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Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 01:15:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  5 01:15:09 1985
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 >  From:	dolqci!mike	(Mike Stalnaker)

 >     This is true.  The studios, in an effort to sell more movies to the
 >  networks closer to the original release date, have been adding scenes
 >  left on the cutting room floor back in.

Actually, the reason is much more direct than that. Remember when STAR WARS
appeared on CBS a year ago? The ratings were abysmal. Why, when SW was one
of the top money-makers of all time? Because by the time it appeared on CBS,
most of the people who cared about seeing it already had a copy of the tape/
disk, or had rented such, or had seen the movie a few months before on HBO
(and probably taped it from there, too).
	Adding scenes to the two TREK movies, or the two SUPERMAN movies, for
their network screening was done to give a reason for those folks who already
had the movies on tape or had seen them on cable to watch the network tv
showing. This is a perfectly resonable thing to do, and I enjoy having these
various alternate versions around.

What pissed me off royally about this adding of scenes to WRATH OF KHAN is
that there was no mention anywhere in TV GUIDE or anywhere else that there
were going to be scenes added. With STAR TREK---THE MOTION PICTURE and SUPER-
MAN---THE MOVIE, there was heavy advertisement much in advance that there was
going to be additional material. The other Sunday, however, after checking
TV GUIDE and seeing no mention of extra material, I assumed that there would
be none, and so, didn't bother watching it, let alone taping it. Why should
I have? I have the film on Beta Hi-Fi tape. By not advertising the extra
scenes, they probably lost quite a few viewers. Well, I can always hope that
they'll re-release the videotape with the extra material like they did with
ST---TMP.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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