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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="0cca11c3.gif"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d47d540.gif" border=0 width="125" height="84" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/banzai/1009" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/banz"><U><U>Rob's Halloween Site</U></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Plot Outlines"><U>Plot Outlines</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="List Of Victims"><U>List Of Victims</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Picture Gallery"><U>Picture Gallery</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Downloads Multimedia"><U>Downloads & Multimedia</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awards Advertisements "><U>Awards & Advertisements</U></A><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awards Advertisements "><U> </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Email Me"><U>E-mail Me</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Halloween Articles"><U>Halloween Articles</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Halloween Interviews"><U>Halloween Interviews</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Halloween News"><U>Halloween News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Location Directions"><U>Location Directions</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="F.A.Q."><U>F.A.Q.</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Film Connections"><U>Film Connections</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Remastering Halloween"><U>Remastering Halloween</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Curse Of The Thorn"><U>Curse Of The Thorn</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Halloween On TV"><U>Halloween On TV</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Goof Ups"><U>Goof Ups</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="H20 At Planet Hollywood"><U>H20 At Planet Hollywood</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Characters"><U>The Characters</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reunion 2000"><U>Reunion 2000</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Additional Features"><U>Extra Features</U></A></div> <bR> <div>   <a href="http://member.bcentral.com/cgi-bin/fc/fastcounter-login?2408025" target="_top"> <img border="0" src="http://fastcounter.bcentral.com/fastcounter?2408025+4816057"></a>  <br>  <font face="arial" size="1"> <a href="http://fastcounter.bcentral.com/fc-join" target="_top">FastCounter by bCentral</a> </font><br>   </div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#99CC00" FACE="Arial" ><B>Rob's Halloween Site: The Michael Myers Territory</B></FONT>     <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#CCCC66" FACE="Arial" >|   </FONT></div> <div> <IMG SRC="0cbf4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Halloween On TV</div> <div> Each year when October rolls around, HALLOWEEN fans look forward to one inevitability: HALLOWEEN movies on television. Since HALLOWEEN first graced the airwaves of NBC on October 30, 1981, the series has been shown on TV, in numerous incarnations, throughout the world time and again.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="24dd8980.jpg" border=0 width="216" height="152" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">When HALLOWEEN was being edited for television for its first appearance in 1981, a problem arose. "First they told us what had to go, which was everything, and I wrote them back, telling them this was ridiculous," Debra Hill said in a 1981 <U>Fangoria</U> interview. To take care of the problem, John Carpenter wrote and shot several minutes of new footage. There was an all new scene where Dr. Loomis confronts sanitarium officials in 1963. We then see Loomis talking to Michael in his cell. A scene was included after Michael's 1978 escape where Loomis finds the word "Sister" carved into his cell door (HALLOWEEN II had just been released, so the "sister" reference helped connect the sequel to the original). Finally, a scene was shot where Lynda comes over to Laurie's house and we witness more "girl talk." While these scenes definitely augment the film, there were pieces taken out. Of course, the nominal curse words included in the film had to go. A thinner matte with smaller eyeholes was included for the opening murder. A cut shot, consisting of only a few seconds, was included in the "pot sequence," - an additional shot of Michael driving the station wagon. Carpenter and Hill re-edited the whole sequence, so that Annie and Laurie could have just as easily been smoking a cigarette. They even replaced some of Annie's dialogue with a mundane un-alert voice.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.halloweenmovies.com/tv/h1dad.wav" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.halloweenmovies.com/tv/h1dad."><U><U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ff000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">.WAV FILE (149 KB) - "Look - there's my Dad."</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="24ec9960.jpg" border=0 width="201" height="150" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">When HALLOWEEN II hit sets across the nation, a very different film was shown. Over 20 minutes of cut footage was placed into the movie. Although this extra footage is mostly comprised of cheesy conflicts between nurses, there were gems included such as an alternate ending where Jimmy is shown as a survivor, in the ambulance with Laurie. "We made it," Laurie cries as the ambulance takes her away. The usual splicing of bad language (such as replacing the dreaded "s" word with "sugar") and nudity also occurred - you can imagine what the censors did to Bud's rendition of "Amazing Grace."</div> <div> HALLOWEEN III rarely makes a television appearance. No new footage has even been documented as being included in a broadcast.</div> <bR> <div> It's important to realize that these content changes were included only when the films were usually sold to independent stations, which broadcasted "syndicated" movies - the ones which show "Movies at 8" Monday through Friday. Cable stations usually show the film in its uncut original form, sometimes edited for language and nudity only.</div> <bR> <div> With that in mind, it's easy to understand why HALLOWEEN 4 and 5 remained unchanged - they were never sold to independent stations. The only times these films have appeared on television were on pay cable networks (like HBO and Cinemax) and pay-per-view.</div> <bR> <div> This past fall, HALLOWEEN THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS made its television debut. To the surprise of fans, several scenes from the original cut of the film, often called the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Halloween 6 PCut"><U><U>producers' cut</U></U></A></FONT>, made it onto the screen. While they were generally made up of small additions to existing scenes, this was quite exciting for fans who wanted to see cut footage from the film.</div> <bR> <div> The series has been cut and re-edited time and time again for television. . From the addition of a dissolve or a fade-out to the deletion of an entire scene - there's a different feel to a HALLOWEEN movie each time it makes an appearance. What does the future hold for HALLOWEEN on TV? Certainly HALLOWEEN H20 will show up on TV at some point in the future. Perhaps more different versions of the series will show up. One thing is for certain... HALLOWEEN will rule the airwaves for many Octobers yet to come.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>