Beverly Hills 90210: The Complete Series

[OceanBlue]

Thought there was an existing, separate thread for the first spin-off Melrose Place, but there isn't. Do the DVD releases of this series have music replacements?

And did Models, Inc. get a physical media release?

[WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW]

The giant yearbook set of this is a very nice set. Super nicely put together. A ton of discs.

It is just a shame they had to delete so much key music and also butcher edited a few episodes. I still think it is ridiculous that the music industry can demand new fees just because a new form of home media gets invented and even more ridiculous that they insist on such absurdly high home media rights for new media that it's not economically feasible for the rights to be paid. I mean who wins? They get NOTHING! The viewer gets totally screwed. The movie studios lose some sales. At least if the music industry would charge a new fee that is in some proportion to actual financially feasible amount that could be paid by a movie studio and still hit a reasonable release cost and profit chance.

[elvisranger]

A new set announced which includes the reboot BH90210!! 74 discs. I'm guessing only 2 of them are new since the previous set was 72 discs.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...KIKX0DER&psc=1

[WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW]

I bet it's gonna still have edited scenes and replaced music though and it's obviously not been remastered in HD. Heck, the new 90210 is now downgraded from HD to SD.

[redxrebellion]

Is this original show available anywhere in its unedited form? Whether streaming or for purchase? Anything? I’d love to go through this show again

[WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW]

Originally Posted by redxrebellion

Is this original show available anywhere in its unedited form? Whether streaming or for purchase? Anything? I’d love to go through this show again

There are some bootlegs on the net, not all that great quality (these official ones have better video quality), that are closer since they have the original music and less changes, but from what I hear they were sourced from syndicated cable broadcasts which themselves had some cuts for time as syndicated versions sometimes do. Not sure if any odd cable channels are currently showing them. Not sure if any of the syndicated runs were ever 100% uncut for time. Not sure if the official ones have all the stuff cut for time on some of the syndicated versions or how much was cut for syndication, etc.

I think I have a slew of the original broadcasts on VHS in a box somewhere. I need to get around transfering my old tapes to my computer.

I may eventually try to use the official set as the starting point (for the highest quality video) and cut in audio from a bootleg set and/or VHS tapes as needed to fix music and edit back in missing scenes from bootlegs and anything else still missing from VHS if I have it. With that monster mess maybe I will eventually have something with the best quality one can manage and with all original music and maybe the bulk of missing scenes back?

[SpacemanDoug]

Originally Posted by WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW

There are some bootlegs on the net, not all that great quality (these official ones have better video quality), that are closer since they have the original music and less changes, but from what I hear they were sourced from syndicated cable broadcasts which themselves had some cuts for time as syndicated versions sometimes do. Not sure if any odd cable channels are currently showing them. Not sure if any of the syndicated runs were ever 100% uncut for time. Not sure if the official ones have all the stuff cut for time on some of the syndicated versions or how much was cut for syndication, etc.

I think I have a slew of the original broadcasts on VHS in a box somewhere. I need to get around transfering my old tapes to my computer.

I may eventually try to use the official set as the starting point (for the highest quality video) and cut in audio from a bootleg set and/or VHS tapes as needed to fix music and edit back in missing scenes from bootlegs and anything else still missing from VHS if I have it. With that monster mess maybe I will eventually have something with the best quality one can manage and with all original music and maybe the bulk of missing scenes back?

Just so you know me and a friend of mine started that already months ago and the majority of the series is finished.

Seasons 1-6, 9-10 are completely done (he did 1-6 and I did 9-10), he's currently on season 7 and is gonna do season 8 last.

As for the episodes being cut for time, the sources we have are mostly TVtropolis (Canadian) and SOAPnet, both of which aired mostly uncut episodes (sometimes on SOAPnet there would be a small censorship or two in an episode). The only time there were time cuts of the episodes on these channels was when it came to the feature length episodes (episodes that originally ran around 90 minutes w/o commercials), in addition to the feature length episodes being split into two parts there would be small dialogue cuts here and there and the commercial fades were usually shifted to different spots. Other than that the episodes on those channels were pretty much uncut.

So no need to start another project or anything cause it's already being done, needless to say it's been tricky and hard at points

[redxrebellion]

Originally Posted by SpacemanDoug

Just so you know me and a friend of mine started that already months ago and the majority of the series is finished.

Seasons 1-6, 9-10 are completely done (he did 1-6 and I did 9-10), he's currently on season 7 and is gonna do season 8 last.

As for the episodes being cut for time, the sources we have are mostly TVtropolis (Canadian) and SOAPnet, both of which aired mostly uncut episodes (sometimes on SOAPnet there would be a small censorship or two in an episode). The only time there were time cuts of the episodes on these channels was when it came to the feature length episodes (episodes that originally ran around 90 minutes w/o commercials), in addition to the feature length episodes being split into two parts there would be small dialogue cuts here and there and the commercial fades were usually shifted to different spots. Other than that the episodes on those channels were pretty much uncut.

So no need to start another project or anything cause it's already being done, needless to say it's been tricky and hard at points

Please keep us updated. I’m definitely interested in this project.

