I suppose they had to edit Blazing Saddles when it ran on television. But I gotta tell you, half the humor was lost through dropped lines, dropped sound effects, etc. The bean eating scene was essentially silent. The guys stood up but no sound which is what made that scene work. The theatrical release is hilarious but the TV version, not so much.
Reminds of a run of the original Star Trek TV series on a local station. They cut out some content to put more commercials in, but, believe you me, not one of the fist fights got cut!
TV censorship has had its ups (late ’70s-early ’80s) and downs, but mostly downs. I hate censored versions of movies on TV. Such hypocrites, those sleazy moneybags who run networks and their pompous puritanical cronies on the FCC….
Those were the dark ages when network tv edited movies. Now we have HBO & Netflix along with other pay tv & streaming services. Heck they even format the widescreen movies in the aspect ratio instead of cutting heads off
TexTech almost 8 years ago
I suppose they had to edit Blazing Saddles when it ran on television. But I gotta tell you, half the humor was lost through dropped lines, dropped sound effects, etc. The bean eating scene was essentially silent. The guys stood up but no sound which is what made that scene work. The theatrical release is hilarious but the TV version, not so much.
ChessPirate almost 8 years ago
Reminds of a run of the original Star Trek TV series on a local station. They cut out some content to put more commercials in, but, believe you me, not one of the fist fights got cut!
CougarAllen almost 8 years ago
The worst fight scene ever filmedKirk vs. Lizard-Manhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SK0cUNMnMM
Sisyphos almost 8 years ago
TV censorship has had its ups (late ’70s-early ’80s) and downs, but mostly downs. I hate censored versions of movies on TV. Such hypocrites, those sleazy moneybags who run networks and their pompous puritanical cronies on the FCC….
Dapperdan61 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Those were the dark ages when network tv edited movies. Now we have HBO & Netflix along with other pay tv & streaming services. Heck they even format the widescreen movies in the aspect ratio instead of cutting heads off