View Full Version : Looking for 80s/90s Holiday Episodes/Special


SpeedsterEVP
04-14-2016, 04:04 PM
Hiya gang! About a year or more back, I made DVD compilations of 1980s Halloween episodes/specials (one set was prime time/shows marketed towards adults & one set was Saturday morning/shows marketed towards kids). I had grown tired of today's Christmas specials & decided to make my own holiday DVDs of things I grew up watching. A friend of mine was big into Halloween & suggested I start there. Anyway, I'm now working on both a 90s "Saturday Morning" Halloween compilation and an 80s "Saturday Morning" Christmas compilation. I've found tons of episodes & such already but I'm having trouble finding a few that I'd like to add. I'm hoping that by posting what I'm looking for here, I'll be able to obtain the remaining shows for my holiday comps. I'm willing to trade if need be! ANY help is appreciated!

Here's what I'm still looking for:
80s Christmas:
The Fonz & the Happy Days Gang "Fonz's Christmas Carol" (11/14/1981) (Wikipedia is the only place I've seen this "episode" listed. I'm beginning to think there is no such episode & it was just a Wiki error.)

American Bandstand "Christmas Show: Jose Feliciano/Chilliwack" (12/19/1981)

Minky Momo "Please, Santa Claus" (12/23/1982) (This is on Amazon Video but when I purchased it, I had no way of downloading or saving it & ultimately had my purchase refunded due to that. If anyone knows how to download from Amazon after purchasing episodes, please share it!)

Today's Special "Christmas (Part 1)" (1983)
Today's Special "Christmas (Part 2)" (1983) (I already have a lead on these but I'm posting them here in case anyone has them & can help faster, thereby taking the load off of the lead I have.)

Welcome to Pooh Corner "Christmas at Pooh Corner" (1983 Christmas special, not a normal episode.)

Saturday Supercade "A Christmas Story (Donkey Kong, Jr. short)/Fake Me Out to the Ball Game (Frogger short)/Apey & the Snowbeast (Donkey Kong short)/The Sabertooth Goof (Pitfall short)" (11/19/1983) (I know many of these are lost but it doesn't hurt to check to see if anyone has any of the individual shorts.)

Welcome to Pooh Corner "Christmas is for Sharing" (1984 Christmas special)

Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats "Something Fishy (Heathcliff short)/Christmas Memories (Catillac Cats short)" (1985) (I have the Catillac Cats short but not Heathcliff. Whole episode is on Amazon Video but I have no way of downloading it.)

Dumbo's Circus "Christmas at the Circus" (8/16/1985)

Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats "North Pole Cat (Heathcliff short)/He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (Catillac Cats short)" (1986) (I have the Catillac Cats short but not Heathcliff. Whole episode is on Amazon Video but I have no way of downloading it.)

Christmas Bedpans (1986 Christmas special based on "The Adventures of Johnny Cusack" toon. Possibly UK? More info here: http://christmas-specials.wikia.com/wiki/Christmas_Bedpans)

ABC Afterschool Special "Seasonal Differences" (1987)

Tom & Jerry Christmas Special (1987) (This was a TBS network Christmas Special of Tom & Jerry's Funhouse on TBS hosted by members of TBS' Kids Beat show & featuring various classic Christmas-themed cartoon shorts. I have portions of this special & can get the cartoon shorts individually, but I'm missing some of the host segments in the middle of the special...I'm hoping to find a complete special. Worst case scenario, I could use what I do have & recreate it without some of the host segments but I REALLY don't want to have to do that, especially when it aired for several years straight. Surely someone out there has a complete copy?)

Paddington Bear "The Ghost of Christmas Paddington" (12/25/1989) (This is the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series that aired as part of the Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera TV show block)


90s Halloween:
Little Rosey "The Pumpkins are Gone!" (10/27/1990) (show alternately referred to as Little Rosie)

The Chipmunks Go to the Movies "Gremlionis" (11/17/1990) (show aired in syndication under the show title Alvin & the Chipmunks. I'll take any version of the episode, as I can change out the titles if need be.)

