Cut versus Uncut

[samhexum]

After a hiatus of several months, the avengers is available again on prime.  The funny thing is, when it wasn't available I downloaded 22 episodes and watched them on my computer. 16 of them were from the first Diana Rigg season, which was in black-and-white. That season was absolutely fantastic and I love it even more because watching it in my dark bedroom or on the computer in the middle of the night with all the lights off in black and white is moody and atmospheric.

However, I couldn't find all of those episodes in black-and-white and had to download colorized versions of a handful of them and when I watched them I noticed that they were the fully uncut versions because there were a few extra lines here and there that I immediately noticed from having watched those episodes so often on prime.

So now that I'm watching them on prime again, it stands out that there have been these little cuts that I am now familiar with… Including a huge blooper that they cut out from one of my favorite episodes (which was played entirely for laughs). In the uncut version, Steed is talking to a woman who is preoccupied with her knitting and he asks her a question and while she is answering him, she looks down and continues speaking, but her lips aren't moving. In the prime version, Steed never asks the question.