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Disney (and Fox)

Disney is notorious for treating most of its film library with reverence and God-like status... but not so much for their animated shows in most cases. While their films are given new re-releases every few years or so, their shows in contrast are hastily dumped to the market once, and then abandoned. Prior to Disney Channel and Disney Junior putting up most of their then-recent catalog onto Netflix around 2012, the only way you could legally watch any of their shows was either through the occasional DVD volume or on the network itself. What makes this a particularly frustrating trend with this company is that they take down episodes of their old shows on YouTube, even if said episodes haven't seen the light of day on television in years, let alone gained a proper home media release. There's also the fact that Disney has put some old shows on iTunes at the very least, but not all of them. Combined with its buyout of 20th Century Fox, Disney launched the Disney+ streaming service in November 2019, which resulted in many of these shows being made available again in some form on the service (or Hulu if they're aimed for mature audiences).

• Allen Gregory never got any home release of any kind whatsoever, let alone on streaming services like Hulu, making it the sole Fox cartoon fully owned by Disney to not be available on the service. In fact, Fox didn't just cancel the series, they went out of their way to completely remove the series from various sites offering it for sale. The whole series is more or less impossible to watch online unless you can find an upload on YouTube or on illegal streaming sites... assuming Fox doesn't get to it first. The only legal place to obtain it is through iTunes, but only in the United Kingdom, a country where the show is barely remembered.
• The 1993 version of Biker Mice from Mars has Season 1 on DVD, but good luck trying to find Seasons 2 and 3 anywhere. Even worse, Season 1 is out of print.
  • According to the show's creator, Disney still owns the distribution rights to the original series.
  • The remake has some DVD releases in Bulgaria, Australia, and other countries, but good luck finding any DVD releases in the United States. Thankfully, every episode is on YouTube.
• Brandy & Mr. Whiskers is hard to find in the original 16:9 format and has only seen one release: "To the Moon, Whiskers" on the long out-of-print and discontinued Game Boy Advance Video cartridge ^note Disney Channel Collection: Volume 2.
  • The series was supposed to have been added onto Disney+, but it never happened.
• After years of reruns, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command was last seen on American television on Toon Disney in 2008, and so far there is no way to legally see it in the US. The only home video releases it got were the Pilot Movie and an extremely rare VHS containing the episode "Planet of the Lost" (supposedly included with a Buzz Lightyear toy in 2003), which is so far the only episode to be released on home video at all. Making matters worse, three episodes ("Super Nova," "Inside Job," and "Conspiracy") have been banned from circulation in the US, making those episodes even harder to come across (though all three have continued to air in international markets). The episodes can be found very easily on YouTube.
• The Buzz on Maggie hasn't aired on Disney Channel since 2008 and had only one DVD release - an extremely rare promotional disc containing the following three episodes: "The Flyinator/Ladybugged","Bugsitting/Le Termite", and "The Candidate/Germy". As a result, the vast majority of the online uploads of the series are low-quality TV recordings from Disney Channel, except for the three episodes that actually got released on DVD, which are the only ones you can currently view that have no logo bugs. The show's widescreen masters will only ever be released if the show is added to Disney+.
• While the most popular Classic Disney Shorts are on Disney+, there are still a lot that are missing. These include all (except Steamboat Willie) Black and White Mickey Mouse shorts for example. The only way to watch some of the shorts are with the long out of print Disney Treasure DVD Sets.
  • This also affects both entries of the Adventures in Music Duology, due to them having limited home media exposure, despite the second entry ("Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom") in the duology being released on VHS as early as 1984, with both entries last officially being seen on the DVD Rarities and the Virtual Vault section on the 2010 Blu-Ray release of Fantasia 2000 respectively. It also does not help that both shorts also are rife with racial stereotyping at one point, and it also does not help that both shorts were not given 4K digital restorations.
• Combo Niños has never had a single DVD release, and the show is very hard to find in English as it was one of the few Jetix originals not to air in the United States. All the episodes are available in Spanish through YouTube uploads of Latin American Disney XD airings of the shows. It doesn't help that the show is more popular in Latin America than it was everywhere else. However in October 2018, 12 English episodes were uploaded to Kimcartoon, and were later uploaded onto YouTube. 2 episodes of 26 are still missing in English.
• While you can find "The Coyote's Lament", an episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color, pretty easily, the same can't be said about its 1991 TV movie remake "Coyote Tales", which hasn't been seen since 1996. It can be found on Xfinity, that is unless you don't have Comcast though.
• Rhino planned on releasing the entire Crusader Rabbit series under license from Metromedia, who owned the rights to the property during the period. After the first two volumes were released (on VHS, this was pre-DVD), Metromedia was bought out by News Corporation and absorbed into News Corp. subsidiary 20th Century Fox, who quickly canceled Rhino's license. Rhino was able to sell the copies they had already made but could not make any more under Fox's cease-and-desist order.
• Dave the Barbarian has not aired since Disney Cinemagic aired reruns in the mid-2010s, and the series has never been released on DVD or digital download. Dave the Barbarian is already on Disney+ Hotstar in South Asia, which is a separate service from Disney+.
• Many Disney Afternoon shows had origin stories that came in two versions: broken up into multiple episodes as part of the respective show's package, and two-hour (or one-hour in the case of Darkwing Duck) TV movies (or direct-to-video in the case of Gargoyles). ^note  DuckTales (1987) also had movie versions of the five-part serials "Time is Money" and "Super Duck Tales". The first versions for each show are the only ones available.
• As of this writing, the only Disney Afternoon shows to not have been added to Disney+ are Aladdin: The Series and The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show. The latter show is a fairly understandable case, as it is generally unpopular and criticized for being a blatant knock-off of The Ren & Stimpy Show. However, no reason has been given for why Aladdin: The Series has yet to be added despite being one of the block's most popular shows. It doesn't help that all of Aladdin's home video releases have long since been out of print.
• The majority of Disney Sing-Along Songs videos from the '80s and '90s remain out of print. Disney's efforts to re-release them on DVD only went so far as 10 volumes^note two of which originally hit VHS under the Mickey's Fun Songs banner, with the first two (Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and Heigh-Ho) somehow failing to reach the format.^note Disney's aversion to releasing Song of the South on home video in its entirety helps make the lack of a Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah DVD seem less surprising. One of the Sing-Along videos reissued on DVD, Circle of Life, experienced such alterations as Title Sequence Replacement, the addition of some more songs, and the removal of Jiminy Cricket's interstitals. Some other DVDs contain excerpts of Sing-Along videos as extras, though DVD/Blu-Ray re-releases of several of those movies replaced those excerpts with sing-alongs sourced from the features' latest remasters.
• Donald and the Wheel is the lesser-known follow-up to Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land and has thus far been on a single limited-edition and rare Donald Duck DVD collection that has since gone out of print (The Chronological Donald, Volume 4 if you were wondering). The short also received 1 obscure, rare, and long-OOP VHS release (as a part of the Pacifically Peeking With Moby Duck/Man On Wheels tape, which contains two episodes from The Wonderful World Of Disney). Both the VHS and the DVD make no indication that they contain Donald and the Wheel, so unless you found out from an outside source and were deliberately looking for it, or you're a total Donald Duck fan and bought every DVD set, chances are you don't have the short.
• None of the music videos from D-TV or D-TV Squared have received a DVD release. The VHS and Laserdisc releases of the 1980s collected many of them, but they are long out of print. The NBC TV specials for the former never even received VHS releases so only TV rips of those exist.
• Fillmore!: There were a good number of episodes on YouTube, but they were all removed except a few episodes subbed from German and the like. The episodes are still easily found on other sites, however. On April 19, 2018, Disney XD decided to rerun a few episodes before taking it off the air. Unlike the other older shows, Disney XD didn't promote it. It will reportedly come to Disney+ at some point and would possibly use the never-before-seen widescreen masters that Disney had hidden in their studio.
• The failed pilot for Fluppy Dogs hasn't aired in the US since 1987 on the Disney Sunday Movie series on ABC. The special never received a VHS or DVD release, though it is on YouTube. Similar specials such as Totally Minnie and Down and Out with Donald Duck haven't aired since the 80's in the US either, but they have reappeared on Disney's international stations like Disney Cinemagic.
• Other than a VHS and DVD release of Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse and Mickey's House of Villains, as well as the show's pilot episode as a DVD bonus of the former (but sadly omitted from the international DVD releases), there is actually no release of House of Mouse anywhere. No trace of the series is on Disney+. Many of the show's episodes and shorts have been uploaded onto several sites, so at least there's that.
• The Ink and Paint Club never received a home video release. It also hasn't aired since 2002, when Disney Channel replaced the Vault Disney block with other shows.
  • Many of Disney Channel's other compilation series such as Good Morning, Mickey, Mickey's Mouse Tracks , Donald Duck Presents, and Donald's Quack Attack haven't aired since the early 2000's either, and they never received a home video release, possibly due to Disney not finding any value in releasing compilation shows as they can just release the original shorts on home media and streaming.
• Language Arts Through Imagination, a 1988-1989 series of educational films starring Figment from the ride Journey into Imagination, was only available to be rented or purchased by teachers or entire educational institutions on VHS tapes (with each tape costing $350). As a result, it was hard to find most of the series until all 11 shorts were illegally uploaded to YouTube.
• Lucky Duck, a television movie made for Disney Junior, has only been released digitally to services like Amazon Prime Video and iTunes. Its only DVD release was in Australia and New Zealand, and the film no longer airs on TV.
• The original featurette versions of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh from 1966-1974 have not yet received their own DVD release. They had several frequent VHS releases in the 1990s, and were last put out in 2000. When The Many Adventures first reached DVD, these versions nearly ceased to exist. Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day has received only one DVD release as a bonus feature of Pooh's Grand Adventure in 2006. This and Tigger Too have also re-aired (letterboxed and with restored footage) on Disney Junior at least once in 2015. Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is the rarest of the three shorts, as it had Bruce Reitherman as Christopher Robin replaced with Jon Walmsley (who originally performed him in the "Blustery Day" and "We Say Goodbye" segments) in the 1977 Many Adventures compilation film. (It also ended with a short vocal reprise of the Winnie the Pooh theme song, unlike Blustery Day and Tigger Too which ended with an instrumental arrangement, which, again, was later used for Many Adventures.)
  • Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore is also not available on Disney+, not even as a bonus feature.
• Marsupilami had a couple VHS/Betamax releases and was last seen on Toon Disney in 2009. In 1997, Marsu Productions won a lawsuit about Disney's adaptation, which makes the show's re-release unlikely.
• The Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel's first animated series, saw its plans for DVD/Netflix release indefinitely delayed, save The Incredible Hulk's Origins Episode appearing on a now-discontinued DVD of his 1990s cartoon. It also remains one of the few Disney-owned Marvel cartoons unavailable on iTunes, Amazon, or Disney+. Averted in the UK and Canada, which have some official DVD sets.
• Muppet Babies (1984), with its use of actual TV and movie clips from various sources, most of which aren't from films currently owned by Disney like Star Wars, would be near impossible to re-release without major butchering for copyright reasons. There were several VHS releases in The '90s (three were part of a line of tapes designed for the "Video Buddy" interactive handset system; some of the others were a part of the "Yes, I Can!" series of Jim Henson videos, which had puppet filler segments in between the episodes), but that only provided 16 episodes out of 107. Worse, the syndicated reruns ended with episode 96 — though at least four of the final 11 episodes made it to VHS. Thanks to the show's popularity, all the episodes have been recorded by fans throughout the years and are easily available online.
• Nightmare Ned got one season due to budget problems. Currently most of the episodes are on YouTube and it was apparently only ever rerun in Canada on Family. Because of the show's hardly-known existence, most people remember it as the computer game from Disney Interactive rather than a Disney show.
• Most Playhouse Disney shows have stable home media releases such as holiday episodes and volume sets, but most of them are now out of print. Disney Junior used to continue airing those series every now and then, but now only Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is still rerunning.
  • Adventures in Nutrition with Captain Carlos, a series of Playhouse Disney shorts, hardly saw daylight since it was removed from the air and little footage exists. It never even got a DVD release.
  • JoJo's Circus only received two DVD and VHS releases in the mid-2000s, an extremely rare VHS tape containing the episodes "The Little Big Top Boogie Band" and "Circus Shh-Shh", and episodes on compilation releases ("A Circus Town Christmas" on the 2005 compilation DVD "A Very Playhouse Disney Holiday", and two episodes included as bonuses on Higglytown Heroes DVDs). Some, but not all of the episodes exist online, but in a barely-watchable form, and it has not been confirmed to be coming to Disney+ anytime soon.
  • Jungle Junction received only one DVD release containing four half-hour episodes. While the series is available on iTunes and Google Play, it is the newest Playhouse Disney series yet to be put onto Disney+.
• The original airing of Higglytown Heroes was alongside a show named Marcel’s Animal Friends. There is absolutely no footage of this show existing, and it didn't run very long, either.
• The show that gave birth to both Marsupilami and Bonkers, Raw Toonage, hasn't been seen since the Toon Disney run in 2002, and there are absolutely no VHS or DVD releases available. Only the VHS and Betamax tape recordings of the series during its original CBS broadcasts or Toon Disney reruns confirm its existence.
• RoboCop: The Animated Series. Aside from three VHS volumes (all out of print and hard to find), the show has never been re-released in Region 1. You can get it on DVD, but only in the UK. It doesn't help that the rights to the show are split between Disney (owner of Marvel Productions' library) and MGM (owner of the RoboCop IP).
• As put up by Polygon, Runaway Brain "was supposed to reinvigorate [Mickey] Mouse, but now it’s kept under lock and key". The Darker and Edgier and often very scary short has seen very limited home video availability, first in an international release, Mickey's Greatest Hits (a UK VHS also released in other continents, including a Japanese laserdisc), followed by the DVD Mickey Mouse in Living Color, Volume 2, and as an digital extra on the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection.
• With certain exceptions, Disney currently holds the rights to a majority of Saban Entertainment and in-house Fox Kids cartoons, like Eek! The Cat, NASCAR Racers, Mad Jack the Pirate, etc. and has practically refused to release them at all. All they've been using that library for was for filling airtime on their foreign Fox Kids/Jetix nets until they became Disney XD. The reasoning for all this? Disney never wanted the shows in the first place.^note Disney only wanted to acquire the Fox Family (now Freeform) network of Fox Family Worldwide, Inc. in 2001, but the contractual requirement stated Disney had to take all of Fox Family Worldwide, Inc. if the sale was to go forward. The only Saban cartoons Disney actually cared about were the Marvel Comics cartoons, in part thanks to their popularity in film (Disney would also acquire Marvel itself in 2009) and The Tick (since the first two seasons were released on DVD^note except the season 1 episode "The Tick vs. The Mole Men" due to licensing issues and all three seasons are available on Hulu). Unless Disney is willing to release the shows on Disney+ or license most of the library to another company, good luck finding the shows outside low-quality TV rips.
  • When DiC Entertainment went independent from ABC in 2000 (Disney had acquired that channel in 1996), this did not include the international rights to DiC's older cartoons (most of which reverted to DiC in the 2000's), or any of its French productions, all of which were kept by Disney.
  • DiC's French productions Cro et Bronto, Archibald le Magi-chien and Beubeul Ermite haven't aired in decades due to Disney owning the worldwide rights to them through Créativité et Développement (Jean Chalopin's own company) which Saban acquired in 1996^note (after acquiring non-US rights to DIC's pre-1988 output C&D happened to own both US and international rights to the aforementioned early titles and probably for this reason those French-exclusive series were later internally treated by Saban as C&D's own output.. Only a handful of episodes of these shows exist online.
  • The BOTS Master only had 6 official VHS releases, each containing 1 episode of the series, and all of which are out of print. You can find episodes on YouTube, but the chances of the entire series seeing the light of day in DVD form are very low.
  • The series Camp Candy, starring Canadian comedian John Candy, has no official DVD releases and hasn't aired since the late '90s. A majority of episodes, however, can be found online.
  • There's no known releases of Kid 'N Play, starring the hip-hop duo of the same name.
  • Kidd Video was basically made of 80s pop songs (sometimes even including the original music videos), thus leading to lots of rights issues. A re-release would be possible if the Superstation WGN versions of the episodes (which cut the '80s pop songs for this exact reason) were to be used, but it wouldn't be the same. The show's rights are tied up between Disney (who acquired Saban) and WildBrain (who currently owns much of the DiC library), further adding problems preventing a re-release.
  • Good luck finding anything about Monster Farm. This incredibly obscure cartoon used to air on Fox Family, but all that remains of the English version are two video-taped episodes (those being "Home Office Horrors" and "Fatal Contraption"). You can find half the series in Russian, though. What makes it even more infuriating to try and find anything about this show is the fact that it shares its Japanese name with Monster Rancher. It's as if this series never even existed.
  • Pandamonium and its companion series Meatballs and Spaghetti from Marvel Productions. The pilot episode of Pandamonium had a very rare VHS release, and neither Disney nor Saban has had any plans to re-release either series. There's also the matter of the rights being tied up with Turner/WB and InterMedia. 4 of the 13 episodes of Pandamonium, including the pilot, and 1 episode of Meatballs and Spaghetti are available on YouTube. The rest of the episodes are completely lost and forgotten because of poor ratings, and they were trying to be zany 1970s Hanna Barbera-esque comedies when by the early 80s, television animation was trending towards toy-based cartoons and action shows.
• Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates. Despite it being one of, if not the most faithful adaptation of the original play/story, not to mention being a show Tim Curry won an award for, there was an attempt by Amazon UK to release a box set in January 2020 (They first listed it in 2011.), but it ultimately never came to fruition.
  • As far as we know, only a few of the 55 episodes of The Power Team (also known as Acclaim Masters) exist on YouTube. The rest might as well be stuck in limbo until someone uploads the show/releases it legally. This is due to the show rights being split between Disney and 41 Entertainment, the latter of whom owns co-producer Bohbot Entertainment's library.
  • The SIP Animation shows aren't any better, as only a few got DVD releases or any form of re-release. For example, W.I.T.C.H. only received DVD releases in Europe, and the only watch to watch episodes is through unofficial YouTube uploads.
  • The Franco-American series Space Strikers: The only evidence of its existence is the intro and its page on IMDB. There hasn't even been any official release from the distributors. Seems it has been forgotten by all except for those few who got to watch it.
  • The Twins of Destiny, a French animesque cartoon about two kids who had special powers bestowed upon them, has never been released on VHS or DVD, as far as internet searching can tell.
  • The Secret Files of The Spy Dogs never recieved any home media releases, not even during its run on Fox Kids.
• A good portion of Disney's silent shorts, such as the Alice Comedies, Newman Laugh-O-Grams, and even Oswald the Lucky Rabbit are difficult to find. All three series have hit DVD in the past but the episodes included almost appear randomly (with the exception of Oswald) and are typically bonus features. The stand-alone DVD sets are now out of print and harder to find. While there are public domain copies of some of the shorts, those copies are in very poor quality.
• The Silly Symphonies black and white shorts are not on Disney+ and some of the color ones are not. This also includes The Skeleton Dance, the first Silly Symphonies short. However, The Skeleton Dance can be found on Disney's official Youtube channel.
• The Simpsons:
  • Of all 48 of the original The Simpsons shorts from The Tracey Ullman Show, only the first short "Good Night" has ever been given an official home release, being included as a special feature on the first season DVD set. Apart from snippets from various clip show episodes in later seasons, no other short has received official releases in their entirety. This may be due to disputes between Ullman and the show's producers, though there were attempts by Fox to obtain the rights to them to be included in the now-defunct Simpsons World app, though this hasn't happened. However, all the shorts are readily available for viewing pleasure on online outlets such as YouTube, albeit in low-quality VCR rips recorded when The Tracey Ullman Show had reruns on Comedy Central during the late 1990s.
  • In "Team Homer", there's a scene where Homer tells Marge: "We were so close to winning the championship. Now, thanks to Burns, it's never going to happen. And I spent so much time building that trophy case." The scene then cuts to the trophy case which shows that Homer has stolen the Academy Award given to Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields. Only a month after the episode premiered in 1996, Ngor was murdered, and in reruns and home releases, the scene was altered to turn it into the award given to Don Ameche for Cocoon, who had died a few years earlier but of natural causes, to avoid the accidental implication that Homer murdered Ngor for his award. The original version of this episode that has the original scene of Homer has never been seen since its original airing, though the scene is on YouTube.
• Sit Down, Shut Up was last seen in 2015 when Adult Swim reran the series, and it is not available through streaming services or home media. Not helping matters are that the series is caught in rights limbo, as 20th Century Fox Television, Sony Pictures Television, and ITV all produced the series.
• The 1967 Spider-Man cartoon is another Disney-owned Marvel cartoon not available on iTunes, Amazon, or Disney+, and is the only non-Sony Spider-Man cartoon not available on the latter service. Various episodes were released as part of video collections of the 1994 animated series in the early-2000s, culminating in the entire 1967 series given a DVD release (by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, of all companies) in 2004; the set went out of print a few years later. Marvel made the entire series available for streaming on its official website, but it too ended up being taken down for unknown reasons. The series also hasn't been seen on American television since 2004.
• Teamo Supremo is probably one of the hardest-to-find Disney cartoons ever. The only episodes available were 2 low-quality VHS recordings, until 11 episodes from the first season, plus two of the holiday special episodes, were made officially available by Blim, a Mexican streaming service owned by Televisa. After that, 2 more VHS recordings of previously unavailable episodes turned up.
• The Wuzzles was Disney's first animated series, but it's never been released on home video in the USA due to legal issues with Hasbro, which co-owns the franchise.
• Zazoo U was one of Fox Kids' earliest shows, but the series was pulled after 11 of 13 episodes aired. The first 6 episodes were released on DVD in the UK, and the French dub of episode 12 was unearthed in 2023.
• Any of Disney's WWII propaganda shorts, as well as any of the Classic Disney Shorts with high levels of racial stereotyping like Trader Mickey and Mickey's Mellerdrammer, will never see the light of day on television or Disney+ for obvious reasons, with these shorts only being available on Walt Disney Treasures DVD compilations.