[SpacemanDoug]

funny thing, despite coming along much later, season 9 was the least preserved out of all the seasons

that season for the majority of its first half used much older captures off of FX and they were problematic cause the opening credits that came after the intro were cut off (several of them had songs playing that were altered on the DVD) and I had to use foreign airings which left them intact to figure out what songs went where in those things

the episode Survival Skills was particularly problematic cause it was incomplete, there was one song in the episode and sadly the portion that was captured didn't have it, so I had to use editing trickery to try to re-insert the original song into the scene where it needed to be, the results aren't perfect but better than nothing

[SpacemanDoug]

seasons 1-10 are pretty much all finished by this point, but now he's working on removing the TV bugs as much as he can in scenes cut from the DVD releases

[TwinCitiesBluFan]

Originally Posted by elvisranger

A new set announced which includes the reboot BH90210!! 74 discs. I'm guessing only 2 of them are new since the previous set was 72 discs.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...KIKX0DER&psc=1

Anyone know if this version will be added to the site? I think I'll pick it up, so wanted to be able to add it to my collection here.

[VanKilman]

Originally Posted by SpacemanDoug

seasons 1-10 are pretty much all finished by this point, but now he's working on removing the TV bugs as much as he can in scenes cut from the DVD releases

I've been lurking on the forums here for a few years now & never found a reason to make the jump to registration, but I wanted to let you know that there was someone else here extremely interested in the project. Looking forward to any updates and to its completion!

[dbmix305]

Originally Posted by SpacemanDoug

seasons 1-10 are pretty much all finished by this point, but now he's working on removing the TV bugs as much as he can in scenes cut from the DVD releases

please keep me updated, i’ve been trying to find physical or digital copies with the original music for years. I’m definitely interested in this project. will happily pay.

[y2jman]

Originally Posted by elvisranger

A new set announced which includes the reboot BH90210!! 74 discs. I'm guessing only 2 of them are new since the previous set was 72 discs.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...KIKX0DER&psc=1

I know this is old thread but just wanted to bump this and say I order this tues night got today too bad I can't add this in collection still

[WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW]

Originally Posted by SpacemanDoug

funny thing, despite coming along much later, season 9 was the least preserved out of all the seasons

that season for the majority of its first half used much older captures off of FX and they were problematic cause the opening credits that came after the intro were cut off (several of them had songs playing that were altered on the DVD) and I had to use foreign airings which left them intact to figure out what songs went where in those things

the episode Survival Skills was particularly problematic cause it was incomplete, there was one song in the episode and sadly the portion that was captured didn't have it, so I had to use editing trickery to try to re-insert the original song into the scene where it needed to be, the results aren't perfect but better than nothing

I wonder if I don't have most to all of S9 taped OTA on VHS. I'll eventually get around to checking out my tapes. See exactly how much I have of the original broadcasts of all seasons on tape. I had a HiFi Stereo VCR the entire length of the series so my audio from any tapes is probably better than the audio on the Soapnet bootlegs I got which seems based on heavily compressed cable audio, sometimes not even stereo. Even though it may be a pain I may have a go at this project myself and will use very low compression and advanced formats etc. to try to eek out every last bit possible.

[WBMakeVMarsMovieNOW]

I'm pretty sure I captured the direct OTA digital broadcast streams for all episodes of the reboot series. So I think I have that complete series in HD.

[meremortal]

Had no idea this show was made throughout the entire 90s. Remember it being really popular in the earliest seasons and then I forgot about it. Pretty fun show that addressed some serious topics and probably one I could've watched more.

[SpacemanDoug]

you know what's funny is in doing the DVD restorations along with my bud on reddit, I accidentally discovered some VERY rare footage from the season 5 finale (which I might add originally aired as a 90 minute episode in a two hour block)

as with many of the season 3 episodes in the second half of said season, it originally aired with end credits featuring footage from a music video, this video in particular was Jamie Walters singing Hold On

whenever the episode was split into two parts for syndication each episode was given its own credits but used the regular credits the rest of the season used, making its visibility outside of the original FOX broadcast quite a rarity, on one of the foreign broadcasts my bud has a batch of somewhere, they happened to air the two part version with the music video credits intact so that was restored in the DVD restorations as well, despite totally finding this on accident lol

the only reason I found it was I wanted to see if the font differed on that airing compared to the DVD font, as the SOAPnet version aired the end credits with a different font as well

[Youre My Boy Blu!]

RIP Joe E. Tata

He played Nat Bussichio / Sal Bussichio, owner of the Peach Pit in 90210 from 1990-2000.

[critterdvd]

Originally Posted by Youre My Boy Blu!

RIP Joe E. Tata

He played Nat Bussichio / Sal Bussichio, owner of the Peach Pit in 90210 from 1990-2000.

[Show spoiler]

Very sad that he passed!

I have actually just started watching the series and I'm somewhere in the middle of season two

[Show spoiler]Scott just died in the last episode

; so when I saw this get bumped I thought it was a Blu-Ray announcement