Yeah, Beaumont's narrations were great. They should have continued that throughout the series.
IMO they probably stopped doing that because they had trouble finding suitable footage to correspond to the narration, or else they didn't want to bother to edit such footage together.
I suppose because the TV Guide would usually list what the episode was going to be about it was thought as un-necessary
I doubt it. After they stopped Ward's narration halfway through the Season (or however long it was), they attempted to accomplish the same function on the cheap, by literally copy and pasting a scene from the middle of the episode and playing it before the opening credits. That was abysmal!
To add insult to injury, the Shout Factory screwed up a lot of those copy and pasted scenes on their DVD release, and accidentally reversed their order so that they appear
after the opening credits (i.e. they are presented as if they are the first scene of the episode, even though they are not...and of course, they again play a second time at their proper place in the episode). Ugh! That's the worst of the worst!
Apparently the original DVD release from Universal did not have that reverse order screw up, but it has an
even worse flaw: those DVDs are craptastic double-sided discs.
TL;DR: Beaumont's narration is amazing. Copied and pasted scenes from the middle of the episode that are stuck before the opening credits in lieu of Beaumont's narration is terrible. Reverse-order copied and pasted scenes from the middle of the episode that are stuck after the opening credits in lieu of Ward's narration is exponentially terrible.
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