Paramount Global (Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount Television, CBS)

Several Nicktoons are available for streaming on Hulu, on the paid NickHits add-on for Amazon, Apple TV, and Roku, Netflix and on Paramount+. There's also the Noggin streaming app, which streams a variety of educational shows, including its own original content and series from the Nick Jr. and Nelvana libraries. Paramount Global also owns the free service Pluto TV, and features live feeds for multiple programs throughout Nick's content library.

• In December 2023, Paramount+ announced that they would remove 18 Nickelodeon series from the service, likely due to low viewership. However, several of these series are still available on iTunes and other digital retailers for the time being.
• As Told by Ginger has only had two DVD releases, each with one three-part episode and two regular episodes (one episode and the unaired pilot on the first DVD). The first 13 episodes were released on iTunes in 2008 but were removed after a few months. They resurfaced five years later along with the rest of the series, including several episodes from the second half of Season 3 that have not aired in the United States. However, three episodes had transfer errors in some parts (though it's barely noticeable in one of them), and the series was removed in early 2015, making it unavailable once again aside from the two DVDs and bootleg sets, and was not legally available for several more years. Thankfully, one torrentor bought the entire series from iTunes when it was available and created a torrent out of it. Until then, the complete series circulated in the form of various TV recordings from different countries, and many episodes were on YouTube before Viacom ended up copyright striking these videos.
  • The complete series was added to CBS All Access in 2021. Of the three episodes with transfer errors, one of them ("Detention", the worst offender of the three) was fixed, though the other two ("Sibling Revile-ry" and "Lunatic Lake") were not.
• Butt-Ugly Martians is very hard to find unless you come across one of its three VHS releases. It had frequent DVD and VHS releases in the UK however, and the series was a British/American co-production to boot.
• Many of Comedy Central's non South Park animated series except for Brickleberry ^note  whose rights are currently owned by Disney after acquiring 20th Century Fox, the company who originally produced and owned the rights to the show . While shows such as Ugly Americans and Drawn Together are available on DVD, digital download, and on their website, as well as on Paramount+, the same can't be said for the rest of their animated library. Freakshow and Shorties Watchin' Shorties eventually had DVD releases many years after they were cancelled, while others such as Kid Notorious are so obscure that they only exist online through bootleg TV rips.
  • Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is not on Comedy Central's website or Paramount+. The entire series was released on DVD in 2007, but it is long out of print.
• Before the Nelvana series existed, Viacom made a Corduroy series consisting of four direct-to-video episodes. Those VHS tapes are out of print and have not been released on DVD or streaming.
• Downward Doghouse, a predecessor to Ni Hao, Kai-Lan, aired on Nick Jr. in the mid-2000s, with only two of the three episodes ("Dragon Dance" and "Follow That Slipper") existing. The last one ("Where's Hoho?") has yet to resurface.
• Nickelodeon's programs based off DreamWorks Animation films, The Penguins of Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and Monsters vs. Aliens, have never seen a complete run on DVD. A major culprit is clearly rights issues: while Nickelodeon retains the rights to all three shows, the characters and related intellectual property are owned by DreamWorks (and also Universal since 2016), and DreamWorks/NBCUniversal owns the distribution rights to the series. However, the former two series are available on Paramount+, albeit missing their second seasons.
• Only 13 of the 26 Edgar & Ellen episodes saw a DVD release in 2008 and only two of the six holiday specials were released on a Target exclusive DVD in 2007 among 3 of the 13 shorts. The rest of the episodes, shorts, and specials remain unreleased to this day.
• The cartoon Itsy Bitsy Spider is virtually unknown by the public except for those who grew up in the '90s, and home media releases are not certain.
• The short-lived Animated Adaptation of Lalaloopsy was treated nicely at first, but as time went by, the show was booted to the 24/7 channel, got pushed to awkward time slots and received little to no promotion, and was taken off the air immediately after it aired its final episode due to being Screwed by the Lawyers. The show's only home media releases were a 4-episode compilation DVD entitled Friends Are Sew Special and two Canada-exclusive DVDs containing 3 episodes each. The series is also available to purchase on Amazon Instant Video for the time being, but probably only until the latest rights deal runs out.
• Little Bill has been indefinitely removed from reruns because of the controversies with creator Bill Cosby. It never had a standalone DVD release, with the show's only home media releases being 5 VHS compilations released in 2001 and 2002, and 5 episodes being released on the "Nick Jr. Favorites" DVD compilation series in the mid-2000s. The series is also available to purchase on Amazon Instant Video and Vudu for the time being, but probably only until the latest rights deal runs out.
• MTV is pretty terrible about this when it comes to its animated shows:
  • 3 South, a short-lived animated series airing in the 2000s on MTV, hasn't been seen since it ended, although every episode is on YouTube. Besides music clearance issues over the use of The Flaming Lips' "Fight Test" as the theme song, the rights of the show are owned between MTV and Warner Bros., who are very unlikely to collaborate to re-release the show on home media anytime soon.
  • Only a handful of the music video segments from Beavis And Butthead are on the show's "official" DVD releases. Also, Mike Judge hates about a third of the episodes, and has refused to license them to DVD. Given the nature of all those record labels (most of which had since then been bought up or merged by some giant conglomerate like Universal Music Group or a random indie label/distribution company, assuming they hadn't gone out of existence altogether) it's a miracle they managed a handful to begin with.
    • In the early episodes of said series, all references to Beavis being a pyromaniac ("Fire! Fire! Fire!") were edited out of the episodes following an incident where a young boy burned down his home and killed his little sister^note  although allegations were made of the boy's family not even having cable, an interview with the boy's mother in 2011 confirms said allegations are false, the young boy watched the series just because his babysitter let him. The references to Beavis' pyromania were never put back into the episodes (not even for the DVD releases, as according to creator Mike Judge, the master tapes were permanently altered), so the only way you'll see them is if you recorded the episodes on VHS when they first aired.
    • The "official" DVDs actually don't present any of the episodes in their original airing format. Besides the unavailability of many of the "video reviews", those that are available are only viewable as separate clips, cutting them out of the episodes that they originally aired with in an "act one/music video/act two/music video/etc." format.
  • The Brothers Grunt has no DVD or VHS releases in sight and is unlikely to get one because what little people remember it hate it almost as much as MTV does. The only person who doesn't feel this way is the creator, Danny Antonucci, who could always make a deal to buy back the rights to the show, although that has yet to happen.
  • Apart from 2 "Best of" DVDs and a few bootleg releases, there are no copies of Celebrity Deathmatch to be found. It has shown up on YouTube, but only as individual clips versus a whole episode. That said, the revival show on MTV2 has the full run available on iTunes.
  • Another example of this trope is Downtown, which is odd, as that show had original music, not music from other artists used for a soundtrack (it could be a "not enough commercial appeal" thing). Chris Prynoski previously offered a DVD of the series through his now-defunct blog, and reported in August 2022 that the DVDs are no longer being sold. All episodes are currently on YouTube, all for free, and it's official.
  • The original Brazilian version of MTV was discontinued on September 30, 2013, making its original animated shows only available through the internet. Fudêncio e Seus Amigos is mostly available on YouTube, Facebook, and Vimeo having been posted by fans (in the latter's case, by the show's staff as well) since Grupo Abril, the show's distributor and owners of the original MTV Brasil, aren't as strict with their shows being pirated, although 20 out of the 186 episodes are lost. The physical copies of the episodes are currently abandoned at the old MTV's empty headquarters, and thus even the creators watch the show on YouTube, although there are ongoing plans to digitize all the content of the old MTV's tapes, which can bring back the show's lost episodes.
  • Liquid Television and Cartoon Sushi have had a few shorts on various VHSs and DVDs, but most of them have not, and it's doubtful full episodes of either show will be released anytime soon (the revival Liquid TV episodes on iTunes notwithstanding).
  • Spy Groove never had a home media release, and it never aired on MTV Classic. All of the episodes can be found on YouTube from VHS rips, and the final episode Manhattan Glam Chowder was only found and uploaded December 2023.
• Nicktoons TV (or Nicktoons Network as it was known until 2009 when the channel changed its name to Nicktoons) once had a slew of original cartoon programming that all seemed produced at a portion of the budget of a regular Nicktoon, and they are all unavailable from DVD releases in their entirety.
  • NFL Rush Zone only has a small selection of its episodes available through the NFL Rush YouTube channel.
  • Speed Racer: The Next Generation only has three episodes of its first season edited into movies.
• Rugrats Pre-School Daze only saw its four episodes released as extras on the Tales from the Crib DVDs. The series was available through iTunes for a brief period of time until Nickelodeon took it down.
• The English-language Nickelodeon dub of Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea has yet to get an official DVD release, which is strange considering how well received it was.
• Stripperella, Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", and Gary the Rat, all of which aired as part of Spike's animation block. Only Stripperella and Ren and Stimpy saw DVD releases, while the former series has been made available through Amazon and Gary has been made available through iTunes.
• All of the TV movies on Nickelodeon, including the Sunday Movie Toons in 2002 like The Amazing Zorro and Dinosaur Island, and The Electric Piper in 2003. The films haven't been rerun since, which is a shame as they were actually very good.
  • Luckily regarding at least one of them, the director of The Electric Piper contacted a fan and mentioned that while he couldn't release it on DVD for legal reasons, he did hope to release it online. The film finally surfaced on the Internet in its entirety on August 9, 2016.

Warner Bros. Discovery (Cartoon Network / Hanna-Barbera)

Warner Bros. Discovery has a huge catalog of animated series, through Cartoon Network, [adult swim], Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, and Warner Bros.

