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12* Many sporting events from the early days of US television broadcasting are at least partially lost, including the first two Super Bowls and numerous World Series games.
13** NFL Films (and its predecessor) were at those Super Bowls, and footage from them is seen on various league-produced specials and DVD releases, but the entire games are not available.
14** In 2011, an apparently genuine copy of the CBS broadcast of Super Bowl I was found. While it was missing the halftime show and most of the third quarter, and was fast-forwarded and pixelated in spots, it's still about 90 minutes longer than anything previously seen. In 2016, the NFL released a compiled version that contains 100% of the gameplay.
15** One lost World Series broadcast which must be particularly galling for baseball fans is Don Larsen's perfect game at the 1956 Series between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The MLB Network reconstructed the game broadcast from existing film and audiotape, airing it as its first broadcast in 2008.
16* Countless early news broadcasts and televised newsworthy events were never preserved since the technology to do so in a practical manner wasn't invented yet (videotape only came about in 1956; before then, you had to make do with filming the TV screen to preserve live broadcasts, and the quality was about what you'd expect). The opening of the 1939 World's Fair by UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt and the first televised address from the White House by UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman are but a few TV events that were never recorded.
17* ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'': When the long-running western entered syndication in 1973, it had 14½ years and 430 episodes under its belt. The episodes were split into two different syndication packages, one released before the other, on different networks. For decades after that, an entire chunk of the series appeared "lost" on any one network. Finally averted in ''2018'', when Creator/MeTV began airing the entire 430-episode run as a single rerun package.
18* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' has a few episodes that have only aired once and were either never seen at all (or in full) after that point:
19** The Season 4 episode hosted by Milton Berle was so fraught with cast tension over Berle overrunning the show (which he did, if the Texaco Playhouse cold open is indicative of anything) that Creator/LorneMichaels barred the show from being rerun on TV. The full episode does appear, however, on the Season 4 DVD set and the "''Saturday Night Live'': The 1970s" collection on Netflix.
20** The Season 5 episode hosted by Strother Martin was scheduled to rerun during the summer of 1980, but then Martin died (the fact that the episode contained a sketch with him filming a video will didn't help matters). This episode, too, can be found on the Season 5 DVD set and the "''Saturday Night Live'': The 1970s" collection on Netflix.
21** Season 6 was so poorly received that it's considered an OldShame by all involved (including NBC). Very few 1980-1981 episodes have ever aired on American TV since then, and there will likely never be a DVD release (because of that and music licensing issues). The versions of season six usually shown are clips used for an Creator/EddieMurphy retrospective or a documentary about ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'''s history. Netflix once had season six in their "''Saturday Night Live'': The 1980s" collection that featured episodes from seasons six to fifteen[[note]]covering 1980 to 1989[[/note]], but those were edited to remove poor(er)-performing sketches, the musical performances, and Charles Rocket's infamous "I'd like to know who the fuck did it" line on the episode hosted by Charlene Tilton. Netflix has since removed that collection (and the others, save for the 20-Teens collection). Season six was also shown on [=Xfinity OnDemand=]'s Streampix, which had every episode of ''SNL'' from season one to season 38 (also gone).
22** The Season 7 Halloween episode hosted by Creator/DonaldPleasence (with musical guest Fear) was banned after its first appearance due to Fear's raucous performance and the dark, disgusting humor of the sketches. They were rather tame compared to what was ''supposed'' to air — a sketch about Nazi soldiers thinking of "good reasons" for killing Jewish people, another sketch in which Donald Pleasence drains his date's blood and serves it as wine [[note]](yet the "Acupuncture" sketch from the Season 38 episode hosted by Creator/KristenWiig got away with Kate [=McKinnon=]'s character tricking Creator/JasonSudeikis' character into drinking the blood leaking from his back)[[/note]], and a third sketch featuring puppets cannibalizing Creator/JaneFonda. The Donald Pleasance episode, like all of season six, was shown on Netflix's ''Saturday Night Live: The 1980s'' collection.
23** For reasons unknown, the Season 27 episode hosted by Creator/AlecBaldwin (with musical guest POD) never reran after its premiere, though some of the sketches featured can be found on the DVD release of the special ''Saturday Night Live: The Best of Alec Baldwin''.
24** Many NBC affiliates refused to air the Season 29 episode hosted by Rev. Al Sharpton – at the time of airing, he was a U.S. Presidential candidate, and affiliates didn't want to break equal-time laws. The episode itself lampooned this with frequent impersonations of other candidates and a "Weekend Update" segment entitled "Jimmy and Tina Make Fun of the Cities that Won't Be Airing ''SNL'' Tonight".
25** A handful of skits/bits have never been re-aired thanks to the negative response from the public or sponsors. Some examples include: Creator/MartinLawrence's infamous monologue (in reruns, the first half of the monologue is seen before it fades into a series of title cards saying that the rest of the monologue is so raunchy that it can never be aired again, it nearly got everyone fired on ''SNL'', and Martin Lawrence is not allowed back on the show), Music/SineadOConnor's infamous musical performance, a skit titled "The Attack Of The Masturbating Zombies" (which Creator/ConanOBrien wrote), which many advertisers found so offensive that they yanked their promos from the show, the TV Funhouse cartoon, "Conspiracy Theory Rock" that originally aired on the Julianne Moore episode from season 23 (1997-1998 season)[[note]]"Conspiracy Theory Rock" can be found on many video websites and on the ''SNL'' Best Of... special centered on Rob Smigel's TV Funhouse cartoons in the "Extras" section[[/note]].
26* Many, many, many early {{Soap Opera}}s have episodes that are presumed lost, as their producers didn't bother preserving episodes until the late 1970s, thanks largely to the high cost of videotape. The episodes that did survive [[KeepCirculatingtheTapes rarely re-aired anyway.]]
27** Despite widespread wiping, plenty of episodes from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s were saved in one form or another and are available for viewing in museums and online. Still, this is a very small percentage of episodes that were produced.
28** Exceptions include ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' (intact despite debuting in 1965) and ''Series/DarkShadows'' (only ''one'' episode missing out of 1,225, which could still be partially reconstructed out of a home audio recording). ''Series/DarkShadows'' is unique in being the only US soap opera to have its reruns sold into syndication – remarkable for a show that aired from 1966 to 1971. A quest to find those missing episodes back in 2001 led people to stumble upon something else entirely - several hundred (at least) missing episodes of the original run of ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'', of all shows! (See the MissingEpisode/GameShows page for more info on that.)
29** Episodes from the first 15 years of the NBC soap ''The Doctors'' (1963-1982) were believed to have been wiped until Retro TV picked up the series in 2014, starting with its first color episodes from 1967.
30* A lot of early Japanese television shows from NHK (mostly children's shows) are lost. These include:
31** ''TV Tensuke'' was a popular puppet show that ran for 1955-56 for 84 20-minute episodes spread across six series. Only the fourth episode of the first series exists, With the other 83 episodes currently missing.
32** ''Chirorin Mura to Kurumi no Ki'' (''Chirorin Village and the Walnut Tree'') was a popular children's stop-motion puppet animation show that ran from 1956-64 for 812 episodes. Only ''four'' episodes survive, all from the show's final year. In 1992, NHK produced a cartoon version entitled ''Chirorin Mura Monogatari'' which ran for 170 episodes and survives in its entirety.
33** Another puppet show, ''Hyokkori Hyotanjima'' (sometimes translated as ''Pop-up Gourd Island'' or ''Unexpected Gourd Island''), ran daily from 1964-69 for 1,224 episodes, of which only eight survive. In 1991, NHK tried remaking the missing episodes using the original puppets and any actors still alive at the time.
34** ''Nekojara-shi no 11-nin'', created by the staff of ''Hyokkori Hyotanjima'', ran from 1970-73 for 668 episodes. All that remains are a few fragments; ''no full episodes'' have survived. One of the fragments is an early version of the opening only used in the first year, unearthed in 2015, while a collector donated the black and white kinescope of the first 5 minutes of the 255th episode to NHK in 2019.
35** Out of the 52 episodes produced for the 1965 mixed animation/live-action series ''Space Alien Pipi'', only episodes 37 and 38 survive.
36* ''Series/SesameStreet'' has a few of these.
37** A [[https://muppet.fandom.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]]. Clips from the episode were eventually shown in a museum in November 2019 and there is [[http://www.toughpigs.com/wicked-witch/ a recap]] online. In 2022, the full episode was leaked online.
38** The 1992 episode unofficially known as [[https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Snuffy%27s_Parents_Get_a_Divorce "Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce"]] was never shown after test audiences reacted negatively.
39** A strange example is the infamous (and quasi-mythical) recurring segment [[http://tailotherat.blogspot.com/2009/04/crack-that-roared.html Crack Master]], a cartoon segment about a wall crack that comes to life. While apparently a whimsical story about using your imagination, it was only shown eleven times, the last being in May 1980. It was banned for being too scary for younger viewers. After months of rigorous searching, the founder of Lost Media Wiki, Dycaite, obtained a copy and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y0ffj__R4g uploaded it to YouTube.]]
40** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVd8w1VEwW4 The infamous clip]] of a [[{{Stripperiffic}} scantily-clad]] Music/KatyPerry singing a {{bowdlerised}} version of "Hot n Cold" with Elmo was banned due to complaints about Perry's wedding dress being too risque. Perry would parody it on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' by appearing on a talk show as a teenage library volunteer [[TakeThat wearing a low-cut Elmo shirt]].
41** As of 2022, [[https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Lost_episodes_of_Sesame_Street fifty-three episodes]], mostly from the first five seasons, are entirely missing from the archives.
42** Most of the gymnastics skits from UsefulNotes/The70s starring Deborah Eich-Romer were deemed lost media for years, thanks to [[EditedForSyndication the removal or replacement of many segments in syndication]] and on streaming services such as HBO Max, with only two of these skits being available on WebSite/YouTube until New Year's 2023, when [=YoshiKiller2S=] uploaded the remaining six.
43* Much of ''Series/SquareOneTV'', ''Series/ThreeTwoOneContact'', and many other PBS shows of the 1970-80s have missing episodes. Only a handful of episodes were released to VHS, and full episodes only sporadically show up on Website/YouTube. [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Good luck finding tapes.]]
44* The local versions of ''Series/RomperRoom'' have mostly disappeared due to station managers erasing the master tapes and reusing them for other programming.
45* ITV's drama anthology, ''Playhouse'', ran for 137 episodes from 1967 to 1974, then as ''ITV Playhouse'' for 66 episodes from 1977 to 1982. Although all episodes of ''ITV Playhouse'' survive, one is in black and white only; ''Playhouse'' was hit a bit harder, with 34 lost episodes, one incomplete episode, eleven episodes in black and white only, and two episodes with no soundtrack.
46* The Soviet/Russian series ''Tale after tale'' (''Сказка за сказкой'') ran for 20 years, with the Russian Wikipedia listing nearly 200 episodes and stating there were more. Wikipedia lists six as surviving; another site states there are 20 available with more in private collections.
47* ''Franchise/UltraSeries''
48** ''Series/UltraSeven'' is much plagued by this problem. Episodes 12 and 26 are both {{Banned Episode}}s due to nuclear-related controversies in them, with the former being unavailable on any home video or DVD releases. Additionally, Creator/{{TNT}}'s edited translation of the series dubbed every episode (including the banned ones), but their copies of Episodes 5, 6, and 7 have disappeared. Finally, the more faithful Hawaiian dub is completely lost, with the exceptions of Episodes 21, 22, and 35.
