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Monday, January 3, 2011

Episode 1596 - Secrets

Original Air Date: November 21, 1988

  
For details on Episode 1596, visit the Neighborhood Archive.

Neighborhood Archive Notes: Many thanks to Neighbor Paul for his help in reviewing this episode! Also, the page with direct links to all episodes currently available through Amazon is now updated and current.

2 comments:

Drew said...

Thanks for the updated page with the Amazon episodes! Wow! I'm in the process of watching some of the pre-79's, like the "Potato Bugs and Cows" opera. I was curious about why some of the post-79's weren't on there. I can understand about "Conflict" since it wasn't part of the modern rotation, but it seems odd that some of "Transformation" and "Superheroes" weren't on there. Maybe there's a reason, but maybe there's not. Any ideas?

Boy, I'd love to see the "Conflict" week, but maybe it was controversial. My favorite line is when they're making the bombs in The Neighborhood of Make Believe, and X says "I don't think we should call them bombs. Bombs are scary things and hurting things. I think we should call them 'surprise treats'." :-)

TL said...

Drew -- I believe the two Superheroes episodes are the ones that feature images of copyrighted characters from Marvel and DC comics. I would assume that there are some copyright issues holding up these two episodes being added to Amazon.

All five Transformation episodes are available now. For what it's worth, Episode 1696 is the one that originally featured a clip of Mister Rogers using a laser pointer. From what I understand, this portion of the episode was eventually replaced with other footage after parents brought up safety concerns with children using similar laser pointers. I don't know if that had anything to do with the initial exclusion of one of the Transformations episodes on Amazon, but like I said, they're all on there now.