Originally Posted by
reese
I thought it was an odd choice for rebroadcast as it was three years old by then. But it was still nice to see it again.
When the special originally aired in 1981, I didn't have a vcr. But I did have an 8-track tape record deck on my stereo, so I recorded it on that. I played it so much that I knew it word for word. So when the Marvin Gaye line was cut on the rebroadcast, I was a bit thrown at first. But yes, it was savvy that CBS or Diana decided to cut it out. The line was harmless of course, but the timing was totally off. When I finally bought a bootleg vhs of the show, I could tell that it was taken from the 1984 rebroadcast as the Marvin reference was missing.
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