Original Cartoon back on the BBC this week

[ZariusTwo]

The BBC are idiots, they did the same thing with The Racoons...

They don't do it when Jackie Chan Adventures or any recent show comes on though, do they?

[cyborg]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

The BBC are idiots, they did the same thing with The Racoons...

They don't do it when Jackie Chan Adventures or any recent show comes on though, do they?

I don't live that far away from the BBC - maybe I could get in there and force them to show TMNT in heavy rotation in fullscreen. Someone has to do something about their Freeview based, CBBC induced, widescreen chopping obsession.

Maybe I should just go down to the BBC tomorrow with my CV... I hear they need a new DG

[raphael_is_cool]

Did the BBC never show season one?
I remember watching All About Rats once (the one with all the mousers and Mikey being captured), that's what got me into them when I was younger, that is a season one episode right?

[Chewie]

In Germany they show the original Series the 5th Time in a Row I think..........

And it`s really boring right now. I can talk all the dialogues

I loved the OS but when u see them every day, it`s not as cool as normal

I wish "Tele 5" would buy the New Series

[PizzaPower]

man, I hope after the DVD comes out here in America, the FoxBox will bring in the old toon here.

[Orochi Chimera]

That really does suck that it is edited and that it has the faux-widescreen. At least it is on.

The BBC are showing the censored version

Do they edit it because they think it is violent or because they try to fit more commercials in?

[host_punktmy]

No man, as much as we'd all like it the Fox Box isn't going to do that.

[Orochi Chimera]

It might be possible for the Fox Box to get the original TMNT. They recently just stopped showing another old cartoon Back to the Future(1991) and they have showed other old cartoons like Dungeons and Dragons(1983) in the last few years.

Also WPIX/WB has been showing old cartoons like Carmen Sandiego(1994)
and is currently showing the littles(1983). So it is possible that one of these channels could get it.

I was hoping that cartoon network would put it on since they might possibly show the uncut episodes. Or maybe Boomerang without commercials.

Used http://www.tvtome.com/ for the dates.

[spikealike]

Eeww no, I watched the episode this morning and it doesn't have Don's original voice actor

Still, funny to hear the theme 'Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles' again...

[cyborg]

Originally Posted by orochichimera

Do they edit it because they think it is violent or because they try to fit more commercials in?

The BBC doesn't show commercials.

It's not they who edit it per se - it's an alternate version that already was edited for the BBC. You see nunchucks and shuriken are considered too violent and readily constructable by enterprising teenagers. In the era of video nasties the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) stepped in to start regulating videos and martial arts films with such implements were cut out.

Hence we do not see the sequence in the opening title with Mikey deflecting those items, nor the bit at the end nor the bit near the middle nor the orange background holding nunchunks thing in the coloured background weapons bit.

And it's HERO not NINJA - because despite the fact every kid KNEW they were supposed to be ninja's they're too violent again. And the film was TMNT, not TMHT. Censors Intellegence 0 Kids Intellegence 1.

[MW8979]

So....they edit the part in the intro with the nunchucks and the ninja stuff....but when the show opens and Splinter talks to them about being ninjas and such, they don't censor that? That is so stupid.

[Reznorite420]

Originally Posted by spikealike

'Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles'

Now you've done it...

*head turns beet-red, steams, and inflates*

[spikealike]

Lol, they even edit the 'Splinter taught them to be ninja teens' lyric and change it to 'Splinter taught them to be fighting teens'. Bloody fools. Shame they can't show the original unedited eps, but alas, they're just using the tapes they already have...

[Reznorite420]

Originally Posted by spikealike

Lol, they even edit the 'Splinter taught them to be ninja teens' lyric and change it to 'Splinter taught them to be fighting teens'.

We already knew that

[Orochi Chimera]

Originally posted by cyborg:
You see nunchucks and shuriken are considered too violent and readily constructable by enterprising teenagers.

So did they cut out most of Michelangelo's fight scenes or did they edit most of the fight scenes?

If they did edit most of the fight scenes then the episodes must be significantly shorter.

Originally posted by cyborg:
The BBC doesn't show commercials.

That's definitely a good thing.

[spikealike]

They just charge us to watch all their repeats instead