Mother Goose & Grimm "The Wickedest Witch/Hotel Mutt" (11/9/1991) (In Season 2, this show was retitled Grimmy)

Raw Toonage "Ski Patrol (Bonkers short)/Poultrygeist (Totally Tasteless Videos short)/Romancing the Clone (Marsupilami short)/Goofy's Guide to the Olympics (Goofy short)" (10/24/1992) (I have all shorts except the Marsupilami short and the Bonkers host segments)

The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys "Haunted Lighthouse" (10/31/1992)

Raw Toonage "Get Me a Pizza (Hold the Minefield) (Bonkers short)/Nightmare on Rocky Road (Totally Tasteless Videos short)/Wannabe Ruler? (Marsupilami short)/The Porker's Court (Totally Tasteless Videos short)" (10/31/1992) (I'm only needing the Bonkers short (which I've only been able to find in another language. I need it in English.) & the "Porker's Court" short here)

Marsupilami "Mars' Problem Pachyderm (Marsupilami short)/Night of the Living Schnookums (Schnookums & Meat short)/Mars Meets Dr. Normanstein (Marsupilami short)" (10/30/1993) (I'm only missing the Schnookums & Meat short here.)

The Pink Panther "Pink Paparazzi/Werewolf in Panther's Clothing" (11/17/1993) (I'm only missing the "Pink Paparazzi" short here. This is the 90s series where he was voiced by Matt Frewer.)

The Pink Panther "Panthergeist/Pink's Pending Pink Slip" (10/6/1995) (I need both Pink Panther shorts here)

Oh Yeah! Cartoons "Snap Out of Water (ChalkZone short)/Earth to Obie (cartoon short)/The Ghoul's Tribunal (Mina & the Count short)" (1998) (I'm only missing the "Earth to Obie" short. This is available on Amazon Video but I can't rip it.)

Oh Yeah! Cartoons "Secret Passages (ChalkZone short)/The Kid from S.C.H.O.O.L. (cartoon short)/The Vampire Who Came to Dinner (Mina & the Count short)" (1998) (I'm only missing the "Kid from S.C.H.O.O.L." short here.)

Disney's Doug "Night of the Living Dougs" (10/31/1998) (show title alternately called Brand Spanking New Doug. This episode not to be confused with "Doug's Bloody Buddy" episode.)

Flying Rhino Junior High "Frankensidebottom" (10/31/1998)

Out of the Box "Halloween" (10/21/1999) (I believe this might've had a VHS release but I can't find it...)

fragglevision
04-15-2016, 10:55 AM
Don't have any of the stuff you listed, but you should be able to record from Amazon Video using a screen capture device, so Minky Momo and Heathcliff might both be crossed off from the list. I'd recommend Tinytake, if only because it was the first Google result I got when I searched "free screen capture software": https://tinytake.com/

fragglevision
04-15-2016, 11:03 AM
Also, as far as I know, every Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. cartoon from Supercade is on YouTube. Which unfortunately leaves the Frogger and Pitfall toons MIA, for now.

SpeedsterEVP
04-15-2016, 12:00 PM
Thanks fragglevision! I'll take a look into Tinytake. This might sound like a dumb question but...if I understand correctly, screen capture software would capture video and not just screen captures? I had an Add-On in my browser that could usually download videos but when I attempted to download an Amazon Video that I had bought (one would think if I bought it, I should be able to own it, not just stream it), all it would pickup was minute fractions of the video and not the full thing. I'll look into Tinytake & see though...

And well, I looked on youtube for the Donkey Kong & Donkey Kong, Jr. shorts but all I found were links that had been taken down...

SpeedsterEVP
04-26-2016, 04:44 PM
In case anyone's still looking to trade for any of these, I've since found a few of these.

I'm still looking for:
80s Christmas:
The Fonz & the Happy Days Gang "Fonz's Christmas Carol" (11/14/1981) (Wikipedia is the only place I've seen this "episode" listed. I'm beginning to think there is no such episode & it was just a Wiki error.)

American Bandstand "Christmas Show: Jose Feliciano/Chilliwack" (12/19/1981)

Welcome to Pooh Corner "Christmas at Pooh Corner" (1983 Christmas special, not a normal episode.)