Many of these shows have never been released on home entertainment, except the titles that the Warner Archive has released on DVD. However, a lot of Cartoon Network's original programming is available for purchase and/or streaming on places like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, and even Cartoon Network's own website and Boomerang's streaming service, as well as HBO Max; however, some have also found easier distribution on DVD in other regions. Also note that while some series are right now only available on the Boomerang streaming app or Amazon/iTunes. Warner Archive's work on them is probably done, so DVDs will probably follow after the exclusivity window to those other mediums ends. Then they should be counted as rescued:

• The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda was never officially released in any format and seems to have been largely forgotten by the public. All the episodes are currently available on YouTube for the time being.
• Animaniacs seemed to have Swedish and Norwegian dubs, but no episodes are available in the former, and only the intro (on Freakazoid!) is on YouTube for the latter.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy spin-off special Underfist only has an iTunes release only available in the UK(The series itself was this for the longest time until released to VOD along with Evil Con Carne in 2017).
• The Banana Splits Adventure Hour is an unfortunate case of this. While the episodes were originally an hour-long package of live-action and animated segments, the episodes were trimmed to a half hour when syndicated to stations and retitled The Banana Splits and Friends. Only a handful of VHS releases exist, most of them released outside the USA and extremely difficult to find, and the only DVD release available is a first-season boxset, and just to twist the knife further, don't expect to see the DVD in the United States or Canada. And to twist the knife even further, the episodes featured on the DVD and the VHS releases are the trimmed-down, syndicated versions. Warner Archive plans to restore the hour versions for the US release, but so far, no luck.
• Class of 3000, a short-lived series made around the time of Cartoon Network’s Network Decay, centered on Andre 3000 (of OutKast) as a former pop music star who takes a job as an Atlanta school teacher with a failing music program. The only release this show got was on iTunes and a soundtrack, though there was a DVD release of the first season in Australia, and Sunny Bridges (Andre 3000's character on the show) did make a cameo in the finale of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.
• Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island was never released on DVD or digital download. Eight of the 13 episodes were on YouTube via co-creator Don Oriolo, but they've been removed (though most of those have been recovered). For everything beyond those episodes, however, there are only low-quality camrips.
• With Dexter's Laboratory, there's also no sign of a release in any modern format for the stand-alone movie Ego Trip, produced between seasons 2 and 3 and the last hurrah for the series' original style (though it was released on VHS).
• "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo" seems to be absent from any home media option, as is Johnny Bravo's Valentine's episode. While both these shows have season/volume releases on iTunes, such standalone episodes like specials aren't always included in them, instead appearing in holiday-themed releases. But since there's no Valentines-themed release, it is the only episode not available for legal purchase.
• Good luck finding Season 2 of Ruby-Spears' Fangface legally, as only a couple VHS tapes were released in the 1980s and Boomerang hasn't aired reruns since the 2000s. There are a few episodes dubbed into Spanish and Portuguese on YouTube.
  • Season 1 was added onto iTunes in 2022, but Season 2 is still out of luck.
• The Fantastic Four (1967), produced by Hanna-Barbera, has yet to be released on DVD. Warner Bros. owns the series, but the IP is owned by Marvel Comics, a division of Disney. The series is on the Internet Archive, though.
• Fish Police. Only three of its six episodes aired in the US, but all six aired in certain European markets. There are copies of varying quality on YouTube and other sites, however.
• The Flintstones: On the Rocks has never seen any sort of home video release since the made-for-TV film first aired back in 2001. This may have something to do with the uncharacteristically adult nature of the story: it deals with marital strife developing between Fred and Wilma to the point where they get into a physical altercation, start flirting with other people, and nearly consider getting divorced. According to people from WB's home video department, there are certain rights issues that are in the way of it being re-released.
• Goldie Gold and Action Jack, which is on Warner Archive's eventual docket.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne originally made up one show called Grim & Evil before the two segments were split into their own shows. While every individual segment of Grim & Evil is easily available in the repackages of the two shows after both split up, where the segments were re-aired paired up with different segments, it's very difficult to find Grim & Evil itself in its original format, and additional Mandy intros that weren't reused for the standalone Billy & Mandy series became rare. This is even more so the case of the unaired third season, as it only properly aired as G&E in international countries. While the entirety of G&E was at one point made available through VOD services in 2017 (including the unaired third season, where it finally saw release), it was quietly removed in 2019.
• Fates of some of the Hanna-Barbera (and by proxy the Ruby-Spears ones) shows not owned by Warner Bros. aren't so far grand.
  • There are several specials from the ABC special years sitting over at Disney. Good luck hoping they care about Hanna-Barbera enough to release them.
  • Good luck hunting down video releases of the series Capitol Critters anywhere. Every episode, though in non-restored format, can be found online, however. The series holds a unique distinction of being a Hanna Barbera show to air on Cartoon Network but not be owned by Time Warner, it is legally with 20th Television.
  • Foofur has apparently been in the hands of the creator domestically. Hence why it's been missing from TV reruns since the 1980s in the States. It did get a couple VHS releases from Celebrity Home Entertainment, however.
  • Toho licensed The Godzilla Power Hour first season to Classic Media. But it took forever to get them the last episodes. And then the license ended. So all three volumes are now out of print and there are a lot fewer copies of volume 3 in circulation than volumes 1 & 2. And the second season? Toho doesn't seem to have done anything with it since getting it back from WB. The show was available for a while on Netflix and Hulu, but they both removed it after Classic Media's rights to the show expired.
  • The original The Harlem Globetrotters cartoon has been retained by Paramount Global with little interest shown in putting out along with the odd special where they met Snow White. Episodes are available online, taken from VHS recordings of when the show aired on TV Land when the Snow White special is on YouTube. Averted with The Super Globetrotters, which got a DVD Release from Warner Archive. It helps that unlike the original Harlem Globetrotters cartoon, WB owns the show outright.
  • Hanna-Barbera's animated version of The Little Rascals wasn't even shown on the USA Cartoon Express. Presumably this is due not only to the fragmented ownership of the Our Gang properties^note Warner Bros. and Paramount Global both claim partial ownership, but also to a lawsuit in which Eugene "Porky" Lee accused Hanna-Barbera of unauthorized use of his likeness. It has, however, been shown on many foreign networks, including Cartoon Network UK and Ireland, Germany's Boomerang, Australia's Seven Network, and Singapore's Channel 5. The Pac-Preview Party special, which includes "Beauty Queen for a Day", is on YouTube, along with VHS recordings of "Tiny Terror" and "Science Fair and Foul"; Dailymotion has the French dubs of "Rascals' Revenge" and "Yachtsa' Luck", as well as several German-dubbed shorts as Die kleinen Strolche, and Veoh has a degraded VHS recording of "Pete's Big Break".
  • Add the remaining Ruby Spears Q*Bert segments to that list as well. Sony put out a DVD but skipped two segments, over what again appears to be music rights. Two segments we may never see legally circulated.
  • Hanna-Barbera's Star Fairies and Ruby Spears' Sectaurs are pilots that are in limbo. Star Fairies did get a VHS release from Family Home Entertainment which is now out of print, and Sectaurs never got released on VHS. Both of them can be found online, however.
• A lot of HBO Family shows are MIA. While almost all of their programs have been airing in reruns and on HBO's Max presence for years, others...haven't.
  • The HBO Family TV series Animated Tales of the World hasn't been released on DVD; only a few episodes have been shown on YouTube.
  • Another HBO example is Braingames. Although most episodes are readily available on YouTube and the Internet Archive, episode 6 cannot be found, and not helping matters is the show sharing an identical name to a later National Geographic Channel show. While it did see some video releases from what was then Thorn-EMI/HBO Video, said tapes are extremely hard to find and are usually snatched up the time they appear for expensive prices on eBay and Amazon.
  • Like Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child? Well, only a few stories made it to VHS and DVD. However, the entire series can be found, as above, on Max. This also goes for Crashbox.
  • A Little Curious has never been released on DVD, though it is available on Max.
  • HBO Family 411 has no official release due to being just a series of interstitials. Despite staying in reruns for about 16 years (from the network's founding in December 1999 up until the HBO Kids rebrand in January 2016), only four of them are accessible online, with the remaining 36 being considered lost.
• On August 19, 2022, HBO Max removed dozens of films and series from its library.
  • Most notably, WBD deleted every Infinity Train-related video from YouTube (notably the pilot and soundtrack) and Tweet from Twitter after about a day's notice, the news claiming that the series would be pulled 'this week'. Moreover, the DVD releases were taken out-of-print, though they were brought back into print a few months later. The series was removed from iTunes on October 25, 2023, but it's still on other providers for the time being. That is not even talking about the foreign-language dubs. The only silver lining in this is that the crew may be able to find it a new home on another network.
  • Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart and OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes suffered the same fate, under the logic that they were "lesser-watched" shows (which is false, by the way). OK K.O.! remains on Hulu in the United States, and both shows are still avalible to purchase in their entirety on the same digital storefronts currently offering Infinity Train.
  • On September 24, 2022, Olan Rogers, the creator of Final Space, confirmed that his show had been written off for tax purposes, which means Season 3 will never be released on DVD. The series will be removed from Netflix in Spain, France, Germany and Belgium on March 19, 2024.
  • Over a decade earlier, Sym-Bionic Titan, Megas XLR, and Beware the Batman were also written off. However, many of these shows are still on HBO Max in Latin America.
• An additional set of Cartoon Network shows, this time being older ones, were removed from HBO Max in 2023 as the service transitioned into its new branding of simply "Max":
  • Dexter's Laboratory: Still available to stream in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video, and season 1 was released on DVD.
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Still available to purchase in its entirety on DVD and digital storefronts, with the show's Complete Series DVD set now being the only way you can currently view seasons 5 and 6 (except "Destination: Imagination") in the widescreen aspect ratio they were produced in (the digital storefront releases present them cropped to 4x3, like how they originally aired on Cartoon Network).
  • The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: The series remains on Hulu and digital storefronts, but the show's removal from Max caused the high definition widescreen masters of seasons 1 and 2 (save for the first five episodes of the series, which were released in 16x9 on a single-disc volume DVD) to become lost media, as the other services present those episodes cropped to 4x3 (matching the original Cartoon Network broadcasts).
  • Clarence: Still available to purchase on digital storefronts, and seasons 1 and 2 can be streamed on Hulu.
• Ruby Spears' version of Heathcliff hasn't been released on DVD in its entirety, since Warner Archive only released the first season, Heathcliff and Dingbat. Heathcliff and Marmaduke is still MIA, and not that easy to find online.
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. There were two home video releases in the mid-2000s, but that was it. The only official release is a DVD release from Thailand that comes with an English audio track, and luckily that's all three seasons.
• Jana of the Jungle hasn't been shown on Cartoon Network or Boomerang in the United States. One episode, "The Cordillera Volcano", was on Warner Bros.' Saturday Morning Forever site.
• Suffice to say, the very short-lived series Jokebook, a compilation series displaying a number of animated shorts from around the world, will probably not see the light of day anytime soon, as not only have 3 of the 7 episodes aired in the original run but uploads of the show online were deleted and no reruns of it were reported.
• Kenny the Shark last aired on Discovery Family in 2022, and cannot be found on any streaming service at this time. Its star has been dimmed considerably since the transaction that formed Warner Bros. Discovery, as it is a legacy Discovery Inc. program and control of children's programming thoughout the group has been handed over to Warner Bros./Cartoon Network.
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee: While most of the series was rescued from this status when it was added to Boomerang's subscription streaming service, the Easter special wasn't included, which makes it the only episode not available in a widescreen format, the series being the first Cartoon Network show to produce its episodes in the format.
• There are still a boatload of Looney Tunes cartoons that still haven't been released to disc or streaming — some of which, like the Censored Eleven and some of the more brutal World War II cartoons (Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips and Tokio Jokio specifically, although the latter has since lapsed into the Public Domain), would take a lot of convincing to get Warner Bros. to release them. They probably won't be released unless Warner Bros. implements a DVD-by-request program or releases them in a special historical collection with Content Warnings out the wazoo about the Values Dissonance. However, three of the Censored Eleven found their way into the public domain^note Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land, Jungle Jitters, and All This and Rabbit Stew, so they can be found on some vintage cartoon compilation DVDs, albeit usually in poor quality.
  • Even less likely to get any sort of legitimate release is Injun Trouble (1969), which has the double-whammy of excessive racial humor and being a product of the franchise's Audience-Alienating Era (the Censored Eleven and the wartime cartoons were from the studio's heyday). Until the 2010s, it was impossible to find a copy of the cartoon without a timecode on it. Even then, while it can be watched on the internet, there is no high-quality footage anywhere.
  • In 2024, Max's entire stale of pre-1951 Tunes were removed (as their post-1951 shorts returned to the service from a 2-year hiatus), many of which (of those not in the public domain) were not on Boomerang or VOD.
• The English dub of Lucky Luke hasn't been released on DVD, and the VHS tapes are out of print.
• The sketch series MAD was pulled from Cartoon Network in 2015, but it only had its first season released on DVD (in two parts) and even those are out of print. Given the show's status as an Unintentional Period Piece of the early 2010s, as well as copyright lawyers being too harsh on kids' shows (unlike how lax they are on Adult-oriented shows like Robot Chicken and Family Guy) it's unlikely to see a re-release anywhere, even on HBO Max. Luckily, the entire series is still available on Google Play.
• While the late Miguzi block has had most of its bumpers preserved on Youtube and the like, the most elaborate of them - a series of edutainment shorts where a diver named Old Salty would teach the gang about various marine animals - appear to be lost forever. The only trace of these that can be found online is the giant sea turtle short, which had a good chunk of its middle skipped.
• Mike, Lu & Og's only DVD release is of the first three episodes, and only in the United Kingdom, although the DVD is region free. It aired on Boomerang occasionally prior to the 2015 rebrand. Fortunately, the whole series was on YouTube (in Spanish only and before Cartoon Network ended up copyright striking these videos) and was available through Cartoon Network on Demand between 2017 and 2019.
• The first 15 episodes of Moral Orel were released on DVD, but the rest haven't, due to weak sales of the first set. There was a complete series set, the Moral Orel - Complete Lessons Collection, a 4-disc DVD set containing all three seasons with commentaries from the cast and crew to boot, but it was only released in Region 4. The 2012 TV special Beforel Orel also has no physical release, but it was available on Hulu and on episode director Duke Johnson's Vimeo account before both were pulled by Adult Swim, on various digital download services, and is now available on HBO Max.
• Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm hasn't been seen on television for years, and only a handful of episodes made it to VHS domestically. The only DVD releases came in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and the UK releases are missing one episode, both of which are currently out-of-print, as current IP-owner Warners aren't interested in re-releasing the series.
• While technically not a show but rather a showcase that had a lot of original footage to it, The Moxy Show definitely deserves mention. Despite being the first Cartoon Network series ever, running for many years and having the voice talent of Penn Jillette, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Chris Rock, it hasn't been seen since the day all classic cartoons migrated to Boomerang from Cartoon Network except this one, and clips of it online are very scarce. Perhaps Cartoon Network saw it as more of a programming block time capsule of the 1990s rather than a real show? But if Cartoon Network is having trouble releasing the many shows people DO remember on home media, then how likely is it that they're going to release something that practically no one remembers and is only kind of a show with other cartoon shorts in it? Not to mention that Moxy wasn't mentioned at all during Cartoon Network's 20th anniversary. Moxy did make a cameo in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes' "Crossover Nexus" special, however.
• From The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series, good luck finding good quality episodes of Touché Turtle and Dum Dum, except for the rare couple episodes on DVD. Averted with Wally Gator, which was digitally remastered for iTunes and was released on DVD via Warner Archive in June 2019 and later Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har was released in July, leaving only Touché in limbo.
• In 2005, as part of its Tickle-U block, Cartoon Network aired Peppa Pig with a new dub featuring American voice actors (a few episodes from the original British dub were shown, however). After the block's cancellation, the American dub is no longer available online, as Nick Jr. only shows the original UK version. Not much is known about the US dub except for Elaine Torres (as Emily and Rebecca) and Chloe Dolandis (as Suzy).
• All of the black-and-white Fleischer and Famous Popeye cartoons, the three Fleischer color specials, and color Famous Studios cartoons from 1943-1949 are on DVD or Blu-ray, while the other color Famous Studios cartoons are on the Boomerang streaming service.
• Pound Puppies (1980s) never had a DVD release and the VHS releases from the '80s are long out of print.
• Potsworth & Company has never seen a home media release beyond the VHS generation. It doesn't help that the rights are tied up between Warner Bros. Discovery (who owns the Hanna-Barbera library) and NBCUniversal (who owns the Sleepy Kids Company library through DreamWorks Classics).
• The Dutch dub of The Powerpuff Girls (1998) is very scarce nowadays, despite airing for sixteen years, from 1999 to 2015, with almost no breaks. Only ten episodes are available online to North American users. On September 26, 2023, the show's first twenty-six halfhour episodes were added to Netflix Netherlands, but if you're in North America, good luck getting the Dutch audio without a VPN.
• Unlike most 21st-century Cartoon Network originals, The Problem Solverz has yet to see a DVD release.
  • Season 2 is a worse example; the show was available to watch on Netflix in 2013, where it had an exclusive second season containing about eight 11-minute episodes. On March 30, 2015, the whole series was taken off Netflix, but a Dailymotion user named LifesWhatYOUMakeIt uploaded the entire second season of the show on said website in April 2015 before it was removed from the website years later, making them officially lost.
• Robotboy: Only the first series is on DVD. However, only one English release exists, which is a Cartoon Network Christmas compilation DVD, which included "Christmas Evil". The show had a position on Cartoon Network UK's overnight timeslots but has since been removed. But luckily, as the rights to the show are owned by Gaumont and not Cartoon Network, every episode is officially available for free on YouTube (albeit cropped to widescreen) and on both Starz's website and StarzEncore Family.
• Robotomy has never gotten a DVD release at all and it was pulled from iTunes around its cancellation. The same show was also cancelled after 10 episodes—all of which were fifteen minutes. However, it's accessible via torrents, and a couple of episodes ("Bling Thing"^note the second episode where Thrasher and Blastus sell their coolant to get upgrades and impress everyone in school and "Playdate"^note the episode where Thrasher and Blastus babysit Maimie's little brother. It had Gilbert Gottfried as a "My Monster Buddy"-style toy that leads a revolution against robot toddlers) have aired on Cartoon Network's revived installment show Cartoon Planet.
• Rose Petal Place's specials were only on TV and VHS in the 80s.
• Warner Home Video entertained the idea of releasing the entire series of Hanna-Barbera's first program for TV, The Ruff & Reddy Show, but they put the kibosh on it after seeing the then numbers on other sets like Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear. Now that the Warner Archive has eliminated that problem such worries have been diminished, but quality of the masters still move Ruff and Reddy further down the list.
• Saturday Supercade will probably never see the light of day due to the rights to Mario and Donkey Kong being nearly impossible to secure, not to mention all the other video game properties used on the show.
  • The Q*bert segments are now on YouTube, but in chopped-up, edited form.
  • Warner Archive does plan to release the show in some format. They still report that they are "researching" the product. Which pretty much means looking at what they do own, what they could license back, and what is pretty much gone. The fact a highly chopped-up set has not been churned out holds out hope they have plans to try and make it as complete as they can.
• While most of the Scooby-Doo shows were released on DVD, there are a couple of omissions on the complete release side. One should note episodes of these series are very much still being released in random sets and online.
  • Until 2019, nine of the 24 episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies weren't available either, due to having to get clearance from the guest celebrities or their estates if they died, or their copyright holders if they're fictional properties. With a new DVD and a Blu-ray set announced, only the crossover with The Addams Family was not included.
• Three compilations of Skunk Fu! exist, but they don't comprise the entire series. The series used to be on Netflix until it was removed.
• Small World was an anthology series that used to air on Cartoon Network in the US and Latin America. Unfortunately, this block will never be legally released on home video because the shorts are all owned by different parties. Pingu (read below for more information) was on the US block. From the Latin American block, Franklin and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat are pretty easy to find.
• The final six episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast have never received any form of home media availability. To top that off, the last three seasons (8-10) have not received DVD releases, unlike the rest of the series (this includes the Game Tap exclusive episodes).
• Stōked: For the longest time after Cartoon Network took the show off their schedule in late July 2010 due to low ratings, the best way to see the remaining 4 episodes of Season 1 as well as the entirety of Season 2 was on YouTube thanks to Australian fans of the show who would DVR the episodes on ABC 3. From 2014-16, the entire series is on Hulu. The first season was later added to Netflix.
• Superjail! has its first three seasons available on DVD. Its final fourth season however is not. Considering how short the season was, as well as the long time gap since the cancellation of the series, it is very unlikely it will receive any home release at this point. Thankfully, the whole series is available for digital download.
• Following Sym-Bionic Titan's end, the show was out of reruns and had no DVD, and likely will never have one due to Cartoon Network writing off the show on their taxes. The only legal way to get it is through iTunes (America Only) and an Australian DVD. It was rerun on Toonami a couple of times before the write-off. Luckily, the entire series was available on Netflix in America in 2019 but even then, it didn’t last as it was taken off a year later.
• The Teen Titans Go! episode "Wally T" was originally recorded with the titular character's lines recorded by William Walter Thompson. However, Cartoon Network wouldn't air the episode because William was not a member of SAG-AFTRA, and his lines were dubbed over by Tara Strong as a result. Despite the rule only applying to TV airings, the original version of the episode has never been released to home media.
• Time Squad. YouTube is one of the few places to view the entire series, but it is unreliable because the videos, while being uploaded at a seemingly high rate, are repeatedly (and almost relentlessly) pulled down every time. One could try to view the episodes by simply Google video searching, where you'll get video sites that haven't taken them down. Cartoon Network has only put the episodes for viewing on their site twice; once in 2007 with multiple episodes from both seasons, and again in 2012 (as part of the channel's 20th-anniversary special) but this time only short clips. There was a three-episode DVD release in the UK, however. The series finally began to leak onto Cartoon Network's app and website through their "Old School" section on April 6, 2020.
• While the entirety of Tiny Toon Adventures is available on DVD, nothing has been said about the two double-length specials, "Spring Break Special" and "Night Ghoulery", the latter having been previously released on VHS. Both specials and the entire series were available streaming through Hulu until their removal in January 2023.
  • On television, the Spring Break Special did air on Discovery Family (back when it was called The Hub Network) on Easter of 2014^note The last of its only two broadcasts, aside from its airing on FOX in 1994, as well as Night Ghoulery appearing on Vortexx twice.
• While there is decent controversy over the Tom and Jerry shorts "Mouse Cleaning" and "Casanova Cat" being missing from most releases (due to racial scenes impossible to edit properly), the short "The Mansion Cat" has not been included on any Tom and Jerry releases either for some strange reason.
  • The unedited version of "His Mouse Friday" has become extremely hard to find as most of the home video releases are the edited version and not even that version has been seen on TV very much.
  • Filmation's The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show never received a full DVD release, allegedly due to a legal issue of Filmation's acquisition by NBCUniversal (although that's debunked as NBCUniversal doesn't own the rights to Filmation cartoons owned by another company, like Star Trek: The Animated Series). "Jerry's Country Cousin" was released on a 70th Anniversary DVD for the franchise, "Snowbrawl" was included as a bonus for Tom and Jerry: Snowman's Land, and all of the Tom and Jerry and some of the Droopy segments from this show can be seen on the Boomerang streaming service. Reruns are also frequently shown on Boomerang and (formerly) Cartoon Network.
  • Hanna-Barbera's The Tom and Jerry Show has seen very little release on DVD. However, one episode was released as part of a 1970s Saturday Morning Cartoon DVD and another one was released on the aforementioned 70th Anniversary DVD. However, three shorts are available on digital platforms such as Prime Video and iTunes and most of them are available on the Boomerang streaming service ^note The only ones that aren't are "Gopher Broke", "Grim and Bear It", "The Flying Sorceress", "The Egg and Tom and Jerry", and "The Lost Duckling". Reruns have aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang, though unlike Comedy Show, it is rare on both channels.
  • The two Spike and Tyke shorts were only released on an out-of-print LaserDisc (The Art of Tom and Jerry Volume 2), and air on Boomerang on the rarest of occasions.
• Toon Heads, an anthology series, is never aired on Boomerang and has only appeared on DVD twice; both times being specials on a Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD (one about lost, rare, and forgotten animated pieces and one about World War II cartoons).
• Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?: All 13 episodes were available on Cartoon Network Video back in 2008, but have since disappeared and will probably never return again...unless the channel feels generous and puts it on HBO Max, Hulu, and the Boomerang subscription video within the next few years. So now the question is, "Whatever happened to Whatever Happened to… Robot Jones?"
  • Better yet, the original airings of the Season 1 episodes. In the original airings, Robot Jones was voiced through an Apple text-to-speech program, but all further episodes had him voiced by a child (Bobby Block) instead and altered to sound robotic. To make matters worse, the season one episodes had Robot Jones' voice redubbed with the new voice and digitally removed the "Ass" on a banner that read "Kick-Ass" on the episode "Growth Spurts".
  • The video website Dailymotion had most (if not all) of the episodes available, but the season one episodes were the redubbed ones. The only episode with Robot Jones' original voice available on the site was "P.U. to P.E." (which also had the redubbed version of that episode), that is until Cartoon Network ended up copyright striking these videos from their website.

