People still don’t like the Irish, so it’s cool.

And Molly The Mail Lady from Sesame Street season 3, you young whippersnappers. That’s where I knew her from.

Topher is late to the game. Maplefilm’s excellent all-in-one 247 minute fanedit came out in 2015. Also Jobilt’s Hobbit edit comes in 3 sizes: an extended edit 3h 45m, a theatrical edit 2h 42m, and a “ludicrous” edit at a brisk 2h 10m.
AVClub writers need to do their appropriate nerd due diligence and research this…

As for restoring the film, I’m sure the producers are mocking Disney’s over-reliance on digital filters and grain-removal, hence the “done by hand” thing. It’s worth searching for Disney Blu ray reviews to find out how they’ve hosed quite a few of their releases. “Cinderella” seems to have been botched quite badly.

The last DVD release of WKRP in 2014 from Shout! Factory did have the original music. A few artists still aren’t on there but the vast majority of it is. From a 2014 COS article: “A notable absence is Pink Floyd’s “Dogs”, which was heavily featured in the show’s most popular episode “Turkeys Away”. Other choice songs…

I seem to remember a John Landis article/interview here at AV Club several years ago where the comment section became an epic discussion on Landis’ culpability in the 3 deaths on the set of The Twilight Zone. Good read.
Let’s do that again.

Thanks. I love people’s personal, oddball rock’n’roll stories. Not enough of them get written down.

Ted Cassidy will always be Bigfoot in my heart. No one can take that away from me.