Hi,

I'm looking for someone who may have taped the two night showing of
"Flight of the Navigator" on the Magical World of Disney. I believe the
airdates were 1/3 and 1/10/87. The first half ended where David was
about to board the spaceship and the stairs materialized.

I'm not looking for the DVD or any other version like that. Just this
two parter as recorded from television. This is the version I saw a
zillion times growing up, but my parents recorded over it, and I would
love to see this specific version again.

Have much to trade.

i don't have it, but i'm just wondering - were there any extra scenes in this tv version? i know some movies had missing scenes added for their tv airings back in the 70s/80s, so i'm just curious..

i don't have it, but i'm just wondering - were there any extra scenes in this tv version? i know some movies had missing scenes added for their tv airings back in the 70s/80s, so i'm just curious..

Yes, this was actually quite common in the late seventies/early eighties. A lot of movies were being released, uncensored, on Beta/VHS for the first time then. The networks had to compete, so showing long extended cuts with footage that wasn't on the VHS/Beta version was how they maintained ratings. This was done with Jaws, the Superman films, the Airport films, King Kong, the Godfather, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and probably lots of others.

That being said, I don't remember any extra footage in the Flight of the Navigator.

The old FOTN laserdisc that I have in my closet has the side breaks at that exact point.. i could capture it, insert the magical world of disney bumpers every 10 minutes to simulate commercials (probably could even find the opening and closing credits too :lol: ). The laserdisc video quality is about on par with cable TV quality of that time, so it might be a close enough simulation for nostalgic viewing... :)