49** In ''Series/UltramanCosmos'', Episodes 50, 52, 54, 56, and 58 had to be cut from airing to make up for the lost schedule time after a scandal surrounding lead actor Taiyo Sugiura led to the series being taken off their air for five weeks. These "lost episodes" were eventually rescued by a release of the complete series on DVD.
50* In general, [[Main/{{Toku}} tokusatsu]] from before the days of home video formats are harder to track down, but many, such as Creator/OsamuTezuka's Thunder Mask from the 1970s, and several tokusatsu shows from the 1950s-early 1970s such as Sonny Chiba's adventure series ''Allah no Shisha'' and many of Nippon Gendai's television shows are lost due to varying factors such as rights issues in the case of many 1970s shows or lack of video preservation.
51* The master tapes of many episodes of Creator/GeneSiskel and Creator/RogerEbert's first two television series, ''Opening Soon at a Theater Near You''/''Sneak Previews'' (PBS, 1975-82) and ''At the Movies'' (syndicated, 1982-86), were wiped by the production companies. The 112 surviving PBS episodes have been archived on [[Website/IMDb the Internet Movie Database]] among other websites, while off-air recordings of hundreds of episodes across both series are available at [[https://siskelebert.org/ Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews,]] but there are still dozens of episodes missing.
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55* ''Series/TheHoneymooners'': One of the most noteworthy sets of "Lost Episodes" belongs to the legendary Jackie Gleason series. Seventy-nine episodes were missing for several decades and thought to be lost ... until they were "recovered" in the mid-1980s (shortly before Gleason's death). (Other accounts hold that the episodes were never "lost" to begin with; they weren't self-contained sitcom episodes, but rather sketches from Gleason's variety show later cobbled together to fit into the standard 22-minute sitcom format. The kinescopes were sitting in Gleason's vault, long thought unmarketable, until Gleason saw an opportunity to capitalize on them.) Today, many (but not all) of the "Lost 79" have now been recovered.
56** Many of the "lost" episodes were produced by the Creator/DuMont Network, which was on the air from 1946-56. Almost all of the [=DuMont=] programming is long lost — in fact, most of the then-surviving reels were dumped into Upper New York Bay by three trucks in the mid-1970s. Only a handful of shows remain today — a sizable run of ''Life Is Worth Living'' (an early show featuring talks by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the films coming from his private collection), spotty selections of ''Captain Video'' (the first sci-fi television series), ''Rocky King, Inside Detective'', and a few others.
57* In 1954, the CBS anthology series ''Climax!'' aired an episode which adapted Creator/IanFleming's ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'', an important historical curiosity due to it being the first cinematic depiction of Franchise/JamesBond almost a decade before [[Film/JamesBond the long-running film series]] by Creator/EonProductions. For several decades ''Film/CasinoRoyale1954'' was thought to be lost, until a kinescope copy of the film was discovered in 1981. The story of its discovery is itself a fun one: Airline executive and film collector Jim Shoenberger discovered a print labelled "Casino Royale", which he thought was referring to [[Film/CasinoRoyale1967 the 1967 film]] before he noticed that it was in black and white. While that version of the film is now preserved, the original color broadcast is most likely completely lost, as kinescopes were only available in black and white at the time.
58* ''The Danny Thomas Show'' (aka ''Make Room for Daddy''): With 11 years and 343 episodes, most TV stations only made room for the final seven seasons (1957-64) when the show entered syndication in the mid-1960s. [=GoodLife=] Television (now [=YouToo=] TV) has aired Season 4 (1956-57, the season featuring Thomas as a widower) in the past. The status of many of the 1953-56 shows — those starring Jean Hagen as Thomas' wife — is unknown, although reportedly several of those early episodes are available on budget DVD releases after entering into the public domain.
59* ''Series/ILoveLucy'': The legendary CBS comedy starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had a Christmas episode in 1956, which was never seen again on terrestrial TV until December 1989 when it was rebroadcast. Although the episode is in [=TVLand=]'s library, it is rarely shown.
60* Anna May Wong, a silent film actress who survived the move into talkies, was considered the first Chinese-American movie star ever and the first Asian-American actress to gain worldwide renown. In 1951 she starred as the titular character in a TV series titled ''The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong,'' playing an art dealer and detective in a role written specifically for her. This marked the first American television show to feature an Asian-American lead. Even today, Asian-American leads in American television are still rare, much less an Asian-American woman in her 40s with a part written just for her. The series was dropped after one season, and sadly, after the network closed, most of its footage was unceremoniously dumped into the Hudson River. As such, not even a script or a set of stills exists of this historic series.
61* A majority of episodes from ''Radio/TheJackBennyProgram'' are missing. Out of 257 episodes (by the Website/IMDb's count), about 30 have survived and slipped into the public domain (and thus released often from multiple home-video sources). CBS owns the masters for about 25 additional episodes (also believed to have lapsed into the public domain), but thus far has refused to release them or to allow access to third parties.
62* The Dutch TV series ''Pension Hommeles'' and ''Ja Zuster Nee Zuster'' from the late 1950s launched or bolstered the career of many Dutch singers and actors. The songs were written by Annie M.G. Schmidt and several amongst them are considered to be classics. Unfortunately most of the original tapes of the series were lost in the intervening decades, and the first episodes of ''Pension Hommeles'' were broadcast live, so no tapes existed in the first place.
63* ''Mary Kay and Johnny'' was the very first sitcom broadcast on TV in the U.S., airing from 1947 to 1950. It was notable for showing the star couple sharing a bed (before the SleepingSingle trope took hold) and for integrating the real-life pregnancy of Mary Kay Stearns into the plot before ''Series/ILoveLucy'' did it with Creator/LucilleBall. Very little of it survives, all squirreled away in private collections. As for the rest, the episodes before 1948 were never recorded on kinescope and the ones that were eventually got trashed (especially the ones from when the show was on Creator/DuMont in 1947-48).
64* The first three seasons of ''{{Series/Lassie}}''. The syndication package consisted of the seven "Timmy" seasons of the show, and these were also the episodes that Nickelodeon and TVLand showed (though they also included some of the later seasons as well.) This has led to most people not even knowing the earlier episodes exist. It might surprise most people to know that not only was Timmy not Lassie's original owner, he is also not the Mitchel's biological son, and he came with the farm when the Mitchells bought it from the Millers. ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, really.]])
65* Most episodes of ''Series/SamAndFriends'', the first series by Creator/JimHenson and the first appearance of [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit]], were not recorded, and most of the episodes that were recorded have been lost.
66* ''Series/TheArmyGame'' was Creator/{{ITV}}'s first sitcom, launching or boosting the careers of such actors as Creator/WilliamHartnell, Geoffrey Sumner, Creator/AlfieBass, Creator/CharlesHawtrey, Creator/BernardBresslaw, Creator/NormanRossington, and Bill Fraser, while writers included Creator/MartyFeldman, Barry Took, John Junkin, and future ''Film/CarryOn'' scriptwriter Creator/TalbotRothwell. It ran for 154 episodes across four series from 1957-61; just 52 are known to survive.
67** ''Bootsie and Snudge'', a SpinOff starring Bass and Fraser, is far more fortunate; of its 104 episodes from three series in 1960-63 and a fourth from 1974, only four have no known surviving copies (the last episode from Series 1 and three episodes from Series 3).
68** After the third series of ''Bootsie and Snudge'', the characters were spun off again into ''Foreign Affairs'', in which they were employed at a British embassy in eastern Europe. It ran for a single series of eight episodes in 1964, all of which were wiped after broadcast.
69* ''Series/MoonlightMask'' was the first ever tokusatsu hero show and ran for seven {{Story Arc}}s across 131 episodes. Episodes 1, 9-12, 41 and 44, all part of the first arc, are missing. The scripts for episodes 1, 41 and 44 are known to be held at Ritsumeikan University Art Research Center, and a reconstruction of the first episode was released in 2011.
70* ''Series/SevenColorMask'' was the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Moonlight Mask'' and the first ever tokusatsu show produced by Creator/ToeiCompany, airing for a total of 57 episodes divided into seven arcs. The seventh and last arc of the series was composed of 13 episodes, of which only the first is known to have survived.
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74* ''Series/MessengerOfAllah'' was the SpiritualSuccessor to ''Seven-Color Mask''. Of the 26 episode series, only the first episode has survived along with a segment of the final episode. Ironically, the show is survived by a contemporary {{manga}} adaptation.
75* ''Series/SecretsOfPiron'' was a tokusatsu series which ran for 39 episodes from 1960-61. It is currently presumed missing.
76* ''Series/MyThreeSons'': Although the series is intact and all episodes have been aired, the CBS color episodes spanning the sixth through the first half of the 11th season (1965-early 1971) were for years the only episodes shown in syndication. The ABC black-and-white episodes from 1960-65, along with the final 1-1/2 color seasons (Spring 1971-1972) were included in a second syndication package that was not nearly as widely distributed.
77* 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/TheAvengers1960s'', which is missing virtually all of Series 1 (to date, only three complete episodes and the first 20 minutes or so of the first episode have been recovered).
78* The 1960 drama ''Police Surgeon'' was conceived as a vehicle for Creator/IanHendry but ran into difficulties when the real life police surgeon who inspired the series threatened legal action unless he could write the scripts himself, resulting in the plug being pulled after a single series of 13 episodes and the hasty creation of ''The Avengers'' to keep Hendry on ITV's payroll (for which reason ''Police Surgeon'' is sometimes described as a precursor to ''The Avengers'', despite the lack of narrative connection). Just one episode, "Easy Money", is known to survive.[[note]] The supporting cast for the episode notably includes an 18-year-old Creator/MichaelCrawford in one of his first television roles.[[/note]]
79* ''Our House'' was written by then-''Film/CarryOn'' scriptwriter Norman Hudis, with a cast including ''Carry On'' mainstays Creator/HattieJacques, Creator/CharlesHawtrey, and Creator/JoanSims. It ran for two series on ABC Weekend TV,[[note]] "ABC" here is not the American (or Australian) Broadcasting Corporation but the Associated British Corporation, which had the ITV licence for the Midlands and the North of England on weekends from 1956-68.[[/note]] one of 13 episodes in 1960 and one of 26 episodes in 1962. Only three episodes survive, all from the 1960 series.
80* Creator/TonyHancock's series for Creator/{{ITV}} have fared even less well than his BBC series, and only the efforts of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society to KeepCirculatingTheTapes have allowed what has survived to be viewed by contemporary audiences.
81** The sketch series ''Jack Hylton Presents the Tony Hancock Show'' ran for two series of six episodes each in 1956 and 1957; the entire 1956 series exists in the British Film Institute archives, but the 1957 episodes are lost, and information about their casts and content remains vague.
82** The 1963 series ''Hancock'', which returned to the sitcom format pioneered by the BBC series, ran for 13 episodes in 1963; the BFI have a complete set of tapes but only six of them are known to circulate. Rumour holds that Tony's brother Roger had personally put the brakes on the series ever seeing a legitimate DVD release, and since Roger's death in 2011, his son Tim has continued to impose the ban.
83** The 1966 series in which Tony acted as compère for a sketch variety series live from the ABC Theatre Blackpool ran for eight episodes; only Episode 7 is known to survive. The successor series ''Hancock's'' in which Tony played a nightclub manager for the "link segments" ran for six episodes in 1967; an off-air recording of the end of one episode is all that survives.