Corus Entertainment (Nelvana, YTV, Teletoon and Treehouse)

Nelvana has a vast library of award-winning animated series and movies, but only a small fraction of their library gets released on home media. Some series can be found on certain streaming services, Treehouse TV's YouTube channel, as well as their Retro Rerun, Keep It Weird, and Cartoon Powerup YouTube channels, and some series aired on the Qubo channel until it shut down. Nelvana's current deal with Cinedigm and FilmRise does hope that more series will have eventual releases.

• Being Ian only saw a scant amount of DVD releases, all exclusive to Canada, and only part of the series is available on Tubi. This is possibly due to rights issues, as Studio B (WildBrain) only holds distribution rights in Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, and Portugal; all international rights are with Nelvana. However, the entire French dub is on Oznoz.
• Before the 2000 Animated Adaptation, Clifford the Big Red Dog had a series of six half-hour videos from the late 1980s. These have not been re-released in any form and remain out of print (This may be due to rights issues, as it was a co-production between Nelvana and Scholastic). The same goes with "Clifford's Sing Along Adventure", an animation/live-action intermixed special released in 1986, although the fan base doesn't seem to mind.
• Full episodes of Mischief City, which aired in 2005, are almost non-existent in the present day. There have been at least four episodes of Season 1 posted up on YouTube, but the rest of the series is yet to be found anywhere on the web. Even trying to make contact with the companies involved in making the show (Mercury Filmworks, Shaftesbury Films, and 9 Story Entertainment) to ask about its existence has proven difficult if not impossible, especially in regard to the latter two.
• There is a series of Rolie Polie Olie shorts that only aired in Canada on CBC and Treehouse TV and have never been released on video. These shorts feature the characters on a white background, and some of them are music videos that add lyrics to background music from the show. Only a few of them have surfaced online.
• Before becoming a series, Stickin' Around was a series of one-minute shorts that aired on YTV in its native Canada, as well as CBS in the United States during 1994. While 26 shorts have been confirmed to exist via an interview of co-creator Brianne Leary, only a substantial chunk of the shorts have resurfaced on the internet (three of which are only in French), with only one of them ("The Amazing Rubber Guy") seeing a release on video.

NBCUniversal (DreamWorks, etc.)

NBCUniversal has many TV series in its library, much of which came from DreamWorks Classics. While you can find plenty of copies of all those sequels to The Land Before Time they made, the rest of the libraries of Universal's animation units seem to have fallen into this, in part due to Universal's historical post-Walter Lantz indifference to the medium (though with Despicable Me's unprecedented success, DreamWorks Animation's vast catalog (consisting of both their IPs and the Classic Media library) becoming part of the Universal family in August 2016, and the launch of Peacock, there may be hope):

