Post by waywayout on Jan 21, 2023 10:50:05 GMT
Hello! I joined here in hopes of assistance finding old episodes of a particular show I am still attached to and used to watch a lot when I was younger.
Zula Patrol was a kids show about science show that originally aired on PBS Kids before moving to Qubo, and I believe aired briefly on more obscure channels like Smile TV. A little over half of the episodes are archived on its own YouTube channel; it seems to have stopped uploading videos as it's only uploaded songs a year ago and full episodes 3 years ago. Nonetheless, it seems to be active as it regularly updates its "episode of the week" playlist, updated yesterday.
However, not all episodes have been archived. While it seems many of them are, a good chunk are missing from what I can tell online, including the finale episodes of the show. Some discs containing episodes do exist, but they still do not contain all of the episodes; I'm fairly sure even the disc claiming to have all of season 1 does not actually have all of the episodes from it, judging by a review I've found of said disc that list only 26 titles + I believe any archives that got reuploaded still only list 26 titles. Episodes of the show are split into two episodes per 22 minute run, each 11 minutes, meaning there's technically 52 episodes; this means that the disc claiming to have all of season 1 actually only has half of it.
I will make a list of every episode that is not listed on the Zula STEM YouTube channel as it provides a good reference point, making a clarification on if said episode isn't actually lost and I have found it elsewhere. I list episodes that have been found outside of that channel for sake of consistency; a link will always be provided.
ETA- Past schedules are linked in the episode titles when applicable.
- Night of the Fweebs [found in parts; the whole episode seems to be there, just split into one minute segments]
- What Goes Up Must Come Down
- Dog Gone Gorga [found in low quality at 2:05:15; as it is taken from a VHS tape, it has some visual and audio quality issues]
- The Milky Way Galaxy Games [found in low quality at 2:19:57; as it is taken from a VHS tape, it has some visual and audio quality issues]
- Family Feud [found in parts; the whole episode seems to be there, just split into one minute segments]
- Go'er-Slower Motion [found in parts; the whole episode seems to be there, just split into one minute segments]
- The Outsider
- Young At Heart [fully found]
- Fly Us to the Moon
- Castaway Asteroid
- Take Me to Your Ferret
- Wish You Were Here
- My Air Lady [partially found; only 48 seconds of it seem to be found]
- You're Cramping My Space [partially found; only 48 seconds of it seem to be found]
- Three Ringed Gorga [fully found in the Moon Mayhem pack which has been archived]
- Moons Mayhem [fully found in the Moon Mayhem pack which has been archived]
- A Star is Born
- Galactic Star Games [partially found; only 50 seconds of it seem to be found]
- Power Flower [fully found on the Dailymotion channel; this was likely simply missed while uploading the YouTube batch]
- The Things in Rings
- How the Rust Was Won
- Ice Truder!
- Dueling Space Stations
- Don't Look Me Now
- Support Your Neighborhood Volcano
- Hide 'n Seek on Jupiter
- A Tale of Two Planets
- The Sound of Multo?
- Eyes in the Skies
- Moon Struck [fully found in the Moon Mayhem pack which has been archived]
- Me, Myself and Io [fully found in the Moon Mayhem pack which has been archived]
- Erosion Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Blast to the Earth's Past
- The Great Climb
- Splitsville
- Spin Control: The Venus Effect
- Crater Raters: Journey to Mercury
- Vanishing Cream
- The Missing Elements
- Where Did All the Water Go
- The Dew Drops
- The Great River Race
- The Lizard Who Came to Dinner
- Island of the Endotherms
- The Villain of the Year
- One is the Loneliest Number
Other content for the show exists, though how much of it has been found varies. The two specials, Down to Earth and Under the Weather, are both fully found here. The pilot is partially found, though only 18 seconds of it are found, shown here. Test poses are also found here. Many episodes also seem to have a theatre scene and credits that are not found in any Zula STEM uploads, though the DVDs seem to often have those when they are included. There was also a game called Zula World that was eventually taken down; only some footage found on Dailymotion and an unplayable archive exists of it. They have their own website; older archives seem hard to navigate without flash, though.
IMDB seems to have some extra information on the show, though not enough to locate anything.
Amazon lists episodes, but also lists them as "unavailable in your location" and are thus inaccessible; the show is American, and I am from the US, so I believe the show may have legitimately lost some rights somehow. I am not 100% sure on this, however.
I am not very experienced with trying to find lost media; I believe this is my first case of trying to do so. Aside from using both Google and Ecosia, I've also looked on YouTube and archive.org; the latter has helped recover a few episodes, but it's far from all of them. Aside from the brief Zula World footage, Dailymotion seems to only have exactly what YouTube has, with the sole exception of Power Flower; it similarly hasn't uploaded in a couple years. I've tried to do what I could, so I'm trying to get more information of this out there to those who may have a better idea. I hope what information I've provided is helpful even if it's a lot. Thank you to anybody who reads.
but it's not very surprising given everything else. Time will tell if it comes back, but for now, it seems like UEN may have lost the ability to air it.