84* After the failure of ''Running Wild'', [[Creator/MorecambeAndWise Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise]] waited seven years to return to television with ''Two of a Kind'', produced by ATV for 69 episodes across six series from 1961-68. Only 50 episodes still exist; the entire first series (broadcast under the title ''Sir Bernard Delfont Presents Morecambe & Wise'') and all but the first two episodes of the sixth series (which survive as black and white telerecordings) are lost. The 1978-83 version of ''The Morecambe & Wise Show'', made after they returned to ITV from the BBC, survives intact.
85* The six members of Creator/MontyPython all had considerable television comedy experience by the time ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' began airing in 1969. Unfortunately, very little of their earlier work has survived.
86** The sketch series ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show'', an early work of Creator/GrahamChapman and Creator/JohnCleese and 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.
87** Creator/TerryJones and Creator/MichaelPalin, and later Creator/EricIdle and Creator/TerryGilliam, are rather less fortunate where preservation of their early work is concerned.
88*** ''Series/DoNotAdjustYourSet'', the other "parent series" to ''Flying Circus'', was the first series to star Eric Idle as well as Creator/DavidJason (later of ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' and ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse''), and the second to star Terry Jones and Michael Palin (after ''Twice a Fortnight''). The series ran on ITV for 29 episodes (two series of 13 episodes each and three specials) in 1967-69; fourteen are known to survive, including ten from Series 1, Episode 2 from Series 2, and the three specials. As with ''At Last the 1948 Show'', audio recordings (some incomplete) exist for some, but not all, of the missing episodes, while Terry Gilliam kept a full set of master copies of his animated segments from the Christmas 1968 special "Do Not Adjust Your Stocking" and Series 2, and he allowed them to be included in the 2019 BFI compilation.
89*** Terry Jones and Michael Palin's follow-up series, ''The Complete and Utter History of Britain'', ran for six episodes on London Weekend Television in 1969, with the first broadcast episode having been edited down from the first two production episodes. The series was believed completely lost until the discovery of both the first two broadcast episodes and the first two production episodes. [[note]](Director Maurice Murphy was so angry with LWT's insistence on editing down the first two episodes into just one that he personally kept copies of the master tapes.)[[/note]] The film segments were also recovered from the other four episodes by Terry Jones (the videotape segments are still missing, but as the scripts have survived, Jones and Palin re-enacted some segments for the show's 2014 DVD release). Interestingly, the only reason the surviving episodes weren't wiped was because they were filed in the archives as history programmes rather than comedy programmes!
90* David Frost had been a household name in Britain for a decade and a half (and had been a fixture on U.S. TV since the late 60s) by the time he [[Film/FrostNixon interviewed]] UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. Unfortunately, much of his early work is lost to the ages.
91** After its cancellation on UK television, ''Series/ThatWasTheWeekThatWas'' was exported to the USA, with Frost as frontman and a cast including Buck Henry, Henry Morgan, and a pre-fame Gene Hackman and Alan Alda. The series ran from January 1964 to May 1965; the video of most of the episodes has long since been wiped, although a recording of the pilot was donated to the Library of Congress by a collector. Fortunately, teenage fan Art Chimes made audio recordings of nearly every episode, and they are available to listen to for free on the University of Georgia's library website.
92** Frost went on to present three concurrent variety/interview programmes on ITV between 1968-70 — ''Frost on Friday'', ''Frost on Saturday'' (on which the Beatles' promotional film for "Hey Jude" premiered on British television), and ''Frost on Sunday''. A combined total of over 100 episodes were recorded for these programmes, of which only 23 survive (six of ''Friday'', seven of ''Saturday'', and ten of ''Sunday'').
93* A number of the series that formed part of Creator/RonnieBarker's rise to 1970s television comedy mainstay are wholly or partially lost.
94** Following Barker and Ronnie Corbett's rise in prominence on ''The Frost Report'', David Frost executive produced a series of vignettes under the title ''The Ronnie Barker Playhouse'', which ran for six episodes on ITV in 1968 and was intended to test possible sitcom pilots starring Barker. The series was believed to be lost forever until the discovery of four episodes at the BFI in 2012; the episodes "Tennyson" and "The Fastest Guy in Finchley" are still missing.
95** The ''Ronnie Barker Playhouse'' episode "Ah! There You Are" was the only one to get a spinoff series in the form of ''Hark at Barker'', in which Barker played bumbling aristocrat Lord Rustless, presenting a sitcom/sketch show from his ancestral home of Chrome Hall. The series ran for 15 episodes across two series in 1969-70 and featured writing from Creator/EricIdle, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie as well as Alan Ayckbourn and Barker himself writing under assumed names. Though the entire run survives, the Series 2 episode "Rustless at Law" only exists as a low-quality, off-air black and white recording (ITV had made the transition to colour in late 1969).[[note]]The recording is a 16mm video-to-film transfer, and exhibits noticeable moiré patterns on brightly-coloured objects. This suggests that, if funds were available, the recording might be suitable for the "chroma-dot colour recovery" process, developed for ''Series/DoctorWho'' and also used on an episode of ''Series/DadsArmy''.[[/note]]
96* ''Theatre/BeyondTheFringe'' stars Creator/PeterCook and Creator/DudleyMoore's 1968 ITV series ''Goodbye Again'' fared little better than their BBC series ''Not Only... But Also'' - although all episodes have survived, some of the interior footage only survives as black and white copies.
97* ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'':
98** "Patterns of Force" wasn't shown on German television for decades, as it featured a planet run by Nazi soldiers.
99** A color copy of the original series pilot, "The Cage", was lost; the complete episode only existed in black-and-white, except for segments that had been chopped up and reused in the Season 1 two-parter "The Menagerie". When "The Cage" was first released on videocassette in 1986, it combined color segments from "The Menagerie" with black-and-white segments. A complete color copy was eventually discovered and released in 1990.
100* The third-season ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' episode "The Pieces of Fate Affair", written by Creator/HarlanEllison, was hardly ever seen in syndication for many years because of concerns about possible lawsuits over unflattering parodies of various literary figures in that episode.
101* Virtually ''all'' episodes of ''Series/TheTonightShow Starring Johnny Carson'' prior to the show's move to NBC's Burbank studios, including his first episode as host, were lost due to tape reuse. Carson's predecessors have it worse; the very first series, aired as ''Tonight Starring Steve Allen'' from 1954 to 1957, have long since been wiped, as have most of the other series Creator/SteveAllen presented during the early years of television.
102* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' episode "Living in Harmony" was not broadcast in its original American run on CBS for featuring Six rejecting a call to arms, not a message the network wanted to send during [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar an active draft]]. (The official explanation at the time characterized the call to arms as a "walking hallucination" – read: [[DrugsAreBad mind-altering drugs]].) All later runs show this episode in its correct place.
103* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
104** The episodes "Miniatures", "Sounds and Silences", and "A Small Drink From a Certain Fountain" were caught up in litigation over possible plagiarism when the series was first put into syndication. The lawsuits were eventually settled, but the episodes vanished for decades.
105** "The Encounter", which starred Neville Brand and Creator/GeorgeTakei, went missing for a different reason: Takei played a Japanese-American man whose father had been a traitor to the U.S. during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. It provoked an angry reaction from the Japanese-American community and was not rebroadcast or included in syndication.
106** "Literature/AnOccurrenceAtOwlCreekBridge", a re-edited version of a French short film, was never included in the syndication package, as the original contract which allowed the film to be broadcast as an episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' allowed for only two airings.
107* The 1964 edition of the Series/EurovisionSongContest from Copenhagen is a strange example. Depending on whom you ask, it's lost either due to the Danish broadcaster's archive mishap or missing because of a Spanish anti-Franco protester showing up near the end. Bits of it are still shown, including the winner's reprise by Gigliola Cinquetti. The 1956 contest is also missing some parts; while there's newsreel footage of the winner's reprise, and audio of most of the contest (20 minutes are missing) there is no copy of the show in its entirety.
108* The 1961 ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' episode "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (featuring a mentally disabled man who believes himself to have the power of the magician he works for, who ends up cutting a woman in half during a poorly prepared trick) was skipped during its original run, as the sponsor found it too dark. It was later seen unedited in syndication.
109* After NBC canceled the last season of ''Series/GetSmart'' and CBS picked it up, the ensuing copyright dispute ensured that the season was pulled from most TV circulations.
110* When Japan aired ''Series/TheMonkees'' TV show, they made two additional special episodes appropriately titled "The Monkees In Japan" (parts 1 and 2), which highlighted the Monkees' visit and concert in their country. The episodes aired once in Japan (October 11 and 18, 1968) and have never been aired since. The video footage from both parts is thought to be lost, but a low-quality recorded audio track from portions of the episodes still survives; it's known among fans as the bootleg CD ''Made In Japan''.
111* The television adaptation of ''Series/DrKildare'' starring Creator/RichardChamberlain has a couple.
112** A unique example is the BackDoorPilot for the MGM psychiatry drama series ''The Eleventh Hour'' (1962-64). It was produced and intended to air as a 1962 episode of ''Dr. Kildare'', but after initial test screenings, the episode was {{recut}}, removing all scenes and references of Kildare and Gillespie. The newly edited version was then aired as the premiere episode of ''The Eleventh Hour'': "Ann Costigan: a Duel on a Field of White." The uncut, original episode of ''Dr. Kildare'' was never aired or publicly seen until 2013, when it was released on DVD as a bonus feature on Warner Archive's ''Dr. Kildare: The Complete First Season''.
113** Lesser known is the third season episode "Night of the Beast," which, though an airdate was documented, never made it to the air in 1964 due to its mature and violent content. Multiple newspaper articles from the time period reported that Creator/{{NBC}} actually scheduled, then subsequently pulled the episode TWICE that season, before opting not to air it at all. The plot was clearly controversial, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil as it involves Dr. Kildare’s date getting attacked on the beach by a gang and raped, while the doctor is held down and forced to watch the whole ordeal.]] Though censored heavily for 1960s TV (the act was done off-screen, and [[NeverSayDie the word “rape” was never spoken]]), the whole concept is still pretty disturbing, even by today’s standards. “Night of the Beast” has been seen since though, and it is available on DVD and streaming via Warner Archive.
114* In a particularly sad example, the series ''Winchell-Mahoney Time'' (1965–68), featuring what was regarded as some of the best work of the famed ventriloquist and comedian Creator/PaulWinchell, is lost entirely; a dispute between Winchell and Metromedia about the syndication rights in 1988 led to the studio vindictively erasing all the tapes. Winchell won $17.8 million after suing them, but that's small consolation.
115* Ernie Kovacs' untimely death in a January 13, 1962 car accident led to a few of these:
116** A TV {{Pilot}} for a comedy Western show called ''Medicine Man'' (co-starring Creator/BusterKeaton) never aired, though it is part of the Paley Center for Media's public collection.
117** In 1961, Kovacs recorded an album "starring" his lisping CampGay poet character, titled ''Ernie Kovacs Presents Percy Dovetonsils Thpeaks''. The album was never released until 50 years later, when archivist Ben Model discovered the original studio tapes. Adding his own piano score, Model released the album in 2012 (on digital formats, CD, ''and'' vinyl).
