Royalty

Royalty
Here's the differences I found in the SFC & CBC broadcasts of this episode. Total running time does not included opening credits.

Tease:
No differences
CBC :56 SFC :56
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Act 1:
SFC
After Rebecca says: But I've always wanted to discover the secrets of the houri
Jules: Well, if Phileas doesn't play his cards right, you might wind up stuck there for life.
Phileas: A remark in typical bad taste.
Phileas swings around in his chair and sees how Rebecca is dressed.
Phileas: Good God! Cover yourself up immediately.
Rebecca: Merely adopting local color.
Phileas just looks at her.
Rebecca: Look, if I'm to get to the Sultan's plans for the Black Sea port...
Phileas: Rebecca, you're supposed to be an undercover agent. Not the opposite. (he picks up his coffee cup) Take those things off at once.
Rebecca: Oh, all right.
Phileas: Not here!
Joins CBC version with Phileas: And, Passepartout this coffee's cold.
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CBC has a little more of Passepartout in the marketplace. Shows him being given the rooster.
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SFC:
After Rebecca shows Phileas the poster:
Krasnov is circling Passepartout.
Krasnov: Incredible! This is incredible! A fantastic stroke of luck.
Passepartout: Fantastic! This is not fantastic luck! I am kidnap-ted and uplifted in this conportable box and bumpted and bumpted in passages and stairs. I'm telling you, Man with... shining head... this is not fantastic lucking.
CBC joins with Krasnov clapping his hands and declaring Passepartout to be the spitting image.
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CBC: 8:30 SFC: 9:26
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Act 2:
SFC
As Krasnov is showing Mariana out, Passepartout takes his sword out and lays it in the crook of his arm, sweeping his other hand down as tho it were a woman in his arms. Krasnov and Mariana look at him, and she leaves as Krasnov shakes his head.
Cut to arial view of countryside.
Rebecca: Beautiful, isn't it? It's a shame the Serbian army is going to turn Montravia into a wasteland.
Phileas: Don't forget Rebecca, it was the Montravians who kidnapped my valet.
Jules: Even if they decided to take him as their king, surely they must have realized their mistake by now.
Rebecca: Well, they may decide to keep him anyway. Say the Serbs are trying to assassinate King Carl before he can sign the treaty with Hungary. They may think it's useful to have an extra target. One that's expendable.
Off Phileas' look, it joins the CBC with Passepartout holding court.
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CBC
After the Mayor of Tslit says: The entire region will die.
Krasnov: It is an old complaint, sire. Just nod and look sympathetic.
As Passepartout does this, a lawyer speaks up:
Lawyer: Your Majesty, the Count of Upper Zugge has syphoned off the farmer's irrigation water, thus contravening the repartian statue signed in 1205 by King Maximillian himself.
Lawyer 2: Your Majesty, the Count is entitled to as much water as he wants, according to the amendment signed by King Carolineas in 1306.
Mayor: Your Majesty..
SFC picks up with Passepartout motioning for the aide to get the map from the mayor.
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CBC:
After Phileas' bow to Passepartout, Passepartout motions for them to rise.
Krasnov: His Majesty's audience is over for today . The King's will be done.
To the crowd's chant "The King's will be done", Passpartout rises.
Krasnov: Fogg.
Phileas looks at Krasnov, Passepartout and Rebecca. The latter makes a shooing motion for Phileas to go to Passepartout. With a resigned look, he complies and takes up the train of Passepartout's robe. Jules can't contain a quiet laugh. They proceed out of the room, Passepartout in the lead, Phileas carrying the train, then Krasnov. Rebecca and Jules fall in behind them.
A falcon takes off from it's perch in a tree and SFC joins as the scene shifts to Lord Tyrol's castle
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CBC: 10:14 SFC: 9:27
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Act 3:
CBC:
Opens looking down on a couple of men working in a clearing
Rebecca: Good afternoon, gentlemen. I have a question for you. Who in these wood has the most beautiful daughter?
Cuts to Passepartout watching the guard with the gun for about 15 seconds before the SFC version picks up.
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CBC: 13:04 SFC: 12:20
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Act 4:
Opens with the camera panning across a row of footwear, then upward to Phileas polishing a shoe. He looks up as Krasnov enters.
Krasnov: You have a real apptitude for that, Fogg.
Phileas: One likes to maintain one's standards. Any news?
SFC picks up in the middle of the next line:
Krasnov: I'm afraid we have reports from Lord Tyrol's castle...
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CBC:
After Jules' escape scene, there's a few seconds of Passepartout sitting on the throne looking nervous before the Hungarians enter.
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CBC takes a commercial break after Mariana's line: You killed him.
SFC's last commercial comes after Krasnov sits down following Phileas' line: One of the very best.
CBC: 11:27 SFC: 11:02
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Total running times:
CBC: 44:11 SFC: 43:11

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