This one is a rather peculiar case. Sources are differing on the number of episodes made, as Wikipedia (and sources that copy their info) claim 52 episodes were produced, but many other sources claim only 39 episodes were actually produced. On HBO Go/Amazon, only 39 episodes are available but they're labeled 1-26 and 40-52. What went on here? I can't imagine 13 episodes are simply tied up somehow considering this show is nearly 20 years old yet HBO still reruns it.
I double checked on the HBO to see if it was just a glitch or something, but this does not seem the case. Interestingly, when you Google "Crashbox episodes", it has the two (original) seasons listed as having 26 episodes each (52 total), including the date they supposedly first aired on. However, I'm not sure where Google's result gets its information from, so no word on reliability. Wikipedia says there are 69 episodes, but it looks like they're including the revival series and there is no breakdown of the episodes by season or even between the original and revival. IMDB says there are 64 episodes, but 12 are listed as premiering in either 2005 or 2007. HBO unfortunately doesn't list the original air dates for the episodes they have online, so at present we can't figure out which episodes are allegedly missing (some thumbnails also get reused, so we can't match them that way).
The good news is, I found two production companies associated with Crashbox: Cuppa Coffee Studios and Planet Grande Pictures. My guess is that at least one of them might have at the very least confirmation on the number of episodes? I'll also say that HBO doesn't necessarily keep every episode of their shows up. For example, with Last Week Tonight they take down episodes once they turn a year old. It could easily be that HBO just didn't put up all of the episodes (even though it's bizarre to just not have the first half of a single season not up).
Xfinity, the cable service I subscribe to, lists only 39 episodes, just like HBO and Amazon. Xfinity seems to get their air dates from Google or vice versa. IMDb may have gotten their dates for their 54 episodes from Google as well. Both Xfinity and Google skip the same episodes that HBO and Amazon skip.
More likely, they might not want to show all the episodes, as with Last Week Tonight. They cycle through the entire series an episode a day. So I think it's a little early to call lost on these episodes. They may yet rerun those episodes. If not, something is not right.
Last Edit: Jan 8, 2018 13:45:44 GMT by Terry the Cat
More likely, they might not want to show all the episodes, as with Last Week Tonight. They cycle through the entire series an episode a day. So I think it's a little early to call lost on these episodes. They may yet rerun those episodes. If not, something is not right.
There are also episodes that can be found elsewhere online, so episodes 27-39 are likely still out there.
More likely, they might not want to show all the episodes, as with Last Week Tonight. They cycle through the entire series an episode a day. So I think it's a little early to call lost on these episodes. They may yet rerun those episodes. If not, something is not right.
There are also episodes that can be found elsewhere online, so episodes 27-39 are likely still out there.
I don't think we should use Last Week Tonight as a point of comparison, considering that's still running and Crashbox hasn't been in production since 2000 or earlier.
Literally none of their other ended shows have a 13 episode chunk missing. They're either all there (most shows past Oz) or none there (Life and Times of Tim, Dream On)
LONG TERM POTENTIAL TEST: Tomorrow HBO Family is airing S02E19 (according to zap2it) and the reruns move chronologically from there (starting again at S01E01).. so we can find out in about 6 weeks if they even air S02E01-S02E13.
I'm thinking this could be a case like The State where episodes are listed as existing but descriptions show that they actually were repurposed into other episodes (S01E04 and S01E05 were repurposed into S01E06)
I don't think we should use Last Week Tonight as a point of comparison, considering that's still running and Crashbox hasn't been in production since 2000 or earlier.
Literally none of their other ended shows have a 13 episode chunk missing. They're either all there (most shows past Oz) or none there (Life and Times of Tim, Dream On)
Crashbox IS still in production. It was rebooted recently.
I don't think we should use Last Week Tonight as a point of comparison, considering that's still running and Crashbox hasn't been in production since 2000 or earlier.
Literally none of their other ended shows have a 13 episode chunk missing. They're either all there (most shows past Oz) or none there (Life and Times of Tim, Dream On)
Crashbox IS still in production. It was rebooted recently.
I was also just giving an example of HBO having not all episodes of a show available. There are other shows they do that with, but that's just the one that popped into my mind.
I don't think we should use Last Week Tonight as a point of comparison, considering that's still running and Crashbox hasn't been in production since 2000 or earlier.
Literally none of their other ended shows have a 13 episode chunk missing. They're either all there (most shows past Oz) or none there (Life and Times of Tim, Dream On)
Crashbox IS still in production. It was rebooted recently.
...are you basing that off Wikipedia because there is literally no reference for that and the HBO schedule shows nothing
Crashbox IS still in production. It was rebooted recently.
I was also just giving an example of HBO having not all episodes of a show available. There are other shows they do that with, but that's just the one that popped into my mind.
I'd love to be proven wrong but AFAIK all their other shows that have ended have either the complete series available (Eastbound, The Wire, The Sopranos, Oz, Deadwood, Carnivale, Larry Sanders, Spawn) or completely missing (Ricky Gervais, TLaToT, Spicy City, Arliss, many early miniseries).
I don't see why they'd make only a few episodes missing if they had the distribution deal for the complete series seeing how there's no hype to build for any reason.
LONG TERM POTENTIAL TEST: Tomorrow HBO Family is airing S02E19 (according to zap2it) and the reruns move chronologically from there (starting again at S01E01).. so we can find out in about 6 weeks if they even air S02E01-S02E13.
I'm thinking this could be a case like The State where episodes are listed as existing but descriptions show that they actually were repurposed into other episodes (S01E04 and S01E05 were repurposed into S01E06)
Right now, this is the only way to determine if the episodes are actually missing or if HBO was simply being odd about it and skipped episodes for no reason.
Welp, on Thursday 2/22 HBO Family airs Crashbox 26, and on Friday 2/23 they air Crashbox 40. I'm more than willing to chalk this one up to production oddities, unless someone else has other theories.
Welp, on Thursday 2/22 HBO Family airs Crashbox 26, and on Friday 2/23 they air Crashbox 40. I'm more than willing to chalk this one up to production oddities, unless someone else has other theories.
Only other theories I have are that HBO for whatever reason doesn't own the rights to episodes 27-39 or those episodes were lost entirely for whatever bizarre reason and no one has them any more. But those are a bit more out there, so it's likely a weird production thing.