I recorded both showings of Runaway Bride, and Smith and Jones on the SciFi Channel. I am glad to finally be seeing the third season. But, I have some problems with SciFi's presentation.
In neither showing, did they show the name of the ep, or its writer, for Smith and Jones. I would assume they should have been at the end of the intro sequence, just as they were in Runaway Bride.
In the earlier showing, they had those annoying pop-up graphics running around the bottom of the screen. Their cuts at the ends of segments seemed to lose a few frames of the program, and didn't have even a second of black screen between the program and commercials, which makes editing out commercials very difficult. Of course they compress the credits so much as to make them unreadable, even on a large HD screen. So, you can never read the cast.
In the second showing, there were no annoying pop-ups, and the transitions between program and commercial were a little better. At least it didn't look like they cut any frames from the program. So, if you are in the US, and recording this, I recommend you record the second showing. I record both showings, one on my DVDR, and one on my DVR, so I am more likely to wind up with a good recording, if there are glitches in one transmission.
So, can anyone tell me who wrote Smith and Jones, was it RTD? And, was that Roy Marsden playing the head of the hospital?