• Here's an example of an entire series unavailable in any form. The Beagles, produced by Total Television (the studio that created King Leonardo and His Short Subjects and Underdog), has not been seen since its original run on CBS in the 1960s. According to producer Joe Harris, the series was thought to have been completely lost as the editing material and the master negatives were accidentally thrown out by the widow of one of the show's editors. However, around 1998, the original broadcast negatives and audio tracks of all the episodes were discovered in a warehouse that was owned by the show's syndicator. NBCUniversal holds the series rights and negatives along with the rest of Total Television's material, but due to legal issues (probably because of the songs used in the series), there is no sign of any DVD release coming, meaning that the only other remnant of the show's existence so far is a soundtrack album released during the show's original broadcast.
  • Only a couple episodes of The Beagles exist: "The Man on the Moon", half of "Foreign Legion Flops", and "I Feel Like Humpty Dumpty".
• Bionic Six (Universal only handled distribution on this one, it was before they founded their own animation studio) was considered one of the best animated series of the eighties, notably due to Osamu Dezaki as animation director (he of Lupin III and Golgo 13 fame), but it has never seen a VHS release, let alone a DVD one. The tapes keep circulating from the old Syfy airings of them.
• A lot of the shows they aired as part of the USA Network's Cartoon Express, or shows they based off Universal movies- this includes adaptations of Beethoven, The Savage Dragon, Problem Child, Wing Commander Academy, The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, Monster Force and The Mummy: The Animated Series- have yet to see releases on home media. Monster Force did have a DVD release of the first seven episodes, but the final six are still not available. Problem Child and Beethoven had videocassettes released with a couple episodes apiece.
• The eighth (Statue) and eleventh (Sub-Car) episodes of the British-animated series, Christopher Crocodile has yet to be released on DVD in the UK (despite the fact that the rest of the episodes and the Cloud Crazy special were released on DVD in that country), even though they were released on VHS by VCI in 1994. To make matters worse, the two DVD releases of the show are now out-of-print and are rather hard to find.
• The television special Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies was a crossover between the Looney Tunes and the short-lived latter series on CBS, and is noted for being the only time Warner Bros. ever loaned out the Looney Tunes to another studio that didn't have Warner Bros. Cartoons alumni, in this case Filmation (whose archives are now owned by NBCUniversal through DreamWorks Animation). The special aired only once on ABC in 1972, then was never seen again after that, for obvious reasons. The only official home video release was in the United Kingdom in the 1980s, and it's nigh-impossible to find. The only way anyone can find a trace of this special is through kinescope prints, either online or through physical means. Since Hallmark destroyed most of Filmation's original archives when they remastered the library, it's unknown whether or not the original masters of the special even exist anymore.
• The poorly received series Family Dog only had a couple of VHS releases and a complete series LaserDisc. With those out of print and with no plans to give it a DVD release, good luck finding it. It doesn't help that Warner Bros (international) and Universal (domestic) co-own the series.
• The uncensored version of the Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids episode "Busted" where the gang is subject to a Scared Straight type experience in prison. This is the infamous episode where the very scary inmates utter several mild profanities such as "hell", "damn", and "bastard". This version was only shown once and in many areas, not at all. If you didn't tape it off of TV in 1984-85, you probably won't get it. No online streaming site shows it, only the censored version. Strangely enough, Bill Cosby's intro to the episode still retains his special Content Warning, nonetheless. It may still be warranted, as, despite the removal of the profanity, the prisoners' very creepy and disgusting perverted lust towards the kids remains intact. In the mid-'90s, Hallmark destroyed the original 35mm film elements of the Filmation archives, so it's unknown whether the master tapes for the original uncensored episode even still exist. Luckily in June 2022 the full uncensored version was eventually found and uploaded online.
  • Due to the scandal centering around Cosby himself in The New '10s, there is a very serious possibility that the entire Fat Albert library will also become unavailable for years to come.
  • The special Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert was only shown twice after its original airing, and never again did it air. It never even got an official VHS/DVD. Bad-quality footage does exist on YouTube, but good luck trying to find the full thing!
• The Felix the Cat series, already suffering from the fact that most of the silent cartoons are lost, suffers this on all fronts, and is part of why the character suffers from Mainstream Obscurity these days—making matters worse is that Don Oriolo sold the rights of the series to DreamWorks in 2014 (which were then acquired by NBC/Universal when they bought out Dreamworks), who seem to be content with sitting on the character and not rereleasing anything related to him;
  • One of the best releases of the silent cartoons, Felix: The Otto Messmer Classics, released by the now-defunct Bosko Video, has been out of print for many years, and it is not easy to find it for cheap online. To date, there have been no other pristine DVD releases of the original silent cartoons.
  • Only the first 31 episodes of Joe Oriolo's made-for-TV Felix the Cat cartoons have made it onto DVD, with the others remaining in limbo. And the DVD set containing the episodes is out of print and fetches fairly high prices on amazon. While many VHS tapes exist with episodes not on the DVD set, they've been out of print for decades and aren't easy to find. Said episodes also used to be on iTunes for a while after the DVD was discontinued....until NBCUniversal purchased DreamWorks and took down Classic Media's entire catalog on the service (sans the pre-1974 Rankin/Bass specials and Veggietales) with it.
  • Want to read the many, many Felix the Cat newspaper comics and comic books which date all the way back to 1921, with some of them running the way up to the 1960s (with a crossover newspaper comic with Betty Boop in the '80s, and a brief comic book revival in the '90s)? Well, unless you have cash to burn and a lot of time on your hands, good luck with that. Only a small fraction of both the newspaper and magazine comics have been reprinted, and all but one of those book collections (Yoe Books "Felix: The Great Comic Tails") is out of print. So the only way to read the comics is to track down the originals, which becomes very difficult the further back you go, especially if you're looking for the newspaper comics.
  • Old Felix the Cat shorts (and even his animated TV show that was aired in the 1950s) did get uploaded to YouTube.
• Remember Gravedale High, a 1990 Hanna-Barbera Saturday-Morning Cartoon starring Rick Moranis? Unless you live in the United Kingdom (despite this show being made in America), good luck finding it outside YouTube because NBC Universal, who originally broadcasted the show and somehow still owns the license, seems to forget that it even existed. However, all 13 episodes got a DVD release, but the release is not official (it was ripped off VHS recordings).
• Invasion America has had only bootleg VHS tapes to its name and, eventually, some relatively poor-quality downloads based off said VHS recordings. No DVD release has ever even been rumored, as DreamWorks isn't willing to release the series anytime soon.
• Rankin-Bass' The King Kong Show, one of the earliest works from co-producer Toei Animation, has eight episodes as well as the two-part pilot episode on two Region 1 DVD volumes which were released to capitalize on the 2005 King Kong remake at the time, but the remaining sixteen are still locked away, yet to be released. Some footage of the missing episodes exists on YouTube via old kinescope prints, but not in full. Oh, and the DVD releases are now out of print, though they do go for reasonable prices on eBay.
• Kissyfur, a Saturday morning cartoon that was one of NBC's headliners of the block's 1980s era, only has a handful of VHS tapes from the '80s, and chances are you won't find them easily. No DVDs, reruns, nothing. The show used to be available on Netflix in Latin America, where it was quite popular... distributed by MGM (who has an agreement with NBC to syndicate the channel's back catalogue for international markets).
• The North American dub of Make Way For Noddy seems to be this. When the series was uploaded to Peacock, the original British version was used instead. A good number of episodes of this dub can be found on DVD, but those releases are out of print.
• The British-American Hanna-Barbera series Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone has not been released on DVD in the U.S., and what's worse is that the VHS release (distributed a year after the show ended its short run) is out of print. Hanna-Barbera later gave up its rights to the series to co-producer Sleepy Kids Co., whose assets are now controlled by Universal (via DreamWorks Animation), so any DVD release of the series will be up to them (and given their track record above, there's not much room for hope).
• A number of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts still owned by Universal (excluding the Walt Disney-produced shorts, which Universal sold to The Walt Disney Company along with the character in 2006) are still not available on home video, partly due to the original negatives being difficult to locate, if not just Universal having lost all interest in Oswald after Woody Woodpecker became the studio's Golden Age mascot.
• Postman Pat had a number of VHS releases in the United States during the '90s, but a multitude of episodes never saw the light of day there, and only one DVD release, the 2014 CGI movie, materialized. DreamWorks Classics controls the intellectual property and masters, but there still doesn't seem to be any motivation for a U.S. DVD release yet. This doesn't apply in the show's home country, the United Kingdom, for very obvious reasons, but unless you live there or have a region-free DVD player, don't even bother getting those releases.
• The majority of the episodes of the animated Punky Brewster show appear on the DVDs of the main series. But due to the laziness of Shout! Factory, one of the shorts was skipped over music rights. More than likely to never be rectified. Unless when Universal licenses Gravedale High they include it as a special feature?
• Good luck finding good quality recordings of Rankin-Bass' The Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad Show. Only a few black-and-white episodes are available online, and so is the opening (in color).
• The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty can only be found on home video via extremely rare VHS releases from the 1980s and has never been released in any form on DVD. It's presumed that the same reasons that caused the show to be canceled in the first place (the James Thurber estate suing Filmation over the title of the series, which was inspired by "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'') are preventing a DVD release from ever materializing.
• Space Cats, a short-lived live-action/cartoon hybrid that aired between 1991 and 1992 on NBC, has almost no circulating episodes. According to the Lost Media Wiki, only four of 13 are known to exist, and even those mostly in small pieces or dubs.
• Theodore Tugboat got a number of VHS releases in the mid-late '90s, in both its home country of Canada and the U.S. (the latter courtesy of PBS and Warner Home Video). Once Classic Media (now part of DreamWorks Animation and Universal) bought the rights to the property after the series was canceled, the releases stopped, leaving tons of other episodes in limbo. So far, Universal doesn't seem to have the enthusiasm to release the series on DVD or digital outlets, and the last time the series was shown was on the low-rated and defunct PBJ network.
• Toad Patrol fell into copyright limbo in the late 2000s after several of the production companies went out of business. To add to that, the show has never been rerun post-2000s or fully released on DVD. Some episodes of Season 1 were made available, but that was it. And to add salt to the wound, the DVDs are out of print and sell for outrageous prices online. In addition, several Season 1 and 2 episodes are only available online dubbed into French or Croatian. The only other way to watch the show would be through tape trading or tracking down off-air recordings of the show.
• Outside of a VHS showing the best episodes of season one (that is now out of print), Toonsylvania hasn't had its entire series released on DVD. 2014 saw the entire series (both seasons one and two) released on Netflix...on a Latin American feed available in Mexico and Brazil, complete with Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and English audio. What's worse is that before the start of 2015, the show was removed from Netflix streaming, so unless you had access to see Netflix feeds from other countries and saw/recorded every episode, you're boned.
• In 2006, an Edited for Syndication version of VeggieTales with new Framing Device segments aired on NBC. Unlike the original version, this edition never saw any legal home media releases during its run, except in Mexico, and even then it wasn't the entire series. Until it was named Freevee in 2022, IMDB TV legally released the series, but only four episodes ("The Asparagus of LaMancha", "Dr. Jiggle and Mr. Sly", "Bully Trouble" and "Babysitter in DeNile") ever saw the light of day. These four episodes are also streaming on PureFlix.
• Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad has never been released on home media or rerun since its cancellation in 1997, and the quantity of footage of it online amounts to a whopping 2 minutes.
• It seems it'll be a long time before we get beyond the first two volumes of the Woody Woodpecker collections, since we still have over 100 cartoons left to cover (particularly 107).
  • The rarest are usually the ones made from the '60s and the '70s. Because the majority of them are so hard to find they've become obscured, to the point of even losing the original English audio track to them. While one might do at least one of his shorts online in its original language, the rest can't be said for the remaining shorts.

WildBrain (DHX, Cookie Jar, DIC, Cinar, etc.)

WildBrain (formerly known as DHX Media) has a massive library that is spread throughout a variety of companies (including DiC Entertainment and Cookie Jar Entertainment). However, only a small chunk of their series get consistent re-releases.

• While the entire series of The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin can easily be found, the same cannot be said for the "Protect Yourself" segments that played at the end of each episode. They last resurfaced during ad breaks on The Family Channel, of all places, and were never released to home media.
• Arthur hasn't gotten a full-season release in the US in quite a while. Only seasons 10 & 11 were released in boxset format here (along with season 7 under the name "Sleepovers, Sports and More" and season 22 under the name "Arthur Celebrates Community"). In the UK, only the first three seasons were released. Various seasons have been released on assorted streaming services over the years, which is still of no help to those that prefer physical copies, and the rights holders periodically yank certain seasons off the services and replace them with other ones anyway. The official PBS Kids Parents website used to list what episodes are available on the old Random House/Sony Wonder DVDs/videocassettes, for what it's worth. Thankfully, Prime Video has most of the episodes while iTunes has Season 10 onwards, and the show is still re-running on PBS.
  • The It's Only Rock & Roll special is rarely broadcast anymore because it guest stars the Backstreet Boys, whose song "I Want It That Way" is featured in the episode.
• The Baskervilles. Possibly because of the obvious Hell-like setting. The only surviving footage online is the opening and four episodes, which can be found on YouTube.
• Astro Farm had its first season uploaded to WildBrain's YouTube channel (sans the episodes "Barn Dance" and "The Black Hole Mole"), but the other 40 episodes of the show have yet to see a re-release. This is because when Cinar remastered FilmFair's shows when they purchased the studio in 1996, they only remastered the first season of the series.
• The DVD release of the animated version of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures is missing five of DiC's episodes, although the Hanna-Barbera episodes are included in their entirety. Rights issues could be the only explanation for it, as the IP is owned by MGM.
• The short-lived Chip and Pepper's Cartoon Madness only had one episode available on Vimeo (courtesy of senior editor Jonathan Moser) with the others apparently missing and with no VHS/DVD releases in sight.
• The short-lived C.L.Y.D.E. cartoon from Cinar and MoonScoop (then known as France Animation) last aired in the US on the Cookie Jar Toons block from 2009-2010. The show also never received any home media releases, not even in Canada.
• There's no known release for Deadly. Only the opening sequence exists online. There was footage uploaded to YouTube, but it got taken down after the channel that uploaded it got terminated.
• Twelve episodes of The All-New Dennis the Menace were released on DVD in Australia (the thirteenth and final was not on it). The DVD is now out of print.
• Dinosaucers had 4 VHS releases from the mid-90's, but they are now out of print. The rights to the series are currently owned by Sony, and they have no plans to re-release the series onto DVD. The first 21 episodes are on iTunes in the UK.
• D'Myna Leagues only had its first season released on DVD. Season 2 had 13 episodes, but only twelve of them are available online (eleven of which are in Czech).
• Extreme Dinosaurs had four VHS releases, which are out of print. The series has been released on DVD in Germany (with English audio) and Australia.
  • As of 2022, the series is streaming on Tubi, Pluto TV, and Freevee (Amazon's ad-supported service).
• Hammerman, a short-lived Celebrity Toon based on the music of MC Hammer, has only a handful of its 13 episodes available on YouTube, with the rest apparently lost. DiC Entertainment has never released the series on home video or digitally.
• Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling never received a DVD release, and its VHS tapes are long out of print. Some of the series was on the WWE Network streaming service for a brief time, but it was taken off soon afterwards due to Hulk Hogan's racism scandal. Some of the episodes are on YouTube.
• Two Lady Lovelylocks episodes are missing from the US and British VHS releases of the series, and a complete DVD release was in the UK and Australia only.
• The Magi-Nation animated series. Only two DVDs, containing four episodes each, have been released out of the 26-episode run. It was briefly available on Netflix but was removed in May 2019.
• Mumble Bumble hasn't aired in Canada since the early 2000s. The show never received a home media release outside of a Christmas episode in a DVD of assorted Christmas episodes from other shows Cookie Jar had in their library.
• My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever: Unlike the main TV series, Best Gift Ever is much harder to find on streaming, due to the special only airing seasonally on Discovery Family, the lack of availability from most digital media stores, and no North American DVD release.
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Coinky-Dink World, Good Vibes, Sock It to Me, Tip Toppings, Costume Conundrum, and Let It Rain all went down the ship with the Discovery Family GO! app, and Hasbro's YouTube channel has also already removed some episodes from their channel in 2020.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night is also very hard to find nowadays, since Discovery Family hasn't aired the specials since the summer of 2022, and Netflix has also removed them on October 1, 2022, and finally, they can no longer be purchased on digital, either. As of 2024, Magical Movie Night remains on Hoopla, which requires a library card.
    • Foreign dubs of all Equestria Girls films and specials are also equally hard to find today due to their removals from Netflix.
• The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic miniseries "Friendship is Forever": It was never released outside of Australia, and the prints that were released over there can now only be found in archives.
• My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip is almost nowhere to be found on streaming or on DVD. It was once planned for a release on Netflix, but that never occurred.
• The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil only aired 5 of out 8 episodes due to creative differences between DIC, ABC, and John K. The series never received any home video releases, although those five episodes are available online.
• The New Adventures of Nanoboy was last seen on Vortexx in the US in 2013, and it hasn't aired since then. Only the first episode was officially released to YouTube, with another episode included as an extra on a Johnny Test DVD.
• The New Kids on the Block cartoon Not Quite Starring the group of the same name only had 4 long out-of-print VHS tapes released in the early '90s, and last aired in the US in the mid-'90s on The Disney Channel. Music rights are probably holding the show back.
• Night Hood never saw any video releases, and you can only find all 26 episodes on YouTube but don't expect the video quality to be good.
• Any of the Nintendo-based DiC shows (with the exceptions of The Legend of Zelda (1989) and Super Mario World) from their original run with the well-known songs intact. Especially The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3's Milli Vanilli episode, due to their 1989 scandal, as there's also an Overshadowed by Controversy moment on top of the music rights.
  • King Koopa's Kool Kartoons, a spin-off of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! that only aired in southern California and in the UK and featured Pat Pinney as King Koopa, is pretty much lost, with only bits and pieces of the show's 65 known episodes surviving.
  • The Club Mario segments of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, which replaced the live-action Mario Bros. segments following the show's original run also met this fate. Due to the poor reception of the segments, the masters for them were wiped at DiC's orders, except one ("The Unzappables") that was used for later releases of the episode due to DiC not being able to clear the rights for the songs used in the original live-action segment, "George Washington Slept Here".
• Papa Beaver's Storytime hasn't aired since 1999 on Playhouse Disney. It had some VHS releases during its run on Nick Junior but they are since out of print. The series never had a DVD release either.
• Many Peanuts^note  as WildBrain purchased a majority stake in the franchise in 2017 and remains a co-owner to this day specials from The '80s and The '90s are still missing on DVD since Warner Bros. stopped bringing out complete collections by decade. Some made it through the Happiness is...Peanuts Collection, the Peanuts Emmy-Honored Collection, and/or a bundle with another cartoon, but the ones below currently remain MIA.
  • It's an Adventure, Charlie Brown (1983 double-length anthology special; it's only been released on DVD in Australia)
  • Snoopy!!! The Musical (1988 double-length special; it's only been released on DVD in Australia)
  • It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown (1988 double-length, Roger Rabbit Effect special focusing on Spike the dog)
  • You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown (1994; licensing issues with the NFL affect this one. It got one VHS release, and those copies were only sold as promotional items in Shell gas stations)
  • It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown (1997; ironically, it was a Direct to Video release)
  • It's The Pied Piper, Charlie Brown (2000), the final Peanuts special made under the supervision of Charles M. Schultz, is now out of print, with used and new copies selling for very high prices on shopping sites.
  • None of the specials celebrating the anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas and/or the first Peanuts comic have received a DVD release, and only one, 1990's You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown, has even reached VHS. It's Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown! (2015) became the first Peanuts special to win an Emmy in 25 years, but the only thing available from it is the Cake Wars episode where contestants made cakes for it.
  • Additionally, none of the educational videos from the '70s ever received a VHS or DVD release.
• The Poochie Special is a half-hour one-off cartoon based on Mattel's doll character Poochie (not to be confused with the character from The Simpsons). It went direct-to-video in 1984 and received no other releases afterward. The whole special is available on YouTube via VHS rips.
• Popples never received a complete release on DVD, and said DVD is now out of print.
• Ring Raiders hasn't aired in the US since 1989, and it only had one long out-of-print VHS tape. DIC nor DHX hasn't released anything for the series since its cancellation in 1989. The series ultimately failed due to the lackluster sales of the toy line.
• Robinson Sucroe is very unlikely to get a DVD release due to it being discovered that Cinar (now Cookie Jar Entertainment), France Animation S.A., and Ravensburger Film + TV GmbH had plagiarized it from The Adventures of Robinson Curiosity, a pilot for a proposed series that Cinar had rejected multiple times. Also it doesn't help that as per the 2009 court ruling, the master tapes of the show were ordered to be destroyed. Every episode is up on YouTube, though... but not in English, so you'd better be able to understand French if you want to watch the whole series.
• Sabrina: The Animated Series, a 65-episode series, currently only has the first 32 episodes on DVD. The show's Made-for-TV movie Sabrina: Friends Forever had a limited DVD release after its airing in 2002 and is very hard to find. The entire series is available on Netflix.
  • The 26-episode spin-off, Sabrina's Secret Life, is only available on English DVD in Australia, and only the first 18 episodes were released. One episode ("Lather, Rinse, Repent") is available as a bonus feature on the complete series DVD set of Archie's Weird Mysteries. All 26 episodes were available on Netflix.
• Of the 2013 series Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures, the only U.S. releases have been compilation sets of Story Arc episodes. The compilations don't extend to the entire series though and searches on the Internet reveal there have been complete season releases, but only for Asian countries. Thankfully, the series is still shown on Discovery Family early in the morning so you can watch it then.
• Stunt Dawgs doesn't have an official DVD release, and the only copies that exist are low-quality television/VHS rips. Since the rights are shared between DHX and Waterman Entertainment.
• Super Duper Sumos had most of its run released on VHS and DVD by ADV Films, although the volumes are long out of print. Mill Creek Entertainment released a best-of compilation in 2010, consisting of ten episodes.
• The Swamp Thing cartoon was first released on VHS in the early '90s. The series later got a complete series DVD from Sterling in 2004, but that is since out of print and Sterling became defunct in 2006.
• Good luck finding the original MTV airing of Undergrads, which used a different soundtrack than the Canadian version. For example, the American airing had songs by artists such as Linkin Park, Lenny Kravitz, Foo Fighters, Madonna, and Kid Rock.
• Urban Vermin. The only channel that ever aired it in America was the short-lived Animania HD network. DHX sold a few episodes on YouTube for $2.99.
• The Wacky World of Tex Avery had 65 episodes in total, but only 52 are currently in circulation. According to Platypus Comix, the last 13 episodes only aired during the original syndicated run of the show, and did not show up in further airings on North American television.
• Watership Down (1999) had some home media releases from GoodTimes Entertainment and Reader's Digest Video in the U.S., as well as some DVD and VHS releases in overseas markets, but those are now out of print. The full series is on YouTube via DVD rips.
• Weird-Ohs' VHS and DVD releases are long out of print and were exclusive to Canada.
• What About Mimi? only has 10 out of 39 episodes available on two hard-to-find DVD sets, however, since August 2015 the complete series is also on YouTube.
• The 90's Where's Wally?/Where's Waldo? cartoon. Five VHS tapes were released in the United Kingdom and that was it. DiC doesn't own the series, but rather Mattel (Hit Entertainment).
• The Wizard of Oz, the animated follow-up to the 1939 film, doesn't have a complete series release on home media. In the US, Turner (who co-produced the series with DiC) released four VHS tapes in 1991 with two episodes each, followed by four single episode releases by Buena Vista in 1994, comprising of the first four episodes. This was then followed by Lions Gate's release of both parts of "The Rescue of the Emerald City" in 2002 (with the DVD including one bonus episode, "The Day the Music Died"), and two releases by Sterling Entertainment each including three (on VHS) or four (on DVD) episodes each.
• Wolf Rock TV was one of DIC's earliest TV series, and it hasn't aired since 1989 or received a home media release because of music rights issues. Plus, the series is completely lost with only the animation cels for the animated segments intact.
• Yakkity Yak had no home media release and, for a long time, was super hard to find aside from the occasional Nicktoons reruns, VHS recordings, and uploads on YouTube.
• Yvon of the Yukon received a single DVD release of season 1 in North America, although it fetches a high price due to being out of print. Season 2 can be found online, albeit only with the Russian dub, as it never received any home media releases. Season 3 was aired and then promptly swept under the rug, as you can only find a handful of episodes and very short clips online.

