a ten-year old boy who deals with daily troubles by confronting versions of them in his nightmares.
It was unique for having a darker theme and imagery, but that clearly didn’t help it attract viewers.
Where we last left off, only 9 and a half of its 12 episodes were available online.
The ones that were missing were Monster Ned,
The Ants, Girl Trouble, Testing Testing, and The Accordion Lesson.
Given the show’s obscurity, I was kind of surprised to find out that all of the missing
episodes were uploaded some time ago by YouTube users Knordob and Slowpoke85.
Although there's some varying quality, this case is closed.
“Conflict” from Mister Rogers Neighborhood
You guys remember that thing I said in the last Lost Media Update video?
That every time I talk about a piece of lost media, it ends up being found immediately after?
Yup, here we go again.
Mr Rogers Neighborhood was a show known for being wholesome and caring, but it wasn’t
afraid to touch on some darker and more serious issues every now and again.
[Mr. Rogers]: There are people in the world who are so sick or so angry,
that they sometimes hurt other people.
And they're usually the ones who end up in the news.
Remember hearing about John Lennon being shot in New York?
And President Reagan and his friends in Washington?
And the Pope in Rome?
And the young people being murdered in Atlanta and other places?
Well the people who are doing terrible these things are making a lot of other people sad and angry.
[Jorge]: One of these darker topics had to do with the subject of War.
In 1983, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood released a 5-episode arc titled “Conflict”.
The arc was about King Friday from the neighborhood of make believe, nearly going to war with Southwood.
Eventually the two come to terms with each other and make peace.
Given the ongoing violence at the time of this episode’s release, it was deemed too
serious for children, and was removed from airing and has not been seen since.
Another controversy stems from the belief that the episodes were anti-war,
since it ended with Rogers singing a song called “Peace and Quiet”.
So here’s where things get ridiculous.
When I did my Lost Media Update 2 video, the only thing that was available was a 5-minute
low quality recording of the 5th episode in the arc.
However when I was editing the video, two episodes were uploaded by a mysterious YouTube
channel called TROG SLEEP NOW.
The channel has no other videos, and seems to have only been created to upload these episodes.
Then, after I uploaded my video, about 2 weeks later, the other three lost episodes were found.
And I somehow forgot to mention it in my last Lost Media Update III video.
They were uploaded to MySpleen by a user known as Snowpeck.
And that was that.
No one was expecting all 5 episodes to be uploaded in an extremely short span of time,
especially since they haven’t been seen for decades.
There was some speculation that these episodes were released in response to President Trump.
Four days prior, Trump proposed a budget that would increase funds for the military by about $50 billion.
However, this would come at the cost of completely eliminating federal funding for public broadcasting.
The timing and subject matter seemed too convenient for some, and this wouldn't be the first time
the show had to defend public broadcasting funding.
I don’t have any answers as to why the episodes were released so mysteriously.
Regardless, this case is closed.
The Leslie Mostly Show
Leslie Mostly was a short lived character on Sesame Street that hosted The Leslie Mostly Show,
which was a parody of a typical talk show.
Although it only lasted for two seasons on Sesame Street, the show managed to feature
interviews with some key characters, such as the Count and Cookie Monster.
However, there are two interviews that were rumored to exist, one featuring Guy Smiley
and the other featuring Kermit The Frog.
According to a 2006 post on the Muppet Central forum, the Guy Smiley interview was available
for a short time on the Verizon Wireless V Cast Phones.
A user named “sesame guy” also makes mention of the Kermit sketch,
and a user known as “Xerus” details both sketches.
He states:
“I remember the Leslie Mostly skits.
She would take you to the homes of different Muppet characters while at her desk, looking at a huge screen.
First, she interviewed Guy Smiley whose home was a huge stage show with his furniture behind
curtain number 1, his organ music in curtain number 2,
and his pet studio audience in curtain number 3.
And finally, Leslie interviewed Kermit the Frog.
Kermit showed Leslie his awards for doing reports on the 3 Little Pigs and Red Riding Hood.
Kermit explained that when he was a kid, he wanted to be a rancher at first,
[and] puts on a cowboy hat.
Then a cook, puts on a chef's hat.
Then a knight in shining armor, [and] puts on a helmet.
But then decided to become a news reporter and puts on his trademark reporter's hat.”
Although no screenshots or footage of these interviews were given, they seemed pretty believable.
So where are we today?
Unfortunately, The Guy Smiley interview is still missing as far as I’m aware.
However the Kermit sketch was found in Turkish only.
And although I don’t speak Turkish, the sketch seems to follow Xerus’ description pretty well.
We have a cowboy’s hat,
a chef’s hat,
a helmet,
and of course his trademark reporter’s hat.
So who knows?
He’s probably right about the Guy Smiley Sketch too.
But for now, this case is ongoing.
The Dora The Explorer Pilots
In 2000, Nickelodeon unleashed one of their biggest, longest running shows in history; Dora the Explorer.
However in 1999, two unaired pilot episodes were made to sell the show.
The first was a simple test pilot featuring Dora and Boots just walking.
Boots’ design is notably different and something about it just felt weird.
