Beverly Hills 90210: The Complete Series

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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