History MissingEpisode / LiveActionTV

* Creator/AndyKaufman's second appearance on ''Dinah!'', in-character as Tony Clifton, in which he pressures Dinah Shore into singing a duet despite Shore having a sore throat and later dumping eggs on her hear in a cooking segment before cutting to commercial while Clifton is escorted out of the studio. Legend has it the footage was burned, but in reality it was simply lost, either through being misplaced in storage, taped over or accidentally destroyed. Everything was staged and Dinah Shore was in on the act (and did not have a sore throat), as with all of Kaufman's {{kayfabe}}.

* Creator/AndyKauffman's second appearance on ''Dinah!'', in-character as Tony Clifton, in which he pressures Dinah Shore into singing a duet despite Shore having a sore throat and later dumping eggs on her hear in a cooking segment before cutting to commercial while Clifton is escorted out of the studio. Legend has it the footage was burned, but in reality it was simply lost, either through being misplaced in storage, taped over or accidentally destroyed. Everything was staged and Dinah Shore was in on the act (and did not have a sore throat), as with all of Kauffman's {{kayfabe}}.

* ''Finding Your Roots'' lost an entire season 2 episode to a scandal involving actor Creator/BenAffleck, who appeared in that episode, forcing the producers to omit information about a slave-owning ancestor. A season 4 segment featuring Garrison Keillor is also yet to be released owing to sexual misconduct allegations against Keillor.

** Another children's fantasy series, ''The Georgian House'', ran for a single 7-episode series in 1976, of which three episodes now survive -- two in the original transmission format, and a third on home video in a private collection. Since the first and last episodes are amongst the survivors, it was released on DVD with [=PDFs=] of the original scripts and plot summaries of the missing episodes to fill the gaps.

* BBC Television's commercial rival, Creator/{{ITV}}, did its own (less well-known) archives purge at roughly the same time as the BBC.[[note]] But at that time, ITV was a loose collection of regional broadcasters rather than a single organisation, and individual stations had widely varying attitudes toward programme preservation. It's quite possible that a few shows which might otherwise have been wiped have survived by being re-recorded down the line by regional stations for timeshifting purposes.[[/note]] The most notable victim of that purge was ''Series/TheAvengers'', which is missing virtually all of Series 1 (to date, only two complete episodes and the first 15 minutes or so of the first episode have been recovered).

* A number of ''Series/IronChef'' episodes are missing, namely the Ishinabe and Nakamura era battles, due to Food Network not dubbing those episodes after getting the go-ahead to air ''Iron Chef America''. Sadly, this includes the Beijing Special, where four chefs of different Chinese cuisines go head-to-head in the Forbidden City. There's a website dedicated to finding VCR copies of these missing episodes.

** "Conspiracy" was similarly delayed due to the (rather uncharacteristically) graphic depiction of a man pretty much ''exploding'', guts and all.

** The ''Series/ShakeItUp'' episode "Party It Up" was banned a year after its premiere when Music/DemiLovato [[http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/demi-lovato-slams-disney-on-twitter-for-eating-disorder-joke-20112412 objected on her Twitter page]] to scenes and dialogue that encouraged or made light of eating disorders (anorexia, specifically). The ''Series/SoRandom'' episode featuring Music/ColbieCaillat was also banned for its tasteless jokes on eating disorders. "Party It Up" returned to rotation with all scenes and references removed. However, there's still no word on whether or not Colbie Caillat's ''So Random!'' episode will be rebroadcast, especially since the series got cancelled after a season (Not to mention that the show never aired on the Disney Replay block). Both banned episodes are available online uncut and uncensored.

* After the upset caused by reairing a 2001 episode of ''Series/{{Tweenies}}'' that featured a parody of Jimmy Savile in January 2013 — just months after his crimes became known to the public — the BBC has promised to pull the episode and never show it again. (See also the entry for ''Series/TopOfThePops''.)

* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' is screened by the UK's Channel 4 on a repeating loop in the early part of the morning (8-10am). This appears to be designed so that it can be recorded and replayed later in the day by people getting ready for a day's work who are too busy for TV. But two Series Six episodes have never been screened by C4: the content of "Marie's Statue" (suggestive artwork) and "No Roll!" (Ray and Debra's sex life) are deemed too extreme for daytime viewing by British audiences. Which is strange, as both screened in prime-time in the notoriously more conservative and prudish USA without problems. So should be a shoe-in for British TV. Evidently not... it has been suggested that the ''real'' reason for the omission of these shows is that the advertising sponsors of the morning reruns are nervous about the content.

