[Help] Blue Velvet (1986) - Edited-for-TV Version

[Chorake]

David Lynch's Blue Velvet was prepared for broadcast television for Dino De Laurentiis by the film's assistant editor and future full-time Lynch collaborator/ex-wife Mary Sweeney. Sweeney used cuts, video zooms and alternate footage to make things well, softer (than satin). She also brought back on Dennis Hopper to sanitize his expletive-filled speech (presumably Dean Stockwell for a single line as well), and the rest is history. Full interview with Sweeney from August 21, 1987:
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/08/21/...556516800/

When all was said and done, it ran only a minute shorter than Lynch and Dunham's 2-hour theatrical cut. I don't think it really ended up receiving much, if any domestic airplay stateside ("Blue Velvet" is hard to crawl for on newspaper repositories), but it made it to international markets, airing on May 29, 1991 on Channel Ten in Brisbane, Australia, for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693q3FnBtLo&t=10s

I believe these highlights of Hopper's dialogue from the TV version are from a PAL source, likely of Australian origin, as these clips are 25fps: https://www.youtube.com/@sonnyhammond6671/videos

This version I feel is important to have represented and preserved. The presence of alternate visual material is intriguing. It was also the basis for Dennis Hopper's appearance on SNL, where he spewed the same absurd, network-friendly language in reprising his role as Frank Booth: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrfiu3

I've searched and have had help with searching to no avail. Any help in locating or obtaining this version would be greatly appreciated.

If it is located, I would like to do a few things:

1. Preserve the original source in the best quality possible. If it's an original videocassette source, I have a reliable contact who does lossless captures of analog media, so that's no problem.
   
2. Reconstruct the TV edit in its intended AR (pan and scan 4:3) in slightly better quality, using the original U.S. Lorimar Video LD release for the baseline theatrical cut footage, which I've confirmed from the YouTube clips is the same base P&S telecine used to construct the TV version.
   
3. Present the edited soundtrack conformed as an alternate audio option for the uncut theatrical version. This would be an extremely easy and seamless task, given that either of Blue Velvet's surround remixes are totally voiceless beyond the center channel.
   

[stwd4nder2]

I don't have any captures for it, but good luck with your project. TV edits are pretty fascinating and I wish it was more of an effort to preserve them (it's a shame the TV cut of showgirls isn't on the UHD for the comedy value alone).

[The Griff]

I must've caught this on Australian TV back in the day. I remember Dennis Hopper saying "freak" a lot. Good luck with your search.