- Some of the VHS and Betamax copies included text before the end credits run that did not appear on the DVD and Blu-ray copies "On May 18,1978 the motion picture you have just seen was shown to an audience of world press at the Cannes Film Festival.... 43 days later the United States and Turkey entered into formal negotiations for the exchange of prisoners." This dialogue existed on HBO's showing of the movie back in 1985.
- With regard to commercial network, and standard cable showings of the movie 1.) All swearing is dubbed with much tamer words, or in a few cases, skipped or silenced. 2.) The chicken being decapitated is normally not shown when Billy makes a run for it, leaving the Turkish Bazaar. 3.) Billy is shown fully nude during a strip-search after his arrest. Censored TV prints delete all shots of his bare butt. Some prints omit Tex's line, "would you like to put your clothes on?" 4.) Susan exposing her breasts and Billy touching them when she comes to visit him and sees his horrifying, almost vegetative state is very skillfully cut on all commercial TV prints. You would have to see the uncut movie to even realize that something was missing.
- 4:3 TV broadcasts, VHS, Betamax, Laser VideoDisc, CED VideoDisc, and Video8mm releases framed at the 1.33:1 ratio, as well as the full-screen side of the 1998 DVD, presented the movie open-matte at 1.33:1, which shows more picture information on the top and bottom of the screen than in the original theatrical release.
- The Movies! channel commercial TV and Standard Cable broadcast of the movie, silences all swearing, but shows all nudity blurred.
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