Has anyone watched the episode "Round Up" which is on disc 5 of Season 4? It is 2 older episodes spliced together. I just need to know which episodes were used.
It looks like ZIV Television was all washed up (pardon the pun) with the show and decided to cut corners and use old footage. Crime at Sea could have been the last original episode to be filmed with Lloyd Bridges and crew.
That's the one with Jack Nicholson, isn't it? I never noticed that it was two older episodes spliced together. The Nicholson scenes were certainly not from another episode.
shareYes, Jack Nicholson is there. I had forgotten about that. Maybe not exactly two shows joined, but extensive footage was used to fill in the episode. I remember Lloyd Bridges handling small nitroglycerin containers underwater in a old sunken wreck. He was trying to put them back into a cage. This footage went on for some time and was from a previous episode. Some time later he is swimming through a large, metal storm-water pipe, trying to get to a bomb that was on a timer. He is running out of air and trying to take the bomb out. This footage was from a previous episode.
I'm just curious to know the titles of those previous episodes that were almost spliced together. I could do this myself, but I don't feel like browsing through 155 episodes after just watching them all. Maybe in a year or two.
Update and many thanks to a reviewer from Amazon:
The footage of Mike hauling the torpedo bomb through the big pipe was from "Underwater Security" (season 2, disc 1).
The footage of Mike handling the nitro canisters was from "The Raft" (season 2, disc 5).
This re-use of footage sounds like a more egregious example of what was a pretty common practice back then. Usually it occurred with "stock situations" -- how many times did we see the same footage of Batman and Robin reaching the Batcave via Batpoles, getting in the Batmobile, strapping in and zooming off, racing to Gotham City, and arriving at police headquarters with the exact same bystanders? (A second shot of them reaching the Batcave and getting in the Batmobile was eventually made, but then the TWO scenes were multi-peated.) And then anytime they arrived at the Batcopter or Batboat was just the one same scene of each.
But occasionally more specific situations on shows would employ re-used footage, USUALLY just short bits. Ivan Tors's own Flipper, while obviously re-using a lot of dolphin footage, also re-used human diving footage, and in one case, you see a shot of the boys Sandy and Bud looking out their kitchen window (seen from outside) in the episode "The Warning", but their clothes (and Sandy's hair) don't match the shots of them INSIDE the kitchen; but then a few MONTHS later (in the original run) you see the episode "Decision for Bud", where they're wearing the "window shot clothes" IN the kitchen, and they go to look out the window, and we see the SAME "outside view" of them looking out the window as "The Warning", and it comes out that THIS is where that shot ORIGINATED, and THIS episode was actually FILMED first, but not aired 'til much later. Another example is from the original Star Trek: in "Spock's Brain", a scene where everyone throughout the ship is rendered unconscious (marked by flashing lights) has a shot in 'sick bay' showing the flashing lights, followed by Dr. McCoy and Nurse Chapel collapsing to the floor; then in "The Way to Eden", a similar shipwide incapacitation (without flashes) shows the SAME sick-bay shot of McCoy and Chapel's falls, minus the first couple seconds of flashing lights.
To name a few.