Telemundo TV Broadcast

[AlexSketchy04]

Hey a Guys

I've been searching for TV Recordings of Dragon Ball Z on Telemundo for a while, i was wondering if anyone have access to these recordings, as i haven't found anything online (Only the opening and the ending)

Also, was the Telemundo airing fully uncut? or did it had some editing done to it, i know for sure they didn't do visual edits

[eledoremassis02]

Id love to see some Telemundo broadcasts. I used to watch around the cell games. I do want to say they were uncut?? But I cant fully recall. I really wish I recorded them tho..

[AlexSketchy04]

Id love to see some Telemundo broadcasts. I used to watch around the cell games. I do want to say they were uncut?? But I cant fully recall. I really wish I recorded them tho..

I have two theories on what "Uncut" could have meant

I know for sure blood was in the show (i don't think they had the tech to digitally paint it) but i'm not sure ti'll what extent) but not sure if the blood is kept, or just the blood on their faces

I do know however, that Dende's death was edited, and that by some forum, i know that a scene on episode 2 was edited, same with some random episode that was edited to death

Another thing i wanted to know, is when they took it off, apparently it was in January 2002, but by my search, my local affiliate kept it until late 2003 (or at least that seems)

[eledoremassis02]

I'm pretty sure I watched it around 2000-2001 and they were airing the cell games (did they finish the whole series?) by that time I started getting Fuji TV direct from japan (it was really weird and really fuzzy) and I was glued to that trying to catch DBZ but never did (not sure it was even re-running then).

Do you know if they had a different dub? I know some of their films have dubs exclusive to them but I'm not sure for the shows, or if they just used the Mexico dub. Aaaand did FUNimation have any authority/rights to the Mexico dub in the U.S (or at least supplied the tapes?)

[AlexSketchy04]

I'm pretty sure I watched it around 2000-2001 and they were airing the cell games (did they finish the whole series?)

It's complicated to say, as apparently, they only reached to Gohan transforming into SSJ3 on the Cell arc and then, took it off the channel, others say they finished the entire Cell arc, but my affiliate aired it until 2003, but i don;t know if here in the US (PR did got the Buu Saga) we got the Buu saga on Telemundo

Do you know if they had a different dub? I know some of their films have dubs exclusive to them but I'm not sure for the shows, or if they just used the Mexico dub. Aaaand did FUNimation have any authority/rights to the Mexico dub in the U.S (or at least supplied the tapes?)

They used the Mexican dub, and the distributor is Cloverway, not Funimation (it seems however that they had access to the original tapes of Cloverway for Season 3 and the DVD's)

[eledoremassis02]

Dang Cloverway. Rights can be so complicated lol

That's sucks about it airing till cell-ish I wonder why it was canceled?

[AlexSketchy04]

Dang Cloverway. Rights can be so complicated lol

That's sucks about it airing till cell-ish I wonder why it was canceled?

I suppose it was due to NBC buying the channel, and getting rid of all programming (The Nickelodeon block got rid around the same time)

If i remember also, they aired Tenchi Uncut (or was it Univision?)

[DrBriefsCat]

Id love to see some Telemundo broadcasts. I used to watch around the cell games. I do want to say they were uncut?? But I cant fully recall. I really wish I recorded them tho..

I have two theories on what "Uncut" could have meant

I know for sure blood was in the show (i don't think they had the tech to digitally paint it) but i'm not sure ti'll what extent) but not sure if the blood is kept, or just the blood on their faces

I do know however, that Dende's death was edited, and that by some forum, i know that a scene on episode 2 was edited, same with some random episode that was edited to death

Another thing i wanted to know, is when they took it off, apparently it was in January 2002, but by my search, my local affiliate kept it until late 2003 (or at least that seems)

I still have recordings of the Telemundo broadcasts with me. The show was not uncut, as every episode had about a minute or two taken out for time constraints. Most of the time the content was not censored. The violence, blood, and Gohan's nudity were left in. The only censorship cuts I remember were Master Roshi attempting to grab Bulma's breasts in an early Z episode and adult Goku's rear nudity in the Princess Snake episode. I only recorded up to the episode where Krillin gets impaled by Freeza and don't remember whether Dende's death was edited or not. The broadcasts ended during the Cell saga episodes and the show didn't come back after NBC bought the network.

The dub used was indeed the Intertrack one from Mexico. It often aired weekdays around 9:00 in the morning with a TV-Y7 rating.

[AlexSketchy04]

Id love to see some Telemundo broadcasts. I used to watch around the cell games. I do want to say they were uncut?? But I cant fully recall. I really wish I recorded them tho..

I have two theories on what "Uncut" could have meant

I know for sure blood was in the show (i don't think they had the tech to digitally paint it) but i'm not sure ti'll what extent) but not sure if the blood is kept, or just the blood on their faces

I do know however, that Dende's death was edited, and that by some forum, i know that a scene on episode 2 was edited, same with some random episode that was edited to death

Another thing i wanted to know, is when they took it off, apparently it was in January 2002, but by my search, my local affiliate kept it until late 2003 (or at least that seems)

I still have recordings of the Telemundo broadcasts with me. The show was not uncut, as every episode had about a minute or two taken out for time constraints. Most of the time the content was not censored. The violence, blood, and Gohan's nudity were left in. The only censorship cuts I remember were Master Roshi attempting to grab Bulma's breasts in an early Z episode and adult Goku's rear nudity in the Princess Snake episode. I only recorded up to the episode where Krillin gets impaled by Freeza and don't remember whether Dende's death was edited or not. The broadcasts ended during the Cell saga episodes and the show didn't come back after NBC bought the network.

