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* ''Series/DonkeyHodie'': The Arabic dub skips "The Try Scouts", "Wiz Kazizz Kazaam", "Stanley's One-Dragon Show", "A Donkey Hodie Halloween", "Hey-O, Purple Moon", "Fashion Donkey" and "Bright Bright Bugs" for reasons unknown.

* ''[[Film/NineteenEightyFive 1985]]'' was an hour-long {{mockumentary}} TV special that aired on Metromedia stations in the United States in 1970, depicting [[GaiasLament a hypothetical near-future environmental catastrophe brought on by unchecked industrialization]], with real Metromedia news reporters, including a pre-''Series/{{Maury}}'' Maury Povich, [[AsHimself playing themselves]]. Highlights of the film included reports on [[FogOfDoom a killer smog]] in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles leaving 14,000 dead, a BigBlackout in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, a lack of safe drinking water in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, and the complete collapse of agriculture in the Midwest. Towards the end, reporter George Putnam's feed starts to fluctuate, and the studio attempts to re-establish said feed before the picture suddenly cuts to black, implying that the U.S. government has shut down all television broadcasting due to the extreme crisis, with Putnam himself cut off mid-sentence. Although heavily promoted, the film was only broadcast twice, and since this was before the invention of [=VCRs=], no copies are known to exist, with print ads and reviews serving as the only proof of the special's existence.

* ''1985'' was an hour-long {{mockumentary}} TV special that aired on Metromedia stations in the United States in 1970, depicting [[GaiasLament a hypothetical near-future environmental catastrophe brought on by unchecked industrialization]], with real Metromedia news reporters, including a pre-''Series/{{Maury}}'' Maury Povich, [[AsHimself playing themselves]]. Highlights of the film included reports on [[FogOfDoom a killer smog]] in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles leaving 14,000 dead, a BigBlackout in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, a lack of safe drinking water in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, and the complete collapse of agriculture in the Midwest. Towards the end, reporter George Putnam's feed starts to fluctuate, and the studio attempts to re-establish said feed before the picture suddenly cuts to black, implying that the U.S. government has shut down all television broadcasting due to the extreme crisis, with Putnam himself cut off mid-sentence. Although heavily promoted, the film was only broadcast twice, and since this was before the invention of [=VCRs=], no copies are known to exist, with print ads and reviews serving as the only proof of the special's existence.

* Evidently deciding that being a national broadcasting corporation meant following Creator/TheBBC's lead in wiping old programmes, Creator/TheABC conducted its own archive purge in the late 1970s as part of a management-mandated "economy drive"; shocked at the increase in purchase of videotape, the ABC higher-ups ordered an entire wall of archive videos wiped and re-used. One of the most high profile victims was the 1974-87 pop music showcase ''Countdown'', which lost over a hundred episodes from 1974-78 in an act presenter Ian "Molly" Meldrum denounced as "unforgivable".[[note]] The 30-odd episodes that survived from those years were smuggled out of the ABC archives in the middle of the night by ''Countdown'' directors Ted Emery and Paul Drane.[[/note]] Other lost programmes include multiple Australian Rules Grand Finals and most of the runs of soap operas ''Bellbird'' and ''Certain Women''.

* ''1985'' was an hour-long {{mockumentary}} TV special that aired on Metromedia stations in the United States in 1970, depicting [[GaiasLament a hypothetical near-future environmental catastrophe brought on by unchecked industrialization]], with real Metromedia news reporters, including a pre-''Series/{{Maury}}'' Maury Povich, [[AsHimself playing themselves]]. Highlights of the film included reports on [[FogOfDoom a killer smog]] in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles leaving 14,000 dead, a power failure in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, lack of drinking water in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC and complete paralysis of agriculture in the Midwest. Towards the end, reporter George Putnam's feed starts to fluctuate, and the studio attempts to re-establish said feed before the picture suddenly cuts to black, implying that the U.S. government has shut down all television broadcasting due to the extreme crisis, with Putnam himself cut off mid-sentence. Although heavily promoted, the film was only broadcast twice, and since this was before the invention of [=VCRs=], no copies are known to exist, with print ads and reviews serving as the only proof of the special's existence.

* ''1985'' was an hour-long {{mockumentary}} TV special that aired on Metromedia stations in the United States in 1970, depicting [[GaiasLament a hypothetical near-future environmental catastrophe brought on by unchecked industrialization]], with real Metromedia news reporters, including a pre-''Series/{{Maury}}'' Maury Povich, [[AsHimself playing themselves]]. Highlights of the film included reports on [[FogOfDoom a killer smog]] in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles leaving 14,000 dead, a power failure in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, lack of drinking water in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC and complete paralysis of agriculture in the Midwest. Towards the end, reporter George Putnam's feed starts to fluctuate, and the studio [[DoNotAdjustYourSet attempts to re-establish said feed]] before the picture suddenly cuts to black, implying that the U.S. government has shut down all television broadcasting due to the extreme crisis, with Putnam himself cut off mid-sentence. Although heavily promoted, the film was only broadcast twice, and since this was before the invention of [=VCRs=], no copies are known to exist, with print ads and reviews serving as the only proof of the special's existence.

