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bulkman2
03-16-2008, 04:55 PM
Hello, Honeymooners fans--
I just finished doing a comparison between the M.P.I. VHS Vol. 26 version of this episode, and the M.P.I. DVD version, and was surprised to discover that they are IDENTICAL! All the information that I had seen on this had stated that the VHS was the 1954 version, and the DVD was from 1953, but apparently that is not true! Even the length is the same for both, a little over 9 minutes, and the VHS version claims to be over 11 minutes, but it isn't. Has anyone else noticed this discrepancy?
Rick:confused: :confused: :confused:

Bill S.
03-17-2008, 07:40 PM
I don't know where you heard about the 1954 version being on VHS and the 1953 version being on DVD, but you were obviously misinformed. Unless there was some special release VHS copy issued that nobody here has, the 1954 version still remains unreleased. MPI released the 1953 version twice on VHS, incorrectly labeling it as the 1954 version on one of the volumes. The same mistake was made with the 1957 version of "Manager Of The Baseball Team"...the original version was released twice, but MPI eventually fixed that mistake on VHS by reissuing that volume. However, once the Lost Episodes were released on DVD, the 1957 version of "Manager" was nowhere to be found, along with "What's The Name," the musical remake of "What's Her Name," which was only released on VHS.