FIXED Happy thanksgiving everyone. An early Xmas present to all of you.
https://youtu.be/ScAzWm4xSPAPlease keep this original pilot edit I made without commercials among fans or people who worked on the show.
Now with full ending
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The ending theme is cut. I want to hear it in full. Please.
shareTake another look at the top link, you will be happy.
shareThank you, thank you, thank you so much.
Edermike, just tell me one thing: Is it true that this was an unaired version of the Pilot? What if the version that aired on March 15, 1985, was the one on the DVD?
It wouldn't make any sense for an unaired Pilot to have a "Be Right Back" bumper at the end of act 2, would it?
In short yes a bumper would be thrown in during the production just to have it ready to air. This was a finished pilot that's for sure, did it air this way, we don't know for certain.
I do know I saw this and other season 1 episodes on ABC with the normal Leon Redbone credits. I also know that is NOT Dr. John singing on this version so can we please stop that rumor. I've seen the man live, listened to his music very closely, not his voice at all. I hate unfounded internet rumors based on some guy putting it on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia that had it, has since been removed.
Had Dr. John been on the show, believe me, it would have been mentioned by someone connected with the show by now that he did the original theme. They would have kept it too, he was a much bigger star than Leon Redbone. It doesn't make sense at all, and again that's not his voice. Not in 30 years has anyone credible mentioned it once!
IF this aired on ABC it aired once and I caught the rerun. I know the rest of season one aired with the Redbone theme and I'm pretty certain it had the pose of them we know so well from the orange credits. Thus unless a 1985 tape turns up I would have to say this was only used the first airing and quickly replaced by the second episode
Fair enough. I'll stop believing that that is Dr. John singing the theme.
Meanwhile, the commercial for the premiere of Mr. Belvedere, which aired the night before said premiere on March 14, 1985, has resurfaced. I posted it in the comments of your video. Go to 11:40 here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLD0ohPdFCM
Thanks for the bumper that was really cool. I am glad I am around and remember seeing the show in 1985. Leon's version and the original intro really were around very, very early. I was shocked to see this purple intro this year as I saw the pilot on ABC in 1985 with the orange credits. It must have been the summer rerun.
shareWonder why Shout didn't give the Pilot episode the deluxe treatment, like Sony did with Seinfeld? In the case of Seinfeld, both original broadcast and rerun versions of the Pilot (the original had the Jep Epstein score, and the rerun had the familiar slap bass score of Jonathan Wolff) were included.
shareI've already said this on other sites, but I wonder if Frank Dungan and Jeff Stein, the original developers and executive producers of Mr. Belvedere, ever asked 20th Century Fox to allow Shout! Factory to include both versions of the pilot.
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