Sony (Columbia TriStar)

Of the Big 5 film studios, Sony Pictures Television has the smallest animation catalogue.

• Channel Umptee-3, a late '90s cartoon co-created by Norman Lear and aired on Kids' WB! for 13 episodes before being taken off abruptly. The series has never been rerun in the USA, nor has it ever been released on home video. The only way to get a hold of the series is through old Kids' WB recordings. Even then, you would have to be extremely lucky to have all 13 episodes in hand. International markets, on the other hand, are much luckier since the show has aired occasionally on a number of channels following its original run.
• Many of the golden-age Columbia Cartoons shorts (i.e. The Fox and the Crow) were off the air for decades until 1999, when they were included in the Totally Tooned In series - and even then the series was only aired in Latin America. U.S. television audiences finally got to see them in 2011 on Antenna TV, and as of 2024, they occasionally still air on MeTV.
  • These cartoons have never been released on DVD, except for three UPA cartoons on the TCM Jolly Frolics set and, another cartoon as a bonus feature on the Hellboy DVD. Furthermore, Columbia doesn't own UPA's characters, as they are legally with Dreamworks Animation.
  • One cartoon, "Mysto-Fox", is only available in black-and-white.
• Dragon Tales was available on Netflix until 2017, but with all of the Dragon Tunes segments edited out from the episodes due to licensing issues (Sony had sold the 1993-2012 music publishing rights to their films and shows to Ole Media Management, now known as Anthem Entertainment). Come August 2022, the first two seasons were unexpectedly made available on Prime Video, and the third was added shortly thereafter. Some of the episodes do contain the Dragon Tunes segments, while others have the aforementioned edited cuts. However, as of late September 2023, the show is now unavailable (but still listed). The show still hasn't had a season-wise DVD release instead of individual DVD compilations, likely because the show is jointly owned by the non-profit organization Sesame Workshop (which also produces Sesame Street) and the media giant Sony, and the two are more than likely to argue about where the money for such releases will go.
• Extreme Ghostbusters was released on some VHS tapes, but, to date, has no DVD release. It is on Hulu, though.
• Max Steel (the Kids' WB and Cartoon Network versions, not the Disney XD version) has almost completely disappeared, thanks to Sony no longer having the license from Mattel to produce Max Steel media. There is only one fansite with any episodes available for download, and most of them are low-quality, aim-the-video-camera-at-the-TV clips where the dialogue is nearly incomprehensible. One episode in particular, the Season 2 premiere, has vanished completely without even a transcript to mark its passing. Oddly, Sony continued to produce movies that are very loosely based on the original show in Latin America, but there were no English dubs or subs, and they stopped once Sony completely lost the license and the new series was announced.
  • The Season 1 DVD set had been released in the United Kingdom, both in two volumes and later a box set, but all three are no longer in print.
  • Series 1–3 were available to watch on Hulu.com until at least 2013, when hosting stopped for it, likely to avoid conflicts with the Disney XD series.
  • Crackle, which was owned by Sony, also streamed some episodes on YouTube in 2009, but later took them down as well.
• Men in Black: The Series only saw a DVD of its first season released exclusively at Target in 2012 to promote Men in Black 3. The series was availble for streaming on Crackle, alternating between the first two seasons and the last two, until the 2020s.
• Phantom Investigators aired for a month in June 2002 on Kids' WB, and was cancelled after thirteen episodes (the show was doing fine in the ratings; what happened was Kids WB was number one with the 6-11 male demographic, the show was doing better with female audiences, and WB was afraid of losing their number-one spot). It was never released on VHS and DVD, was never put into reruns in the United States, and due to the obscurity of the series, will most likely never get a home media release for the time being. A few episodes were available on YouTube until Sony pulled them for copyright. Two of its episodes are available on (W)Holesome Products, Inc.'s (the show's studio) Vimeo account, and eventually in October 2016, the entire series was made available on various sites, (with a subsequent upload from another YouTube channel, though who knows how long it'll be before Sony copyright strikes them), but an official home media release remains unlikely.
• The Real Ghostbusters was hit with this for quite some time. Columbia-Tristar/Magic Window had released some episodes through the 80s and 90s, but a complete run didn't see the light of day until Time-Life released the complete series and season sets in 2009-2010. Sony released ten "budget" volumes in 2016, but these don't cover the whole run. What makes matters worse, is that the Time-Life DVDs are currently out of print.
• Sammy, an extremely short-lived animated sitcom that starred David Spade as both a young adult actor as well as his loser father trying to reenter his life and cash in on his success ran from August 8 to 15, 2000. Only the first 2 of the 13 planned episodes had ever aired. The obscurity of the cartoon practically qualifies it as lost media, as no episodes have ever surfaced on YouTube, with only a Wikipedia article and a few production photos of the series ever surfacing online. Ironically, the series premiered around the same time the Baby Blues animated series did, which had also suffered a short run as well as a lack of any home media release.

