Don't know if anyone else has ever purchased bootlegs of the series since I kinda need to vent right now if it's alright with everyone, this topic can be the place to discuss them.
As we were waiting for the region 1 season 4 set to be released by Universal In my and my best friend's anxiousness to see what happened after the Shock Theater cliffhanger I found on the internet and purchased a bootlegged set of the entire series (though it had not been until after the purchase was made that I learned what the word bootleg meant).
The presence of fragments of commercials in some episodes suggests that these are recordings of the original airings and contain the original music.
Though I would not have known anyway had it not been for the bootleg, I am most grateful to have purchased it for the episode Temptation Eyes containing one of my all time favorite songs 'I Wanna Know What Love Is' by Foreigner. The sound alike version in the Universal region 1 release pisses me off and as a result I never source it for that particular episode.
The set has also saved my Universal set because several years ago my mother accidentally returned one of my Universal discs from season 4 to Netflix as the film 27 Dresses and since they ignored my enclosed letter with the real 27 Dresses kindly asking for it's return my bootleg has been serving as a replacement. I however am thinking of trying to find a replacement of the official disc upon Friday discovering that my bootlegged Roberto (which is actually at the end of the Temptation Eyes disc) freezes and resumes seconds ahead in several places and several times in a row. It made it a pain for my best friend and I to get through. It's a shame it's far too late and that we don't have a Netflix account anymore, the suggestion I didn't take back then of ordering their copy of the disc and keeping it sounds good now. Since they withheld mind it would have been fair.
All these years later I am getting upset with myself as shortly after collecting the entire set in the Universal region 1 releases I somewhat regarded my bootleg set as no longer needed and somewhere along the lines I let an entire box containing season 1 and up to Goodnight Dear Heart of season 2. I am still convinced that if I tear my room apart that I could uncover it, I am having a heard time believing that I would throw it away.
Just today I discover that the remainder of season 2 is also missing and somehow I still have disc 1 containing the beginning of the first season where one of the missing discs should be. This on top of one I had to willingly dispose those years ago because it froze and did not resume during I believe it was Dr. Ruth. My best friend and I had ran out to get a cheap bottle of scratch remover but of the several attempts made no success was achieved in fixing it.
I know those discs must be somewhere, I seem to recall needing to use the box I am missing for something and lazily putting the discs onto the stack holders I have for writable discs. I very much appreciate my bootleg set and since not long ago my best friend and I tested Play Ball for a moment where we thought we recognized elevator music I have entertained the idea that we'd perhaps make an adventure of that throughout the entire series at some point.
It's also quite disappointing to have lost the episode M.I.A. I recall the bootleg contained extra moments of footage that were cut from the Universal region 1 release. Or so it seemed as I know watching it once I noticed moments I did not recognize. It was on disc 7 one of the ones I thought I still had but just discovered missing today, ugh I can't believe this!
Thanks again for your patience. I needed this.
As we were waiting for the region 1 season 4 set to be released by Universal In my and my best friend's anxiousness to see what happened after the Shock Theater cliffhanger I found on the internet and purchased a bootlegged set of the entire series (though it had not been until after the purchase was made that I learned what the word bootleg meant).
The presence of fragments of commercials in some episodes suggests that these are recordings of the original airings and contain the original music.
Though I would not have known anyway had it not been for the bootleg, I am most grateful to have purchased it for the episode Temptation Eyes containing one of my all time favorite songs 'I Wanna Know What Love Is' by Foreigner. The sound alike version in the Universal region 1 release pisses me off and as a result I never source it for that particular episode.
The set has also saved my Universal set because several years ago my mother accidentally returned one of my Universal discs from season 4 to Netflix as the film 27 Dresses and since they ignored my enclosed letter with the real 27 Dresses kindly asking for it's return my bootleg has been serving as a replacement. I however am thinking of trying to find a replacement of the official disc upon Friday discovering that my bootlegged Roberto (which is actually at the end of the Temptation Eyes disc) freezes and resumes seconds ahead in several places and several times in a row. It made it a pain for my best friend and I to get through. It's a shame it's far too late and that we don't have a Netflix account anymore, the suggestion I didn't take back then of ordering their copy of the disc and keeping it sounds good now. Since they withheld mind it would have been fair.
All these years later I am getting upset with myself as shortly after collecting the entire set in the Universal region 1 releases I somewhat regarded my bootleg set as no longer needed and somewhere along the lines I let an entire box containing season 1 and up to Goodnight Dear Heart of season 2. I am still convinced that if I tear my room apart that I could uncover it, I am having a heard time believing that I would throw it away.
Just today I discover that the remainder of season 2 is also missing and somehow I still have disc 1 containing the beginning of the first season where one of the missing discs should be. This on top of one I had to willingly dispose those years ago because it froze and did not resume during I believe it was Dr. Ruth. My best friend and I had ran out to get a cheap bottle of scratch remover but of the several attempts made no success was achieved in fixing it.
I know those discs must be somewhere, I seem to recall needing to use the box I am missing for something and lazily putting the discs onto the stack holders I have for writable discs. I very much appreciate my bootleg set and since not long ago my best friend and I tested Play Ball for a moment where we thought we recognized elevator music I have entertained the idea that we'd perhaps make an adventure of that throughout the entire series at some point.
It's also quite disappointing to have lost the episode M.I.A. I recall the bootleg contained extra moments of footage that were cut from the Universal region 1 release. Or so it seemed as I know watching it once I noticed moments I did not recognize. It was on disc 7 one of the ones I thought I still had but just discovered missing today, ugh I can't believe this!
Thanks again for your patience. I needed this.