1st season - "Dark Knight Part 1" - U.S. version. "Dark Knight Part 2" and the rest of the season - Canadian version, approximately 48, 49 minutes (European version is longer). Canadian version still misses stuff, like, I think, "I Will Repay", when it came back from a commercial break, it was a shot of the precinct, Nick in the hall and has a short conversation with Captain Stonetree, goes into the squad room and sits down. Canadian version of that starts with Nick having just sat down in the chair.
1966 used different shots for two scenes, Nick with the family and Bernard being picked up. Nick with the family while eating, it's explicit in the Canadian version that the clear liquid is vodka and Nick's reaction to tasting it, iirc, is lost. U.S. version has more close-ups in the scene with Nick and daughter and father, Canadian version keeps it more medium shot. Canadian version, we see Bernard enter his room, muttering to himself and going over to the drawers and packing, U.S. version (iirc), Bernard's already at the set of drawers and the scene goes from there.
Second and third season, U.S. and Canadian versions were the same and that's what's on the DVD.
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hardwood53
15 years ago
I'll bet that there is more than one European Version, since there are so many different languages in Europe. Wasn't Forever Knight made before there was a European Union? Aren't there a couple of countries missing or have changed names in the meantime? We can take it for granted that language is just one of many differences between countries that might alter the edits. The most explicit would probably be either the French or the Italian version, but I'm just stereotyping. Who knows? The Portuguese version might blow them both away. Maybe Greek is the way to go? Or not? Spanish, or German, or Danish, or Polish, or Czechoslovakian? Hungarian? Swiss? How many have I missed? Now I'm confused.
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conhager9301
12 years ago
I really don't want to come across as a mean snobbish ass, but you obviously don't know much about television production. Forever Knight was a Canadian production, and they wouldn't even film something that they know the censors wouldn't allow to air on network television in their own country. The most explicit cut you'll find IS the Canadian edit.
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mickeykost
12 years ago
Clearly, conhager9301, you have not heard of the German cut for S1 of FK, which was the most explicit version of the show.
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lexyladyjax
12 years ago
I have a novelised version of a script for a third season episode which I refused to turn in to Sony a few years back. It's illegal. I'd give it back for the German version of the first season or the unedited version of the first season.
Still waiting. I refuse to give it up for nothing. Sony can try to pry it from my cold dead hands if they like. [grin] They don't know who I am and they have no way to trace me. It would have been a great episode.
Some things you just can't ride around...
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SimplyMariaC
11 years ago
Why would Sony care now after all this time? I don't think Sony cares about anything involving Forever Knight. It's sad but true Forever Knight is totally dead to Sony. :(
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lexyladyjax
10 years ago
Way to misunderstand, MariaC.
Sony made a request I refused. I paid for it with my hard-earned dollars and I'm not giving it up for anything less than a full first season DVD reissue Blu-Ray.
Some things you just can't ride around...
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