Night of the Blood Beast - different versions

[Diet Kolos]

It's most certainly due to the editing.
The first 3 national seasons were edited by a third-party, IVL Post, if I'm not mistaken. BBI bought an editing suite towards the end of Season 3 with the big contract money they got (see episode 320 with the Tor Johnson video toaster host segment).
This is also evident via the BBI vault tapes I have. Tapes with episodes from the first 3 seasons don't have an internal production slate, Season 4 and on do.

In any case, my best guess is that the Info Club address was superimposed directly by Comedy Central those first 3 seasons during broadcast, the masters they got from IVL Post didn't have them.

[jocksinclair]

Jan 2, 2021 13:22:32 GMT -5 @codyhimes said:

Jan 2, 2021 10:54:22 GMT -5 jocksinclair said:

That's not necessarily Turkey Day specific; I know that when I was restoring the missing frames around the non-bumper commercial break, I remember one episode that had two different times for the Info Club release.  Sometimes, the DVD has a different font.  I wonder whether it's actually in the master or was added after the fact.

But I will admit that I did my comparisons on the audio level, so maybe I'm just making an excuse...

Do you remember what episode that might have been?

I don't think it's actually "Alien From L.A.", but it's an episode that reminded me of that.  Looking at the season 3 list, best guess would be "Cave Dwellers", maybe "Viking Women".  I remember a bunch of people in "primitive" costumes in a tunnel, but I think it was a sci-fi lair type tunnel, with lights and a few consoles and a little remote control robot on wheels at the other end.  The odd thing about it was that it was so close to that commercial break that I would even notice it.

They mess around a bit with the fonts in general, I never took note of it because I wasn't gonna go back and fix it.  The "Best Brains" logo on the early episodes (pre-stinger) is different than when it aired, I remember that, and the stinger on the "Colossal Man" VHS is different than the off-air recording.

[Megalon]

Jan 19, 2021 18:16:16 GMT -5 jocksinclair said:

Jan 2, 2021 13:22:32 GMT -5 @codyhimes said:

Do you remember what episode that might have been?

I remember a bunch of people in "primitive" costumes in a tunnel, but I think it was a sci-fi lair type tunnel, with lights and a few consoles and a little remote control robot on wheels at the other end.  

Robot Holocaust, maybe.

[jocksinclair]

Hey, good job, I'm pretty sure that's right.  I wasn't paying attention to that one when I scanned the list, I totally forgot it's an '80's title.