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Nice! Sorry I didn’t reply sooner, but great find!

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How is this coming along?

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I would love to have all The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, The Legend of Zelda, Captain N: The Game Master, Super Mario World and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episodes fully restored to their original broadcasts on Blu-Ray.

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I would love to see “Treasure of the Sierra Brooklyn” and “The Magic Love” with the original English audio. I already have the English versions of the other eleven Friday live-action segments, taken from YouTube. Hope the original English audio tracks for the two mentioned above will be found soon.

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Hey everyone,

A couple of awesome people uploaded this year (What I believe are) the missing pieces of material marioxb has been looking for.

Treasure of the Sierra Brooklyn (Live action segment [English Version])
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFyRXk9524

He also has Magic Love (Again, the English live action segment), which (I believe) was needed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43QiiiajRHY

Here is an Internet Archive upload that has commercial bumpers (Including Day of the Orphan) that the uploader claims were never released on home video.

https://archive.org/details/lost-commercial-bumpers-smbss-recreated

The uploader does mention that “some of the screenshot used in the recreated bumpers might not match the original tv airings.”, so I don’t know if that is a problem for marioxb or not.

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Still working on this. Kinda. Been on the back burner for a while. I’ll get back into it eventually. The sound issues on those two episodes is very annoying!

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damn this has been going on since 2007

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Hello, I know a lot of episodes have properly been restored now by various people over the years and put on Youtube, but I’d like to mention that there’s been a new German complete series release of Super Show.
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Lou-Albano-voice/dp/B0B7GLN7ZS/
It contains both an English and German audio track, however I haven’t bought it yet so I can’t be sure if either contains the original music. If I were to guess, the German audio track probably has the music while the English one doesn’t, but again we can’t be sure until someone bites the bullet and buys the set.

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DVD Dragon said:

Hello, I know a lot of episodes have properly been restored now by various people over the years and put on Youtube, but I’d like to mention that there’s been a new German complete series release of Super Show.
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Lou-Albano-voice/dp/B0B7GLN7ZS/
It contains both an English and German audio track, however I haven’t bought it yet so I can’t be sure if either contains the original music. If I were to guess, the German audio track probably has the music while the English one doesn’t, but again we can’t be sure until someone bites the bullet and buys the set.

I have that set. We’ll not the whole set, but Pidax put it out in parts before they made a complete set. It does include German and English audio tracks on the episodes with Mario cartoons, and all of the lost segments are included. However, they are still missing the cover songs on the English tracks. The only home video release of George Washington Slept Here.

The Zelda segments have only German audio and only include the live action portions as bonus material. The only home video release of most of the Zelda episodes, with German audio only.

The set is worth getting if you want those missing episodes in some capacity, but most (all?) of the episodes are missing some scenes here and there.

I will finish this project, though much like Adywan and his Star Wars edits, I can’t provide a time frame.

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marioxb said:

DVD Dragon said:

Hello, I know a lot of episodes have properly been restored now by various people over the years and put on Youtube, but I’d like to mention that there’s been a new German complete series release of Super Show.
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Lou-Albano-voice/dp/B0B7GLN7ZS/
It contains both an English and German audio track, however I haven’t bought it yet so I can’t be sure if either contains the original music. If I were to guess, the German audio track probably has the music while the English one doesn’t, but again we can’t be sure until someone bites the bullet and buys the set.

I have that set. We’ll not the whole set, but Pidax put it out in parts before they made a complete set. It does include German and English audio tracks on the episodes with Mario cartoons, and all of the lost segments are included. However, they are still missing the cover songs on the English tracks. The only home video release of George Washington Slept Here.

The Zelda segments have only German audio and only include the live action portions as bonus material. The only home video release of most of the Zelda episodes, with German audio only.

The set is worth getting if you want those missing episodes in some capacity, but most (all?) of the episodes are missing some scenes here and there.

I will finish this project, though much like Adywan and his Star Wars edits, I can’t provide a time frame.

The episodes are missing scenes? Like which ones? I know that some international versions (I’m from Denmark btw) cut the Zelda previews. And I assume the German audio does have the cover songs then?

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Yeah the Zelda previews, amoung other things. I don’t have my set with me right now (in storage) but off the top of my head, George Washington Slept Here is missing part of the dream sequence, The Magic Love is missing a section, which makes it hard to recreate in English. There is a complete version of that episode in Swedish on YouTube, but the part missing from the German version has a TV watermark on the Swedish one. Sierra Brooklyn, I think is only missing a section of the freeze framed cartoon Mario head. I sorta fixed that by adding more frames of the head and some music from the Inspector Gadget cartoon. Pretty sure all episodes have 20-40 seconds missing of each episode, not counting the Zelda preview.