118* ''The Lieutenant'', the first show produced by ''Franchise/StarTrek'' creator Creator/GeneRoddenberry, ran into frequent problems with [[BackedByThePentagon cooperation from the US Marines]] over what they felt was a less than flattering portrayal of the Marine Corps. One episode dealing with racial issues was produced but never aired since, apparently, the Marines believed there were no racial issues in the military and hence pulled their backing from the show. The episode, featuring ''Star Trek'' actress Nichelle Nichols as a guest star, was never broadcast, but was released with the rest of the series on DVD in 2012.
119* The 1963 WesternSeries ''Series/TheDakotas'' was quickly canceled following a controversial episode--so quickly that the final episode, "Black Gold", was never broadcast. Fortunately, it's available as part of the DVD set.
120* The Inauguration Gala of John F. Kennedy in 1961, intended to be shown on NBC, was never broadcast due to a blizzard-induced power outage in the Beltway, and was presumed lost for over 50 years, only premiering on PBS in June 2017.
121* ''Series/MajinBander'' was a tokusatsu series which ran for 13 episodes in 1969. Only three episodes (1, 5 and 13) are known to have survived.
122* ''Series/MajinGaron'', the 1971 tokusatsu adaptation of Creator/OsamuTezuka's manga, is believed to be lost.
123* The very first Super Bowl (originally called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game) was thought lost for almost 50 years. Only film (not broadcast video) survived was shot by NFL Films, while the game was shown on both NBC and CBS. Both NBC and CBS recorded over the broadcast soon after the game. NFL Films found additional footage and has restored the gameplay with audio for NBC Radio, but the audio from CBS and NBC Television are still missing.
124* Creator/TheBBC's live coverage of [[{{UsefulNotes/NASA}} the Apollo XI mission]], featured the well-known TV scientists James Burke (later best known for the documentary series ''Series/{{Connections}}'') and Patrick Moore, alongside Cliff Michelmore, a regular BBC presenter. The BBC wiped ''all'' of the footage from these programmes, although of-air audio recordings later surfaced and have been released on CD.
125* UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} lost the original recordings from the Apollo 11 first landing on the Moon. The TV signals were beamed to Australia (to dishes in Honeysuckle Creek, ACT, and Parkes, NSW, to be precise), and then sent in reduced quality to the USA. All known copies are from the lower quality video. The original high quality ones have never really been publicly seen and NASA has lost them. This, of course, is fodder for those who think the whole thing is a GovernmentConspiracy.
126** All of the data from the receiving antennas was recorded on half-inch tape reels, so the original TV footage almost certainly survives in the archives. The problem is that the tapes were archived without reference to what ''kind'' of data they contained. Needle, meet haystack. Not to set off the EpilepticTrees again, but you would think for something THAT important, they would have at least sent a couple of interns down to try and find it. It would seem like that would be a big priority if there was any hope of finding it.
127** For the minutia-minded, the quality reduction was because the Eagle's video camera used an exotic slow-scan format that was utterly incompatible with network TV. The broadcast version had to be sent out by filming a screen showing the high-quality version.
128** Both Creator/TheBBC and Creator/{{ITV}} (the only two television broadcasters in the UK at the time) somehow managed to lose their coverage of the first moon landing. All that remains are a few off-air recordings and filmed inserts. Music/PinkFloyd accompanied the BBC coverage by performing an original, instrumental composition called "Moonhead", which still exists, and circulated on bootlegs for decades before being officially released in a high-quality form in a 2016 box set.
129* Puppeteer Creator/ShariLewis said Creator/{{NBC}} taped over almost all of the episodes of her early '60s program ''The Shari Lewis Show'' to record the 1964 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Decades later, Lewis expressed her disappointment at the loss of the shows, because she believed them to be well done and early examples of color television. A handful of episodes were saved and restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and were released on DVD. Lewis' BBC show that aired from 1968 to 1976 was also wiped with only a few episodes remaining.
130* The 1968 first series of ''Series/InsideGeorgeWebley'' (which starred Creator/RoyKinnear and Creator/PatsyRowlands) is missing from the Creator/{{ITV}} archives. Series 2 from 1970 survives but hasn't been aired since the initial run.
131* All thirteen episodes of ''Series/BestOfFriends1963'' have been wiped since their initial 1963 transmissions and none of the series can be watched in the present day.
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135* ''Series/JunglePrince'', essentially a Japanese ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'', ran for 26 episodes in 1970 and was one of the last toku series produced in black-and-white. It has never been released on home video and is currently presumed missing.
136* A 1971 episode of ''The Dick Cavett Show'' was never aired (and probably never will be) because a guest, ''Prevention Magazine'' publisher Jerome Rodale, [[FatalMethodActing died of a heart attack during taping]]. The story about Rodale's death has been recounted several times by Cavett himself.
137* George Lucas has said that he would do his best to make sure ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' [[OldShame is never seen again, anywhere]], and that he would happily destroy every last copy if he could. But while the special was never likely to have an "official" Lucasfilm re-release, it is very widely [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes available from unofficial sources]]. The only "officially" released copy of the film known to exist was in the possession of Creator/CarrieFisher, who had requested it in exchange for providing audio commentary for the films and, by her own account, used it to clear out guests when her house parties ran on for too long. What became of this copy after Fisher's passing is unknown. In addition, the matter's likely out of his hands now that he sold his company to Disney. In Thanksgiving 2013, Podcast/RiffTrax somehow gained the rights to sell it as a VOD.
138* ''Ace of Wands'' was a fantasy-based children's series which ran for 46 episodes across three series from 1970-72 on Creator/ThamesTelevision. The first two series (13 episodes each) are completely lost, although audio recordings exist of many episodes from the second series. Series 3 is intact.
139* 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.
140* The episode of ''Series/NightGallery'' that aired on September 22, 1971 contained 4 segments. One of them, "Witchs' Feast", was replaced by a different segment in subsequent airings of the episode.
141** The first two seasons suffers this to some degree as the original masters were sliced up to make the half-hour syndicated version, so the only episode we know for sure that is exactly as it was originally aired is the feature-length pilot. The first season [=DVDs=] try to reconstruct the episodes, but season two has every segment as its own episode, and it's possible some "glue scenes" with Rod Serling were shortened or missing.
142* Hardly anyone has seen the earliest episodes of the wildly popular Mexican sitcom ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' because it originated as a sketch on an hour-long variety show "Chespirito", named for Chavo's creator. The better sketches were edited together into half-hour episodes (resulting in a short season zero), but they're an OldShame; the earliest Chavo sketches haven't been seen in decades. There are some actual missing episodes of the series - at best, only their Brazilian dub versions remain. It's not been revealed why they were lost, but it's rumored the 1985 Mexico City earthquake could be related, as it damaged some studios of the Televisa network, which broadcasted the series. 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.
143* At least two episodes of ''Series/QuincyME'' were never repeated on NBC (although they were, and are, still shown in syndication), as both episodes were about child sexual abuse and child exploitation:
144** "Nowhere To Run" centered on a murdered pregnant teen whose unborn child was actually the product of an incestuous relationship with her father (now a suspect in her murder).
145** "Never A Child" centered on a runaway teen becoming a sex slave to a child pornographer.
146* The "Klansmen" episode of ''Series/TheProfessionals'' has never been screened on British television in either the show's original or subsequent runs due to the references to racism (with the exception of a 1997 airing on the now-defunct Superchannel). However, this episode ''has'' aired overseas.
147* An episode of ''Series/{{Emergency}}'', "[[http://www.voyagerliveaction.com/episodes3/richtersix1.html Richter Six]]", was scripted but never filmed due to a writers' strike in TheSeventies.
148* ''[[http://wikizilla.org/wiki/Assault!_Human Assault! Human]]'' was a series of televised stage shows featuring two characters who looked quite a lot like Series/{{Ultraman}} fighting {{Kaiju}}. This show was co-produced by Creator/{{Toho}}, famous for their Kaiju Films, and Nippon TV. Unfortunately, the entire series was lost in the 1980s when Nippon TV accidentally overwrote the master tapes. Fortunately, most of the monsters who debuted in ''Assault! Human'' later appeared in Toho's ''Series/GoGodman'' and ''Series/GoGreenman''. Only a few short clips of ''Assault! Human'' have been found, both salvaged from privately-owned VHS and Betamax tapes.
149* Two episodes of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' are missing from Creator/DisneyPlus. They are "Episode 506: Brooke Shields" (due to music rights issues) and "Episode 519: Chris Langham" (due to his sex offenses conviction). In addition, when the show premiered on the platform, for unknown reasons, "Episode 123: Kaye Ballard" was unavailable, but would be by the end of the premier date. In Europe, "Episode 317: Spike Milligan" and "Episode 401: John Denver" [[NoExportForYou are also not available]].
150* SaturdayMorningKidsShow ''Series/{{Tiswas}}'' aired on Creator/{{ITV}} from 1974-82 and launched the television careers of Chris Tarrant and Creator/LennyHenry, but although the episodes were taped in case of investigation by the Independent Broadcasting Association, most were eventually wiped on the assumption they would have no future value, and many of the episodes which weren't wiped were stored in conditions which led to deterioration below broadcast quality. Of over 300 episodes, only 22 are known to exist in their entirety in watchable quality, mostly from domestic recordings.
151* Evidently deciding that being a national broadcasting corporation meant following Creator/TheBBC's lead in wiping old programmes, Creator/TheABC conducted its own archive purge in the late 1970s as part of a management-mandated "economy drive"; shocked at the increase in purchase of videotape, the ABC higher-ups ordered an entire wall of archive videos wiped and re-used. One of the most high profile victims was the 1974-87 pop music showcase ''Countdown'', which lost over a hundred episodes from 1974-78 in an act presenter Ian "Molly" Meldrum denounced as "unforgivable".[[note]] The 30-odd episodes that survived from those years were smuggled out of the ABC archives in the middle of the night by ''Countdown'' directors Ted Emery and Paul Drane.[[/note]] Other lost programmes include multiple Australian Rules Grand Finals and most of the runs of soap operas ''Bellbird'' and ''Certain Women''.
152* The soap opera ''Number 96'' aired on the [[Creator/NetworkTen 0-10 Network]] from 1972-77 and was one of the most popular Australian TV series of the decade, upending TV convention with its frank storylines about homosexuality (it was the first soap opera globally to feature a gay regular character), abortion, teenage drug addiction, Satanism, and interracial romance, as well as uncensored (female ''and'' male) nudity. Only 648 of the 1,218 episodes survive, mostly from 1975 onwards, as when Australian television made the switch to colour that year, nearly all of the first 584 episodes were junked as 0-10 believed their black and white library no longer had any market value. Just 22 black and white episodes survive, twenty from 1972 (including the first three weeks) and two from 1974.
153* ''Series/ThunderMask'' was a tokusatsu series broadcast from 1972 to 73. Only eight episodes of this 26 episode series are known to have survived.
154* ''[[Series/UFODaisensouTatakaeRedTiger UFO Great Battle: Fighting! Red Tiger]]'' was a tokusatsu series broadcast from 1978 to 79. Only five episodes of this 39 episode series are known to have survived.
155* The first live sporting event broadcast by Creator/{{ESPN}}, the opening game of the 1979 Softball World Series in men's professional slow-pitch, was for a time an example of this. About 20 years later, the manager of the team that lost the series inquired about getting a copy of that game (which his team won), and was told that it was the only lost broadcast in the network's history. However, it later turned out that the owner of the series ''winners'' had previously purchased a copy of the game in question, and still had the tapes. These tapes became the centerpiece of an ''[=E:60=]'' episode that aired as part of ESPN's 40th anniversary celebration in 2019.
