OK, I got all the missing episodes, including the ones from the first year of the season, & their pilot episode. In the last gallery of the show, I believe I only had 3 or 4 episodes from their first year, & they were VHS copies in terrible shape.
I now believe no matter what resolution advertised for sale or for free at You-Tube or the torrents, they are all VHS tape copies scaled to other resolutions, or processed in some way in an attempt to make them look better. Sadly all of them aren't even "virgin" VHS, but copies of copies to edit out commercials or other stuff. To make matters worse, the original Canadian versions were edited & cut to fit the Nickelodeon channel standards, & tastes. Living near the border, I watched these directly from Canada uncut when they were new. I was seriously disappointed to see Nick cut them up, & delete many episodes when they ran them on cable TV.
Many of the the copies I got, appear to be a better copy are the same VHS tape processed to look better at first glance. So wherever possible I'll be trying to process caps from the least processed version or distorted versions & do my own processing.
But the copies, especially many from the first few years of the series are terrible quality, even for VHS, but watchable.
I'll be processing them as best I can, but there's not much to work with. The good news though, is there are no more missing episodes, or cut episodes. There is also quite a few episodes improved by using my own processing from a raw video than ones already processed by others.
Here, I'll start the new gallery with a few shots from the first pilot episode. It rare to find even a watchable complete version of it. When you get episodes, they're usually 1 number off, because they don't even include the pilot episode.
Yep, they put one of the guys in a skirt in the very first episode. I just finished going through & processing it. All of the season 1 video is in pretty bad shape, so it was hard to squeeze anything worth while out of it. They look a little blur. I could have sharpened them more, but any more sharpening made the people look like distorted mutated monsters, so it was more pleasant to view them a little on the dull side rather than add any more sharpening than I already did (they were real blurry). I could have airbrushed to clean them up & added detail, but then you wouldn't be viewing originals, but rather something drawn over... it also would have taken a lot more time for each picture. Feel free to chose your own to touch up, air brush & post.
Enjoy!
Love & spankings,
-Betty Pearl-
Topic: YCDTOTV Gallery revisited. (Read 71513 times)