* ''1985'' was an hour-long {{mockumentary}} TV special that aired on Metromedia stations in the United States in 1970, depicting [[GaiasLament a hypothetical near-future environmental catastrophe brought on by unchecked industrialization]], with real Metromedia news reporters, including a pre-''Series/{{Maury}}'' Maury Povich, [[AsHimself playing themselves]]. Highlights of the film included reports on [[FogOfDoom a killer smog]] in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles leaving 14,000 dead, a power failure in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, lack of drinking water in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC and complete paralysis of agriculture in the Midwest. Although heavily promoted, the film was only rerun once, and since this was before the invention of [=VCRs=], no copies are known to exist, with print ads and reviews serving as the only proof of the special's existence.

* ''1985'' was an hour-long {{mockumentary}} TV special that aired on Metromedia stations in the United States in 1970, depicting [[GaiasLament a hypothetical near-future environmental catastrophe brought on by unchecked industrialization]], with real Metromedia news reporters, including a pre-''Series/{{Maury}}'' Maury Povich, [[AsHimself playing themselves]]. Highlights of the film included reports on [[FogOfDoom a killer smog]] in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles leaving 14,000 dead, a power failure in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, lack of drinking water in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC and complete paralysis of agriculture in the Midwest. Although heavily promoted, the film was only rerun once, and since this was before the invention of [=VCRs=], no copies are known to exist, with print ads serving as the only proof of the special's existence.

* ''1985'' was an hour-long {{mockumentary}} TV special that aired on Metromedia stations in the United States in 1970, depicting [[GaiasLament a hypothetical near-future environmental catastrophe brought on by unchecked industrialization]], with real Metromedia news reporters, including a pre-''Series/{{Maury}}'' Maury Povich, [[AsHimself playing themselves]]. Highlights of the film included reports on [[FogOfDoom a killer smog]] in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles leaving 14,000 dead, a power failure in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, lack of drinking water in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC and complete paralysis of agriculture in the Midwest. Although heavily promoted, the film was only rerun once, and since this was before the invention of [=VCRs=], no known copies are known to exist, with print ads serving as the only proof of the special's existence.

* ''Series/TheArmyGame'' was Creator/{{ITV}}'s first sitcom, launching or boosting the careers of such actors as Creator/WilliamHartnell, Geoffrey Sumner, Creator/AlfieBass, Creator/CharlesHawtrey, Creator/BernardBresslaw, Norman Rossington, and Bill Fraser, while writers included Creator/MartyFeldman, Barry Took, John Junkin, and future ''Film/CarryOn'' scriptwriter Creator/TalbotRothwell. It ran for 154 episodes across four series from 1957-61; just 52 are known to survive.

* ''Series/DonkeyHodie'': The Arabic dub skips "A Donkey Hodie Halloween" for reasons unknown.

** ''Series/ReadyOrNot'': The Disney Channel did not air the episodes “Origins of Man”, "Beyond the Birds and the Bees", and “Am I Perverted or What?” because the content was deemed too mature for their audience.

* According to screenwriter Scott Alexander Young, AXN's 2012 cult film tribute show ''Max's Midnight Movies'' was lost in the Sony Pictures hack of 2014. Two episodes survive on the writer's Vimeo account, and low quality TV-rips of most episodes can be found on Website/YouTube. Episodes of the show's Polish edition are also floating around on movie streaming sites.

* A number of the series that formed part of [[Series/TheTwoRonnies Ronnie Barker]]'s rise to 1970s television comedy mainstay are wholly or partially lost.
** Following Barker and Ronnie Corbett's rise in prominence on ''The Frost Report'', David Frost executive produced a series of vignettes under the title ''Ronnie Barker's Playhouse'', which ran for six episodes on ITV in 1968 and was intended to test possible sitcom pilots starring Barker. Only one episode, "Alexander", still exists in the ITV archives.
** Among the missing episodes of ''Ronnie Barker's Playhouse'' is "Ah, There You Are", the only one to get a spinoff series in the form of ''Hark at Barker'', in which Barker played bumbling aristocrat Lord Rustless, presenting a sitcom/sketch show from his ancestral home of Chrome Hall. The series ran for 15 episodes across two series in 1969-70 and featured writing from Creator/EricIdle, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie as well as Alan Ayckbourn and Barker himself writing under assumed names. Though the entire run survives, the Series 2 episode "Rustless at Law" only exists as a low-quality, off-air black and white recording (ITV had made the transition to colour in late 1969).[[note]]The recording is a 16mm video-to-film transfer, and exhibits noticeable moiré patterns on brightly-coloured objects. This suggests that, if funds were available, the recording might be suitable for the "chroma-dot colour recovery" process, developed for ''Series/DoctorWho'' and also used on an episode of ''Series/DadsArmy''.[[/note]]
* ''Theatre/BeyondTheFringe'' stars Creator/PeterCook and Creator/DudleyMoore's 1968 ITV series ''Goodbye Again'' didn't fare well - although all episodes have survived, some of the interior footage only survives as black and white copies.

* ''Nissene over skog og hei'', the second show in the ''Nissene'' series of {{julekalender}}s parodying popular RealityTV shows, was taken off air and removed from streaming services in 2020 due to the use of {{blackface}}.