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List of Twin Peaks home video releases

Twin Peaks has had various VHS and DVD releases over the years, with varying degrees of commercial and critical success. Home video releases of Twin Peaks have had problems with rights management, most notably with the delayed DVD release of Season 2.

International pilot
The pilot episode, first shown on TV in the US, was released on home video in Europe in 1989. The international version is 20 minutes longer than the TV pilot, with a different ending added to bring closure to the story. Cooper, Truman, Hawk, and Andy find Bob, who admits to Laura's murder, and then is shot by Mike, the one-armed man. The Red Room dream sequence that ends episode two, where Cooper encounters the Man from Another Place and Laura Palmer, was originally shot for this film. Lynch was so happy with the material that he incorporated part of it into the second episode of the regular series (that is, the third episode shown in the U.S., including the pilot) as a dream Cooper has about the case (at the start of episode three, Cooper gives a scene-by-scene account of the European ending, including references to events seen only in the international pilot and not the dream-sequence version, such as Mike shooting Bob). This version of the pilot was also offered by Warner Home Video in the United States, resulting in a rights-entanglement which prevented the broadcast version of the pilot being released for a number of years. On October 30, 2007, the broadcast version of the pilot finally received a legitimate U.S. release as part of the Twin Peaks "Definitive Gold Box Edition". This set includes both versions of the pilot. ==Home video releases==
Home video releases
A complete series set of 14 VHS cassettes, distributed by Amuse Video, was released in Japan, selling for the equivalent of US $440. By August 1992, about 15,000 sets had been sold, plus 7,000 sets of equally expensive LaserDiscs. This was despite the fact that the series had been carried only on Wowow, a pay television satellite channel that at the time had about 900,000 subscribers. The Definitive Gold Box Set was released in Australia on December 4, 2007. Playback, the company that released Season 1 of Twin Peaks in the UK, announced that Season 2 would be available on Region 2 in the UK at the beginning of 2010. On March 22, 2010, both the second season DVD and the Definitive Gold Box Edition DVD were released in the UK.. On March 14, 2017 the Definitive Gold Box Set was re-released. The Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery Blu-ray boxed set was released on July 29, 2014. The set included 90 minutes of missing footage from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, later to be titled Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, as well as the entire film for the first time in a unified boxed set. ==DVD release summary==
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