Yes, Jrand54, it is true! HERCULES in its initial airing on NBC will be in one-three-hour showing. This was done, to my understanding, for programming reasons. There will be a four-hour version that will air, I'm told, later on USA or Sci-fi and may also have another screening on NBC in the summer that will be four-hour. The DVD will be four-hour and everywhere else in the world it will show as a four-hour. I've seen neither the three or four hour version yet.