The US set has the original broadcasts, except for the pilot and five other episodes that were two hours when originally aired. Those episodes are the syndicated versions and are each missing about seven to eight minutes each, so all together, you are missing about 45 minutes of scenes that were cut...

Great! looking forward to hearing the details about which version of the final episode is included on the Elephant Films release.

Is anyone with the French Elephant Films Blu-ray set able to do a few frame caps of various episodes? I'd like to check the quality as compared to the US and UK sets.

Also, which version is the last episode? The two hour version, or the syndicated/edited two part version?

It's definitely a case of each having their pros and cons. Here are a couple of caps from the US and UK Don't Say Goodbye. The US version has what appears to be truer colors, but there is a loss of detail from the grain removal, look at TC's hair, the fuzz on his t-shirt or the bills in his hand. Th...

Or, the German is the original and the syndicated re-ordered some scenes....

Interesting.... It should be about 93 minutes by my calcs for a two hour show from 1987-88. Does the German DVD version have have a set of end credits and opening credits in the middle? Does it have the montage of scenes from other episodes as the end credits(http://magnum-mania.com/Video/End_Credit...

It's the whole series. Here are a couple of shots from the last episode. Because the base framing is the same, it's clear that the US and UK sets are sourced from the same scans of the source material. The US set crops in a bit on the left and the right of the frame to make the ratio 1.33:1 while th...

I'd be happy to do some comparisons and post them here. Do you have a particular episode that you think is especially poor? Do you, or anyone, know if the broadcast version of the last episode was released on DVD or Blu-ray in any regions? If not, is there a off air copy available digitally or even ...

The US and UK DVD releases include the syndicated version of the two-hour last episode which is cut into two parts and has about 7 minutes of footage edited out.

Has the original broadcast version ever been released on DVD or any other format?

That was me that posted the Amazon review about the missing eight minutes in the pilot in the US release. The UK release is okay for the pilot, I don't have the French release to check. Upon further inspection of the US set, all the episodes that aired in two hour timeslots (a total of six) are spli...