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    Dawn of the Dead 1979 CBS Broadcast (with commercials)...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBI39jwR0g

    Edited for television, of course (and quite badly, too!). Weird how "asses" is muted (among other words), but "bastards" is totally fine.

    Interesting to skim through, though, and a bit of a nostalgia kick for our American friends, I presume?

    Some quite appropriate TV spots in there, too - Zombie (Fulci's flick), for example, and even Monroeville Mall (I presume this must've been a broadcast local to the Pittsburgh area?). There's even a VW Scirocco ad (the car they use in the movie).

    And check out the sitcom-like tweak to the end credits.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBI39jwR0g

    Edited for television, of course (and quite badly, too!). Weird how "asses" is muted (among other words), but "bastards" is totally fine.

    Interesting to skim through, though, and a bit of a nostalgia kick for our American friends, I presume?

    Some quite appropriate TV spots in there, too - Zombie (Fulci's flick), for example, and even Monroeville Mall (I presume this must've been a broadcast local to the Pittsburgh area?).
    Definitely a Pittsburgh broadcast, they also showed a commercial for Iron City Beer, a Pittsburgh Brewing Company product.

    There's even a VW Scirocco ad (the car they use in the movie).
    Also a commercial for Harley-Davidson (connection to the biker gang)

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    That's actually a fan edit, so not a real broadcast. 'Dawn of the Dead' was in cinemas in 1979, it was released in April of that year in America, so wouldn't have been aired on any network. Also, there's one of those annoying station identifiers in the bottom corner of the screen and those didn't start until the 90's. So the actual movie is probably a 90's broadcast. The adverts are definitely from the 70's though. The one with Joanna Cassidy is from 1973, when she was still modelling, and I'd doubt that you'd get such a classic collection of movies being shown in ad breaks. Nearly every great horror movie from the late 70's is there. As for the ad breaks, they are too far apart for American TV.
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    I've been duped! Hoodwinked, I say! *mutters and grumbles*
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    Also, one of the segments said CBS channel 7. Pittsburgh's main CBS station is KDKA, which to my knowledge, has always been on channel 2.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shootemindehead View Post
    The adverts are definitely from the 70's though. The one with Joanna Cassidy is from 1973, when she was still modelling, and I'd doubt that you'd get such a classic collection of movies being shown in ad breaks. Nearly every great horror movie from the late 70's is there. As for the ad breaks, they are too far apart for American TV.
    They should have gone down Chile's route and put the advert in the film...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSgMWAi9YPA
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    I've been duped! Hoodwinked, I say! *mutters and grumbles*
    The swines!!!!

    You should write a strongly worded letter to your local representative. Such mendacious behaviour is unforgivable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    They should have gone down Chile's route and put the advert in the film...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSgMWAi9YPA

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    Quote Originally Posted by shootemindehead View Post
    The swines!!!!

    You should write a strongly worded letter to your local representative. Such mendacious behaviour is unforgivable.



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    They once played Day of the Dead on SYFY and it was so hilariously edited
    "That's the deal, right? The people who are living have it harder, right? … the whole world is haunted now and there's no getting out of that, not until we're dead."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moon Knight View Post
    They once played Day of the Dead on SYFY and it was so hilariously edited
    Along the lines of "Fun me! Fun me!" and "melonfarmer" and so forth?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Along the lines of "Fun me! Fun me!" and "melonfarmer" and so forth?
    Oh yeah, I think they definitely had to make up some words, haha.
    "That's the deal, right? The people who are living have it harder, right? … the whole world is haunted now and there's no getting out of that, not until we're dead."

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Along the lines of "Fun me! Fun me!" and "melonfarmer" and so forth?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao4-ViMMlBg
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