 When the film first aired on American TV, a network executive ordered the  creation of a new prologue (directed by Monte Hellman (qv)) to give a moral  justification for the lead characters killings: a prison warden  (Harry Dean Stanton (qv)) commutes "the Man With No Names" sentence if he  goes to San Miguel and restores order to the town. Neither Eastwood or Leone  participated in this new sequence (the Man With No Name is seen only from the  rear), and this distortion of Leones creative vision has reportedly been  dropped from subsequent presentations. This prologue can be found on the  Special Edition DVD.