156* 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 head 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}}.
157* The majority of ''Series/CuriosityShop'', an ABC children's series created to compete with ''Series/SesameStreet'', is generally considered lost. Three of the seventeen episodes are known to exist.
158* ''Series/CoppersEnd'' survives in full, but not in its original condition; the series was filmed in colour, but many episodes only exist in the archives as black and white telerecordings. The two original unaired episodes starring Creator/JoanSims don't exist either.
159* All six episodes of ''Series/ShineALight'' have been wiped and are no longer in the Creator/{{ITV}} archives.
160* All six episodes of ''Series/IfItMovesFileIt'' have been lost to time. Britain's National Film and Television Archive had a copy of "Walled In", but it is unknown where it is in the present day.
161* All six episodes if ''Series/TheTroubleWithYouLilian'' have been wiped and the series is unable to be viewed anymore.
162* All six episodes of ''Series/InForAPenny'' have wiped since their initial airings in 1972.
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166* ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' has a couple of missing episodes.
167** YTV banned the episode "Divorce", though it has aired elsewhere on Canadian television.
168** Probably the most infamous example is Nickelodeon banning the episode "Adoption" after two airings out of fear that children from adopted families (or rather, their parents) wouldn't like the jokes about adoption, most of which center on adopted kids being used as slave labor and getting beaten up or killed off. In contrast, YTV did air the episode, but it bleeped out Senator Prevert calling someone a "damn bureaucrat".
169* While not an entire episode, a scene from one episode of ''Series/ThreesCompany'' disappeared in 2001 when, after 17 years, someone noticed that John Ritter inadvertently exposed his scrotum while changing position.
170* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' has several {{Missing Episode}}s, either from the show's "Season Zero" on local [[UsefulNotes/TwinCities Minneapolis]] television station KTMA (considered [[OldShame not up to the show's standard]]) or riffing movies for which Best Brains no longer has the rights. (Toho, for example, denied them the rights to the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise.) As if in anticipation of this problem, ''[=MST3K=]'' became the TropeNamer for KeepCirculatingTheTapes, which still applies for episodes which have not been legally released. The unaired pilot and the first three "Season Zero" episodes, however, do not exist in any private fan collections, whereas 18 out of 176 Creator/ComedyCentral era episodes have not been released on DVD, and most of the Rhino-era DVD releases are out of print. (But Creator/ShoutFactory is slowly rereleasing those sets.)
171** The lost episodes still exist in some form or another, though. Jim Mallon, ''[=MST3K=]''[='s=] producer, said in an interview that he still has the master tapes of the lost episodes, but this effectively means that no one other than him can actually watch them. In practice, though, high-quality footage of some of the host segments from these episodes has appeared on the Best Brains website, the unaired pilot has been shown at the odd convention during ''[=MST3K=]'' or ''WebVideo/CinematicTitanic'' panels (and bootlegs have shown up on the Internet), and many of the episodes turn up on Website/YouTube anyway in ten-minute chunks (not legally, but admins never really pull more than one video at a time).
172** The holy grail of the KTMA episodes were the first three KTMA-aired episodes, which never turned up on the list of traded tapes and remained unseen after their original airings. However, Joel Hodgson managed to get hold of two of them in 2016 and release them as bonuses for the ''[=MST3K=]'' revival Kickstarter backers. Only the KTMA version of ''Fugitive Alien II'' remains completely missing.
173** The DVD rights have since switched to Creator/ShoutFactory, which has greatly softened Best Brains' stance toward "Season Zero", which was effectively to [[CanonDiscontinuity never let the episodes re-air again]]. In particular, the Volume XV boxset includes about half an hour of host segments from "Season Zero", including clips from the pilot and the first three episodes. The creators were also willing to recycle the season's host segments and re-riff some of its films.
174** Two notable specific examples are the Season 9 episode with ''Film/{{Gorgo}}'' (aired only once before rights issues forced Sci-Fi to take it out of rotation) and the original version of the episode with ''Night of the Blood Beast'' (a Thanksgiving episode designed to have its host segments replaced for reruns). These are both available on DVD.
175** Shout! Factory has acknowledged that eleven episodes (including ''The Amazing Colossal Man'', ''I Was a Teenage Werewolf'' and ''Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster'') will never get a DVD release due to rights issues. So, in Volume 39, they released a bonus disc comprising the host segments from those "lost" episodes as it was "the next best option."
176** With the 2022 launch of The Gizmoplex, a streaming service strictly intended for ''[=MST3K=]'' and any new episodes that are produced, most episodes can be found there, with the exception of roughly 34 experiments, unavailable due to varied licensing rights (or, in the case of ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E10TheFinalSacrifice The Final Sacrifice]]'', the film's director hated the riffing treatment and disallowed all future rights).
177* ''Series/MaxHeadroom'' was cancelled with three completed episodes left unaired. Two were shown six months later when a writers' strike left a shortage of new programming, while the last episode had to wait until the Sci-Fi Channel showed the series ''eight years later''. As with many short-lived US series, however, all 14 episodes aired first-run in overseas markets (such as Creator/Channel4 in the UK).
178* When rerunning ''Series/CagneyAndLacey'', Creator/{{Lifetime}} omitted the first season episodes featuring Creator/MegFoster as Cagney. The first DVD release does likewise, labeling the second season (featuring Sharon Gless as Cagney) as the first season.
179* The 1983 "Conflict" episodes of ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' were originally created to help children cope with the war-related themes of ''Film/TheDayAfter'' miniseries, but were deemed inappropriate to air after 1996 due to real-life wars happening. This set of episodes has not been released on Amazon, unlike most of the 1979-2001 episodes. Also, the Plan and Play book (which, interestingly, did include Conflict week) did omit four weeks of episodes that, for unknown reasons, stopped rerunning earlier than the rest of their seasons: episodes 1036-1040, 1051-1055, and 1056-1060 from the 1969 season, and 1071-1075 from the 1970 season.
180* TBS stopped airing the ''Series/MamasFamily'' episode "Gert Rides Again" sometime in the early 2000s, apparently because their master tape was somehow destroyed. Fans were able to see the episode again when ION began airing the show in 2006.
181* While you can find all of the animated portions of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' and its fellow series ''WesternAnimation/{{The Legend of Zelda|1989}}'' everywhere (albeit with [[ClumsyCopyrightCensorship music that doesn't require royalties from celebrities]]), the live-action tie-in segments of the series haven't seen much luck in the years after their broadcasts:
182** Twelve live-action segments for the series went missing from Creator/ShoutFactory[='=]s DVD releases, apparently because Shout! couldn't secure the rights to these segments or didn't receive the master tapes for them. Several of the missing segments ("9001: A Mario Odyssey", "Baby Mario Love", and "Texas Tea") were later put online legally. The rest were attached to the ''Zelda'' cartoon, but only select segments were released on that cartoon's DVD set.
183** When the show entered its second run in 1990, the live-action segments were cut and replaced by a more modernized, less sitcom-ish series with a group of teenagers titled "Club Mario". It was very poorly received, and after the series was canceled, DIC ordered all masters destroyed out of OldShame[[note]]However, only one episode, "The Unzappables" (released online through [=iTunes=] and Hulu), did not have its "Club Mario" master erased; Brian Ward of Shout! Factory confirmed that [=DiC=] sent said master to Shout!, instead of the original master, by mistake when the [=DVDs=] were being prepared[[/note]]. Only a small number of these segments survive through [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes home recordings]], most them recorded when the series was about to disappear from local stations.
184* The ''Series/TooCloseForComfort'' episode "For Every Man, There's Two Women" — the plot of which attempted to milk laughs from [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Monroe getting sexually assaulted by two large women]] — only aired once in 1985 and never again until Creator/AntennaTV aired the show in 2011.
185* ''Series/MiamiVice''
186** The first season had several scenes that were removed after its broadcast run, either due to music clearance issues or concerns over excessively-violent content for the time it aired. This includes a deleted sequence from "The Home Invaders" where Zito and Switek argue about parachute pants while conducting surveillance on a couple, a character singing "There's No Business Like Show Business" during the episode "Heart of Darkness", and an extended love[=/=]torture scene from the fourth-season episode "By Hooker, By Crook" that only aired overseas due to concerns over the excessive death of a supporting character (intercut with a love scene between Crockett and the GirlOfTheWeek). Short of fan circulation, none of these clips have ever been released officially.
187** The same goes for the first-season episode "Calderone's Return, Part II", which had two sequences that were never again aired in their original broadcast form. The first was an alternate cut of Tubbs' and Angelina's confrontation on the beach, which ran longer and showed much more emotion on both characters' faces. The second was the original form of [[BigBad Esteban Calderone's]] death, as he was originally intended to "dance" he's riddled with bullets via Crockett's SMG. The footage showing this extended death has been missing since the original run, with the only relevant footage contained in a brief snippet that plays over the credits, from the tail-end of the sequence.
188** "Made for Each Other", which aired late in the first season, had a CreditsGag that changed the shot of the two bikini-clad women walking away from the camera to the same two women, now wearing an apparent "Miami Vice" crew jacket over their bikinis. The shot never appeared again in any release of the episode. Some fans theorize that the shot was never reaired due to Creator/{{NBC}} realizing that it was causing a heavy surge in interest for the crew jackets (which were made by clothier The Cloth Tattoo) that it couldn't fulfill, though replica jackets were later sold at Universal City Studios to promote the series.
189** The "Lost Episodes" are a deliberate example of this -- four Season 5 episodes that didn't see the light of day originally, due to both network demands ("Too Much Too Late" didn't air in its first run due to a subplot involving child molestation) or Creator/{{NBC}} wanting to clear the timeslot for other programming instead. The episodes would remain unaired until USA Network picked up the syndication rights and aired the fifth season in July 1990, over a year after the original run ended. The episodes were later included proper on the DVD boxsets.
190* ''Series/TheATeam'' episode "Without Reservations" was was meant to be the second-to-last episode of the series, but was lost and never aired in syndication. It was found a few years later and aired as the last episode during reruns. It continues to be listed (on the DVD sets, Netflix, etc.) as the last episode, but it is canonically the second-to-last. Murdock's t-shirts (which read "Almost Fini" in this one and "Fini" in "The Grey Team"), as well as [[AndTheAdventureContinues their conversation]] at the end of "The Grey Team", both make it pretty clear that "The Grey Team" takes place after "Without Reservations".
191* The UK version of ''Series/FraggleRock'' featured wraparound segments set in a lighthouse and featuring Fulton Mackay as the Captain, a retired sailor (replaced, after Mackay's death in 1987, by John Gordon Sinclair as his nephew P.K. and then Simon O'Brien as his son B.J.), instead of the workshop segments with Gerry Parkes as Doc seen in North America. Many of the tapes of the UK wraparound segments were wiped; an effort led by ''Fraggle Rock'' fan Alex Taylor over the course of several years [[http://www.nightshade.org.uk/fraggleuk.html confirmed]] that of the 96 episodes, 29 still have surviving official copies held by the British Film Institute, while 58 only exist as off-air recordings (of variable quality) by home viewers, and another eight were recovered from the personal archive of producer Victor Pemberton after his death in August 2017, so that the only episode not known to exist complete (or nearly so)[[note]] Of the off-air recordings, four episodes are missing the first few seconds of the opening lighthouse scene, one ("Gunge the Great and Glorious") is missing the last few seconds of the closing lighthouse scene, and one ("Catch the Tail by the Tiger") is missing both the first few seconds ''and'' the last few seconds.[[/note]] is "Manny's Land of Carpets". Because the production company (TVS produced the UK elements) has changed hands several times and production rights can't be sorted out, they cannot be broadcast or released again anyway. That's why when ''Fraggle Rock'' was rerun in the UK, the episodes were the North American segments that featured Doc rather than the Captain.
