You're welcome and though I cannot find the web forums/news groups I went to 6 years ago because I have no idea what they were, I did find this one page from 2006 talking about the missing audio. It has both truth to what ODBJBG posted as well as what I had mentioned about them dubbing the complete episodes first BEFORE editing them down for US tv and why some of those bits have shown up in various old tv airings. Had BCI been allowed to use the actual Tsuburaya masters this would not have been an issue
link and quote:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/25024...ne-volume-two/
quote from link:The booklet included with Volume Two states that "before Ultraman aired on television in the U.S., the show was cut to fill a specific time slot and the English audio dubbing was created for this newly edited version." In fact the reverse was true: the show was edited-down by local channels long after the English dubbing was completed. After original U.S. distributor United Artists Television's rights expired, the complete English-dubbed audio masters were returned to Tsuburaya Productions
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