Looking for TV airings of Season 4 of Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996)

[darkrage6]

Just wondering if anyone on here has TV recordings of season 4 of Sabrina the Teenage Witch? Like many shows Sabrina had it's licensed music changed for DVD and streaming, fortunately I was able to find TV recordings with the original soundtrack on every season except for 4 for some reason.

So if anyone on here has TV recordings of season 4 of that show, please do let me know!

[StarrNoise]

I am very curious to know why you are always after original music? I understand the licensing issue but the change bothers you that much you need the original?

[darkrage6]

Originally Posted by StarrNoise

I am very curious to know why you are always after original music? I understand the licensing issue but the change bothers you that much you need the original?

Yes it does bother me that much cause I grew up watching this show and when I got the DVDs for this show years ago it was incredibly jarring to hear crappy generic replacement music instead of the licensed tracks I remembered hearing on the show as a kid(that was the first time I ever learned about soundtracks getting replaced on DVD for TV shows due to licensing issues)it really put a damper on the experience, and i'm far from the only person who feels that way about soundtracks getting replaced(I also had to hunt down a bootleg copy of Return of the Living Dead because every US version since the original VHS release has replaced a couple of songs on the soundtrack with inferior ones, though for some reason the UK DVD had all of the songs intact)in TV shows. Sometimes it can even outright ruin the plot in some instances, like with that one episode of Lizzie McGuire where Miranda has an eating disorder, as the plot centers around the characters trying to make a music video set to Play's "Us Against the World", so when you replace that with a third-rate replacement song it doesn't have the same impact. There's a reason why Judd Apatow fought so hard to keep the entire licensed soundtrack intact on Freaks and Geeks and why fans were OK with the DVD set costing more then other sets as a result-music was an integral part of the show and replacing all of the songs with crappy soundalikes would've utterly ruined the show. I was also bummed to find out the streaming version of Sister Sister STILL uses the same weak sounding replacement songs that were on the DVD release that came out a decade ago(not only that, they butchered it even more by cutting out the transition music for no apparent reason). The most annoying thing about the replacement songs is that they sound far too "modern" for the time period in which the shows themselves took place, so it took me right out of 90s shows like Sister Sister when they played a song that didn't come out until the late 2000s, it's distracting as hell and ruins the atmosphere, so again I end up having to rely on bootlegs to experience the show how the creators intended.

Sorry for the rant, but this soundtrack-replacement thing is something I feel very strongly about(so much so that I refuse to watch Felicity again until the person working on restoring the original soundtrack is finished, that show had it's songs replaced not once but twice, as the streaming release replaced the already poor sounding songs on the DVDs with even cheaper and lousier replacements yet, that poor show just can't catch a break)and I simply can't bear to watch these shows in a butchered again with the replacement soundtrack(same goes for the crappy edited syndicated versions of shows like Friends that are on streaming services, i'm far too used to the extended DVD versions to watch any other version of the show, same also goes for streaming versions that use the incorrect aspect ratio like Seinfeld). Not to mention this bullcrap licensing issue has flat out prevented several shows from getting official releases due to their extensive use of licensed music(all seasons of the Drew Carey Show beyond the first, Cold Case, Kids Inc, etc)

[StarrNoise]

Oh okay...

So I don't normally go out of my way to watch old shows, and when I do (ie. Las Vegas). It didn't have the elvis theme in the intro.. I'm like huh okay.. and then went on with my life lol

[darkrage6]

Originally Posted by StarrNoise

Oh okay...

So I don't normally go out of my way to watch old shows, and when I do (ie. Las Vegas). It didn't have the elvis theme in the intro.. I'm like huh okay.. and then went on with my life lol

If it's just the theme being changed I can live with that(I.E. Married with Children and George Lopez) it's when the rest of the soundtrack in the show starts getting screwed with that I start having problems, music is a big part of show's like Dawson's Creek and it just feels wrong without the licensed music intended by the creators(Though I can live with the show having a different theme on later DVDs as "Run to You" was apparently the original song Kevin Williamson had in mind for the theme).

[StarrNoise]

Ok fair enough. I guess I don't watch too many old shows to notice or worry.

[MRPITT]

I didn’t really watch Sabrina, but other shows like The Wonder Years, Quantum Leap, Beverly Hills, 90210, China Beach etc. the music was part of what made the show. Changing the music to generic songs definitely detracts from the enjoyment of watching them.

[darkrage6]

Originally Posted by MRPITT

I didn’t really watch Sabrina, but other shows like The Wonder Years, Quantum Leap, Beverly Hills, 90210, China Beach etc. the music was part of what made the show. Changing the music to generic songs definitely detracts from the enjoyment of watching them.

Those shows had their soundtracks changed too? Damn. WKRP in Cincinatti is probably the biggest example I can think of where the soundtrack being changed kills the show.

[MRPITT]

Yes they did. WKRP was butchered.

[darkrage6]

Originally Posted by MRPITT

Yes they did. WKRP was butchered.

Damn I was looking forward to checking out the original 90210 but after hearing about the soundtrack issues i'm not so sure now.