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Yeah I know Danger Bay got shipped south to the USA, intercontinental distribution doesn't seem unlikely.
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I dig this one!
I was thinking Danger Bay as well. They used to run that on Disney Channel down here!
Still you never know how many countries a show like this may reach out there.
That sex ed. film mentioned though did sound pretty wacky though.
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If I remember correctly, Danger Bay was pretty much entirely location shoots, with many scenes taking place in the open water, which can be a pretty expensive place to shoot considering you need multiple boats and sometimes helicopters not to mention portable sources of power for cameras and lighting.
I doubt the CBC would have made a show that pricey for an "afterschool" children's timeslot (again if I remember correctly) if they weren't factoring in international sales to cover some of the costs of production.
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Probably. Wiki does mention the countries this was aired in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Bay
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I think the show I'm looking for had a more brooding-moody opening. I guess putting it as criminal adventure wasn't quite correct on my part, I was thinking more of a mystery-whodunit kinda thing, maybe even supernatural. Thank you so much for taking your time helping me though, you're awesome!
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That somewhat describes the opening to TV Ontario's Read All About It although I don't think it'd translate well as it was designed mainly as a tool to teach reading in English in the guise of a sci-fi mystery adventure story.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT, I'VE FOUND IT!!!
Found a scan of a TV Guide which also had the title of one of the episodes, which made searching for it a lot easier. Thankfully it wasn't the case of the translators taking tons of liberty with naming the episode!
It was SPIRIT bay, not ghost bay! That's a different kind of specter altogether! Oh wow, that opening brings back some memories, and then some! I was super small when it had aired, so I don't think I even knew back then they were supposed to be Native Americans.
So I guess this is not so much lost media as it is an obscure show that was hard to pinpoint without its original titles. Still, I can't find anything of the Hungarian dub online, so that has to count for something. Nevertheless, this was some fun detective work!
Found a scan of a TV Guide which also had the title of one of the episodes, which made searching for it a lot easier. Thankfully it wasn't the case of the translators taking tons of liberty with naming the episode!
It was SPIRIT bay, not ghost bay! That's a different kind of specter altogether! Oh wow, that opening brings back some memories, and then some! I was super small when it had aired, so I don't think I even knew back then they were supposed to be Native Americans.
So I guess this is not so much lost media as it is an obscure show that was hard to pinpoint without its original titles. Still, I can't find anything of the Hungarian dub online, so that has to count for something. Nevertheless, this was some fun detective work!
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I love this movie, I didn't know it was so heavily cut.
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Even though I was a kid in Canada in the 1980s, I can't say I remember Spirit Bay. Maybe it was broadcast at the same time as Knight Rider or ALF.
Congratulations on finding what you were looking for!
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I recall some channel in the US that played Spirit Bay as well (though checking, apparently that was Disney Channel as well).
EDIT: In the end, I suppose Disney Channel was where most of these unheard of things got shown a lot back in the 80's, and there was a lot of it on that channel, I'm impressed my folks paid for it throughout!
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I don't go out of my way to look up information on lost media, but I enjoy hearing stories about it (personal favorite being Crybaby Lane), and there's a few pieces of lost media I'd like to see come to light one day, such as the cut footage of Black Cauldron and Land Before Time, which apparently does exist in a vault but Universal or whoever won't release it.
I actually was just recommended this fascinating video talking about the history of the search for the lost media known as "Clock Man", which was found last year.
Pretty crazy.
More like the dub of that episode is the real lost piece of media.
Speaking of Pokémon, I feel like the original piece-of-shit dub for Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon may count as lost media, but it's lost media on purpose because it's so fucking awful and no one wants to remember it. I can only ever find clips of it nowadays mainly doing comparisons to the redub, not the whole thing, though I think a torrent does exist somewhere, I just can't find/access it. I still have the tape I recorded it on, but one: it's old, I don't trust it to not kill any VHS machine I put it in, and two: I, too, wish to forget that experience.
I thought I heard/read somewhere that a dub was made or that a copy was released State-side, but copies are extremely hard to come by. I also thought like Bennett the Sage mentioned in one of his online Q&As he'd like to get his hands on such a copy to do a review, which I guess hinted at a dub or something since he rarely reviews subs. I dunno, guess I just didn't realize there was missing footage when I watched a torrent years ago.
Isn't word on the street is that the uncensored film no longer exists in Toei's possession simply because they stupidly did the censoring on the master tapes/actual cels themselves? (Toei is that inept tbh.)
I actually was just recommended this fascinating video talking about the history of the search for the lost media known as "Clock Man", which was found last year.
More like the dub of that episode is the real lost piece of media.
Speaking of Pokémon, I feel like the original piece-of-shit dub for Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon may count as lost media, but it's lost media on purpose because it's so fucking awful and no one wants to remember it. I can only ever find clips of it nowadays mainly doing comparisons to the redub, not the whole thing, though I think a torrent does exist somewhere, I just can't find/access it. I still have the tape I recorded it on, but one: it's old, I don't trust it to not kill any VHS machine I put it in, and two: I, too, wish to forget that experience.
I thought I heard/read somewhere that a dub was made or that a copy was released State-side, but copies are extremely hard to come by. I also thought like Bennett the Sage mentioned in one of his online Q&As he'd like to get his hands on such a copy to do a review, which I guess hinted at a dub or something since he rarely reviews subs. I dunno, guess I just didn't realize there was missing footage when I watched a torrent years ago.
Isn't word on the street is that the uncensored film no longer exists in Toei's possession simply because they stupidly did the censoring on the master tapes/actual cels themselves? (Toei is that inept tbh.)
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This game that I used to play all the time around 2000-2001.
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Well someone had to keep it going. I kinda gave up as I remember people kept asking me about it and I forgot what it was as well until I saw it again! Pinwheel always played these odd little shorts you only ever saw on there and hardly anywhere else.
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Full English dub of Loulou de Montmartre? It's terrible voiceacting but at least I would understand more than in French.
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I really want a release of Rock Odyssey. It was a movie that ended up shelved due to "offensive images". It has not yet been aired on TV, or released on VHS, DVD or Blu-ray in the United States by Warner Home Video, however, it was screened at the Second Los Angeles International Animation Celebration in July 1987, and is available for viewing at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. It did air on Boomerang in Guam, Philippines and Hong Kong. Here's a link with info and the movie with bad quality:
https://lostmediawiki.com/Rock_Odyssey_(partially_lost_Hanna-Barbera_animated_film;_1987)
Here's a clip:
https://lostmediawiki.com/Rock_Odyssey_(partially_lost_Hanna-Barbera_animated_film;_1987)
Here's a clip:
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Weezer - Songs From the Black Hole is Weezer's abandoned second album, composed and intermittently recorded shortly after the release of The Blue Album. Taking inspiration from musicals such as Jesus Christ Superstar and Les Miserables, as well as operas such as Madama Butterfly (which would later inspire the name of Pinkerton) he started work on a rock-opera charting the plight of 5 astronauts on an ill-fated mission to an unnamed planet. Described by Rivers Cuomo as an analogy for the alienation he felt after the band's immediate widespread success following their debut album, he demoed all the songs and the band is known to have recorded at least 9 songs in earnest.
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Apparently, the final draft of The Day the Clown Cried was leaked online.
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I hope all the playmobil flash games are saved somewhere, same with the lego ones. Many memories of playing through that one unity racers game too with the open world...