There are two episodes of Blue Peter that involve this show, one that announces a contest to design a character for it and one that- i think- goes into the making of the cartoon itself...aaaand they're lost.
Bit of a strange update; I was anonymously sent four episodes of Blue Peter that mentioned Oscar's Orchestra (Including a nightmarish looking animatronic piano and behind the scenes look at the show) I've taken the Oscar bits from the episodes and uploaded them (They're listed as segments in the playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm2-7twl9-1zlldF0kB_kXqVfEWUcjS4f )
There's still so many unanswered questions about this show that I have, like where the images for it's IMDB page come from or if THIS was from a pilot or an animation test or what have you. This show plagues me and I love it and I'm still irked that so much of it is lost to time.
As of now, I have zero ideas on how to find season 3 in english for this show. Because Dudley Moore had left the show at that point due to his declining health, I presume the BBC didn't see the point in releasing it on home media. The only way the rest of this show could be found is if someone who taped their TV back in the day uploaded them to the internet, which is unlikely in my mind. For now, the only glimpses I've got of this season is two very short clips that Collingwood O'Hare uploaded to their vimeo.
I'm currently recording and uploading the russian dub of the show onto youtube, this includes the season 3 episodes but I'm not sure if it's all of them. It's going to be a long ride for me.
I apologize for any updates, i'm currently down the rabbit hole containing the pittsburgh symphony orchestra's attempt at a world record back in 1997 that somehow involved the show.
I apologize for any updates, i'm currently down the rabbit hole containing the pittsburgh symphony orchestra's attempt at a world record back in 1997 that somehow involved the show.
I've hit an entire deadend with this search; Hilton Hotels, Kauffman's, A company called Ariels, and various TV stations were somehow involved but I can not find any video evidence of it. On another hand, I've uploaded more of the russian dub.
It's been a while since I updated this thread so here's a rundown of what this show is: Oscar's Orchestra was a 1994 CBBC show that starred Dudley Moore as a flying piano fighting against the tyrannical ruler of the world's ban of music, it was almost completely lost in the sands of time when I first found out about it. I've been hunting down anything and everything about this show, from concept art to storyboards to differentlanguagesthe showwas dubbed in and more. I've got various links in this post for references. P.S. If someone would make an article on the main site that'd be great, my writing skills are admittedly not that great...
WHAT'S STILL MISSING: -Any full episodes of season 3 in english
-Origin of image found on a finnish blog using noticeably older designs, possibly from a pilot due to similar image found in a magazine (I asked her, she has no clue where it came from either)
-Video footage/Photos of the Pittsburgh Symphony's attempt to get into the Guinness Book of World Records that used the show for promotion in 1998, Along with Birmingham Orchestra's 1996 attempt that also used the show.
-ANY video proof of the show airing in the states, i've only found television guides and articles mentioning it was in ratings right behind Bill Nye.
