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What are your lost or inaccessible media "Holy Grails"? Are there any things that you've been looking for for ages, whether it's a book or a show or an episode, and never been able to find?

The Mon Colle Knights English dub. It was kind of like a gag dub and I've seen a few episodes on YouTube and the like, but I've never been able to find the whole dub. Same for Duel Masters, although I did find many episodes of that one, they were all just low quality ones.

A book I read as a kid that was of Cherokee legends. I had it as a kid and it just disappeared one day.

I also had a specific copy of Aesop's fables that I loved as a kid.

I already answered this but I'll go into more detail. Tomfoolery was an animated version of a lot of the writings and drawings of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. Since there's no copywright issues involving either of these authors (they both lived in the Victorian era) there should be DVDs and there aren't. Curiosity Shop was sort of what Sesame St would have been like if it had been meant for older kids and made by hippies.

There was a sci-fi series I read as a kid that was about a boy and a girl traveling to different planets with their uncle, and I vividly remember the second or third book has the boy being mistaken for dead and buried alive, but other than that I got nothing. (I can even retrace my steps to where the series used to be shelved at my local library, but it's obviously not there anymore.)

The Pendragon series?

I checked, and that series didn't look familiar, but thanks for the rec!

I actually got mine a few years back. I'd read a book in middle school where the only things I could remember were a girl raised by hyenas and a machine that turned children into Young People. I eventually figured out it was The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids. It's out of print, but copies are pretty cheap, and it is DELIGHTFUL.

Edited 2020-06-02 00:17 (UTC)

There are several books about Pompeii and Vesuveus that I read as a kid that I haven't been able to find. One in particular, the first half of the book was an imagined story about this slave girl who had a tooth absess and her experience of the eruption and the second half was about the excavation of her remains in Pompeii.

I... maybe know what books you mean? Or, also remember them, rather, since I don't know what they were either. There's a book series I remember from my childhood that's similar, anyway, that I can't for the life of me remember the name of.

I used to watch The Bold and the Beautiful with my grandma and sometimes I have such a LONGING to see a certain storyline or two again (I don't really have any attachment to the show, but I guess a weird form of nostlagia?) and I used to be able to find a clip here and there (weirdly dubbed in Spanish I think) on Youtube but never that specific storyline. I even went so far to look up what's on those anniversary compilation DVDs that used to exist yeeeaard ago, but nope.
Btw. It was mainly the Rick/Amber/CJ storyline. (Seriously, don't ask me why)

The Celtic rock band The Drovers used to do an absolutely wicked version of Sympathy for the Devil in live sets, honestly the best version of the song I've ever heard. I've never been able to find it because aside from some middling soundtrack stuff, they were kind of niche.

A syndicated cartoon from the 90s called Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys. There's a decent amount of episodes on Youtube but not all of them, and the last several episodes in particular I've never been able to find. There's a DVD set findable online but from the research I've done I'm 99% sure it's some kind of unofficial bootleg and I'm not willing to buy it just on the hope the quality isn't shit.

Also not quite as 'lost' but: the original Muppet Show. Three seasons got released on disc but they were edited due to rights issues and there's largely a mix of randoms clips and occasional episodes on Youtube, but I haven't been able to find the entire series complete and unedited anywhere. I know you have it Disney, put it up for streaming already!

Me: speechless.

Also Me: Whaaaaaaaaaahhh... why!!?

In elementary school we watched this miniseries called Tomes and Talismans, where at some point in the future all humans are evacuated from earth but this one librarian ends up left behind in stasis and then years later she's unearthed by some children who find her inside the planet's last remaining library. It was supposed to be some educational thing but I remember being really into it and I've tried to find it again but with no luck. Episode one is on Youtube but I haven't had any luck with the rest.

I found Dot & the Kangaroo thanks to someone on FS so thanks!

There are a ton of childhood cartoons and weird shit that was on HBO and Nickelodeon in the 80s that have never been released on dvd or anywhere. I think I can find Bravestarr somewhere but I've never found the cartoon about talking wild horses and the girl who can talk to them, something like Wildfire or something - I found the wiki for it but that confirms it's never been released or rerun anywhere. I'd also hardcore like to find the Animalympics movie. I'm honestly surprised I didn't end up furry given how much I loved that movie.

There's two things.

One was a cartoon of two teenage boys who wind up being absorbed into a fantasy book and wound up in the fantasy world of the book. One boy was turned into a knight and the other a horse. They wound up getting into a fight over this since the boy who became a knight was the reason they were in this world (I think). Another knight shows up on his horse and starts a fight with them, and they're both screwed since neither of them know what they're doing as a knight or a horse. But when the knight is charging them and it looks like they're about to lose, the boy-horse tells the horse-horse that his shoe's untied, so the horse-horse trips and they win. They then run off, and that's all I remember. I don't know when I watched this, but I think it was the late 80's or 90-91 at the latest. I think it might've been a pilot that didn't get picked up, but I'm not sure.

The other is a book I read in middle school. It was about a twin prince and princess with really unfortunate brain powers. The princess could hear everyone's thoughts but everyone could also hear hers. Whatever the prince imagined became real. They both had to be very careful about what they thought. I don't remember anything other than that.

There is a TV pilot episode for a failed show from 1998 called Ghost Cop that had Alexis Denisof, Paget Brewster, CCH Pounder and John O'Hurley in a show about Alexis Denisof being a ghost cop and I want to watch it so much

There was this series of children's audio cassettes with a time traveling professor - they had a lot of songs and I think they were produced as kid's entertainment for one of my country's airlines. I saw one of them on eBay but the other I can't find anywhere and it's sad because I have one of those songs stuck in my head.

Another random 90s cartoon, I think it was called Ultra Force or something similar? It was a cheap superhero knock off type show. I remember two of the heroes, one was like a zombie who could talk to objects and the other was like Superman but really a ten year old kid who could transform himself. The main thing I remember is the pilot was surprisingly dark, they had a teenage hacker girl sidekick and at the end of the first episode she needed to like hack into a computer to stop some kind of nuclear launch? But there were dangerous levels of radiation and basically the show kept cutting back to her hacking while slowly dying of radiation poisoning (I recall at one point she asks the zombie guy to help her find some button because she can’t see anymore) and the episode ended with her death. They later did the whole ‘uploaded my consciousness to a computer’ thing but it didn’t change the whole ‘holy crap this children’s cartoon just had a character die of radiation poisoning’ thing and I just want proof that I didn’t hallucinate this show.

I dunno about the zombie but the ten year old who transforms himself into ersatz Superman sounds like Shazam/Billy Batson? Maybe?

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