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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 245560" data-attributes="member: 57984">The film stock didn't change, the processing changed. As per network rules of the time, all their night time dramas still had to be shot on 35 mm film. But Lorimar started getting around that and avoiding the more expensive film lab work by using a new computerized process during which the film pieces were dubbed down to 1"  video prior to editing with those film pieces then supposedly discarded.It looked horrible, and we couldn't believe they were sending the show out that way. It looked like low-resolution video, and might as well have been.Believe it or not, the DVDs look 5 times better than the the show looked when first broadcast in 1986-87.That said, I rather liked the production design that season, even if was largely lost on this sub-par visual look.</blockquote>