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Yeah, it would have been nice if they'd taken the trouble to fix the dropout, but it's a time-consuming (and hence expensive) job. Other than that, the picture looks exactly as I'd expected it to: a professional 80s NTSC recording.

It was not in the print I saw in 1992, and nor was it in the print that the BBFC certified.

TMS was higher quality to start with.

Almost :-) Spam is 'unsolicited commercial email', also known as UCE. The name comes from a classic Monty Python sketch set in a cafe, where every dish on the menu included spam (the food :-). The point was, you got spam with everything, and so it is with email :-( These are indeed scams...

Not that I recall :-) I do remember the screening I was at taking a break half-way through the movie... Check the BBFC details: the movie was listed as running to 85'48" when originally released. The extended version runs to around 89 minutes.

In the UK, 75% of the price at the pump is tax. In terms of the actual cost of the fuel, we pay less than the US. My local petrol station was at 89.9p/litre last week; it's now at 93.9. General information: the US gallon is 128 fluid ounces. The Imperial gallon is 160 fluid ounces. These...

Try ~$6.50/US gallon. This is slightly higher than normal - prices have jumped slightly in the last week for obvious reasons - but not by much.

No, that's the only difference. The US release features the cover you describe, and uses the same arrangement of 'Never Before, Never Again' as used in the 94-minute cut of the movie. Most of the non-US releases use the original poster art on the sleeve, and at least two (UK and Canadian)...

Play are now listing up UK releases of all four movies for November.

The version *without* "When Love Is Gone" is the theatrical release. The song was added back in for the first home video releases.

Yeah, they've been aired occasionally.

Those changes were made a long time ago while the show was in syndication. Nothing to do with HIT.

eBay almost certainly don't know about it. Bootleg recordings turn up in their hundreds every single day. There are a number of people selling bootleg Muppet Show sets, Fraggle Rock sets, the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, the theatrical Star Wars trilogy...and those are just the most...

I don't doubt this is a bootleg. Copies of this turn on eBay pretty much daily, too.

No, I'm reasonably sure the heads are shot, and those are irreplaceable. It's also an extremely elderly machine, even by Betamax standards, so I'd rather get a newer model :-) The problem with eBay is that prices for Betamax decks are hugely inflated. There's a nice multistandard machine in...

I'm sure we do, but the chances of finding an NTSC deck in the UK are slim to say the least!

There are two: the original broadcast version, which was released on home video in the early 80s, and a re-edited version which is the one available on the Columbia VHS/DVD. Thanks to HIT's reluctance to license Kermit's appearance, there will shortly be a third version; I'm not sure if it's...

Umm...why didn't you just get the UK release, which will arrive in November? :-P

It seems unlikely to be copy-protection - for one thing, there is very little protection available for DVDs apart from CSS. However, Disney have a reputation for producing DVDs which push the format to its limits, and this can cause problems on low-end (read: cheap) DVD players. It's not the...

Ker-ching :-) Slot-loaders are notoriously unreliable :-(