Post by thekingofallfrogs on Mar 9, 2024 5:15:36 GMT
So I'm looking to see if anyone has made any progress on finding the second season for Discovery Kids' "Prehistoric Planet" and idk if there's a search going on. For those unaware this was a not-so great rendition of "Walking with Dinosaurs" and "Walking with Beasts" that was dumbed down for kids. A lot of late millennials and early zoomers do have fond memories of this show regardless of its quality and it did introduce them to the original unaltered nature documentaries and dinosaur-related non-fiction media as a whole.
I already created the article for this show on the lost media wiki so I probably won't go too much into it. I specifically remember one instance in their take on Whale Killer (the second episode of WWB) where they made one of the sharks that the Basilosaurus hunts down at the beginning of the episode, they made it scream. It's something I vividly remember this just for how bonkers of an edit that was. I've tried looking the second season up everywhere and I don't see any archives of it anywhere aside from the intro. I doubt the BBC or the Discovery Channel would care much about this considering it's a bowdlerized edit of a beloved non-fiction show, but I'm sure there are people out there trying to look for it.
So I'm looking to see if anyone has made any progress on finding the second season for Discovery Kids' "Prehistoric Planet" and idk if there's a search going on. For those unaware this was a not-so great rendition of "Walking with Dinosaurs" and "Walking with Beasts" that was dumbed down for kids. A lot of late millennials and early zoomers do have fond memories of this show regardless of its quality and it did introduce them to the original unaltered nature documentaries and dinosaur-related non-fiction media as a whole.
I already created the article for this show on the lost media wiki so I probably won't go too much into it. I specifically remember one instance in their take on Whale Killer (the second episode of WWB) where they made one of the sharks that the Basilosaurus hunts down at the beginning of the episode, they made it scream. It's something I vividly remember this just for how bonkers of an edit that was. I've tried looking the second season up everywhere and I don't see any archives of it anywhere aside from the intro. I doubt the BBC or the Discovery Channel would care much about this considering it's a bowdlerized edit of a beloved non-fiction show, but I'm sure there are people out there trying to look for it.
Do you have any relevant links about this?
"oooh, you're a- a freaked out child in the woods..."
Post by thekingofallfrogs on Mar 17, 2024 23:02:49 GMT
I know a Youtuber named DinoDiego brought it up in one of his videos and the intro exists on YouTube. That and someone on Deviantart "found" some of the episodes and posted stills for them (except for the PP take on "Next of Kin" which is apparently absent) but they're locked behind a password on some old piracy site and OP has access but refuses to give it out on some vague notion.
I know a Youtuber named DinoDiego brought it up in one of his videos and the intro exists on YouTube. That and someone on Deviantart "found" some of the episodes and posted stills for them (except for the PP take on "Next of Kin" which is apparently absent) but they're locked behind a password on some old piracy site and OP has access but refuses to give it out on some vague notion.
I know a Youtuber named DinoDiego brought it up in one of his videos and the intro exists on YouTube. That and someone on Deviantart "found" some of the episodes and posted stills for them (except for the PP take on "Next of Kin" which is apparently absent) but they're locked behind a password on some old piracy site and OP has access but refuses to give it out on some vague notion.
Thanks. Odd that it's Deviantart of all places preserving these.
I don't like DeviantArt for my own personal reasons, but I do find it a bit sketchy how this person was able to get access to those files and why they didn't post them to the internet archive. I know I'm repeating myself but still its the elephant in the room.
Post by walkingwithhumans on Apr 15, 2024 10:17:19 GMT
This must be the piracy site they're talking about, which has the Polish(?) dub of 12 of the 13 episodes behind a paywall. It's a sketchy looking site, so I wouldn't recommend giving them your payment information... Fortunately, you can preview the first 10 minutes of each video for free and easily save those previews by right clicking.
Obviously this doesn't do much good for anyone searching for the Christian Slater narration, but all of the text remains in English and it does at least give us some idea of how Walking with Beasts was recut. It's also curious to see that Prehistoric Planet Top 10 uses clips from The Ballad of Big Al when that special never got its own episode. You would have thought that a entirely new episode would be more appealing than a clip show!
It's also worth considering that these seem to be clean copies rather than off-air recordings; they don't have any channel bugs or idents, the ad bumpers are fully intact, and they don't have any analogue video artefacts (at least, to the point where you can tell on such a low quality encode). Season 1's bumpers were cut out of the the Dino Dynasty DVD, but they're intact on these copies. Could these have been sourced from an obscure DVD or VOD release? If there is a Polish DVD it could plausibly contain the English audio.