The dub used was indeed the Intertrack one from Mexico. It often aired weekdays around 9:00 in the morning with a TV-Y7 rating.

How they handled Krillin getting impaled? i know PR got the scene without any cuts, i suppose they used the same master, and yeah, it was kinda surprising they aired that thing nearly uncut with a Y7 Rating

And i think those two minutes of footage were the recaps and the previews, the recording i have (some parts of Episode 171) jumped straight ahead to the title card and to the ending

I was surprised to know that Gohan naked was kept intact, unless, the scene was kept intact, but his parts were blurred (CN Latin america did that)

I would be interesting to see those episodes recorded off telemundo someday, to compare them to the totally uncut ver in spanish

[DrBriefsCat]

How they handled Krillin getting impaled? i know PR got the scene without any cuts, i suppose they used the same master, and yeah, it was kinda surprising they aired that thing nearly uncut with a Y7 Rating

I remember it not being much different from the Japanese version, but I'd have to dig through my tape for details.

And i think those two minutes of footage were the recaps and the previews, the recording i have (some parts of Episode 171) jumped straight ahead to the title card and to the ending

Actually, the episodes themselves were often trimmed down to fit in more commercials. Often they were small scenes here and there that were not important to the plot. At the time of the airing, I was following Chris Psaro's DBZ Uncensored pages where he would rant about unnecessary paint edits made to the Saban/Ocean version and the shot would be missing from the Telemundo airing. Example here where he comments about kanji being painted out: DBZ Uncensored: Episode 21

I was surprised to know that Gohan naked was kept intact, unless, the scene was kept intact, but his parts were blurred (CN Latin america did that)

I don't think they did any blurring, but it was hard to tell because the signal my cable company got of the local affiliate was kind of poor to begin with. It was lower resolution than the Cartoon Network broadcasts.

I would be interesting to see those episodes recorded off telemundo someday, to compare them to the totally uncut ver in spanish

It wouldn't be worth converting them to digital. Most of the differences were time cuts.

[AlexSketchy04]

How they handled Krillin getting impaled? i know PR got the scene without any cuts, i suppose they used the same master, and yeah, it was kinda surprising they aired that thing nearly uncut with a Y7 Rating

I remember it not being much different from the Japanese version, but I'd have to dig through my tape for details.

And i think those two minutes of footage were the recaps and the previews, the recording i have (some parts of Episode 171) jumped straight ahead to the title card and to the ending

Actually, the episodes themselves were often trimmed down to fit in more commercials. Often they were small scenes here and there that were not important to the plot. At the time of the airing, I was following Chris Psaro's DBZ Uncensored pages where he would rant about unnecessary paint edits made to the Saban/Ocean version and the shot would be missing from the Telemundo airing. Example here where he comments about kanji being painted out: DBZ Uncensored: Episode 21

I was surprised to know that Gohan naked was kept intact, unless, the scene was kept intact, but his parts were blurred (CN Latin america did that)

I don't think they did any blurring, but it was hard to tell because the signal my cable company got of the local affiliate was kind of poor to begin with. It was lower resolution than the Cartoon Network broadcasts.

I would be interesting to see those episodes recorded off telemundo someday, to compare them to the totally uncut ver in spanish

It wouldn't be worth converting them to digital. Most of the differences were time cuts.

Interesting, for episode 79 i thought Telemundo would use the edited Canal5/Magic Kids master for that episode

And about the cuts.. i've heard that a lot of the time, certain scenes were cut and even skipped due to the programmed breaks,for exaple, Krillin could be talking about something, on the middle of a phrase, the screen would fade to black and go to commercials, now, back to the show, it would start in a totally different part than they left it off

About Gohan... i'm still amazed, as far as i know, nudity is a big no no for the FCC if i'm not mistaken

And to be honest, digitizing them would be a waste of time, it would be interesting to see them and try to compare them, but it's way too much time to digitize something amount of episodes you have, and a bit complicated

Thanks for all of this info

[DrBriefsCat]

You're welcome.

[Mosaic]

Definitely was not uncut. I remember watching one episodes from the Cell Saga, where Goku and Gohan were training. The scene where Gohan accidentally lights Goku’s hair on fire was cut.

[AlexSketchy04]

Definitely was not uncut. I remember watching one episodes from the Cell Saga, where Goku and Gohan were training. The scene where Gohan accidentally lights Goku’s hair on fire was cut.

What? ._.XD

[AlexSketchy04]

Actually, i have some parts of Telemundo recorded episodes... it's only the OP, the ED and a small clip of the episode



For some reason there's this message before the episode saying this show is educational?

[kemuri07]

oh man. I remmeber waking up early just so i could catch DBZ on Telemundo.

[AlexSketchy04]

oh man. I remmeber waking up early just so i could catch DBZ on Telemundo.

How early was it?