Perhaps because there is actually no audio in this clip and I’m uncertain if any exists at all.
The second pilot was titled “Pilot Episode”.
There was some information about this episode online.
It supposedly followed Dora and Boots traveling to a giant cupcake with characters from the
actual show appearing, such as Backpack, Swiper, and the Map.
Well fortunately, on August 21st, 2018, Lost Media Wiki member InfiniteGates found a clip
of the pilot on the Funline Animation website.
I’m not sure if there’s anything more to the test pilot, as it was just a test.
However, the clip of the second pilot episode is only a minute long.
And we have storyboards conforming that there’s more to this episode.
So this is one is ongoing.
Toon News
Sometime around 2004, Disney created a series of shorts titled “Toon News”
that would air on Toon Disney in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
The show starred a robot host named Smokey Silvers, who would pilot the Toon News Blimp
over Toon News, giving comical reports on Disney’s latest films and characters.
26 episodes were produced for the series, however no episodes were available online.
The only footage that was available was a few clips from showreels from those who worked
on the show, as well as from Disney Portugal.
In 2017, writer and director Cathy MacDonald uploaded the first three episodes of Toon
News onto her YouTube channel called “CathyMacdee”.
She stated that more episodes would be coming soon.
As of 2020, a different channel named Cathy Macdonald uploaded three more episodes,
the fourth and fifth episode from Season 1, and the seventh episode from Season 2.
According to one of her comments, the show was cancelled because it was simply too expensive
to make, and the studio wanted to move on, but they all loved making it.
These three episodes were uploaded on 2018, but nothing new has come out since then.
Cathy has a playlist on her channel that was updated in late 2019, so she’s still somewhat active.
Here’s to more episodes being found soon, but for now the case is ongoing.
Handful of Crumbs
Handful of Crumbs is an odd example of lost media.
The song first appeared on Sesame Street in the early 1980’s sung by none other Cookie Monster.
It's about how he crumbled a cookie in his hand after holding it too tightly.
Eventually, after some lamenting, Cookie Monster realizes that he can just eat the crumbs,
and proceeds to do so.
What's interesting is that elmo can be seen in the background of the clip as one of the
backup singers, voiced completely differently.
This was before his official debut as a main Sesame Street character,
instead being portrayed as a generic muppet character.
Here’s where it becomes an odd case of Lost Media.
The footage is available online but only from an episode of Barrio Sesamo, the spanish version of Sesame street.
However, the full song in English is available on three Sesame Street compilation albums.
So by splicing the Spanish footage with the English song track, a makeshift version of
the full lost segment can be created.
While this might be good enough for some, it wasn’t perfect.
Some of the audio before the song began was still missing,
such as dialogue from Cookie Monster and Elmo.
This was actually found by the Muppet Wiki Facebook Page, who posted the full English
segment while I was actually writing the script for this video.
The video’s quality is surprisingly well and we can hear Elmo and Cookie Monster’s
dialogue before singing the song.
So yeah, this is the full English segment.
Not much to talk about this one, it was kind of lost and it's now found.
Case closed.
All That
One of the quintessential 90’s shows from Nickelodeon,
All That was a sketch comedy series featuring a varying cast of children.
The show lasted for 10 seasons, gained a cult following,
and was later brought back for an 11th season in 2019.
Although popular, the show dealt with a lot of copyright issues, mostly due to the music
that was used in some of the earlier episodes.
I haven’t covered All That since waaay back in 2015, so here’s what was known at the time.
Season 1 hadn’t been broadcast since 2005 and most of it was completely lost.
At one point, the pilot was considered to be the most sought-after episode of All That,
due to the fact that it hadn’t aired on television at all for the past two decades.
In 2014, the full pilot was uploaded to a private tracker, only to be taken down shortly after.
Thankfully a day later, the pilot was reuploaded to YouTube by a user known as Greenlit.
Although the video has since been deleted, archives currently exist
and the pilot is safe from being lost again.
Seasons 2-5 reaired on television from 2011-2014, during The 90’s Are All That, but the episodes
were missing the musical performances, certain sketches, and the original outros/credits.
Season 6 also aired on television, except for the “Best Of” episodes that premiered in 2001.
Finally, Season 7-10 haven't aired since The N’s rebranding, but are found for the most part.
So where are we at now?
Well, several years later in 2018, LMW user Moiisty uploaded the full first season onto
MEGA, with the exception of the episode “A Few Good Men”.
That episode is missing the musical and instead cuts straight to an episode of Power Rangers.
Other than that, most of the lost episodes are “found”, but only in their edited versions from iTunes.
The only completely lost episodes are the Season 3 episode “Music Special” and the Season
6 episodes B*Witched, The Best of John Server, The Best of Lori Beth Denberg, Tunes Into
TV, Dates Goats and Romance, Music and More Highlights and Backstage Pass.
Honestly I’m so surprised that Season 1 was found that I felt like including it into this video.
Regardless, the case is still open but we’re damn near close.
And with that, we are finished with another update video.
I plan on starting a new series that will cover new pieces of lost media, since those
older videos are so utterly outdated these days,
Let me know what you think, but for now:
love you all, and I’ll see you next time.
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