Honestly, the most complete set is this Australian set.
https://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/The-Super-Mario-Bros-Super-Show-Collectors-Set-DVD/151845/
It’s NTSC and has every missing “Mario” segment from the American set, except George Washington Slept Here. (Also missing a “standard” episode, but that one is on the US Shout set. The AU set doesn’t have any bumpers, but those are on the US set. The AU set also has some Domino’s sponsor bumpers (after the first theme song, which only some episodes used when originally aired) and Viacom closing tags.

The German set is really only good for some Zelda segments and George Washington Slept Here, unless you’re also after German audio. Pretty much every missing segment can be cobbled from YouTube. But as I said, my custom set will have EVERYTHING to make it as close to originally aired in the US as possible. I’ll get to work on it again soon. I’m going to include every Mario and Zelda segment, every found Club Mario segment and bonus feature, all songs restored, etc.

I think all/most foreign soundtracks contain the cover songs, but it’s not always easy ripping clean parts for English use.

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Thanks for the info! I might still get the German set but I look forward to seeing your release as well.

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So I got the German set at a decent price. I love that it has an audio track with all the songs but the video quality is pretty terrible. It looks like a downscale of an upscale, and is really grainy sometimes for some reason? IMO it looks worse than the Nordic DVDs (only a few episodes per disc) that I have. Pretty disappointing. Oh well.

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Lol. I warned you that it was only good for the couple of missing episodes. That’s cool though, I have a few versions of SMBSS as well. As I said, my favorites are the US Shout version, and the “Collector’s Set” from Australia.

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Welp, I should’ve asked about the video quality I guess, lmao. I assumed it’d be decent because the Nordic DVDs I have do have pretty decent video quality and 60 FPS for the live action segments, which most Youtube uploads don’t have, and I assumed this set might’ve been using the same masters (The German Power Ranger DVDs I have also are better quality than the Youtube uploads as well) but whatever they did is pretty terrible. You can find Super Show episodes in better quality on Youtube and at that point having a physical set becomes pretty pointless.

I might try to get my hands on the other sets (even though it’s a pain to get anything imported to the EU now), or just wait for the full restoration and burn the episodes and bonus features onto a Blu-Ray.

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Yeah that’s what I plan on doing a 3 blu ray set of all 65 episodes in DVD quality. Its been so long that I’ve actually watched the German set I have (but like I said, I bought them when they were sold in volumes), so I didn’t really remember how the quality was. It’s the best source for Sierra Brooklyn anyway. The YouTube versions came from the German DVD.

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I think those segments weren’t tampered with the same way the actual episodes were, for some reason. At least when I checked the “bonus” ones on the first set. (And yeah I ended up buying the volumes separate since it was WAY cheaper)

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Ah, maybe that’s why I didn’t remember the quality. I bought it only for the bonus segments. They seemed decent enough. That and George Washington Slept Here. If you’re after German audio, it can be salvaged by syncing to better quality episodes.

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Nah, the thing I was hoping to do was just swap to the German audio track whenever a song was supposed to come on, lmao. The audio tracks I’m really after are the Danish ones but aside from 4 3 episode DVDs, and short clips of VHS recordings on Youtube, the Danish dub is pretty much lost media, despite the entire series being dubbed as far as I know. It’s a shame but I’ll live since I love Lou and Danny’s performances.

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Neat. I plan on having every foreign dub represented at least once on my “super set”. Like Sierra Brooklyn in German, Magic Love in Swedish, etc. I’d like to have at least one live action, 1 Mario cartoon and 1 Zelda cartoon in each language. What is a good Zelda cartoon, Mario cartoon and live action segment I can find in Danish, if any? I might even try to dub one episode with Charles Martinet and one with Chris Pratt, if I can find suitable audio.

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So there’s actually 2 dubs of Super Show in Danish, one was released on VHSes and were pretty bad, but then when Fox Kids channels started being a thing internationally, they produced a new dub (which then had 4 3 episode DVDs released). Zelda was released separately during the initial VHS run of Super Show but had a similarly shoddy dub.

For Danish Super Show segments, I’d recommend, of the newer dub, which are the ones you can find on Youtube:
Live action: All Steamed Up
Cartoon: King Mario of Cramalot
Zelda: I really don’t know since I don’t think I’ve ever watched a full episode in Danish lmao