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Post by wildojinx on May 8, 2024 16:11:22 GMT -5
What's some lost media that you were surprised that ended up being unearthed after all? For me it was Turn-On suddenly turning up last year. The show was unavailable anywhere except at the Paley Center, so I dont know how it ended up onto youtube (George Schlatter later re-uploaded official episodes, but the first upload was unofficial). Of course, the content ended up being a bit less than stellar, but the fact that we got to see it at all is wild.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 8, 2024 16:15:16 GMT -5
I had no idea that Turn-On had been found. Thanks for the info.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 8, 2024 19:19:00 GMT -5
I had no idea that Turn-On had been found. Thanks for the info. Same. I'm probably gonna check that out later |
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on May 8, 2024 19:30:28 GMT -5
The Christine Chubbuck audio.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on May 8, 2024 22:44:13 GMT -5
9 of 25 unedited Zyu2 blocks that were made for Power Rangers. It was widely believed the public would never see it, considering most people who worked on the show either didn't remember it or didn't know/care that it was separate from Zyuranger. So the fact that Jeff Pruitt actually had it in his possession and posted some of it online ten years ago is a minor miracle.
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Post by dav on May 9, 2024 4:00:32 GMT -5
The Saban Sailor Moon pilot.
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Post by Ryushinku on May 9, 2024 5:58:30 GMT -5
An original and (mostly) recoverable print of Metropolis (1927) being found in Argentina, nearly 80 years later.
On the tv side, two episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66) were discovered in the basement of a church in 1983, and no-one still has any idea how they ended up there.
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Post by willywonka666 on May 9, 2024 7:58:53 GMT -5
The Christine Chubbuck audio. I found a clip that claimed to be the actual footage on YT years ago which is now gone-was there ever any evidence one way or another that video evidence existed? |
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Post by James Fabiano on May 9, 2024 8:25:00 GMT -5
The Christine Chubbuck audio. I found a clip that claimed to be the actual footage on YT years ago which is now gone-was there ever any evidence one way or another that video evidence existed? Someone actually PMed me with that video here! |
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Post by James Fabiano on May 9, 2024 8:57:21 GMT -5
- The Wicked Witch of the West visits Sesame Street - Bret Hart vs. Tom Magee - The Last Battle of Atlanta - AWA Team Challenge Series pilot - AWA Battle of the Breakfast Cereal (God I miss WWE Hidden Gems...) - The Christmas Gift of Light, aka the "mystery elf" cartoon - John Houlihan wins $20K+ from the Natural Triple Jackpot on Joker's Wild in 1984. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEJaBzpR4Bg&list=LL&index=44- For that matter, back in 2000 when someone at GSN found tapes of the CBS run of The Joker's Wild. Ditto when tapes of the Peter Marshall version of Hollywood Squares were discovered. - Decades back, Bill Cullen's $25,000 Pyramid episodes. - Also decades ago, when we first saw an episode from the 3rd Anniversary week of Price is Right, the first time they used the one-hour format complete with the ORIGINAL version of the Big Wheel. - Any ABC Password that managed to resurface. Same with CBS-era $10,000 Pyramid. - I can go on and on about "lost" game shows. - The 1966 version of the WPIX Yule Log, the one actually taped at Gracie Mansion and was replaced by a lookalike fireplace in California ever since. - The early 1987, pre-Derringer version of Demolition's theme music. The instrumental "Girls in Cars" for Strike Force too. - More of King Koopa's Kool Kartoons. Closing Logo-wise... - The MGM Television ID seen at the end of "Pogo Special Birthday Special" Finally spotted on a 16MM version of the special; previously, cut out of any VHS releases and only seen if you watched it when it was originally aired: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOuBm8MEDYc - The audio to the lost "waterdrop" DTS trailer (lost because it was BANNED as it was too close to the Imagine Entertainment logo, apparently) - The (snippet of the) TAT Communications Company closing logo. Can of worms it has opened ever since aside, it was a major find. My personal surprise finds over the years...as in, things probably only I would be obsessed with... - This Spanish Lucky Charms ad. Hadn't seen it since the '90s... www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv1GJj0QTfo&list=FL5Ll6I3hvwuKlJAtFENhX7Q&index=7- The Spanish version of the "small V" Sesame Street short was hard to find, till a few years back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJIwCCp5Qkw&list=FL5Ll6I3hvwuKlJAtFENhX7Q&index=8- A compilation of the "Fiasco" skits from the BBC English grammar tutorial show, Follow Me. Seen in, you guessed it, Spanish television too on Saturday mornings : www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFmDuqaRwgQ&list=FL5Ll6I3hvwuKlJAtFENhX7Q&index=9- Yep, the Spanish Channels again...Mac Perro's "cousin" stars in a PSA where he saves his son from smoking pot with cats, among other things : www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS83G_6BCN8 - Ethan's TV Junk Yard has been turning up promo reels from WNEW-TV in New York lately. Remixing the sound gave us clean versions of "The Fun's On Channel 5" promo music and the station's "theme" for promos in 1984 or so. I don't know if we can count this, but Buzzr re-airing episodes of Whew! and the Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour. And airing the episodes that people remembered/bordered on urban legends: - We had tapings of both for awhile, but to have a pretty much pristine copy of Randy Amasia's two-day run on W! (and boy that was a heartbreaking story :-( ) - Steven Matthews blows out his knee after winning his game, later returns to face the Gauntlet of Villains. - The Hollywood Squares board malfunctioning, complete with Jon Bauman making a joke about "flashers on the set" and the celebrities having to hold their arms in X or O shapes for the rest of the time. - A Match Game segment ending early on a 6-6 tie, so they fill time with cheerleaders in the audience performing. - The FREAKING CHRISTMAS TREE VIDEO WALL DISPLAY on MG/HS's holiday episode. - Finding all the $30,000 wins on MG/HS in general. |
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Post by Urn Anderson on May 9, 2024 9:05:53 GMT -5
Twenty years ago, I spent countless hours and much of my own money trying to find out if Super Mario Bros:the Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach even *existed.*
The prevailing belief at one time was that it was an animated XXX parody, but there was too much evidence to the contrary.