Other

• Action Man (2000)...or at least, the cartoon made by Mainframe Entertainment. The series hasn't aired at all since its original Fox Kids run ended in 2002, and the few DVD releases it got are long out of print.
• In the 2000s, the first 26 episodes of Adventures from the Book of Virtues were redubbed in Singapore with local English speaking actors. According to Chuck Powers (who did additional voices in the Singapore-dubbed versions), the reason the redubs were made is that it was too expensive to keep paying royalties to the celebrity voices. These are the versions available on DVD, qubo, and BYUtv. Because TV reruns and DVDs of the series are nothing more than the Singapore dubbed versions, the original PBS versions are easier to find on either official VHS releases by PBS Home Video and later Chick-fil-A or tape recordings of the old airings. The official KidMango/YouTube versions of season 1 had the original voices, but KidMango has since blocked them, and "Loyalty" was never uploaded. Season 2 is even harder to find because the VHS tapes were only available to schools, libraries, churches, and other institutions, and fewer and fewer of these still have VHS. (Season 3 was never redubbed because the voices were done in Vancouver, not Hollywood, so there's no celebrity VAs to pay royalties to.)
• The Adventures of Hyperman only has two segments of the full thirteen existing today (not helping is the fact that those halves are in Spanish), with every other one (and the English version of the existing segments) remaining lost.
• There's never been a complete compilation tape/DVD or box set containing all the episodes of The Alvin Show. There exists only the Sing Along tapes (which just have some of the musical segments), a DVD called "The Very First Alvin Show" (which only contains one of the first episodes, along with the specials A Chipmunk Reunion and Rockin' Through the Decades), a self-titled Blu-ray/DVD combo pack (containing the first three episodes, plus clips of the Chipmunks performing "Witch Doctor" and "The Chipmunk Song"), and segments included as bonus features for newer cartoons' DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. Apparently, the reason for this is because of rights issues—the rights to the Chipmunks franchise is split up among the children of Ross Bagdasarian Sr. Ross Bagdasarian Jr. owns the newer chipmunks outright, but not the rights to the original Alvin Show. On top of that, restoring the entire show would be very expensive and there would be so little money in return to split among all the siblings, that they feel it isn't even worth the effort.
• The 2000 French animated series Argai: The Prophecy. Only the first six episodes (out of 26) were released on DVD, although a few more episodes have been uploaded on YouTube.
• The Australian series Arthur! and the Square Knights of the Round Table has only had one DVD release, not in Australia but the United Kingdom, and that contains only eight episodes (with the API logo - but not its music - replaced by "A Five Arrows Film Production").
• Baby Follies: No trace of this show has ever been released on any home video format in any language. The English dub is even harder to track down because besides the theme song? No episodes seem to exist.
• The Bagel and Becky Show, a Canadian show, has never seen a full DVD release. BBC Studios and Boat Rocker don't seem interested in releasing the entire series, but the entire series can be found on some streaming sites (although the series was never available officially).
• The Beatles' eponymous animated series is currently owned by Apple Corps, the group's corporate entity, having acquired them from King Features (Hearst Corporation entity). There was talk as early as 2004 of putting the cartoons out on DVD but no effort had been made since. Apple Records and Universal Music Group now own the Beatles' movies (except for A Hard Day's Night) and they have re-released Yellow Submarine on DVD, so this may still happen somewhere down the line. In the meantime, bootleg DVD's recorded off local TV stations in the 1980s turn up online and at comic book conventions.
  • Episodes were available on YouTube until October 2015 when Universal, which had recently bought the band's recorded output from EMI's receivers and infamous for their harsh copyright strikes, filed DMCA claims to YouTube.
• Two Betty Boop cartoons, "Honest Love and True" and "Buzzy Boop at the Concert", were deemed lost for a long time. Copies were located in 2017 and 2019 respectively. The former (which had no audio) was restored and shown at a film festival, while the latter was preserved by Asifa-Hollywood and the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2020. Two years later, a sound copy of "Honest Love and True" leaked on YouTube ahead of its inclusion on a special Betty Boop Blu-ray set.
• The Swiss-German series "Bill Body" only had one out-of-print German VHS release. The only known footage existing nowadays are two Portuguese dubbed episodes and four clips of the same dub from an anthology.
• Bimble's Bucket got only a single VHS of a handful of episodes. Monster Entertainment bought the rights to the show, though nothing has even been announced for a release.
• Because of viewer complaints about the opening scene being fat-shaming, the original cut of the Bluey episode "Exercise" has fallen into this territory, as it can no longer be viewed legally, with an edited version omitting the aformentioned scene taking its' place.
• The Bluffers had VHS releases that went out in the late 1980s and at least one Betamax release. The only trace of it on YouTube, at least for the English dub, is a single episode lifted from said Betamax tape by someone who just managed to catch it somehow.
• The 1959 series "Bucky and Pepito", known as one of the worst cartoons of all time, was not well preserved, leaving only a handful of episodes existing on home media and online. The rest may as well be lost until someone finds them and uploads them to YouTube.
• Budgie the Little Helicopter. The complete series was released on VHS in America, but was never on DVD, except for two releases in the UK.
• Calvin and the Colonel, a 1960s prime-time cartoon, will likely never get a legit DVD release. About one-third of the episodes (most in black and white despite being made in color) are in collectors' hands, some of which ended up in public domain cartoon compilations even though the show is still copyrighted.
• Camp WWE was exclusive to the WWE Network and was removed in January 2024 following the firing of Vince McMahon.
• The Mexican series "Cantinflas y Sus Amigos"("Amigo and Friends" in the English dub) only has one DVD release with only some segments on it with others completely missing. On top of that, the English version is nowhere to be found online or on home media.
• Captain Star, a quirky English cartoon parody of Star Trek, ran for only 13 episodes. Rumor has it that the first three episodes were released on VHS, but nothing more. In 2018, higher-quality copies from master DVDs were uploaded to YouTube, given to the uploader by the show's creator himself no less, but unfortunately suffer from poor audio balancing and have muted voices that are drowned out by comparably loud music and sound.
• Carland Cross is a 1996 Belgian detective cartoon series that doesn't have any official video releases except for a Spanish DVD release that went out of print. While there are a few episodes, both in English and Spanish dubs, uploaded on YouTube, it's hard to find all 26 episodes. In 2020, 123 Kaboodle, a kids' streaming platform owned by South African telecommunication company Vodacom, uploaded all 26 episodes but they are locked behind paywall and only South African subscribers can access them.
• Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue hasn't been rebroadcast much since its initial simulcast and has only been released on home video as both a promotional item at McDonald's (who sponsored the special) and as a free VHS rental for families. This is due to the agreement between the various copyright holders specifying limited airings (and not, as falsely rumored, because Jim Davis never gave permission to use Garfield in the special and threatened litigation if it ever aired again). The special is readily available online via fan uploads, though.
• Chris Colorado aired on Toonami for a while, before it was taken down and forgotten. It only ran for a single season and ended in a cliffhanger, and was released on DVD. Practically no copies remain, and the only way you can view it these days is to download it from the single torrent on the whole Internet that contains it.
• CJ the DJ is virtually unknown and unavailable outside of its native Australia, except for a couple of clips, one episode in English on YouTube, and a couple more episodes in Portuguese, but that's about it. Thankfully, Tubi has the entire series available in America.
• British adult claymation series Crapston Villas had every episode released on VHS, but not DVD, at least in the UK. The US got it on DVD, but only as a "best of" set released by Troma Entertainment.
• The Crayon Box, a puppet show based on the popular poem by Shane DeRolf, is very difficult to find, despite the series getting several pieces of merchandise and airing with Bananas in Pyjamas in the United States. This was because Polygram planned to release the series on multiple VHS tapes, but it got scrapped for unknown reasons.
• Dan Dare: Of the twenty-six episode Animated Adaptation, only six episodes were made available on DVD. Additional episodes can be found on YouTube.
• Only the first season of Dan Vs. has ever been released on DVD. The second and third seasons allegedly won't be released due to its low sales. The entire series can be found on iTunes and the first two seasons can be viewed on Tubi legally for free, but there's still no sign of a physical release.
• The American Darkstalkers cartoon was released on DVD by ADV Films and subsequently went into limbo when the company went under. While it currently has yet to be license-rescued, Discotek Media rescuing the Street Fighter cartoon and the Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge OVA has aroused hope that they'll eventually give this show the same treatment.
• For years, most of De Patie Freleng Enterprises's theatrical and television shorts were affected by this, as only the original 1960s-1970s The Pink Panther shorts were given a dedicated release via the multi-disc The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection. Certain companion shorts (Roland and Rattfink, The Inspector, and The Ant and the Aardvark) were included alongside the Pink Panther collection, while other companion shorts (The Texas/Tijuana Toads, Hoot Kloot, Misterjaw, etc.) weren't as lucky. Thankfully however, they are now all getting individual DVD/Blu-Ray releases through Kino Lorber.
  • Of the 1993-1996 Pink Panther series, only Series 1 (1993-1994) exists on DVD, and even then, episodes like "7 Manly Men" (which has slight Ho Yay), "Voodoo Man" and "Hamm-N-Eggz" missing off the DVD; basically, no full 1993–96 series exists on DVD. You can get them all, but as torrents, and even then, the quality is variable.
• The Brazilian cartoon Doggy Day School was never released anywhere on DVD and it's not available on streaming services. However, all 26 episodes in English can be found very easily on the internet, along with the Canadian French dub of the show that aired on Unis TV.
• Eckhart: Only Seasons 1 and 2 (comprising the first 26 episodes) and the Christmas special were released on DVD, that release went out of print sometime after CCI Entertainment was bought by 9 Story Media Group, and most of the few episodes of Season 3 available online are dubbed in Russian.
• El patito feo had in total 100 episodes. Most of these are lost due to a combination of genuine ratings failure and copyright claims, to the point that its company, Neptuno Films, removed it from its catalogue.
• Despite its cult following, the British series "Empire Square" only has one of the twelve episodes online, with no plans to officially release it.
• Fifi and the Flowertots had an exclusive American dub for Sprout (now known as Universal Kids)^note which is on various compilation DVDs in the United States, with Bumble and Poppy being renamed Fuzzbuzz and Poppady. Even though DreamWorks owns the series, they posted the original British version on Peacock. It's likely the masters of the American dub were lost or are still with Mattel (who owns the Hit Entertainment library).
• The Frog Show is hard to find; there are no VHS or DVD releases of any kind, not every episode has been uploaded to YouTube, and only three of the episodes uploaded are in English (and even then, they're Norwegian prints with Norwegian subtitles on them.)
• Nothing has been said about the last 13 episodes of the Spanish series The Fruitties, which is weird since the other 78 episodes got home media releases at the time (complete with optional English audio tracks in the case of the DVD releases, no less). Even worse is that you shouldn't expect to find the released episodes that easily anyway, as the tapes and DVDs are nearly out of print. A good chunk of the show's English dub used to be available on YouTube courtesy of a user named Simion Craciun, but D'Ocon Films (the company that made the show) blocked all but six of these episodes on copyright grounds.
• Several Garfield and Friends quickies that played during the hour-long version of the show are missing from both the international prints of the show, which were used for the DVDs and some episodes of the Boomerang release. This list details which ones are missing.
• Generation O! aired on Kids WB for one season, had a VHS release of two episodes and nothing else. All 13 episodes can be found on YouTube, however.
• Late in its life, mall owners Mills Corporation created a kids' club called Muggsy's Meadow, which provided activities for kids and parents to do while at the mall. They also commissioned Flying Rhino Junior High creator Ray Nelson and his studio to create a Too Smart for Strangers animated short called Get Muggsy!, which included the club's four mascots. Since the club itself was only around for three years and closed when Simon Property Group bought out Mills, the DVD is extremely hard to find. Nevertheless, it is on YouTube.
• The Belgian series Gibus le Magicien lasted 26 six-minute episodes in 1965, and of them, only eleven of them are available through YouTube. Some of the episodes did receive VHS releases, but they are very hard to come across.
• The pilot episode for the cancelled Gogo's Crazy Bones TV series was only ever uploaded to YouTube before it got removed from the site. This was due to backlash concerning how the show's productions companies made new characters for the show when the toy series it's based on has a ton of characters they could've used instead, and also due to the show itself being terrible. The one remnant of the pilot available online is its theme song, which was uploaded to Vimeo.
• God, the Devil and Bob and Game Over, two animated series produced by Carsey Werner, were released on DVD sets by Fox and Anchor Bay in 2005 which are out of print, and neither were included in Carsey-Werner's distribution deal with FilmRise.
• The Bing Crosby special Goldilocks, which is loosely based on Goldilocks and the Three Bears, hasn't been aired on television since the 1980s. It had one VHS release in 1986, and it's very difficult to find online, with only one segment, a song called "The Human Race", uploaded on YouTube.
• Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids: All six seasons of the CITV era are impossible to get on DVD, with the UK only receiving one 8-episode DVD that has been out of print for years due to ITV's home media division only caring about ITV's live-action shows and the shows by Gerry Anderson. Fortunately, there are viewer uploads on YouTube.
  • They were released on DVD complete, but only in Australia.
• While all of the Disney Silly Symphonies have been re-released on DVD, very few of its competitors have had such a benefit, especially the MGM Happy Harmonies cartoons, which have yet to see any kind of DVD release (save making it as a bonus feature on some vintage movie DVDs) and their only major release was an old, long out of print Laserdisc set. Many of them used to air on Boomerang early in the morning, but some shorts, such as the redesigned Boskos, may never see the light of day again.
• A lot of shows animated and produced by Impossible Television
  • The 2002 British animated series Audrey and Friends had 26 episodes, but never had any home video or DVD releases. However, the pilot/Christmas special has been recently found, and 1 out of all 26 episodes from the 2002 series will be found.
  • The 2003 British animated series MechaNick had 80 episodes, and episodes 1-8 from Series 1 of the show are available on DVD, and there were also VHS recordings of episodes 20 and 32 available on YouTube, but the rest of them are lost.
• It's Itsy Bitsy Time, a preschool-aimed anthology Fox Family/Treehouse TV series that also had some imported series on there, barely seems to exist anywhere, legally (considering the rights issues) or illegally.
• Jack and the Beanstalk, a special featuring character Cap'n O.G. Readmore that aired on ABC in 1985, saw a number of VHS releases in the '90s and a DVD release in Korea. No footage exists online, and the tapes keep circulating from those VHS releases.
• The British-Australian co-pro Jellabies, involving a group of jelly people doing various tasks, has also fallen into this trap. Of the 95 episodes, none have resurfaced in English, as the YouTube uploads were removed and there's no sign of a DVD. A few episodes of the British dub (renamed Jellikins; this dub also changed the characters to be bears instead of humans) and Dutch dub exist, however. And then there's the rare 2003 Jellies version, which has only been known to have aired in South Sudan of all places. An incomplete recording of that version's intro was uploaded to YouTube, but it was taken down after the uploader's channel was terminated.
• There is no DVD release of Jerry and the Raiders anywhere, but the entire series can be found on YouTube and Tubi.
• The direct-to-video series Jingaroo. None of the full 9 episodes (three stories on each of the three tapes) exist except on VHS, and the only footage still around is a musical number, a CD, the opening and closing credits, and a preview.
• When FamilyNet got the rights to air JOT, they shortened the episodes to be two minutes long instead of the original four minutes long. This wouldn't be a problem if not for the fact that only two episodes on YouTube are the original four-minute-long versions. Good luck trying to find the original four-minute-long versions of the other episodes.
• The Australian series "J-Squad" hasn't been heard of since its now out of print "best of" release and is now very hard to find.
• The Canadian series Katie and Orbie once had four of its six seasons (not in order) available on DVD from an online retailer that sold the discs on demand, but the retailer went bust around 2013. The other two seasons were unavailable for unknown reasons and aside from a few episodes (including some in Spanish, as the series was seen in the Latin American version of CBeebies from 2008-2010) and several videos of the series' theme song, the series was practically impossible to find. On top of that, reruns in Canada from 2007 to 2012 only included the last two seasons, and currently it is not aired anywhere in the world. In July 2015, the (almost) complete series was uploaded to YouTube (except for three episodes that were mistakenly uploaded twice and mislabeled), but in January 2020 all the episodes were set to private. However, a few months later, the first three seasons (save for the aforementioned three episodes) were reposted on Dailymotion, and in 2021 the series was reposted to YouTube.
• The Japanese-Austrailian-Chinese series Ketchup: Cats Who Cook only ever saw a couple of VHS releases containing the first 22 episodes. Most of the ones available online can only be watched in its English dub. The series' Japanese dub is extremely hard to find besides the opening theme (despite having reruns until at least 2006), as it never had any home media release whatsoever, and the Chinese dub only has two episodes available online.
• Franco-Canadian series Kid Paddle has been released on YouTube in French. While most of the English dubbed episodes are missing, several segments have been uploaded to the Internet Archive.
• The Kids from Room 402. It has never received any English-language home video releases (though two DVD sets with a few episodes were released circa 2005 in Europe), and the series has not been aired on U.S. television since the 2000s.
• The Legends of Treasure Island. VHS tapes of Season 1 exist, as does a movie VHS comprising Episodes 1-3 of Season 1 and the final two episodes of Season 2, though they will be all but impossible to find (one VHS was reported to be found in a Salvation Army shop).
• The Lionhearts never received any home video releases, has not aired since its only season ended in 1999, and the only place where it could be seen again was Hulu but was removed in 2014.
• Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own last aired on Discovery Family and got removed from Netflix in 2022. While the series has never been released on DVD, it is still available on digital retailers.
• Luo Bao Bei has no DVD release, although the series is available on Netflix. But that's the only place you can view episodes, as there are no episodes on YouTube or any other streaming service.
• The Magic Adventures of Mumfie movie Mumfie's Quest and Mumfie's White Christmas are quite easy to find. The second and third seasons, on the other hand, aren't as easy to view legally. Only four episodes of season 2 can be seen on digital purchase platforms, and season 3 hasn't been seen since the show left Hulu. Even worse, iTunes and Netflix only offered the second season, and four episodes were omitted due to being an Old Shame for Britt Allcroft.
• There hasn't been a single DVD of the UK or rare U.S. versions of The Magic Roundabout. This might have to do with the fact that the English narration is technically a Gag Dub of the more moralistic French original. The Eric Thompson UK versions were released on VHS in four volumes, and the last VHS release from 1993 was a "best of" compilation of previously-released episodes. There were also two additional VHS releases of episodes with Nigel Planer's narration, with the second VHS being only a re-release with the first 10 of the 24 episodes included.
  • The American dub last aired on Pinwheel in the late '80s and the segments of this dub that are available online, don't have any U.K. or French variants.
  • Ironically, despite not receiving any DVD release either, the French show received more VHS releases than its more well-known English adaptation (to be specific, one from the 1980s, a VHS collection of eight volumes from 1990 to 1997 featuring re-dubs of the 1970s color episodes, one from 1994 featuring a compilation of black-and-white episodes, and three from 1998-1999 featuring AB Productions' revival episodes from 1989-1990, resulting in a total of 13).
