Here is some more information on the "European/standalone pilot version":droopy wrote:According to Robert Fischer's German Book "David Lynch - Die dunkle Seite der Seele" (= the dark side of the soul) the Pilot (the "Series-Version") costed 3.8 million dollars, was shoot in March/April 1989 on location and at City Studios in Los Angeles and had it's premier on the Telluride Film Festival, Colorado in September 1989 and was first aired on TV on 8th April 1990 (ABC).
This information should be accurate as Robert Fischer talked many times to David Lynch.
The "standalone/longer" Version was first sold in Great Brittain in November 1989.
For more detailed information you should refer to dugpa or issues of "wrapped in plastic"
"The Annotated Twin Peaks - Blood 'n Doughnuts - Notes on Twin Peaks" Essay by Tim Lucas in "Video Watchdog" No. 2 (1990):
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The Overseas Version
The character of Killer Bob is crucial only to the overseas version of TWIN PEAKS, released in Great Britain on Warner Home Video in November 1989 - several months before the ABC-TV network debut (which explains the '80s copyright on the US pilot). The UK cassette features a running time of 108m 47s. The final 18m of this version actually resolve the storyline, a necessity as the ABC-TV series was never intended to air abroad, a fact now changed in light of its enormous success.
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