Alternate Versions of Movies for TV that You Remember

I remember seeing Star Trek VI with the colonel West subplot intact, it may have been TV or VHS.
I distinctly remember René Auberjonois delivering the ”clean their chronometers“ line, and Michael Dorn’s “this is not Klingon blood” line. I watched the film on streaming a few days ago and was surprised to find those scenes cut.
 
I swear I remember seeing a trailer/commercial for the 1984 movie Dreamscape (starring Dennis Quaid) that had a lightsaber in it, but I saw the movie (on tv) years later and didn't see any lightsabers. I just found an ad for it on youtube, and finally realized I probably misinterpreted whatever is being whipped around at the 18 second mark as being a lightsaber. But in my mind, I swear I remember seeing Dennis Quaid ignite a lightsaber while he's on a train.
Here's a screencap, plus the link:
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I swear I remember seeing a trailer/commercial for the 1984 movie Dreamscape (starring Dennis Quaid) that had a lightsaber in it, but I saw the movie (on tv) years later and didn't see any lightsabers. I just found an ad for it on youtube, and finally realized I probably misinterpreted whatever is being whipped around at the 18 second mark as being a lightsaber. But in my mind, I swear I remember seeing Dennis Quaid ignite a lightsaber while he's on a train.
Here's a screencap, plus the link:
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Yep, I can see it, too! It would certainly look that way, especially in the early to mid 1980s.

It's amazing how our minds grab on to "bits" of things and create a slightly altered version of the events. And those memories take root, and last for decades!

You just know, that you know, THAT YOU KNOW you saw Dennis Quaid whipping a lightsaber around 40 years ago. You swear to it!

...but, nope.

Like those people who just KNOW that they saw the Biggs & Luke Tatooine scenes on the big screen in 1977, or heard Darth Vader say: "Luke, I am your father" in 1980.
 
Yep, I can see it, too! It would certainly look that way, especially in the early to mid 1980s.

It's amazing how our minds grab on to "bits" of things and create a slightly altered version of the events. And those memories take root, and last for decades!

You just know, that you know, THAT YOU KNOW you saw Dennis Quaid whipping a lightsaber around 40 years ago. You swear to it!

...but, nope.

Like those people who just KNOW that they saw the Biggs & Luke Tatooine scenes on the big screen in 1977, or heard Darth Vader say: "Luke, I am your father" in 1980.
Yeah, the Biggs and Luke scene is also one I thought I saw. But I think that was from having the Star Wars storybook, which had stills from the movie that had Biggs and Luke together. I had the book and record set too, but I don't recall if that had a scene with Biggs. My dad also made a recording of the Star Wars radio drama, which I think may have had a Biggs/Luke scene as well.
 
Yeah, the Biggs and Luke scene is also one I thought I saw. But I think that was from having the Star Wars storybook, which had stills from the movie that had Biggs and Luke together. I had the book and record set too, but I don't recall if that had a scene with Biggs. My dad also made a recording of the Star Wars radio drama, which I think may have had a Biggs/Luke scene as well.

Yep, makes perfect sense.
 
3D movies from the 80s include: Jaws 3D, Dreamscape, Brainstorm, and Spacehunter. There were a few others to learn about, if you care to do the research.
 
Did The Truman show have a different ending? I have a vague recollection of Jim Carrey being greeted by fans outside of the dome.
 
ARGH, this memory is so vague I haven't been able to identify the movie even after a google search.
80s or 90s thriller-ish movie that I saw on TV first. Later I saw the theatrical version and there was an entire subplot that was new to me. Cut for time on TV, I guess. Funny thing was, though, the movie made perfect sense without it, so it obviously wasn't needed.
Although my memory is still fuzzy on it, I believe this was Meet Joe Black.
Wikipedia:
"A two-hour version was made to show on television and airline flights, by cutting most of the plotline involving Bill Parrish's business. Since Director Martin Brest derided this edit of his film and disowned it, the director's credit on this release used Hollywood pseudonym Alan Smithee."
 
Although my memory is still fuzzy on it, I believe this was Meet Joe Black.
Wikipedia:
"A two-hour version was made to show on television and airline flights, by cutting most of the plotline involving Bill Parrish's business. Since Director Martin Brest derided this edit of his film and disowned it, the director's credit on this release used Hollywood pseudonym Alan Smithee."
Meet Joe Black had only two scenes. I clearly remember both of them. One was him stepping into traffic and the other was when..... I remember both very clearly. I am pretty sure the approved editer's cut version was 1.5 hours of these two 1 minute scenes set on slow mo repeat. I remember that Pitt was in the traffic scene at least but cannot recall seeing him again.
 
Oh sorry, went off on my own there. I only ever remember 2 minutes of that entire movie. I was describing my version. Apologies.
 
No there was a whole subplot that was removed, not talking about the traffic thing.
Wait, wasn't the business stuff the whole point? Wasn't he getting extra time in order to finish some important project? If that is removed isn't there no reason to stall other than possibly just fear of dying?
 
It's been too long for me to answer that, I just know I saw the TV version without ever feeling it wasn't making sense. That said, I don't recall finding it particularly great, either, so maybe the deletion WAS a detriment if that stuff made it better, as the director feels. I've never bothered to see the real version*, so I don't know what I don't know.

Like, I guess if you removed all the Dagobah stuff from ESB, a linear story could still be told, with Luke as a now-minor character who goes away for a while but comes back and gets involved again with the characters we've been following without interruption from Hoth to asteroids to Bespin, but whoa, that would be quite a change, wouldn't it?

*I previously posted that I had seen the real version, but now that I think back, I think I only found out about the missing bits from reading a synopsis or something.
 
I remember seeing Star Trek VI with the colonel West subplot intact, it may have been TV or VHS.
I distinctly remember René Auberjonois delivering the ”clean their chronometers“ line, and Michael Dorn’s “this is not Klingon blood” line. I watched the film on streaming a few days ago and was surprised to find those scenes cut.
I remember those lines too.

Those lines are there on the DVD I have of ST6; btw, here's the lines:

"Chronometers":


"Not Klingon Blood":


I find with a lot of the "streamed" versions, they can end up using edited versions. One version of Robocop (1987) I saw had all the blood and stuff removed; while I'm not a fan of blood and gore, in the movie it made a point.
 
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