I had hoped to commemorate the 25th anniversary of UPN’s short-lived action drama Freedom with a fully revised article but two colds and a stomach thing over the past month or so ruined those plans. I was able to finish digitizing my VHS copies of the seven episodes UPN aired and while going through them found some promotional spots I didn’t realize I had.
The five episodes UPN didn’t air were uploaded to YouTube last year, making it the first time these episodes were publicly available. Unfortunately, the video quality is quite poor due; the episodes are in black and white with burnt in subtitles that I believe are Portuguese.
They’re watchable, barely. The alternate, unaired pilot episode remains unavailable, although I remain hopefully some day a copy will surface. If anyone reading this has access to the unaired pilot episode, please contact me.
You can read my article about Freedom here. I do plan to have it updated and expanded by the end of the year. I’ve started working on an in-depth episode guide for the series as well that should also be published before the year is out.
If you watched Freedom on UPN when it debuted back in October 2000, hit the comments with your thoughts. For those who live outside the United States and have seen all 12 episodes and potentially the unaired pilot episode, when and where did the episodes air?
this one. I’m afraid can lead to confusion;;;;I mean disguised by a thin veil of deceptively simplicit—-like symbolism………..sort of half-baked,,dress rehearsal.****.stuff was obviously recycled later on…….It will require patience to analyze this stuff
Really amazing! Hope once music clearances are issued and cleared out, I hope a HQ copy appeared at the Warner Bros. studio vaults for future use. Maybe a Plex release?
From what I can tell, UPN is owned by CBS or Paramount but might be owned by WB so it’s through their distribution I would expect it to show up.
I’m not sure when the anniversary for UPN would be because it was founded October 27, 1993 but launched January 16, 1995. That whole network was filled with one-season shows.