It also could have been different between the US and Canadian airings. Source: someone who mostly watched the Canadian airings, there were some minute differences in episodes. I don't remember what they were at this point.
Oh really? That’s the first I’ve ever heard. Was it the episodes themselves? Because I know different affiliates of PBS shows don’t include stuff like the funding credits, interstitial segments and website promos.
I thought the info on logopedia originally mentioned the Texas variant in addition to the foghorn one? Which would imply they’re two separate things.
Yes, that all originated from the CLG Wiki listing for the logo which I investigated earlier in this thread. Both were separate mentions although the foghorn was never sourced.
I wish we could get in touch with the guy who originally wrote that.
Post by generalironbeak on Feb 15, 2024 7:52:54 GMT
I’m thinking that Sagwa has an unaired pilot that’s an early version of the first episode, “How Sagwa Got Her Colors”. I’m assuming this because the funding credits feature a scene from the episode that appears little different than the actual thing.
I don’t have much else to add, but I figured I’d try to get the ball rolling. The best place to start would be to contact Cinegroup and see what they have to say.
Hey there! Any updates on the three missing Out of the Box episodes? I really want to see the episode "The Gift"
I’ve put in requests about that at the Disney+ help desk and they always say they’ll get back to me if they have any info but they never do. So I think our best hope is to find a recording. Research I’ve done on Newspapers.com shows the episodes weren’t broadcast until season 2 began airing in July 1999, but had been dropped by the time the season finished premiering 6 months later. So mid-to-late-1999 recordings are what we should be looking for.
Hey there! Any updates on the three missing Out of the Box episodes? I really want to see the episode "The Gift"
I do too!
The only reason I actually remember that one was because a) I actually saw it twice, and b) it was the first time they’d ever done an episode without a host (since the Revealing Feelings episode hadn’t been broadcast yet) so was definitely an episode that stood out. I have no idea if I ever saw the other two missing episodes, but I don’t remember any episodes feeling like carbon-copies of other ones (they’re earlier versions of season 2 episodes) so I likely only saw them once if at all.
Yeah someone probably just changed the information there after having read this thread, because we concluded people confusing it with the Texas ending is probably what people are misremembering.
I'm still not 100% convinced the foghorn variant doesn't exist, but I could believe it's just misremembering the Texas one.
I thought the info on logopedia originally mentioned the Texas variant in addition to the foghorn one? Which would imply they’re two separate things.
Post by generalironbeak on Dec 11, 2023 9:49:38 GMT
I’m trying to find interstitials to a kids/teens programming block that was on CBC around 2003. I know one of the hosts was named Anthony McLean, I remember he left in 2004. Anyways I mainly remember it because they showed Cyberchase on it, it was an interesting block.
Thought I might update on the search for The Little Twins so far.
The Little Twins is an incredibly rare Japanese animated series produced in 1992. It fleetingly aired on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block in the summer of 1999, with an English theme song performed by Carly Simon. It later got an obscure DVD release in early 2004. The show is like no other. Centering on two tiny Lilliputian like twins named Petal and Piper, it takes place on an island in a world of similar Lilliputians. It centers around their everyday lives, and their encounters with regular-sized animals. It sounds quite normal, but the animation is...just breathtaking. Unfortunately for old fans, the show has faded into near obscurity. Wikipedia doesn't even have an article for it. Of course, considering its fleeting run in North America, it's likely a lot of people never even knew about it long enough to tape it. The episodes found here are from the obscure 2004 DVD release. Additional episodes can be found on YouTube, but only in Arabic. I will attempt to collect more episodes, but it seems very unlikely that I will find them unless I come across some episodes parents were able to tape.
-Internet archive with some sections taken from TV Tropes
When I looked at the Croatian VHS listing in Japan it wasn't available but it was available in English. I asked the seller if the VHS had episodes thatweren't on the playlist. He said he would check. I also asked an editor on the Nickstory wiki who has some recordings. There where some sources that said some of the aribic dub was online and when I looked up the "little twins cartoon anime" on YouTube The aribic dub for the whole show was there. Not quite sure if this counts as found media because some sources did quote that aribic episodes where out there but they never said the whole 13 episode series.
Summer 1998, not Summer 1999.
I’m actually surprised to hear that. I was 4 in summer 1999 and 3 in summer 1998, so the fact that I distinctly remembered when the show aired made me pretty sure it was 1999 I was remembering, since I have pretty disctinct memories of the 1999-2000 school year (maybe because I watched ZOOM and Dragon Tales pretty regularly during that specific year) but not as much of the 1998-1999 year.
Post by generalironbeak on Nov 16, 2023 19:33:46 GMT
Sorry, my dad isn’t in town much. He might be coming back soon, and so he might be able to help, but I don’t want to promise anything. I’m sorry about all this.
I don't have any recordings of Playhouse Disney from October or November 1999, but I have recordings of it starting March 2000 up and til January 2007.
That’s cool to know. But yeah, the missing Box eps were broadcast in October of 1999, with a few airings in November and also possibly some in July, August and September.
Post by generalironbeak on Nov 12, 2023 8:59:33 GMT
Figured I’d bump this thread since I made a similar one today. I think we’ll have the most luck if we look specifically in October, but since “The Gift” and “Treasures” supposedly aired once in November and it’s possible “Let’s Eat Out” was also broadcast in October or maybe in the previous several months (the title was never one of the ones listed as it was too long to fit in), it’ll probably be good enough.
It’s worth mentioning that the season 2 titles weren’t shown in the newspaper I found them in until a few weeks into it’s broadcast. Now, the first airing of “The Gift” appears in the newspaper in October, on a day the episode “Doctor Octor” also aired. I’m very certain I saw it then because I seem to recall seeing those episodes on the same day (I even had gotten them a bit confused as seperate ones!)…except it wasn’t, I’m pretty sure, the first time I’d seen “The Gift”. Meaning it and possibly “Treasures” were also aired earlier. So definitely around September/October should be when we look, could I get the thread title changed to reflect that?
One of the hosts describes it as "Dragon Tales edited to look obscene", and they joke about it as though it’s what the original post claims, but in reality, it just sounds like a reel of animation errors, nothing salacious at all
Sounds interesting enough, I wonder if it was ever online?
Post by generalironbeak on Nov 12, 2023 3:21:30 GMT
The search for season 1 of “ZOOM”, despite my attempts to get the word out, has proved to be frustratingly slow, and there’s no indication that GBH is going to change their policy about viewing the episodes.
So I think a more helpful approach would be to specifically track down PBS Kids recordings from 1999. Season 1 aired consistently throughout that year (being the only season at the time), and while it did also air in 2000 and 2002, it was for much shorter periods of time. So 1999 is definitely the year we should try to track down PBS Kids recordings if we want a decent chance of finding even one missing episode.
While we’re looking for recordings from 1999, I should mention there’s another PBS Kids rarity from this time that people should keep a lookout for. Supposedly there’s a lost version of the Zoboomfoo funding credits that was only used at the end of the episode, with an alternate version of the Healthtex promo. VHS releases of the show never included the funding credits, and the only recordings from 1999 of the show’s fundings are the opening fundings (with the commercial of kids playing in the mud). The closing ad supposedly features kids playing on a swing set, so if there’s a Zoboomfoo recording with something like that at the end, it’s super-rare.
So again, it’s recordings from 1999 that will most likely lead to this stuff being found.