When aired on national syndication as a "Universal Network" presentation in 1991, the following brief scenes were omitted for time:
- When Frank attempts to give Faye her medicine.
- Before Frank asks for somebody to help them, he breaks a vase and kicks a chair.
- Carlos and his gang planning.
- Frank and Faye are reading the newspaper and while one of the spaceships pours them coffee, Faye asks what ever happened to General Eisenhower.
- Harry searches his room for his whistle.
- While Marissa, Hector and his friends hold a fiesta in the apartment, Mason sits outside and drinks.