* In 2003, the Brazilian TV show ''Bom Dia Brasil'' had many reports claiming that ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' and ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' [[MoralGuardians were satanic card games]], which led to thousands of kids in Brazil to have their cards confiscated or burned, the host Gilberto Barros became someone important for the brazilian fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, but the footage was lost and no one uploaded it to the internet.

** A [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_0847 1976 episode]] featuring [[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wicked Witch of the West]] (Margaret Hamilton, reprising her role) was only aired once for being [[NightmareFuel rather terrifying]].

* Played with on ''Series/{{Community}}'': One clip show episode contains references to several apparently-missing episodes. The episodes were, in fact, never filmed.

** When Season 3 was first broadcast in France, the episode "Oubliette" wasn't aired because [[TooSoon it was too similar to then-recent crimes committed by a Belgian pedophile named Marc Dutroux]].

* At least two episodes of ''Series/HomeAndAway'' have never been seen in the UK. One involved the students of Summer Bay High being confronted by gunmen; Creator/{{ITV}} felt it was TooSoon after a similar incident in Ireland. Another banned episode involved Duncan making a bomb.

* ''His Lordship Entertains'' saw Barker reuse the Lord Rustless character in a conventional sitcom format. For many years only the scripts survive, but the first episode was recovered in 2009. All others remain lost.

* The episode of ''Series/NightGallery'' that aired on September 22, 1971 contained 3 segments. One of them, "Witchs' Feast", was replaced by a different segment in subsequent airings of the episode.

* The television adaptation of ''Series/DrKildare'' starring Richard Chamberlain has a couple.

* The television adaptation of ''Film/DrKildare'' starring Richard Chamberlain has a couple.

* In 2003, the Brazilian TV show ''Bom Dia Brasil'' had many reports claiming that ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' and ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' were satanic card games, which led to thousands of kids in Brazil to have their cards confiscated or burned, the host Gilberto Barros became someone important for the brazilian fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise, but the footage was lost and no one uploaded it to the internet.

{{Game Show}}s, televised ProfessionalWrestling, and Creator/TheBBC are so prominent in this regard that they have [[MissingEpisode/GameShows their]] [[MissingEpisode/ProfessionalWrestling own]] [[MissingEpisode/TheBBC pages]].

* ''MissingEpisode/DoctorWho''

* Clarkson, Hammond and May's ''Series/TopGear'': Series 9 Episode 1 was broadcast on 28th January 2007 and never repeated. It was the first episode after Richard Hammond's near-death experience in the Vampire dragster and featured an in-depth look at the crash. As well as not being repeated, the episode is unavailable to purchase on Amazon and iTunes, nor the German-only DVD release of Series 9 which replaces Episode 1 with the Winter Olympics special. As a result there is no legal way to watch the rest of the episode including the Road Works in 24 Hours challenge, the Power Test and the Star In A Reasonably-Priced Car with Jamie Oliver.

** The same happened with the Brazilian dub, there were many episodes that were removed from broadcasting, they might have been lost by the network SBT, and some were never dubbed in Portuguese at all, but after the 2000s, there was an effort to bring back the missing episodes and dub the ones that were never dubbed, although there was a problem since many of the original voice actors were already dead and [[TheOtherDarrin had to be replaced]], and even some living ones didn't come back.

** The sketch series ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show'', an early work of Creator/GrahamChapman and Creator/JohnCleese ad regarded as one of the two "parent series" of ''Flying Circus'', is perhaps the best represented. It ran on ITV for 13 episodes across two series in 1967 and was the first TV series to star Chapman as well as Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman, and the second to star Cleese (the first being ''The Frost Report''). Aside from some sketches compiled into specials for Swedish and Australian television, the series was wiped and believed lost for many years. However, between 1994 and 2015, kinescopes and other recordings of eight episodes were recovered [[note]](Two episodes came from Creator/MartyFeldman's personal collection and were left to John Cleese by Feldman's widow, Lauretta, after her death in 2010; two more, the first and last to be broadcast, came from the personal collection of executive producer Sir David Frost after his death in 2013.)[[/note]] and two more were reconstructed from the specials by the BFI. Various isolated sketches exist from each of the other three episodes, so about 40 minutes' worth of material is still missing. Most of the missing material exists as audio recordings.