192* The 1987 Creator/{{ITV}} sitcom ''Hardwicke House'', which starred Creator/RoyKinnear as the headmaster of a comprehensive school where the students and teachers are equally criminally depraved, took BritishBrevity to its logical extreme when, after just two episodes (of seven), it was pulled from the airwaves after press and public outcry over its perceived tasteless humour. The other five episodes have never aired, the first two episodes have never re-aired, and a DVD release is unlikely at best (one was planned at one point, and got far enough into production that a booklet providing historical context on the series' lack of broadcast was written, but rights issues scuppered it). However, contrary to rumour, the tapes were not wiped and are still in the ITV archives; a select few have managed to access them and view all seven episodes.
193* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
194** The episode "The High Ground" wasn't screened by the BBC until 2007 (and satellite channel Sky One edited their showings until 2006) because of references to terrorism in Northern Ireland.
195** The uncut version of "Conspiracy" was similarly delayed due to the (rather uncharacteristically) graphic depiction of a man pretty much ''exploding'', guts and all. A cut version was aired by the BBC in 1991.
196** "Masterpiece Society" was not rebroadcast for many years in the United States, just because it wasn't very good.
197* ''Series/PoliceSquad'' featured a DeathByCameo at the beginning of each episode, with the episode's "special guest star" being killed on camera in a hilariously over the top fashion before the opening credits were over. Creator/JohnBelushi filmed an intro for the sixth episode, "Testimony of Evil/Dead Men Don't Laugh", in which he was seen at the bottom of a river with his feet encased in cement, but when he died of a drug overdose before the episode's air date, his "death scene" was pulled and replaced by one in which Creator/WilliamConrad is stabbed and thrown from a moving automobile (mirroring Creator/LorneGreene's "death scene" in the first episode, "A Substantial Gift/The Broken Promise"). The footage of Belushi's "death scene" has never aired and is believed to have been destroyed.
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201* ''Puttnam's Prairie Emporium'' has not been rebroadcast since its national run on YTV in the early 1990s, and the master tapes have been long since destroyed.
202* The original {{Pilot}} for ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' was advertised as a MissingEpisode. Notable differences include Audri [=DuBois=] as the Yellow Ranger as opposed to Thuy Trang, Zordon being known as "Zoltar", and the Zords being referred to as "Droids".
203* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'':
204** Creator/ABCFamily aired a long-lost episode from Season 1 which had been preempted by coverage of the [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Lewinsky scandal]].
205** [=FiveUS=] in the UK aired, without fanfare, a handful of never-before-seen episodes mixed in with their usual reruns several years after the show was canceled. (They're mostly notable because one of them is a Greg/Denny episode - one of the only American episodes ''without'' Wayne.) Since there was only one actual "missing" episode, it's assumed that [=FiveUS=] somehow got a hold of the original taping footage and used it to cobble together their own episodes (which was how nearly all of the episodes from the later seasons were created).
206* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
207** The episode "Home" was so disturbing (containing references to inbreeding and a lot of BodyHorror) that executives vowed never to air it again, not even in syndication. An Internet campaign led to it earning the top spot in a viewer-selected marathon on FX some years later, and the episode has since been added to the regular rotation.
208** When Season 3 was first broadcast in France, the episode "Oubliette" wasn't aired because [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents it was too similar to then-recent crimes committed by a Belgian pedophile named Marc Dutroux]].
209* Pressure from MoralGuardian Terry Rakolta over crude and sexual humor in ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' resulted in the ban of the third season episode "I'll See You In Court" (which had the Bundys and the Rhoades suing a motel for videotaping couples having sex and using the videos as porno movies for other couples who check in). The ban would later be lifted, but that didn't stop DVD releases from advertising this episode as "never before shown".
210* Two episodes of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' were lost from the show's syndication run until 2002.
211** "The Invitations", featuring Susan's death from licking cheap toxic envelope glue, was pulled for being too close to the anthrax scare shortly after 9/11.
212** "The Puerto Rican Day" was pulled because of a scene where Kramer accidentally burns the Puerto Rican flag. The episode aired once on NBC and was not seen again on television for four years. Since then, it seems to jump in and out of the rerun rotation based on the whims of the syndicator. (Michael Richards' racist rant at the Laugh Factory in 2006 didn't help matters here.)
213** Another episode was never filmed: Season 2's "The Bet", involving Elaine buying a gun. Most of the cast objected to the script during rehearsals, saying it was too dark and not very funny; production was halted despite the episode being ready for filming. To fill the vacant slot, Jerry Seinfeld and Creator/LarryDavid hammered out "The Phone Message" in two days from a rejected sketch David wrote for ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
214* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
215** "Earshot", an episode about Buffy trying to find out who's behind a plan to kill every Sunnydale High student and climaxing with Jonathan taking a rifle to the school clocktower, was quite understandably pulled when the Columbine Massacre happened four days before it was to air. Somewhat less justifiable is the season's finale delay for the same reason, this time featuring high schoolers [[spoiler:rigging their school with explosives to blow up an evil snake demon]]. That one ended up leaking on Canadian TV in some places anyway, resulting in tape trains from Canadian fans to other countries.
216** "Once More with Feeling" was not aired in syndication (e.g. on FX) for a while because of its longer than usual run-time. (It, along with many other episodes, is occasionally shown in trimmed-down form.)
217* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' has a unique example of this in "Skeleton Crew", the last episode produced for the show's first season and a CliffHanger. While the episode was completed, NBC didn't air it and ultimately cancelled the series. CBS [[UnCancelled picked it up again]], but opted not to finish the story. The episode eventually did air via syndication on USA, was included in the DVD release, and was re-edited into an episode from the series' third season, "Death Watch". Weirdly, Catharine Bell, who joined the cast as Major Sarah Mackenzie in season 2, played [[VictimOfTheWeek the dead victim]] in "Skeleton Crew", a resemblance the show would even reference in "Death Watch".
218* ''Series/VR5'' had three: "Sisters", "Send Me An Angel" and "Parallel Lives". One was dropped because of preemption, another due to sexual content, and the third because it didn't make any sense without the first two. They were aired in Canada, but never in the United States.
219* Parodied in ''Series/MrShow with Bob And David''; at the beginning of the episode, the hosts declare to the audience that the episode being filmed is intended to be the "lost episode" of the series, which will be trotted out years later to much fanfare. At the end of the episode, Bob and David give the only tape of the episode to a uniformed security guard, who walks outside and tosses the tape into outer space in a ''2001'' parody.
220* 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 the need to [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents distance the show from a similar incident in Ireland]]. Another banned episode involved Duncan making a bomb.
221* Several episodes of ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'' have not been rebroadcast on WWE Classics when they would have otherwise been shown. At least one episode (originally aired June 9, 1997) was unfit for broadcast due to audio problems on the master tape. Other episodes have been heavily edited or omitted entirely due to Wrestling/ChrisBenoit[='s=] prominent appearance; WWE essentially made Benoit a [[{{Unperson}} non-person]] after his murder-suicide. However, WWE later softened its stance against airing Benoit footage; since it launched its Web-based WWE Network in February 2014, it has aired shows featuring Benoit on that platform uncut, though with a prominent viewer advisory before each streaming.
222* Due to its 6:00 PM Wednesday slot, Creator/Channel4 did not screen the ''Series/MySoCalledLife'' episode "Weekend" (in which Rayanne handcuffs herself to the Chases' bed). The series was only repeated once (in an even ''earlier'' slot, again omitting "Weekend") and has never been shown on British television since.
223* The ''Series/EerieIndiana'' episode "Heart On A Chain" was never rerun when the show was syndicated on Fox Kids (it's unclear whether it was ever run when syndicated on the Disney Channel) due to the plot being about a dead boy who speaks to Marshall from beyond the grave when his heart gets implanted in a girl who needs a transplant. It is, however, available on DVD.
224* The Creator/DisneyChannel[='s=] reruns of ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' omitted or edited many later episodes dealing with less-family friendly issues such as alcohol abuse and sexuality. MTV 2 now airs the later episodes uncut and uncensored. Speaking of Disney Channel:
225** 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 about 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 (and the show never aired on the Disney Replay block). Both banned episodes are available online uncut and uncensored.
226** The ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' episode "Down a Tree" caused some for featuring a same-sex couple when Disney first announced it would start production on it. While the episode made it on air and is still rotation in the United States, it was skipped in some territories by their local Disney Channel. Regarding some of the countries that originally skipped it, Netflix Latinoamerica put it up for streaming with the rest of season four in Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, Kanal Disney put up the Russian version on Website/YouTube, and a national channel in the Czech Republic aired it in... well, Czech. Additionally, the [=LatAm=] Spanish dub was transmitted with the original US airing on SAP.
227** After ''Series/{{Jessie}}''[='s=] HalloweenEpisode "The Whining" aired, a nanny in New York killed two of her kids like the Ross children thought Jessie wanted to do. Disney pulled all reruns of the episode from its channel and from iTunes, though it is still available online elsewhere. It did air again later on years later, but of course, only on Halloween.
228** When Disney Channel aired ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', the episodes "Baby Talk" (where Earl and Fran start a campaign against indecency on television after Baby begins repeating the word "smoo", which in the dinosaur world is an InformedObscenity for gunk that collects under a dinosaur's feet) and "Dirty Dancing" (where Fran teaches sex ed at Robbie's high school after Robbie begins spontaneously doing the mating dance[[note]]which, in the dinosaur world, means he's getting erections[[/note]]) were not shown. The latter episode to be banned is odd, as Disney aired the episode where Charlene's tail grows in and [[MyGirlIsNotASlut Earl worries that Charlene will become a "tomato"]]. Meanwhile, the trope is inverted with the leftover episodes that ABC didn't air, but did air in syndication and on Disney Channel.
229** ''Series/ReadyOrNot1993'': The Disney Channel did not air the episodes “Origins of Man”, "Beyond the Birds and the Bees", and “Am I Perverted or What?” because the content was deemed too mature for their audience.
230* ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' had an unusual example in the episode "Two Drews and the Queen of Poland Walk into a Bar". The episode itself wasn't banned, but the entire subplot with Mimi becoming the Duchess of Krakow and meeting the King of Poland was removed from the episode and hasn't been seen on TV since its original airing due to complaints from the Polish community. Every other airing of this episode (even in overseas airings) uses the opening from the episode "It's Your Party and I'll Crash If I Want To" to make up for the removed subplot. The original version of the episode finally surfaced online in 2012.
231* Many of the early episodes of ''Series/{{Maury}}'' from 1991 up until its revamp in 1998 are extremely difficult to come across, especially online, and virtually none of them are reran or shown on "past moments" episodes. This is because that bulk of the series is owned by CBS Television Distribution, successor-in-interest to original distributor Paramount Television, and [=NBCUniversal=] Television was unable to gain clearance to show any clips from that era on their run of the series. What makes it more difficult is that clips that are usually posted on [=YouTube=] end up getting taken down after a few months, [[ScrewedByTheLawyers as CBS is very strict when it comes to copyright law]]. [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Better hope you have those tapes featuring those episodes.]] The situation became so sour that when the series aired its 2,500th episode special, not a single clip of an episode from the Paramount run was shown, again due to [=NBCUniversal=] being unable to negotiate with CBS...though issues with guests from that era refusing to allow the producers to show their likenesses again on the program may have also played a role.
