Columbia House DVD’s I was speaking of

https://www.ebay.com/itm/313280881833?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item48f0fee4a9:g:jeAAAOSwHHxfnY07&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAAA4JUq%2F5%2FuVAmyQ2FDz8FzRYllWfcVuqvmgUCrTRyiZUdYbEsFhmhgidZEY%2FHjC3%2FCDP%2BrY8yxtliD6yDAGLuVfZu8TLFfD%2B7Nke5xu44%2Bnos81f%2FcTs%2BT2ueyoxlAeBBSKSKe51vkJDwY%2Bb5vuu%2BdlPUDaTIvLAf48za3r%2FhpeBnKqEWXEGS%2F%2F%2BsuhKPGZ4064WXIbMOmX74p1abG7Av2GTvUhhz4dhAuy5pmK2zeJZzz7YCT2h2EQK6v6qAD7jBcKqm2Wj1lm7rLrVYRFsYeTMviNijZTRGByWkkIOTOrWVG|tkp%3ABFBM_OKnjotg

Baobab Archiver said:

Mexican Slayride now up in the usual place.
This was a tricky restoration and I’m not 100% happy with it, but will have to do unless a better source turns up.

Now to crack on with more of HD versions of the pre-credits teasers from season 3. Soul destroying but worth it in the end (well for me at least!)

I know sometimes they use scenes not in the episode…FYI.

Just a thought here (being an A-Team fan and having the US DVD’s and UK Blu Ray set) I remember in the US many years ago Columbia House put on VHS and DVD Mexican Slayride and many other episodes. If I recall those sources were not cut.

I was VERY disappointed about the whole teaser thing for Season 2 and 3. On the US DVD many from season 4 are missing which made no sense.

I would be interested in whatever restoration you guys are doing. Like I said in the Knight Rider thread, which is a show that had more blu ray releases, I would love to help.

To Baobab Archiver:

I joined just so I can thank you for doing your restoration. I am in the US and was hoping to get the uncut Knight of the Drones that they sent you on the disc and any restorations of the music in the episodes you put them back in. For the most part here in the states, they decided anything with Mellencamp and Prince wont get clearance which is why we got thrown a syndicated episode instead of the correct one (which is still incorrect because K.I.T.T.'s features are supposed to be hidden which defeats the whole point in watching you idiots!)

I have seen every original episode of the series in its first run, so hopefully this will help you with information you might not have known.

Knight Of the Phoenix did have an introduction on NBC. You can recreate it with the video and lifting the audio but its missing kitt’s headlight scene not found in the episode if I recall. So if you want to be technical you would need to restore that to HD in front of Knight of the Phoenix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQSMcmQtq8

Goliath also has the incorrect teaser because the teaser was a product of NBC, the unaired teaser was generated by Universal. The correct one aired on NBC hyping up the showdown. Probably could be recreated but the audio itself is horrible.

PS Huge Star Wars fan btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKlZYLuczjg

The audio is a bit better here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUOe9G1Sl8U

Not sure about rules here, but please let me know how I can work to obtain your work. Thanks in advance.

Also it appears that Burial Ground and Knight of the Juggernaut are probably only in mono.

As for the A-team I would love to get the UK Blu Ray but had no idea how good the quality was, what was missing and how complete it was. At least for Knight Rider you have three releases, Japan, UK and US on Blu Ray. Right now no plans to release A-Team in 1080 here in the states…