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I luckily only have one DVD that does this. It's the show Wiseguy and the finale uses Nights in White Satin to great emotional effect. Well, it did, but the DVD makers thought a sweet Jamaican beat would be sooo much better. That was a very expensive DVD set too.
We used to watch TBS (I think) for fun as ALL of their syndicated programs had the music removed in favor of some really muddy recordings all done by one guy. This meant that this one slob had to come up with dozens of new songs, and it shows. The two shows that suffered the most were China Beach, which used a ton of 60s music and had Paint it Black for a theme song; and Get a Life, which used REM's Stand for a theme as well as at least one other song per episode. As I said, we watched these for fun as it was done so poorly. Literally at the music cue, you could hear a tape recorder click on, and China Beach lost almost all sound as an awful psuedo-version of All Along the Watchtower would kick in. The worst original song ever belongs to an episode of Get a Life, where instead of playing the Money Money Money song, it was just that guy saying "I've got a fiiiiive dollar billllll" over and over.
It's my understanding that the series the Wonder Years is facing the same problems, and may never see a full DVD issueance. It's so sad-music publishers need to figure out a cheap "DVD rate" for this music, as they are really missing out on some serious revenue here.
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