"The Parent Trap" on NBC-TV 31 Years Ago
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:03 am
It was on this date, October 27th, 1974:
"The Parent Trap" with Hayley Mills played dual roles as Sharron & Susan made it network TV premiere on NBC-TV as part of NBC's "All-Disney Saturday Night at the Movies" or "Saturday Night at the Movies With Disney". The movies follows with a True-Life Adventure "Mysteries of the Deep". The movie had been successful on many stations including New York's WNBC-TV (Channel 4) where they used to air the original "Wonderful World of Disney". According to the book "The Wonderful World of Disney Television" by Bill Cotter, the movie was broadcaast on 5/16/76 as a 3-hour version on WWOD, 5/6/79, 2/13/82 as a horrible 2-hour version followed by "A Disney Valentine", 4/5/87 on "Disney's Sunday Movie" and 5/18/89 as part of "Disney Family Classics". Most of the songs were edited from the 1979 and 1987 airings fit a shorter time slot. The original movie I have on VHS is 129 minutes, but the broadcast TV version is 90 minutes with 2 hours worth of commercial breaks. I remember seeing that film on WPIX-TV back in 1998 and it was horrible. That means most of the scenes were butchered to fit the time frame. I used to taped it off of TV but the broadcast version stinks! I have the VHS version, it doesn't butchered at all, it remained intact. That was long after the movie was done on these networks before the broadcast version went to syndication as part of Buena Vista TV package. We should give Buena Vista TV credit for this broadcast version from back then. If I don't like the broadcast one, I will watch the original uncut version on VHS or DVD with "Parent Trap 2", the one that I will get it as part of the "Parent Trap: Double Feature".
"The Parent Trap" with Hayley Mills played dual roles as Sharron & Susan made it network TV premiere on NBC-TV as part of NBC's "All-Disney Saturday Night at the Movies" or "Saturday Night at the Movies With Disney". The movies follows with a True-Life Adventure "Mysteries of the Deep". The movie had been successful on many stations including New York's WNBC-TV (Channel 4) where they used to air the original "Wonderful World of Disney". According to the book "The Wonderful World of Disney Television" by Bill Cotter, the movie was broadcaast on 5/16/76 as a 3-hour version on WWOD, 5/6/79, 2/13/82 as a horrible 2-hour version followed by "A Disney Valentine", 4/5/87 on "Disney's Sunday Movie" and 5/18/89 as part of "Disney Family Classics". Most of the songs were edited from the 1979 and 1987 airings fit a shorter time slot. The original movie I have on VHS is 129 minutes, but the broadcast TV version is 90 minutes with 2 hours worth of commercial breaks. I remember seeing that film on WPIX-TV back in 1998 and it was horrible. That means most of the scenes were butchered to fit the time frame. I used to taped it off of TV but the broadcast version stinks! I have the VHS version, it doesn't butchered at all, it remained intact. That was long after the movie was done on these networks before the broadcast version went to syndication as part of Buena Vista TV package. We should give Buena Vista TV credit for this broadcast version from back then. If I don't like the broadcast one, I will watch the original uncut version on VHS or DVD with "Parent Trap 2", the one that I will get it as part of the "Parent Trap: Double Feature".
