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Message: <blockquote data-quote="alexpaige" data-source="post: 358427" data-attributes="member: 55379">Well that's not exactly what I meant.It's not that transferring from PAL to NTSC would alter the titles. It's that the prints that were used domestically in the US are not necessarily the same as the ones used in other regions.I believe this may have more to do with there being original network versions of the episodes and then, later, versions for syndication which I gather sometimes have edits, different pre-show previews etc.For example, the prints used for original broadcast here in Australia on season 6 used a different arrangement of the theme music than the versions on the DVD releases and indeed on later repeats on Australia's Foxtel pay tv channel. The only logical reason for this discrepancy is that there are variant prints, for whatever reason.As another example, the prints used for the Foxtel run of season 8 used a different centre image of Donna Reed on the title sequence than the versions which were originally broadcast, which match the ones released on DVD (I think there is one episode on the DVDs which uses the variant image).Again, obviously this points to variant prints being available.I don't remember the Susan Howard credit ever looking as big as it does on the DVD prints, so ... it makes me wonder whether they are different from the prints broadcast here originally. (In fact it's not that Susan's credit looks bigger than I remember - all the OTHER actor's credits look SMALLER).But as you say, my memory is fading ....</blockquote>

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