For a while now I've been wondering how to get my hands on the shirt Ray wears in this picture (borrowed from @mortmere):
The internet does not know it. It doesn't seem to advertise any business I can find a record of. It looks like they created it for the show maybe?
Anyway, I decided to make my own design! A recreation was out because I couldn't find anything like the horns, so I chose a skull design and adjusted that with a lot of help from @hwaetnot (THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!). Here's what I ended up with:
I'm really happy with it!!!
I'm ging to cut it from heat transfer vinyl and put it on a t-shirt (print shops never have sizes that fit me right), so I did a cutting test today - from paper so I wouldn' waste any foil. It went so well I decided to keep it, so I put it on some black backing:
Seen at an angle it has a nifty embossed look to it:
This project was definitely a labor of love 😅 After finding a lot of dS ads buried in larger ad compilations, I decided to clip each of these ads and make a dS promos compilation
any videos I came across that were only/mostly dS ads I added to a YT playlist here (playlist tumblr post here)
Final count for this vid is 65 ads/promos! Captions are available!
Where applicable/available, I also clipped the ad end card (with the show title/day/time/channel info), but cut out any of the in-between ads (mostly Diagnosis Murder promos). I also adjusted the audio levels to try and make everything as level as possible, and fixed a couple of clips that had de-synced audio
Duplicates are grouped into chapters, timestamps (and links to the source videos) can be found in the video description
The clips are only briefly described in the video description bc I ran out of characters (did you know there's a 5000 character limit to youtube descriptions?) so additional details are available below...
Listed below are descriptions of the ads based on the naming convention that I am using in my spreadsheet to keep track of versions and duplicates. # is the number as it appears in the comp, ad airdate in MM.DD.YYYY (00 = unknown), ad description with additional info in parentheses (added purely to make it easier for me to differentiate the clips)
1 - 04.22.1994 - Pilot Promo v1 (cop with good manners)
2 - 08.21.1994 - Season 1 Promo v1 (native wildlife)
3 - 08.23.1994 - Season 1 Promo v1 (native wildlife)
4 - 01.10.1995 - Season 1 Promo v2 (polite and persistent, short version)
5 - 08.17.1994 - A New Kind of Hero v1 (with voiceover)
6 - 08.21.1994 - A New Kind of Hero v1 (with voiceover)
7 - 10.11.1994 - A New Kind of Hero v2 (no voiceover)
8 - 09.20.1994 - Free Willie v2 (short version)
9 - 12.08.1994 - Diefenbaker's Day Off
10 - 10.04.1994 - Manhunt v1 (long version)
11 - 10.04.1994 - Manhunt v1 (long version)
12 - 01.10.1995 - Manhunt v1 (long version)
13 - 01.11.1995 - Manhunt v2 (short version)
14 - 04.16.1996 - Manhunt v2 (short version)
15 - 10.11.1994 - Drama for BC
16 - 03.06.1996 - They Eat Horses, Don't They?
17 - 10.16.1994 - Pizza and Promises v1 (long version)
18 - 03.02.1995 - Pizza and Promises v2 (short version)
19 - 05.31.1995 - Chicago Holiday v2 (Channel 7)
20 - 11.30.1994 - A Cop, a Mountie, and a Baby
21 - 11.30.1994 - A Cop, a Mountie, and a Baby
22 - 11.30.1994 - A Cop, a Mountie, and a Baby
23 - 00.00.1994 - A Cop, a Mountie, and a Baby
24 - 12.00.1994 - Happy Holidays Message
25 - 12.18.1994 - Happy Holidays Message
26 - 12.13.1994 - The Gift of the Wheelman
27 - 03.01.1995 - What do you identify most with Canada?
28 - 01.17.1996 - The Deal v2 (short version)
29 - 01.30.1996 - The Deal v1 (long version)
30 - 08.24.1995 - Heaven and Earth
31 - 05.29.1995 - Victoria's Secret
32 - 11.20.1995 - Season 2 Promo v1 (give birth)
33 - 01.02.1996 - North v2 (short version)
34 - 01.04.1996 - North v2 (short version)
35 - 01.04.1996 - North v2 (short version)
36 - 01.04.1996 - North v1 (long version)
37 - 12.12.1995 - Witness v1 (long version)
38 - 12.12.1995 - Witness v1 (long version)
39 - 06.06.1996 - Witness v2 (short version)
40 - 12.00.1995 - Bird in the Hand
41 - 01.16.1996 - Mask
42 - 02.06.1996 - One Good Man
43 - 03.27.1996 - Some Like it Red v1 (what a drag)
44 - 03.29.1996 - Some Like it Red v1 (what a drag)
45 - 03.27.1996 - Some Like it Red v2 (with a real drag)
46 - 04.04.1996 - White Men Can't Jump to Conclusions
47 - 04.23.1996 - Body Language
48 - 04.23.1996 - Body Language
49 - 05.19.1996 - Red, White, or Blue
50 - 05.23.1996 - Red, White, or Blue
51 - 09.19.1996 - Flashback credits with voiceover
52 - 06.27.1996 - 1996 Show Promo (s1 clips) - full version in playlist (P16)
53 - 09.00.1997 - Season 3 Promo v1 (yankee packs a gun)
54 - 09.04.1997 - Season 3 Promo v1 (yankee packs a gun)
55 - 09.05.1997 - Season 3 Promo v1 (yankee packs a gun)
Wait, you mean you guessed that I wrote the 10,000 word plot-heavy Gen fic set in the Canadian Parliament? The one told from Ray V’s perspective? The one with all the weird Canadian details in it?
Thank you to @mific for your thorough, thoughtful, and timely comments on this story. May I never again forget which characters are injured or mix up my definite and indefinite articles.
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