232* Just keep trying to look for high-quality, crisp episodes of ''Series/TheDailyShow'' when it was hosted by Craig Kilborn. Not a single clip of an episode from the era can be found on the official ''Daily Show'' website, nor has any VHS or DVD release showcasing the era come out. The mixed reception of the show during that era prior to Jon Stewart taking over as host certainly doesn't help matters, meaning Creator/ComedyCentral is probably too embarrassed to re-release any content from that era.
233* Creator/{{ITV}}'s ''Series/PoliceCameraAction'' fell victim to this trope, not once, but ''three'' times.
234** The Season 2 episode "Don't Look Back In Anger", from 1997, a VerySpecialEpisode on the history of policing and dangerous driving, including the first breathalysers, is ''never aired'', despite it being one of the most popular episodes, and being known for its collection of [[CoolCar classic police cars and classic cars]]. Why it isn't aired isn't known, but there are no issues that meant it ''had'' to be pulled from rotation.
235** On that note, still with Season 2, "Learning the Hard Way" is skipped from ITV 4's rotation run.
236** Season 3 does not show the episode "Danger Ahead" from 2000, nor the original edit of "Getting Their Man", although why is unknown.
237** The situation has now got so bad that fans are actually requesting a DVD release of all 98 episodes (well, it is 90 episodes in total, but 8 episodes were EditedForSyndication, and fans of this show have been wanting it on DVD for more than five years), although there are issues that probably stop it being released on DVD, mainly relating to use of police footage, although it could be argued, the show is a {{Documentary}} not a PointAndLaughShow, and people's faces are blurred out anyway. There were a few fansites, but these have disappeared all on their own. The show is a CultClassic, but no-one can actually buy it on DVD - unless they were a participant in the show.
238* ''Series/TwentyOneJumpStreet'': Subverted and/or played with, with the "Blackout" (a.k.a. "Business as Usual") episode. Said episode originally aired as the last of the 4th season, and was the last episode Creator/JohnnyDepp appeared in (a fifth and last season without him followed). When the series was released on DVD, this episode wasn't included on the Season 4 DVD-box, baffling fans as to why it wasn't included. The episode was however put on the ''5th'' Season DVD box - now retroactively renamed to be the 1st episode of Season 5, instead of the last episode of Season 4. Doing so enabled the distributors to [[https://www.amazon.com/21-Jump-Street-Season-5/dp/B000E5KULU/ref=sr_1_1/136-4431481-8079104?ie=UTF8&qid=1492707989&sr=8-1&keywords=21+jump+street+season+5 put Johnny Depp's image prominently on the Season 5 DVD-box]], even though he really hadn't been in Season 5 at all, and in this DVD-box only features in ''1'' of the 24 episodes.
239* When NBC was first airing ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' in October 1999, they skipped the 4th episode, titled "Kim Kelly is My Friend," uncomfortable with its darker themes. They canceled the series in March 2000 after airing episode 13, but they brought it back for one night in July to show the last three episodes (16, 17, and 18), skipping two more. It wasn't until October 2000, when the series was in reruns on Fox Family (later ABC Family and Freeform) that the three episodes skipped by NBC ("Kim Kelly is My Friend," Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers," and "Noshing and Moshing") were finally shown.
240* ''Series/GullahGullahIsland'' aired two special episodes in 2000. While one of them, "Shake, Rattle and Roll", was eventually folded into the regular rotation of the series, a second special, called "You Wanna Salsa?", only aired twice, and was never released to home media.
241* The Playhouse Disney series ''Series/OutOfTheBox'' had three obscure episodes called “Treasures”, “The Gift” and “Let’s Eat Out” that were aired a handful of times in late 1999 and then never again. Virtually no information or evidence exists about these episodes, but it is known that they were reshot and reworked into later episodes.
242* ''First Love, Fatal Love'' was a thirty minute long Creator/{{HBO}} docudrama, originally broadcast in 1991, telling the story of a young woman named Kim Frey and how she contacted HIV as a result of unprotected sex. At the end of the film, Frey addressed the audience and spoke of the importance of practicing safe sex. Despite getting good reviews, the film never received a home video release and no copies or even any screenshots are known to exist, with the only proof of its existence being the aforementioned reviews.
243* The 1991 ''Literature/DiamondBrothers'' series was screened once and once only in the UK, and was never repeated or released on home media. In addition, episode 3 has the curious distinction of ''never'' being shown in its originally intended form: there was a [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties technical problem]] halfway though which they couldn't fix, and the following week they showed the missing material hastily re-edited into half an episode (the title card referred to it as "Episode 3 Continued") before showing the fourth episode.
244* Nine episodes of ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' are missing from Creator/DisneyPlus for unknown reasons. They are "Why Bears Can't Fly", "Music to My Ears", "Working Like a Bear", "The Ojolympics", "Love is All You Need", "And to All a Good Night", "I For-Got Rhythm!?" "A Beary Bear Christmas, Part 2", and "A Strange Bird".
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248* ''Franchise/{{Degrassi}}: The Next Generation'':
249** An episode of ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' in which female student Manny goes to have an abortion at the end of an episode after discussing it with her boyfriend and parents, was not shown on the 'N' Channel during its original broadcast run (on CTV in Canada). It was only due to fan pressure that the episode was added to the channel's rotation, and it's only shown late at night in the US.
250** In a similar vein, a sequence from the premiere of the original ''Series/DegrassiHigh'', in which student Erica goes to have an abortion and pushes through angry protesters at an abortion clinic with her sister, was not shown after its original airing on television.
251** The first season finale, in which [[KissingUnderTheInfluence Ashley takes ecstasy and kisses Sean]], was skipped over in Australia and the US. This caused confusion the following season.
252* The FOX sitcom ''Series/{{Titus}}'' always [[CrossesTheLineTwice skirted the line the network censors drew]], but only a few episodes are outright missing:
253** "The Protector" was originally supposed to air in the middle of Season 3, but was banned because the episode dealt with child molestation and ended up airing as the series finale, even though the true last episode is the two-parter "Insanity Genetic". References to the molestation in "The Session" and the aforementioned "Insanity Genetic" don't make a lot of sense when viewed out of order.
254** The two-part series finale "Insanity Genetic" was temporarily pulled due to the 9/11 attacks (the plot focused on Titus [[spoiler:having a mental breakdown on an airplane following his mom's suicide and, through many misunderstandings, the FBI suspecting Titus and his friends of being terrorists]]). The episodes eventually aired in August 2002.
255* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' had an [[AbortedArc arc aborted before it could start]] due to the writers' strike. The first episode of the originally-planned third volume would have built on that arc; it was filmed and is presumably still around somewhere, but it has never been seen.
256* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' had an episode that had to be scrapped and reshot after 9/11 — about to leave on their honeymoon, Chandler and Monica get stopped in airport security when Chandler jokes that he has a bomb in his luggage. The two are dragged off to have their luggage searched, jokes about underwear ensue. The episode was reshot with Chandler and Monica trying to sneak into the superior private lounge at the airport. The original storyline never aired, though the original scenes from the subplot did eventually turn up on Website/YouTube, and the original cut of the episode is available on the DVD set of the series.
257* Due to changeovers in the front office of TNT, eleven episodes of the Wall Street show ''Bull'' have never been shown in the United States. These changes delayed the showing of the series ''Breaking News'' until Bravo picked it up in 2002.
258* ''Series/RedDwarf'' played with this concept a little bit in the special "Back to Earth" by [[spoiler:explicitly stating that there are two more seasons to the show, and that the special takes place after Series 10]]. It's an interesting twist, either as a campaign to the network for a full series order ([[{{Uncanceled}} perhaps even successful]]) or a LampshadeHanging on the shows that could have been made had the creator not been focusing on TheMovie.
259* The finale of ''Series/TruCalling'' wasn't aired on the original broadcast, but was shown when the series was being rebroadcast on Sci-Fi.
260* The final episode of ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}''[='s=] first season, "Epitaph One", was not aired on TV during the initial run. FOX paid for 13 episodes but counted the original pilot (which has never been aired) as one of them; they didn't want to show a 14th episode. Creator/JossWhedon created this episode to satisfy the producers' requirements for DVD. Oddly, it's considered one of the best episodes in the series and even the reason the show got a second season. It was eventually aired between the seasons and shown as the season one finale internationally.
261* Thirteen episodes of ''Series/{{Wonderfalls}}'' were produced, but the show was cancelled after four episodes. All thirteen are on the DVD release.
262* Thirteen episodes of ''Life on a Stick'' were produced and are viewable on Website/YouTube, but only the first five aired on FOX before it was cancelled.
263* In the United States, only nine of the thirteen episodes of ''Reunion'' were aired on FOX before it was abruptly cancelled. The others are viewable on Website/YouTube, but there is still an incomplete story as the series was supposed to be a 22-episode mystery.
264* ''Drive'' and ''Vanished'' were cancelled by FOX, but remaining episodes were put on its website. ''Vanished''[='=]s story was rushed as a result of decreasing the number of episodes.
265* ''The Nine'' and ''Traveler'' were cancelled by ABC, but remaining episodes were put on its website. Despite this, ''Traveler'' ended on an unresolved cliffhanger.
266* The ''Series/LaRosaDeGuadalupe'' episode "Adiós inocencia" is a rare case of an episode being pulled before it premiered. It was based on the real-life incident of 12 delinquents in camp "El Colibrí" where they robbed the campgoers and sexually assaulted seven girls. This caused the victims and their parents to mail the producer Miguel Ángel Herros and even Televisa's CEO Emilio Azcárraga Jean, to prevent its airing. The efforts succeeded, and the only proof of this episode's existence is a preview.
267* Some ''Series/MythBusters'' episodes are missing or otherwise not shown because of testing mishaps:
268** The episode where they see if the cereal box itself really ''is'' more nutritious than the sugary cereal inside was supposed to be a mouse test, one cage of mice getting cereal and one getting cardboard pellets. One of the blooper videos that Adam and Jamie show at lectures has the unairable result — one of the "cardboard" mice decided its cagemates were much more appetizing, so it killed and ate them. Adam holds a partly-eaten mouse up to the camera for the producer's benefit.
269** Another episode saw a cannonball [[GoneHorriblyWrong fly through a family's house]]. The myth itself was shown, but the footage of the cannonball going past the water barrels was cut off per the family's request. They also explained what went wrong, apologized on-air, and finished the testing at a different site.
270* The ''Series/MyFamily'' episode where Susan is temporarily blinded from the shock of catching Michael in bed with a girlfriend and struggles to hide her condition from the rest of the family has been banned on British TV for being offensive to blind people (despite reportedly receiving only four viewer complaints). It can, however, be found on the Series 4 DVD.
271* ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'' episode 4175 was accidentally skipped over when aired in Australia. It was later shown in New Zealand and the UK.
272* 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''.
273* The ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Imprint" was never aired in the U.S. for dealing with subject matter American TV censors would find abhorrent (incest, prostitution, birth defects, child molestation, and abortion). It would later be released on DVD, sparking rumors that this was done deliberately to publicize the DVD set as containing an episode "too {{Squick}}y for Showtime".
