Subject: Re: TWIN PEAKS SET (the Japanese laserdisc boxed set)
From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The fox so cunning and free)
Date: 1992-02-23, 22:05
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <4713@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>, neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes...

} In article <33506@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The fox so cunning and free) writes:

}} Nit: the second season opener is Episode #8. The original pilot movie is
}} *not* counted in the episode numbering.

}Oh, HORSESHIT.
} 
}The original pilot is #1000
}  ^
}          |
} 
}This was covered ad-nauseum AGES ago.

Oh, horseshit, yourself. I've been reading and contributing to this group
since it started up. The designation "#1000" for the pilot is *not*, to
anyone's knowledge, the official production number for the pilot. It was
made up as a convenience by people in this very group, to be in line with
the production numbering for the other episodes, because we *didn't* know
the actual production number. Since the first hour-long episode is
designated "Episode #1" by Lynch/Frost Productions (quite explicitly so
-- that's what the script is labelled, rather than having a title), we've
referred to the pilot as "Episode #0", hence the retrofitted production
number of "1000".

}Series 1: #1000 (Pilot) ---> #1007

Right. Which also translates as #0-#7. Which makes the second season
premiere #8, which exactly what I said it was, and is exactly what
Lynch/Frost says it is.

}Series 2: #2001 (Pilot) ---> #2022 (In UK anyway) *

First, #2001 is a "pilot" for anything. It's a double-length episode, but
it's exactly that -- an *episode*. "1000" is called the Pilot, but 2001
is called (officially) "Episode #8".  Just because you British refer to
different "seasons" (as we call them) as "series", doesn't mean that the
initial episodes of the new "series" is called a pilot.

} The numbering changed from xxx0 to xxx1 for reasons known to
} LFP/Propaganda/Spelling/ABC.....

The numbering of *what* "changed from xxx0 to xxx1"?

} NB. * In UK, there was no double length finale. We did not have the long
}      Hiatus America did. We had a 2 week break for Snooker or something.
}      That is why we have an 'extra' episode.

Yes, I know that. Everywhere but the US and Canada got the last two hours
as separate episodes, and I've always designated them as Episodes #28 and
#29, despite the fact that they were shown edited together in the US.

-- "They say the best things in life are free." "Free!? Hamton, this is the 90's. Take out a loan and buy a clue." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com