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Assorted problems with "Twin Peaks" (1990)
As the show just hit 30th anniversary, it naturally made me address the series IMDb page more and I found it in a state of a certain mess in an assortment of aspects.
1) Firstly, Pilot (1990) has a mess in Release Dates. Earliest available release date is a confirmed festival screening on 28 September 1989, however episode's year is still 1990. In my humble opinion, problem should be fixed with adding International Pilot as a separate episode (named "Twin Peaks", with distinction stated clearly in the beginning of plot summary), since it was released multiple times, screened on festivals and theatrically in some countries and has whopping 20 minutes of additional footage. Adding an unaired version of pilot with 0 episode number and separate festival release dates will effectively eliminate most if not all of the current Release Date problems.
2) Secondly, despite having earliest release date available, Pilot (1990) is, as of now, badle misplaced in filmographies, as seen here:
3) Thirdly, current episode names are, while semi-official, not original episode names nor there was ever intention to have ones until first two seasons aired fully. Current episode names are translated from German variants and were coined by show's creators firsthand for German TV airings of the episodes. Earlier variant of episodes having no names, only numbers, was actually a correct decision according to IMDb guidelines.
1) Firstly, Pilot (1990) has a mess in Release Dates. Earliest available release date is a confirmed festival screening on 28 September 1989, however episode's year is still 1990. In my humble opinion, problem should be fixed with adding International Pilot as a separate episode (named "Twin Peaks", with distinction stated clearly in the beginning of plot summary), since it was released multiple times, screened on festivals and theatrically in some countries and has whopping 20 minutes of additional footage. Adding an unaired version of pilot with 0 episode number and separate festival release dates will effectively eliminate most if not all of the current Release Date problems.
2) Secondly, despite having earliest release date available, Pilot (1990) is, as of now, badle misplaced in filmographies, as seen here:
3) Thirdly, current episode names are, while semi-official, not original episode names nor there was ever intention to have ones until first two seasons aired fully. Current episode names are translated from German variants and were coined by show's creators firsthand for German TV airings of the episodes. Earlier variant of episodes having no names, only numbers, was actually a correct decision according to IMDb guidelines.
Joel
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5 years ago
Thanks for getting in touch about this.
See answers to your questions below:
1) While the current release date information is a little strange based on it's initial release, it was decided that for the sake of 'start' year - we would list the episode with it's TV series premiere release date.
2) That episode placement is definitely not right...I can't seem to find any obvious reason for this so I've cut a ticket with the tech team now.
3) You're completely right with these episode names, it looks like they've been erroneously approved - I've removed them now and have taken steps to ensure these aren't re-added.
Thanks for your help!
Joel
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Joel
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5 years ago
Thanks for your patience!
So, regarding the misplaced credit - it looks like this is a legacy bug with ordering based on the earliest date of release and title year being different.
At this moment in time, we can't fix that as there would be a wider set of impacted logic - this is something we may be able to address in the future however.
About those names - looks like the publish didn't work properly, I've pushed these through again now.
Have a good one!
Joel
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