Post by lotor on Sept 14, 2019 21:48:39 GMT
This is the second time around writing this thread so I'm going to try and summarise it. I was swapping tab and went backwards one page. Oh well.
Edit as of Nov 8th '19 - I contacted Ross Lee himself on Twitter sometime within the last month and he's aiming to reupload all of the episodes around Christmas time. Looks like this was one of the least eventful media searches.
The Show
Ross Lee's Ghoulies was a 2008 Nick UK Saturday morning horror-comedy show. It ran for 13 episodes between 28 September - 13 December 2008 at 2 hours each episode. The show featured Lee, along with celebrity and viewer guests, participating in various games, comedy skits and pranks.
The Dissappearance
Despite Lee being nominated for a Children's BAFTA for writing the show, Ghoulies has never seen a home media release. In this way it is similar to Lee's cult CBBC classic Chute!, however unlike Chute!, which was found through Lee's personal website on 02/09/2016, Ghoulies still remains missing. Due to Lee's website being down as of at least 03/09/2017 (the earliest WayBack Machine snapshot) we can neither confirm nor deny that Lee uploaded Ghoulies clips to his website.
What Has Surfaced So Far
As of the writing of this thread on 14/09/2019 (Lee's shows have a strange affinity for the month September) not one full episode of the show has surfaced.
Heres what we do have:
A 7 minute reel of highlights from the show uploaded by Lee himself. He also has uploaded one Dr. Floss skit with British actress Adele Silva.
Approximately 15 minutes of British circus-horror-rock act The Circus of Horror's feature on the show. (It is split into four 3-4 minute parts, though.)
Catch comedian Charlie Chuck's feature on the show.
A PrimeTV upload of a hidden camera prank they helped film.
A fan's upload of him and his sister's feature on the show. This upload strikes me differently due to the fact you can clearly see the uploader has/had the full episode on the laptop.
Another fan upload from someone also searching for full episodes.
An upload of a commercial for the show's X-Factor spoof B-Factor.
Where To Go From Here
My immediate thought would be to contact Lee himself through his Twitter. Due to limited information about the show in general finding any staff members' contacts would be hard. The only member of staff I've managed to get a name for is Elizabeth Hart but unfortunately her Blogspot has been inactive for 9 years and I'm not even sure if her website is even hers anymore. Possibly even contacting either of the fan uploaders via their Youtube channels may yield some more clips.