I never would have expected to see a film print surface and get an absolutely stellar fan restoration.
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Post by wildojinx on May 9, 2024 9:16:45 GMT -5
Some more from last year:
The first episode of Wolf Rock TV (Now if only the other episodes will surface,,)
The original airing of the Fat Albert Busted episode (didnt think anyone would bother looking after you know what)
The Robin lives ending of Death in the Family (granted, we knew it existed, but we didnt think that DC would actually publish it)
WCW All Nighter
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Post by James Fabiano on May 9, 2024 9:39:01 GMT -5
Some more from last year: The first episode of Wolf Rock TV (Now if only the other episodes will surface,,) The original airing of the Fat Albert Busted episode (didnt think anyone would bother looking after you know what) THANK YOU! I totally forgot both in my list, and I was thinking on and off about them when making my list. Oddly, I can still watch Fat Albert despite [MR. BLACK!]* being there. Footage from Hey Hey Hey, It's Fat Albert trickling online (whole thing is at the Paley Center, though) is another related find. The Weird Harold Special being online in full. I THINK there's more Wolf Rock TV out there now, only it's on Internet Archive?? Now if only we can confirm/deny that Young Astronauts ever made air before the Challenger accident happened. Speaking of, there's been rumors that there WAS a Voltron pilot with a Daltanious dub that made it to air in certain markets. That would be huge if true. (Daltanious of course being what the "Voltron of the far universe" was meant to be, until World Events asked for the "cartoon with the lion" - as part of Daltanious was a lion mech - and they got GoLion instead...) Different, but same, as the Busted example? When the unaltered version of It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown made it to YouTube. St. Elsewhere being on Hulu unearthed a SECOND MTM Enterprises soundtrack (different meow) used a few times in 1983. But also, the altered 20th Century Fox prints are there too (sped up end credits to mask the MTM logo and make room for the 20th one. And one of them has the instance where the MTM meow can still be heard behind the 20th Century Fox logo!) * - Simpsons and It Was A Thing On TV reference. |
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on May 9, 2024 9:39:18 GMT -5
The Christine Chubbuck audio. I found a clip that claimed to be the actual footage on YT years ago which is now gone-was there ever any evidence one way or another that video evidence existed? The audio is still up on YT, I think. It's real. There's also an episode of Christine's show Suncoast Digest on YT and her voice there matches up with the audio. |
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Post by salz4life on May 9, 2024 9:46:03 GMT -5
I found a clip that claimed to be the actual footage on YT years ago which is now gone-was there ever any evidence one way or another that video evidence existed? Someone actually PMed me with that video here! Do you mind PMing it to me??? LOL |
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 9, 2024 9:53:41 GMT -5
Some more from last year: The first episode of Wolf Rock TV (Now if only the other episodes will surface,,) Another one I didn't know about, thank you. |
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Post by James Fabiano on May 9, 2024 10:49:17 GMT -5
I found a clip that claimed to be the actual footage on YT years ago which is now gone-was there ever any evidence one way or another that video evidence existed? The audio is still up on YT, I think. It's real. There's also an episode of Christine's show Suncoast Digest on YT and her voice there matches up with the audio. Both the audio and video were fakes on the "video" of the incident, IIRC. The real audio has the shot happen pretty much in line with the finish of her last word. No dramatic pause or anything like that. |
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Post by James Fabiano on May 9, 2024 11:02:57 GMT -5
One more word on game shows: Wink Martindale's YouTube channel typically unearths lots of pilots and hidden gems. Check it out.
On the topic, the intended Joker's Wild pilot turning up online, forget the year off hand, but it was closer to the original than the Snoop Dogg version. Not a perfect clone, but still pretty close.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on May 9, 2024 11:21:39 GMT -5
The audio is still up on YT, I think. It's real. There's also an episode of Christine's show Suncoast Digest on YT and her voice there matches up with the audio. Both the audio and video were fakes on the "video" of the incident, IIRC. The real audio has the shot happen pretty much in line with the finish of her last word. No dramatic pause or anything like that. Yes, that's the audio I'm talking about. |
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on May 9, 2024 11:36:33 GMT -5
An original and (mostly) recoverable print of Metropolis (1927) being found in Argentina, nearly 80 years later. On the tv side, two episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan (1965-66) were discovered in the basement of a church in 1983, and no-one still has any idea how they ended up there. Honestly, any Doctor Who this century. How any of the film survived till, I think 2013 was the last discovery, I have no idea. |
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