Hello. I have been making my own restorations and combined with the ones that Elijah Hechtman made have a total of 82 out of 107 restored episodes in my possession, 55 of which have been posted on my youtube channel (https://youtube.com/daneclark-lr1oe) and the rest will be posted over the next couple of days. The quality isnt always the best but everything is at least an 8 out of 10 IMO. I would like to apologize for things like the fact that a very small number of my “restorations” are nothing more than raw tvrips with the commercials clipped out and first second or so of the intro missing and for things like the fact that there might be episodes with plastered logos or the wrong credits in the part that was unique to each episode where they credit where they got all the stock footage from, I just wanted to make something that would be a 99.9999999% accurate representation of what we would get if an official release were possible. Anyway, I think that restoring the whole show this way feels like it just might be doable, so here’s what I’ll need:
If anyone has any of the stuff in this list, please PM me a video download link and I will credit you on the channel
-First of all, before anyone tells that some of these things are already online in acceptable quality, I disagree because some of the stuff I found there had the brightness and contrast turned up too high making the whole picture look overexposed whenever there was a lot of white on the screen and/or had too many compression artifacts and/or had the recordings cut off in annoying places and stuff like that
-I need Syndicated airings of “What’s New at the Zoo”, “This Little Piggy Went To Hollywood”, and “Old MacKermit Had A Farm.” These 3 episodes had the wrong Go Bye Bye sequences when they aired on Nickelodeon and some CBS airings lacked them all together, but my research seems to indicate that the edited Syndicated airings always had the correct ones.
-Nick or CBS airings of “Where No Muppet Has Gone Before”, “Invasion of the Muppet Snackers”, “Adventures in Muppet Sitting”, “Nanny’s Day Off,” and “Is There a Muppet In The House”. I also need a Syndication airing of “Is There A Muppet In The House” to ensure that I can get the correct Go Bye Bye I need, the only copy of that episode online is a Syndicated airing that has the Go Bye Bye partially missing
-Nick airings of “Elm Street Babies”, “Junkyard Muppets”, “Bug Busting Babies”, “Six-To-Eight Weeks” “Not Necessarily the Babies”, “Skeeter And The Wolf”, “Goosetown Babies”, “ “The Muppets of Invention”, “Muppet Babies The Next Generation” and “Buckskin Babies.” I prefer using the regular Go Bye-Bye sequences instead of the altered “We’ll be right back” versions used in the hour-long CBS airings and Nick airings of these episodes would be the best place to find them. The first 3 episodes on this list also likely aired in Syndication with their correct Go Bye-Byes.
-CBS airings of “Gonzee’s Playhouse Channel”, Kermit Pan”, “Whose Tale Is It Anyway”, “At The Movies”, and “Return of the Bronzed Beetle.” Since these episodes never aired on Nick or in Syndication and aired on CBS when they show was still an hour long it’s likely that their Go Bye-Bye sequences only exist in the altered “We’ll be right back” form but if anyone does find the regular versions for those episodes please send them to me
-I would also like to point out that i think that some of the things I’m asking for were available on a bootleg DVD set that was flating around back in the mid 00s so if you think you might have that set please check for me. You can tell if an episode is unedited if it runs around 22:30 without the intro, credits, and Go Bye-Bye segment. I already have syndicated airings of “Where No Muppet Has Gone Before,” “Invasion of the Muppet Snackers,” “Adventures in Muppet Sitting,” and “Nanny’s Day Off,” so its OK if the Go Bye Bye Segments from those episodes are missing from that set. It also appears that the “We’ll Be Right Back” Go Bye Bye segments from all of the later season 7 episodes that never aired on Nick are just might be ones that are easy to reformat into the regular versions if someone could give them to me sourced from that set since I don’t have usable copies of any of them, and it would still prefer to use the pre-existing regular versions for those episodes if they exist, and I still want Nick airings of all the other episodes that had their Go Bye Bye segments altered like that
