Examples from Family Guy Season 1, Episode 1. — Do note that Family Guy also had hard interlacing issues on top of the Adobe Bug.
This semed to have happened anywhere they trim something off, altered speed of a clip, or duplicated frames within media that is originally interlaced (Freeze frame strategy causing it to duplicate only one field, not both fields). Or possibly when dealing with two neighbouring clips where one is progressive and one is interlaced. It is not entirely clear nor proven what exact feature had the bug. If you have any further information, or even stuff to try to re-create the bug, please let me know.
Adobe products still to this day suck ass dealing with mixed scan material, but back then it was so unbelievably shit but the old CRTs made it hard to notice.
While it's generally understood that Premiere 6 was the cause, that has not been confirmed as re-creating the bug has not been done yet. I've tried to re-create the bug with Adobe Premiere 6 for Windows with no luck.
Whatever software and version this is, is likely the offender as it is Family Guy S01E02 "I Never Met the Dead Man" which has the Adobe Bug a lot of times throughout the episode.
Generally speaking any show that would have been high-budget and edited on Mac's back in the day are very likely to have this issue at least on one episode. FOX shows are notorious for it.
- Family Guy throughout Seasons 1-3, maybe Season 4 as well.
- The Simpsons possibly throughout the early seasons, but it definitely happened in Season 2, Episode 15 "Dancing Homer". (^1, ^2)
- Men in Black: The Series Season 2, Episode 1 "The Little Big Man Syndrome", possibly more episodes.
- Evil Con Carne.
- Some versions/masters of Beyblade (the original, Season 2 specifically, possibly Season 1 and Season 3+ as well).