  • Currently, the only episodes released on DVD in both their French and English versions, are five black-and-white episodes, with one being the series premiere, as featured on the second disc of the 2005 film's UK Special Edition release. Also, both the English and French versions of the film Dougal and the Blue Cat were released on DVD in 2010.
  • The 2007 version is an interesting case. Although the English version received a couple DVD releases in the UK, only the first series was given a complete DVD release in France with both its English and French audios. Reruns of that version aired on Cinemoi, but they no longer air the series. Luckily, there's an official YouTube channel run by Mediatoon (who currently owns the rights) that has episodes from the show. However, while the other foreign-language channels in French, German, and Italian have episodes from the first series, the English channel only has episodes of the second series. The French version of the second series is also hard to find.
• Almost anything made by Marathon. Totally Spies! also fell into this for a long time, but Flatiron/New Video released the first three seasons in 2013 and 2014 and there is an official YouTube channel that features seasons 1-5 and the movie—a much better fate than what it previously got: Ten episodes from season 1, and the season 2 two-parter "A Spy is Born". Most likely, it was just hard to clear up the rights to "Here We Go" by Moonbaby.
  • The Amazing Spiez!, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a legit release.
• Mighty Max came out in the early 1990s, before DVDs but after VHS. The series was made only to push the toy line, so they probably didn't consider a cult following that demanded the show's re-release.
• Interested in watching any of the Golden Age Mighty Mouse or Heckle and Jeckle shorts? There's one apiece floating around in the public domain. Rights-holder CBS seems to have little to no interest in any of their Terrytoons properties.
• Season 1 of the cult BBC dark comedy series Monkey Dust has a DVD release, but Seasons 2 and 3 will possibly never see the light of day. The issue is the music; as a BBC show, Monkey Dust was able to take advantage of the BBC's blanket music license, with turn of the millenium pop music blaring from tinny radios being an integral part of its dystopian urban hellscape. The show creator put an extraordinary amount of effort into replacing these songs with soundalikes in season 1, but he has since died, and no one seems to think the other two seasons are worth it.
• Mutant League, a 40-episode series which is based on the video games "Mutant League Football" & "Mutant League Hockey", has never been released on DVD. The only release of it was a VHS, which was merely a 69-minute mish-mash of segments of episodes edited together. It is also impossible to find online, not even poor-quality copies.
• The MLP shorts from My Little Pony and Friends have been released and are at least available via Netflix; however, the same can't be said for the Potato Head Kids, Glo Friends and Moon Dreamers shorts that accompanied them on the show's original run.
• My Little Pony: Pony Life was removed from Hulu and Discovery Family in 2023, and the series has never been released on DVD. However, the entire series is still on digital retailers.
• With the exception of those in the Public Domain, the pre-October 1950 Noveltoons (from Paramount's Famous Studios), which feature Baby Huey, Little Audrey, and Herman and Katnip among others, have not seen any sort of official home video release. A major culprit for this is legal issues regarding the characters who appear in them - the characters are owned by Universal Studios, a dilemma that was largely Paramount's own doing^note Paramount sold the rights to the characters along with the shorts released from October 1950 to 1962 to Harvey Comics in 1959, having seen almost no value to them. Harvey has since been bought by Classic Media, which in turn was bought by DreamWorks Animation, and then ultimately by Universal Studios in 2016. Since releasing the shorts would require Paramount to get permission from Universal in regards to the characters, despite Paramount having been involved in the creation of those characters in the first place, it will be hard for an official video release to materialize without Universal butting in. There's also the matter of having to track down the original film negatives and restoring them in a timely manner without resorting to Digital Destruction. Most of the post-October 1950 Noveltoons (owned by Universal) were partly rescued by official VHS and DVD releases, but they're all sourced from late-1990s television broadcasts rather than the original theatrical prints, and some offensive scenes in a number of cartoons are still missing. Whether or not Universal will release uncut and restored versions of the cartoons remains in question.
• Odd Job Jack, a Turn of the Millennium Canadian animated sitcom. While the second season had a DVD release (available wherever not-so-fine DVDs are liquidated), seasons 1, 3 and 4 are missing in action.
• Oh Yeah Cartoons, What A Cartoon! Show, Random! Cartoons, and other animation compilation shows, such as MTV's Cartoon Sushi. This is because, after a number of years, the rights to the shorts revert to their creators if it wasn't picked up for a series. So even if a network did want to make a DVD, getting all the creators to agree to it would be more trouble than it's worth. Thankfully, many of them are easy to find online on YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.
• The third season of Oscar's Orchestra has yet to be located in English, although Russian and Sinhala dubs of the episodes have popped up here and there.
• Peppermint Rose's only special was released on VHS in limited quantities, and its general obscurity makes it hard to find.
• Most of Pet Alien hasn't been made officially available in any format. The closest thing to such were some compilation DVDs featuring various Season 1 episodes, but they don't cover every episode and have long since gone out of print.
  • The first season is streaming on Oznoz... in Spanish and Portuguese.
• Canadian show Pig City has only three episodes dubbed in English; all other episodes are dubbed in French and Russian. Encore+ originally had all the episodes free on their YouTube page in early 2022, but was shut down later that year.
• Pingu: Out of the 157 episodes of the two incarnations, only 48 of them have been released on DVD in the United States (not counting a few that showed up on other HIT Enterainment DVD's), mostly because of licensing issues, offensive material ("Pingu's Lavatory Story" is notably missing due to Toilet Humour), or because there isn't much popularity of Pingu in the United States as opposed to Europe.
  • And to make things more unsettling, only the remastered versions of the episodes HIT Entertainment issued in 2002 were featured on that company's releases. Although the last two seasons had their original soundtracks preserved in their restorations, the soundtracks for nearly both of the first two seasons had greatly worn out to the point of having to be almost completely redone. America never got any home video releases of the original pre-remastered soundtracks of the first two seasons, but Canada got four rare VHS releases from CFP Video. While the original soundtracks occasionally continue to be used whenever Pingu is broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom, whether or not they will ever be released on home media outside VHS is anyone's guess.
  • Seasons 3 and 4, which were mostly unreleased on DVD in the US, were put on Amazon Video in 2016 along with the first two seasons (once again in their "remastered" form). The first season of the revived series was also put on Amazon Video simultaneously, but the final season was not added until later.
  • The Canadian version of The Pingu Show that aired on APTN's kids' block is very hard to track down, since it fell into obscurity after it went off the air and was overshadowed by the more well-known UK version.
• Phantom 2040 has yet to see a release of the complete series. A few episodes were made available on VHS in the late 1990s, and a Compilation Movie of the first four episodes was released on DVD in 2004. However, torrents and streams of the full series occasionally pop up, as do bootleg DVD sets.
• Not all of the 1960s made-for-TV Popeye cartoons are on DVD, but the entire run is for sale on Prime Video under the title "Classic Popeye".
• To this day, Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders is lost to the murky mists of some lost archive, frustratingly getting only the briefest of DVD releases that vanished almost as soon as it was announced (luckily, it's region-free).
  • Robert Mandell has a lot of luck with this trope. See Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers under the "recent releases" section.
• Most of George Pal's Puppetoons are currently unavailable to the public, especially the 1932–1940 European filmography. Only a few have been compiled into "The Puppetoon Movie" in 1987, and a few more as bonus features on the 2000 DVD release and 2011 Blu-ray release of that film.
• The retooled third season of the 70's Hungarian cartoon The Rabbit with the Checkered Ears was set for a 2018 release but only one episode was finished, which isn't included on any official DVD release, though it reruns on TV every couple years. Otherwise, only a half-minute preview, some publicity images, and a mere two episode descriptions can be found online. As the original creators were dissatisfied that the new staff had implemented changes to the show without their consent, production was halted and the rest of the series was presumably never finished.
• This trope covers any instance in western animation that could be considered remotely racist, as a lot of cartoons from The Golden Age of Animation loved their blackface gags, among MANY other things. Native Americans are still acceptable targets to mock, apparently.
• Many of the Rankin/Bass animated shows and specials are not available on DVD, but only as grainy, fading VHS tapes made years ago. They will be lost forever when the tapes inevitably wear out and VCRs break — most notably, The Wind in the Willows (1985) (the one with the theme song sung by Judy Collins) and The Smokey Bear Show from 1969. This feature-length production from The '80s has quite a few grateful comments over on YouTube where some amazing person has uploaded a marginal-quality copy in several parts, for those whose VCRs have already broken. (The good news is that, along with feature-length films like Mad Monster Party?, The Daydreamer, and The Flight of Dragons, most of the company's famous Christmas specials are on DVD (and a 2023 Blu-ray release) as stand-alone releases or in collections, as are their three Easter specials from The '70s.)
• RoboCop: Alpha Commando only got one VHS release, consisting of the three-part pilot episode edited together into a feature-length movie, and said VHS release was also released only in the UK. The show re-aired in Region 1 on KidsClick, but only for a couple months. It also was streamed on Hulu for some time before being dropped.
• The 1996 direct-to-video animated adaptation of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer called Rudolph's Lessons for Life is now out of print. The videos were exclusively sold at Montgomery Ward department stores during the Christmas season, from 1996 to the company's closure. Montgomery Ward is also where Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer originated from, marking the first and last time Montgomery Ward was able to do an animated adaptation of the beloved Christmas tale. This adaptation also contained two versions on the same VHS. The first version is focused on the animated segment, while the second version mixes in live-action children and teacher for some scenes.
• Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave. Although the first season of the UK dub has all of the episodes uploaded online, the US dub is less fortunate. Only three full episodes of that dub are available online outside of YouTube, where several Season 2 episodes (if not the whole season) have been put up for purchase. A couple of other US dub episodes were available at one point, but they were deleted. Meanwhile, the UK dub of Season 2 has not been uploaded anywhere. There are also no DVD releases of this show in the US or the UK, except for an episode on a CBeebies compilation DVD.
• The Secret World of Benjamin Bear only had a handful of DVDs that only contain some of the episodes. Encore+ originally had all of the episodes for free on their YouTube channel in the late 2010s, but the episodes were removed in late 2022 after the company shut down.
• Shining Time Station, the show that helped launch Thomas & Friends to stardom in the United States, hasn't received a DVD release yet. It did have a few episodes released on VHS, and episodes can be found within five seconds on YouTube.
  • The first two seasons of Thomas the Tank Engine had two different American dubs: one narrated by Ringo Starr, the other by George Carlin. This was due to Carlin replacing Ringo as Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station, resulting in him re-narrating the episodes. However, because the Ringo Starr version came first, it was (and continues to be) more widely distributed, making a number of the George Carlin narrations nearly impossible to obtain legally.
• The first animated series starring The Smurfs was in 1961 called "Les Schtroumpfs", which was produced by TVA Dupuis and aired on RTB (Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française) in Belgium until 1967. The series never gained an official VHS or DVD release anywhere else. In 1965, the animated series became an animated film called "Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs" (The Adventures of The Smurfs), where a few episodes from the series were selected and became part of the film. For 15 years, the only place people could see the episodes from the 1960s series was at a Smurfs display at The Belgian Comic Strip Center in Brussels, Belgium. It wasn't until October 28, 2023 that the official French Youtube channel started uploading fully restored episodes of the 60s series beginning with the episode "The Smurfnapper" on a weekly basis until November 25, 2023 with a total of 5 episodes.
  • The same producer made another project starring The Smurfs called "La Schtroumpfette", which was a 1969 TV special that was also Smurfette's first animated appearance. Unlike the 1961 animated series, there are no existing screenshots or footage of the TV special.
• The United States English dub of The Smurfs and the Magic Flute from 1983 has never gotten an official release on DVD. (The Shout Factory DVD release uses the United Kingdom version instead, which has also been released on DVD by Fabulous Films in the UK.) This version was released on VHS by Vestron Video during its original release and then again by Goodtimes Entertainment during the 1990s. The film was originally planned to be released on DVD by Morningstar Entertainment in 2008 but ended up getting cancelled, though Televista ended up with a limited unofficial DVD release during the same year. This edition is currently out of print.
  • There have also been a few different versions of the U.S. dub with Johan sometimes being called "John" and two different voice actors for Papa Smurf. A TV version of this film has also moved the Smurfs' party scene to the beginning of the film with narration added.
• Spaced Out. This show had three DVD releases in Italy, each comprising three episodes (and together comprising the first nine episodes) and with optional English and French audio tracks. An error was made with one of the DVDs, however; the third episode has the exact same English and French audio tracks as episode 4, so episode 3's English and French dubs are still in limbo. The rest of the series is completely MIA.
• The Spaghetti Family, an Italian cartoon created by Bruno Bozzetto, is difficult to find entirely in its native Italian dub in addition to the English dub. Both dubs are found on four hard-to-find DVD volumes released by Mondo Home Entertainment, although there is at least one episode officially on YouTube from The Animation Band. Other dubs in languages such as Persian, Greek, and Russian are much easier to view through (non-legit) streaming, as well as finding the Russian DVDs.
• Star Street: The Adventures of the Star Kids saw a limited VHS release in the US in 1989 and 1991 with only 12 episodes released plus an additional tape with the music segments from the series. Some episodes that did not see the light of day in North American releases are available in the UK and Netherlands and the show's official page on the Telescreen website has a complete list of episodes. Good luck finding them on the Internet though. At one point, a couple episodes showed up on YouTube in Dutch, but they were quickly deleted. Amazon UK also had some tapes for sale, but they are all sold out.
• Stories from Toytown featuring Larry the Lamb was a British stop-motion series that aired on ITV from 1972-1974, which was based on a radio play that aired on BBC radio between 1929 till 1963 for Children's Hour. The series managed to air on British television as recently as the 1990s. While the series managed to gain a home video release, it became a very difficult find for older generations in the United Kingdom. With video uploads frequently getting taken down by "Larry the Lamb Ltd" (the producers of the series). Only screenshots of the series has surfaced on the Internet proving the series' existence.
• Of the six original Strawberry Shortcake animated specials from The '80s, only the first two (The World of... and ...in Big Apple City) are available on DVD, leaving only the mid-1980s VHS releases of all six as official sources.
• Stressed Eric has yet to get a U.S. release, while the UK has the complete series on DVD since May 2011.
  • When the series first aired on NBC, Hank Azaria replaced Paul Heap as the voice of Eric. At least one episode can be found on YouTube.
• Supernews, along with the rest of the defunct Current TV network's library. That series along with the library is currently owned by Al Jazeera, who has zero interest in revisiting Current TV's archives, especially after the demise of Al Jazeera America, the channel Current was replaced by.
• The seventh season of Thomas & Friends is almost completely unavailable in Dutch, save for one episode. Nine episodes from the previous season have gotten the same fate.
• The Canadian children's series "Tipi Tales" is without home media and was last seen on television in 2008 when syndicated reruns ended. With no plans to release it, good luck finding it.
• Many of the Time Warp Trio episodes are unavailable on DVD, and those that are go for an exorbitant price. Most of the episodes have been uploaded on YouTube taken from Discovery Education prints. It is in a unique situation as it was produced by PBS member station WGBH for Discovery Kids, a commercial outlet that no longer exists in that particular form which had its ownership turn over twice. WGBH owns the show's rights, but as a commercial program, it isn't long enough to air on PBS stations, and it can't be put on the PBS Kids apps because it never aired there in the first place.
• The Cosgrove Hall stop-motion adaptation of Truckers was released on VHS by Thames Television back in the early 1990s, but Fremantle (the current owners of non-children's Cosgrove-Hall programming produced for Thames) has never released it on DVD. This is presumably due to the same issues that caused the adaptations of the two other books to be shelved.
• TUGS, the sister series to the Thomas & Friends television series made in 1986, can only be watched on gradually wearing videotapes or illegally over the internet. It does not help that the rights for the program are tied up with at least two different companies.
• Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime, despite being a Cosgrove-Hall show (usually pretty good with show releases), had only one VHS tape release during its TV run. One of the episodes ("Panda-Monium") was subsequently re-released on DVD (ironically called 'Most Wanted') but that's it. Thankfully, there are a lot of episodes on YouTube, some taken from Australian re-broadcasts. You can also see the show via an app called KidsCast if you have an iOS or Android device.
• The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald has never been released on any format outside of VHS, and Klasky-Csupo's website only had limited quantities of the tapes. The sixth and final episode, "The Legend of McDonaldland Loch", is so hard to find as a physical copy that it was considered lost media until 2015 when someone uploaded the whole thing to YouTube.
• The 1977 animated Christmas Special Why The Bears Dance On Christmas Eve only aired once and was never seen again on any channel because the head of the company that made it (Tele-Tactics) suddenly died and the company went bust shortly afterwards. Unlike Christmas Dreams, it did make its way to YouTube because someone who remembered it got a copy from someone who worked on it.
• If you liked the show Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa and wanted to see it again, good luck. It got a couple of VHS releases that are long since out of print. The series did air reruns on Toon Disney (sister network to ABC, who originally produced the series with King World) for several years, but hasn't rerun again since.
• Winston's Potty Chair is an animated short produced for VHS in 1990, designed to teach young children how to use the potty. The short was produced in cooperation with the American Medical Association and was funded in part by Kimberly-Clark Corporation, makers of Huggies Pull-Ups disposable training pants. VHS tapes of the short are now out of print and have become rare.
• Wonderoos is a mysterious children's series that was supposed to be on Netflix in November 2020. This All-CGI Cartoon taking place in a World of Funny Animals focused on diverse cultures and was supposed to have a holiday special. However, it ended up not releasing at all, despite clearly being ready to go. A mom blog was given early access to the series to review it, yet outside of a few trailers and clips that have surfaced on Dailymotion, the series remains lost as of 2022.
• Wonderous Myths And Legends is very hard to find online, though there were a few VHS and DVD releases in the early 2000s, but they are long out of print. Though, the home media releases can be found dirt cheap.
• Almost all of the works of the seminal Czech animator Karel Zeman are unavailable in America, outside of an American Re-Cut of Journey to the Beginning of Time and a dub of Baron Prasil on an ancient and long out-of-print VHS tape. For the curious, a number of his works are available on YouTube, e.g., [1]. "Baron Prasil" is on Viddler; it's only about half-animated, but it was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam to make The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

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