Falling Through the Cracks...

[BillJ]

Ever thought you'd seen an episode then when it came on you had realize you'd never seen it?

Friday night I was watching BBC America when The High Ground came on. For the life of me I couldn't recognize the episode until the name popped up after the main credits. My wife was watching with me and I turned and asked her if she had ever seen it? She told me she hadn't.

I've owned the season three DVD set since it was released all those many moons ago and had watched every episode on that particular disc numerous times but for some reason I always skipped that one.

I knew of the episode and the major plot points but I guess I somehow missed it first run.

Anyone else have an episode fall through the cracks?

 

[MacLeod]

Well in the UK during the orignal run of TNG on BBC2, that episode was banned. So if you hadn't got the VHS tape you wouldn't have seen it until it was aired on Sky albiet in an edited version (a line was removed)

 

[Avon]

is that the 'IRA was right' line? was that this episode?

 

[Count Zero]

I don't think I missed any episode. But here in Germany, they cut the scene from "Conspiracy" where the head of one officer explodes. So, when I saw the original version of the episode many years later, I was totally taken by surprise when that happened and seriously questioned my own state of mind. How could I have missed that before? A little research revealed that it had been cut and that I really had never seen it before.

 

[MacLeod]

is that the 'IRA was right' line? was that this episode?

Yep, and in the UK it happened to be scheduled to air shortly after an increase in IRA activity. I wonder if this episode would even have been made in the same way today.

I don't think I missed any episode. But here in Germany, they cut the scene from "Conspiracy" where the head of one officer explodes. So, when I saw the original version of the episode many years later, I was totally taken by surprise when that happened and seriously questioned my own state of mind. How could I have missed that before? A little research revealed that it had been cut and that I really had never seen it before.

It was also cut from the original BBC broadcast as well, and when Sky reran the episode years later in the early evening showing the scene was cut but the later night time showing had the scene intact.

 

[Finn]

Yeah. I recently checked out DS9's season one DVDs from my local library and I was baffled at the fact there were five or six episodes I didn't recall watching. This was despite the fact I did go through the DS9 DVDs when I still had a netflix account...

 

[Enterprise is Great]

A couple of weeks ago while watching TNG reruns on a local channel I saw Angel One for the very first time. I've been watching and rewatching TNG ever since it premiered and for some reason I always missed that episode. I had even forgotten that I hadn't seen it until the episode ran for a few minutes.

 

[T'Girl]

I don't have the DS9 DVD, and have never seen By The Pale Moonlight. I know it's one of the better episodes and has important scenes and dialog, but when whatever station plays DS9 repeats, and I'm watching, it's never that episode.

 

[The Wormhole]

The problem I have is that there are several episodes which I haven't seen in so long that when I do eventually see them again, they feel new. This especially occurs with TNG's first two seasons, though there are a few TOS ones too. In fact, I recentally went through this with Return of the Archons.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The TOS episode "That Which Survives" I had no memory of before seeing it last year when I got the TOS-R DVD's. Sulu's scream and reaction when touch-of-death girl comes towards him had me in stitches.

Several years before that, I got The Animated Series on DVD, and it was a very pleasent suprise to realize I'd never seen about a third of the episodes.

About "Conspiracy", the version I saw on BBC2 had the head exploding edited out, but they left it in the "Shades of Grey" flashbacks. What was a big shock, was the puppet monster thing rising from the smoking torso immediately following the head exploding when I finally saw the episode on DVD. A major WTF moment!

As for "The High Ground", Mum's contacts got us a bootleg copy of the episode shortly after it's original non-showing on BBC2

Also the Voyager episode "Hunters" was new to me when I got Voyager on DVD. No idea how I ever missed that one the first time around.