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<blockquote data-quote="Knots4ever" data-source="post: 434866" data-attributes="member: 4475">Some great stuff. I&#039;m surprised you got so many details after all those years.A note on the opening sequences - it usually came down to budget and/or complexity. &quot;Germanising&quot; openings were labour-intensive back then (less so later on in the early/mid 90s with digital, non-linear editing systems and video instead of film).There isn&#039;t really much of an excuse for not using the season 1 &amp; 2 openings as all that was required was freezing the video before &quot;Knots Landing&quot; fades in and superimposing the German title over that (or, alternatively using an element to cover up the original title - e.g. like it was done in Spain).Season 9 &amp; 10 are very different and as much as it was annoying having the season 8 opening being used, the right to left pan over &quot;Knots Landing&quot; could not be recreated for the much longer German title as it would have taken up far more time than two words. There wasn&#039;t really any suitable alternative to bring in the German title, given the music and the general structure of the sequence.Keeping the season 11 opening for season 12 was simply laziness. Season 12 was as easily adaptable as the season 13 and 14 versions. Likely comes down to the fact that they batched &gt;100 episodes in one go and decided they could get away with the season 11 opening up until a point where too many actors still being shown had left and many new ones had joined.You are spot on, we were lucky to get to see the final few episodes (everything left in season 13 after &quot;Lost at Sea&quot; and season 14) despite the Kogel transformation being in full swing. A lot of it came down to countless letters and calls from angry viewers. I had the pleasure to read some of them while working in the SAT.1 Mainz archive in 1997.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Knots4ever, post: 434866, member: 4475"] Some great stuff. I'm surprised you got so many details after all those years. A note on the opening sequences - it usually came down to budget and/or complexity. "Germanising" openings were labour-intensive back then (less so later on in the early/mid 90s with digital, non-linear editing systems and video instead of film). There isn't really much of an excuse for not using the season 1 & 2 openings as all that was required was freezing the video before "Knots Landing" fades in and superimposing the German title over that (or, alternatively using an element to cover up the original title - e.g. like it was done in Spain). Season 9 & 10 are very different and as much as it was annoying having the season 8 opening being used, the right to left pan over "Knots Landing" could not be recreated for the much longer German title as it would have taken up far more time than two words. There wasn't really any suitable alternative to bring in the German title, given the music and the general structure of the sequence. Keeping the season 11 opening for season 12 was simply laziness. Season 12 was as easily adaptable as the season 13 and 14 versions. Likely comes down to the fact that they batched >100 episodes in one go and decided they could get away with the season 11 opening up until a point where too many actors still being shown had left and many new ones had joined. You are spot on, we were lucky to get to see the final few episodes (everything left in season 13 after "Lost at Sea" and season 14) despite the Kogel transformation being in full swing. A lot of it came down to countless letters and calls from angry viewers. I had the pleasure to read some of them while working in the SAT.1 Mainz archive in 1997. [/QUOTE]

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