"My Favorite Year" Question

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A bit like the “Groundhog Day” thread, but the opposite (if that makes any sense).

I saw “My Favorite Year” in the theaters when it came out. Several times, in fact. Several years later I saw it on television, and I was surprised because there were some things that I hadn’t remembered. The ones that I remember were:

-Mark Linn-Baker’s voice-over intro at the beginning (I only remembered music in the theater version), and

-the morning after Peter O’Toole and the girl ride off on a horse, we see the horse in front of the hotel, hitched to a parking meter.

These are the only ones I noticed, although there may be more. I thought that they added to the enjoyment of movie and the advancement of the story as well as to the length. I was surprised because television usually does the opposite. I figured that I might have just got confused and forgot those things.

Then, years l rented the movie on VHS, and it was exactly as I saw it in the theater. Those things were gone.

Does anyone know if those are back in the DVD copy? And has anyone ever run into this before; scenes added to the television version?

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They are on the DVD. I just checked.

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The television version of Amazon Women On The Moon is missing a few scenes. But it also has some not in the theatre version.

Theatre- Harvey dies. Salesman comes in. Cut to funeral comedy roast.

TV-Harvey dies. Salesman comes in. He explains bit by bit the whole funeral comedy thing. (The bit is much, much better without this scene)

The television version also has a sketch about a ventriloquist who can’t do his act because the airline has accidentally swapped his bags with another ventriloquist’s. This dummy only speaks French and doesn’t want to do the ventriloquist’s usual act.