274* An episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'' was pulled because the plot included a boy being killed on a college campus; it was set to air right after a similar, high-profile event in real life (Virginia Tech shooting). It was eventually aired later in the season, but some of the side plots, such as Hodgins [[spoiler: proposing to Angela and being rejected]], were cut because they didn't fit the show's established timeline. Other factors such as hair length were visibly out of place with the season (aired in season 3 instead of season 2).
275* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' pulled "The Mile High Job", which was set on a plane and devoted much of its comedy to making fun of the improbability of water landings; it was set to air right after the "Miracle on the Hudson" proved them wrong. The episode was later aired in its original form after the media frenzy had died down.
276* The ''Series/LawAndOrder'' season 11 episode "Sunday In The Park With Jorge" was never rerun on NBC after complaints about the very negative portrayal of the Puerto Rican community, though it was later shown on TNT.
277* The Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} original movie ''Film/CryBabyLane'' (aired the night of October 28, 2000) was deemed so scary that it was never re-aired or released on home video. Strangely, for many years the network denied its existence, leading many to wonder if the entire thing was some kind of elaborate CreepyPasta. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrBjM8mTib4A The full version has been found]] and uploaded to Website/YouTube, however, and Creator/TeenNick finally re-aired the movie on October 31, 2011 as part of its late-night block ''Creator/NickRewind''.
278* ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' episode "Koi Pond" had to edit the cold opening showing Michael pretending to hang himself in the haunted warehouse in front of children due to complaints from the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, who protested over the SuicideAsComedy undertones of the sequence. The scene was available on NBC's official site and is also included in the iTunes release of the episode, but it is not in the DVD cut of this episode.
279* ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'' episode "George Goes to Disneyland" is the only episode left out of most syndication packages due it being part of a "Win a Trip to Disneyland" contest that was around at the time of the show's premiere. The few local stations (including Chicago's WCIU) that did air the episode removed the opening scene that explained the contest.
280* 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 promised to pull the episode and never show it again. (See also the entry for ''Series/TopOfThePops''.)
281* The seventh episode of ''Series/TheTick2001'' never made it to air because FOX's [[TheFireflyEffect disturbingly frequent]] practice of airing series out of order resulted in the series being too hard to follow when placed out of original continuity.
282* The ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' episode "The Glory That Was" has been excluded from the Season 8 DVD set for "content" reasons[[note]]what exactly the issue was that caused the episode to be pulled is a debated question; some believe it was a result of the backlash the episode got from Brazilian authorities, while others suggest it may have had to do with a somewhat explicit scene between two women[[/note]].
283* Ever since ''Series/TheJerrySpringerShow'' moved to its current studio in Stamford, Connecticut in 2009, episodes filmed at the NBC Tower in Chicago have become increasingly hard to come across in recent years. Only a few episodes have popped up on Hulu (which is bad luck for [[NoExportForYou anyone outside the U.S. or Japan]]), and clips from any episodes from that era are rarely rerun. Luckily, a few VHS and DVD releases titled "Too Hot for TV" ''have'' showcased the NBC Tower era. What's more, they are presented uncensored and uncut, making the releases highly valuable. Otherwise, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes you have to look through your old tapes]]. The episodes from the show's first season at WLWT in Cincinnati are even rarer, as no home video release showcasing the run has ever been released.
284* ''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 shoo-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.
285* 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. In the United States, the episode was aired a couple times on BBC America, but also eventually disappeared from reruns there too. 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.
286* When the 1999 version of ''Series/{{ZOOM}}'' reran its first season in 2002-2003, it only aired 11 out of 41 episodes (specifically, the first four and the last seven). As a result, episodes 5-33 are virtually the only episodes not available online in their entirety, and have not been televised since the first half of 2002 (the season itself was retired from rotation following the 2002-2003 airing).
287* The Campania episode of ''Series/KitchenNightmares'' was taken out of circulation on TV in the U.S. a few years after its initial run because the owner committed suicide. Making matters worse, said owner killed himself by jumping off New York's George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River -- during the episode, Gordon Ramsay warned him that unless he turned things around, his restaurant would "float down the Hudson River". However the episode is readily available on demand on both Hulu and Amazon.
288* 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.
289* In June 2020, [=NBCUniversal=] removed four episodes of ''Series/ThirtyRock'' from circulation ("Believe in the Stars", "The Live Show - East Coast", "Christmas Attack Zone", and "Live from Studio 6H") because of characters wearing blackface.
290* While 12 of 13 episodes of ''Series/LomaxTheHoundOfMusic'' were uploaded to ''Website/YouTube'', Purple Light has yet to be uploaded, except for its song, Old Bell Cow. It's unknown if anyone has footage of this episode.
291* ''Series/WorldsMostAmazingVideos'': Season 2, episode 7. The Russian dub of the episode is available, as is most of the Spanish dub, but the original English version is still missing. The fact that the episode had some more 'extreme' clips (such as a chariot rider being launched 30 feet into the air, a jet being shot down, and a circus act where a clown appears to be thrown headfirst into a horse's... you know) makes it a notorious piece of lost media.
292* In 2009, Spanish late show ''Series/ElIntermedio'' featured a sketch, the "Catholic Terror Tunnel", where the hosts played Catholic conservatives in an amusement park haunted house that showed them things which conservatives would find horrifying, such as homosexuals, a Muslim, and a [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs homosexual Muslim]]. However, in the version uploaded to the official Website/YouTube channel, the vid ends abruptly before the homosexual Muslim shows up. Admittedly, it's not hard to see why they would want that part deleted.
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296* The 2012 season finale of The Biography Channel series ''I Survived'' was to feature the stories of those who escaped the mass shootings in Utoya, Norway. The episode was set to air December 16, 2012, but then an eerily similar mass shooting at Sandy Hook took place on the 14th. The episode was immediately yanked from the schedule and replaced with a repeat, not airing until nearly a year later in October 2013. Episodes that focused on other infamous mass shootings (Virginia Tech, Columbine, etc.) have not been rerun in a long time, either.
297* The ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' episode "Oeuf" was pulled from the show's initial rotation as both creator Bryan Fuller and NBC thought that, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting and the then-recent Boston Marathon bombing, it would be in bad taste to show an episode about kids being brainwashed to kill their families. However, the pieces relevant to the running plot involving Abigail Hobbs were posted as "minisodes" on Website/YouTube and Hulu, and the whole episode eventually appeared on iTunes.
298* ''Series/{{Community}}'': In June 2020, Netflix and Hulu removed the episode "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" from their services because of the joke of Chang's "Drow Elf cosplay" resembling {{blackface}}.
299* An entire season of ''Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo'' was filmed but left unaired after Creator/{{TLC}} canceled the series over revelations that Mama June was dating a convicted child molester. It didn't help that the molestation victim who blew the whistle on her was June's own daughter, Anna.
300* One episode was scrapped fairly late in production of ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'''s sixth season. Titled "The Gang Gets Successful," [[CreatorBacklash the creators weren't satisfied with how it turned out]] and convinced FX to hold off on airing it. Footage from the episode was ReCut into a WholeEpisodeFlashback in Season 7's "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS07E10HowMacGotFat How Mac Got Fat]]."
301* ''Series/FindingYourRoots'' 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.
302* The Fox News docudrama series, "Legends & Lies" has an entire third season filmed (about the Civil War) that probably won't see the light of day, following producer and commentator Bill O'Reilly's sexual harassment lawsuit and subsequent firing from the network.
303* According to screenwriter Scott Alexander Young, AXN's 2012 cult film tribute show ''Max's Midnight Movies'' was lost in the Sony Pictures hack of 2014. Two episodes survive on the writer's Platform/{{Vimeo}} account, and low quality TV-rips of most episodes can be found on Website/YouTube. Episodes of the show's Polish edition are also floating around on movie streaming sites.
304* ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'': The Season 6 makeover episode, a regular challenge on the show, focused on turning straight grooms into drag queens before an on-stage mass wedding. One groom was a basketball player who was clearly not feeling the whole experience, to the point that he vomited on stage. The episode has been pulled from streaming; while the reason has never been confirmed, rumor among fans is that the bride blackmailed the groom into doing the show after she caught him cheating, and the groom's sports agents pushed for the episode to be pulled so that it wouldn't damage his career.
305** The earlier episode "Shade: The Rusical" also went missing after controversy over how the show treats the trans community (with Ru's earlier challenge-introducing catchphrase of "Ooh, girl, you got she-male") reached a boiling point with the "Female or She-Male" game, where the contestants had to guess based on photo excerpts if they were seeing a "biological woman" or a "psychological woman." The episode eventually made it back on streaming with offending segment cut.
306* Roughly half of ''Series/AndiMack'' is missing from Creator/DisneyPlus because Stoney Westmoreland, who played Andi's grandfather, was arrested for soliciting sexual relations with a minor.
307* In August 2020, less than a year after he became only the second person to win ''Series/AmericanNinjaWarrior'', Drew Drechsel was arrested and charged with “seeking sex with a minor and inducing her to send him sexual explicit [sic] images”. This caused NBC to cut all ties with him and remove all episodes of the show that he featured in from their streaming service Peacock along with any other streaming or for-purchase site the episodes were available on. However, given that Drechsel was essentially one of the faces of the show, he was at least mentioned in a large chunk of the show’s episodes since his debut in Season 3, and the entirety of the show’s first eleven seasons were deleted from all official sources. As of July 2021, no episodes of the show before 2020’s Season 12 are available to stream or purchase anywhere.
308** Season 12 nearly suffered this same fate, due to Drechsel’s arrest coming in between the filming (which he participated in) and airing of the season. The season had to be heavily edited in order to remove any sightings or mentions of Drechsel, and with the season’s altered format due to COVID-19, the two people Drechsel invited to compete on the show were also completely erased. Other competitors and inside sources have admitted that this ended up changing some of the season’s results.
309* ''Series/TiereBisUntersDach'': As of May 2021, the "Voodoo Hens" two-parter (episodes 77-78) have vanished from the internet, presumably due to the mention of voodoo being considered offensive. The official episode list skips straight from episode 76 to 79.
310* ''Series/Nightwatch2015'': As of March 2023, S3 E1 is not available on A&E's website.
311* The Xtreme Waterparks episode on Schlitterbahn Kansas City's Verrückt water slide was not only pulled from streaming services, but also all mentions of it were removed from the Travel Channel's website. This happened in the wake of an accident on Verrückt that killed a 10 year old child. It didn't help that the slide's creator, Jeff Henry, built it to impress the Travel Channel crew.
312* ''Nissene over skog og hei'', the second show in the ''Nissene'' series of {{julekalender}}s parodying popular RealityTV shows, was taken off air and removed from streaming services in 2020 due to the use of {{blackface}}. It was later restored to the streaming service, albeit with a content warning and [[InvisibleAdvertising a deliberate lack of promotion]].
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316* ''Series/DonkeyHodie'': The Arabic dub skips "The Try Scouts", "Wiz Kazizz Kazaam", "Stanley's One-Dragon Show", "A Donkey Hodie Halloween", "Hey-O, Purple Moon", "Fashion Donkey" and "Bright Bright Bugs" for reasons unknown.
317* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': "A Tornado, a 10-Hour Flight and a Darn Fine Ring" was briefly released on Paramount+ and then taken down. As of May 25, 2023, it is still not available.
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