"Glitter Rock"
Cut Scenes:

The first draft script, dated 7th January 1991 confirms the opening concert is in the fictional Berzing Arena, the drummer is called Cavin and Al's line that killers "come in all shapes and sizes, some of them are loners" was the more judgemental "these types of anonymous killers are often loners".

Before the signing scene, Sam and Al discuss the lyrics to a song: "In the garden of your heart / beneath the oak of our true love / I parked my Harley in the dark and waited for your dad to go".

The signing takes places inside a record store rather than a mall, and most intriguingly Sam meets a young Madonna (who would have been sixteen at the time) - they joke about her getting a contract and he might accidentally give her the titles Like a Virgin and Material Girl before she flashes her bustier (in the finished episode, it's a random fan and she shows off much more; this change was reportedly because Madonna declined the producer's request to include her as a character').

The song Fate's Wide Wheel is called Mystic Traveler.

There's a short scene later removed where Sam tries to get out of partying by suggesting they might all suffer low blood sugar.

Sam complains to Al that this is nothing like his experiences singing in Catch a Falling Star, and the script references his attempts at a half-hearted "Axl Rose, or Steven Tyler' (at the end of the episode he sings with the energy of Rebel Rebel or You Shook Me All Night Long).

The rehearsal also shares some extra lines from Rock the Redhead: "She said baby, what you need is some horizontal speed, and I'm the one to slake your desire".

Sam and Al, and simultaneously Sam and Dwayne, discuss the possibility that Whitler tried to kill him with the falling lighting rig.

Dwayne recalls the band buying into a treasure hunting syndicate in Florida two years previously who used the money to make a movie called Topless Cheerleaders A-Go-Go.

Sam explains that webbed fingers are called 'syndactyly'.

There's a lot of exposition missing from the final scene (including about Philip's future) added at a later point.


The Beatles

Flash and Sam are sitting on either side of the back seat of the car with Flash's girlfriend between them. She has her hands round the back of both men and when ever Flash is distracted, she strokes and fusses over Sam. Dwayne was sitting in the seat opposite Flash. Through out the scene Flash takes swigs from a small bottle and laughs raucously.

(Flash takes a slug.)
Sam: Maybe you ought to take it a little easy with that stuff- huh?
Flash: Just because you can't hold your own liquor is no reason to go sounding like a bloody bumper sticker. (laughs)
Sam: You don't want to pass out and miss all the fun – huh?
Flash: Huh I am the fun. (spreading arms wide laughing)
Girlfriend: Especially when he's snoring…. (To Sam) I bet you've never fallen asleep on a girl - have you?
Flash: He he.
Sam: Well a gentlemen would never – would never tell.
Flash: Unless he's alone with his mates. (Laugh) You can bet pounds on that. Speaking of which how much did we rake in tonight Dwaynie boy?
Dwayne: We did OK.
Flash: OK, we had 80,0000 screaming fans out there.
Dwayne: And 80 tons of equipment and 80 roadies and crew. Not to mention the hotels and the limos.
Flash: Or tee shirt sales.
Dwayne: Or your personal living expenses which have to be paid for by the corporation.
Flash: Which is us right? (to Dwayne) Right? (To Sam) Right Tonic?
Sam: Yeah right.
Flash: And I say the corporation wants to buy me a Ferrari.
Dwayne: Don't you think you'd be smarter investing your money instead of wasting it on toys?
Flash: I don't want to invest. (laughs) Flash McGrath wants to spend. (Cackle)
Dwayne: That's smart, really smart.
Flash: What?
Sam: I think what Dwayne means to say is that .. ah we should all save our money for a rainy day, that's all.
Flash: Let it pour. We have more money than Croesus. We're making the Beatles look ants, (with Liverpuddlian accent) arn't we?
Sam: I don't remember.
Flash: Uh? (Flash looks at Sam amazed)
Sam: I mean that's what people are going to be saying - about the Beatles – "I don't remember them." - you know, we can really pick. You mean like the Beatles - insect infestation!
(they all laugh)
Flash: And we are the bloody exterminators.
(Flash, laughing, wags his finger at Sam)

 

Syndication Edit:


[Act one. The band is on the way to the hotel in their limo.]

Flash: I don't want to invest. Flash McGrath wants to spend. Haha.

-- begin cut -->

Dwayne: That's, like, really smart.

Flash: What?

Sam: I, I think what Dwayne means to say is that, uh, we should all save our money for a rainy day, that's all.

Flash: Let it pour. Hnn. We have more money than Croesus. Haha.

[Attempts a Liverpudlian accent.] We're going to make the Beatles look like ants. Huh, yeah, aren't we. Huhuh.

Sam: [Under his breath] I don't remember.

Flash: Huh?

Sam: I, I mean, uh, that's what people are going to be saying about the Beatles: I don't remember ... them. You know, when we get really big[?]. I mean, the Beatles, like insect infestation? [They all laugh.]

Flash: Yeah, and we're the bloody exterminators. [They laugh.]

<-- end cut ---

[The limo drives on to the hotel.]

 


Syndication Edit:

[At the very end of the first act in the network version, there are about 1.3 seconds more of Sam reacting to the news that he's going to be killed, before the shot completely fades out.]

 


Syndication Edit:

[Third act. Backstage before the show. Al is giving Sam advice on how to act like a rock star.]

Al: Or, ah -- Oh! Do Townsend.

Sam: Who?

-- begin cut -->

Al: That's right.

Sam: What is?

Al: Who.

Sam: I don't know.

<-- end cut ---

Al: Townsend.

Sam: Who?

Al: Yeah, that's right. Pete Townsend of the Who.

 


Syndication Edit:

[Fourth act. In the network version, after Sam and King Thunder do "Fate's Wide Wheel" in the final concert, the reaction shot of the audience is about .5 second longer.]

 


Syndication Edit:

The network closing credits are run over a repeat of Sam and King Thunder doing "Rock the Redhead" onstage for the audience (partial outtakes). The syndicated closing credits are run over freeze-frames from this sequence using the standard shortened version of the "Quantum Leap" theme.