Hi Otaku,
Ok for the 60's they didn't just cut episodes, they skipped nearly half the 193 episode series, like the one called Yellow Horse, which was about drug abuse. Other times when they just cut episodes, they usually cut out lots of violence, like in the English dub of The Amless Dam, which was called The Robot Fortress in Japanese. I just saw it last night, and let me tell you the violence they cut was intense, lots of child abuse.
In the cut version Hamegg doesn't whip Astro, he tries to, but Astro grabs the whip and stops him. Ok in the raw Japanese version, Hamegg whips Astro once before Astro grabs the whip and then about 5 times more after, with Astro yelling Owch in Japanese I think.
Poor Astro. The vionlence doesn't stop there though. When a human kid protects Astro from Hamegg's abuse, and gives Astro some needed energy so he can beat up Hamegg, the kid's jerk of a father slaps the kid upside the head several times none to gently, causing the kid to cry, then he tells his father off and runs away from him, You tell him kid.
Another one I just saw was actually one of the funniest Astro's ever. It featured a fight between Cobalt and Uran in which they punch each other's heads very hard, but Astro get's between them and breaks it up, whew, glad they weren't damaged. The episode featured a spoof of the Beatles, and one of them looks just like Ringo.
Man that episode was so damn funny. I'm sure they skipped it because of the fight between Cobalt and Uran.
As far as the 80's version, they first butchered Japanese episode 1 and 2, taking out all the Atlas Boy scenes to make English episode 1. :angry: This sucked because, now you don't have an Atlas origin story. After that they cut pieces here and there of what they though was inappropriate for children, but there were some incosistances with their choices of what they cut. Like cutting scenes of Astro kicking some butt, but leaving in the scenes of Hamegg whipping a helpless Astro. Ok so It's ok too show child abuse but not ok to show a child defending himself. Come on people either cut it right or don't cut at all. <_<
They also cut most of Uran's cute dance rutines, like in Uran's Twin and Uran's Quest, lame.
For the new series they cut things that were unforgivable like the addorable scene in which Astro falls asleap in Ochinomizu's car. AWWW. Why'd they have to cut that, it showed us how human Astro is. That scene better not be cut on the dvd version of the English dub or I may not buy it.