Saturday Supercade "A Christmas Story (Donkey Kong, Jr. short)/Fake Me Out to the Ball Game (Frogger short)/Apey & the Snowbeast (Donkey Kong short)/The Sabertooth Goof (Pitfall short)" (11/19/1983) (I know many of these are lost but it doesn't hurt to check to see if anyone has any of the individual shorts.)

Welcome to Pooh Corner "Christmas is for Sharing" (1984 Christmas special)

Dumbo's Circus "Christmas at the Circus" (8/16/1985)

Christmas Bedpans (1986 Christmas special based on "The Adventures of Johnny Cusack" toon. Possibly UK? More info here: http://christmas-specials.wikia.com/...istmas_Bedpans)

ABC Afterschool Special "Seasonal Differences" (1987)

Tom & Jerry Christmas Special (1987) (This was a TBS network Christmas Special of Tom & Jerry's Funhouse on TBS hosted by members of TBS' Kids Beat show & featuring various classic Christmas-themed cartoon shorts. I have portions of this special & can get the cartoon shorts individually, but I'm missing some of the host segments in the middle of the special...I'm hoping to find a complete special. Worst case scenario, I could use what I do have & recreate it without some of the host segments but I REALLY don't want to have to do that, especially when it aired for several years straight. Surely someone out there has a complete copy?)

Paddington Bear "The Ghost of Christmas Paddington" (12/25/1989) (This is the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series that aired as part of the Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera TV show block)


90s Halloween:
Little Rosey "The Pumpkins are Gone!" (10/27/1990) (show alternately referred to as Little Rosie)

The Chipmunks Go to the Movies "Gremlionis" (11/17/1990) (show aired in syndication under the show title Alvin & the Chipmunks. I'll take any version of the episode, as I can change out the titles if need be.)

Mother Goose & Grimm "The Wickedest Witch/Hotel Mutt" (11/9/1991) (In Season 2, this show was retitled Grimmy)

Raw Toonage "Ski Patrol (Bonkers short)/Poultrygeist (Totally Tasteless Videos short)/Romancing the Clone (Marsupilami short)/Goofy's Guide to the Olympics (Goofy short)" (10/24/1992) (I have all shorts except the Marsupilami short and the Bonkers host segments)

Raw Toonage "Get Me a Pizza (Hold the Minefield) (Bonkers short)/Nightmare on Rocky Road (Totally Tasteless Videos short)/Wannabe Ruler? (Marsupilami short)/The Porker's Court (Totally Tasteless Videos short)" (10/31/1992) (I'm only needing the Bonkers short (which I've only been able to find in another language. I need it in English.) & the "Porker's Court" short here)

Marsupilami "Mars' Problem Pachyderm (Marsupilami short)/Night of the Living Schnookums (Schnookums & Meat short)/Mars Meets Dr. Normanstein (Marsupilami short)" (10/30/1993) (I'm only missing the Schnookums & Meat short here.)

Disney's Doug "Night of the Living Dougs" (10/31/1998) (show title alternately called Brand Spanking New Doug. This episode not to be confused with "Doug's Bloody Buddy" episode.)

Out of the Box "Halloween" (10/21/1999) (I believe this might've had a VHS release but I can't find it...)

fragglevision
05-27-2016, 05:48 PM
In regards to the Saturday Supercade episode:

A Christmas Story - found (thanks, person who had the 16mm prints!)
Fake Me Out to the Ball Game - lost
Apey & the Snowbeast - someone on the Lost Media Wiki claims to have a preview of the episode thanks to a trade
The Sabertooth Goof - lost (along with all but one of the Pitfall episodes, sadly)

source: http://lostmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Saturday_Supercade_(1983-1985_Ruby_Spears)

In the case that none of the other three shorts show up in full by the time you've gotten everything else on the list, then it would be ok to just put "Christmas Story" in the comp, maybe with three other non-lost Supercade episodes filling the void (after all, it's the one explicitly Christmas-themed Supercade short).

Also, the Out Of the Box episode DID have an official VHS release. It's called "Trick or treat" and it was on Amazon at one point in time but it's out of stock. Maybe it'll show up in the thrift store or yard sale circuit one day.