I went to Ameoba in SF yesterday thats where I got Twin Peaks
There was some other stuff I wanted but i didn't wanna go overboard!
Mock, the difference between the two pilot episodes of Twin Peaks is that the version I mentioned that I got on laserdisc is a version that David Lynch made so that he could sell it as a film to european markets. I THINK he did this because he needed money to complete the pilot, so he went to a European film distribution company and told them if they put money into the pilot, he would shoot an ending for it so that it could be shown in theaters as a stand-alone movie. I might be wrong or over-simplyfing it, but whatever.
He added about 20 minutes, and it includes stuff where Laura's parents describe bob to the police sketch artist (which is reshot or reused in one of the later episodes), and an ending that would wrap everything up. In this ending, the one armed man takes him to bob at the hospital (I think... It's been a while since I've seen it), and Bob is killed. Then it cuts to "25 years later," Agent Cooper is in the Black Lodge, with the backwards talking dwarf. Lynch liked this footage so much, that he used it in the actual series, in episode two, as the dream Agent Cooper has.
Warner Brothers released the European version of the pilot on home video, despite the fact that when you try to watch it with the rest of the series, you get way confused. When you watch episode one, you wonder why they're still looking for the killer, since they found him in the pilot, and when you watch episode 2, you wonder why we're seeing the ending from the pilot again, but as a dream sequence. I'm sure they did this because they could say "with 20 extra minutes!" on the cover.
When Republic went and released the rest of the series, they coulnd't get the rights to the pilot, and the Warner Brothers video of the European version was the only one that was around for years. Whoever had the rights to release it in america wasn't (and still isn't) interested in releasing it, I guess. But in England, the first season DVD set has the pilot with it. It's somewhat of a legal nightmare.