Dreamfinders (unproduced Disney Channel series based on "Journey Into Imagination" Epcot ride; 1983)

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Status: Lost


When The Disney Channel launched in 1983, the channel premiered several original programs, like Welcome to Pooh Corner and You and Me, Kid. Those shows were aired on the channel for years, but there was one original show that only aired for the first few weeks of the channel's launch called Dreamfinders. The show is based on the former EPCOT Center (now called Epcot) attraction, "Journey Into Imagination", which turned to "Journey Into Your Imagination" in 1999, and is now currently "Journey Into Imagination with Figment".

Plot

The show, as The Disney Channel Magazine described it, was about a group of children in a "real world" setting, as they are in some kind of problem. Dreamfinder (or as the show called him, Old Eli) would take the kids to "The Realm of Imagination", where they use their ideas to find a creative solution. However, Fear, the show's villain, along with his minions, would attempt to take the children and Eli to the abyss of "Bewilderedness".

Availability

The show was an hour long and aired on the weekend, but only lasted for three episodes, and some sources say that they were only shown once (or the three times a week the channel showed it). To this day, this show hasn't aired on the channel since 1983, and no episodes have surfaced online. The only footage representing this show to this day is a short appearance of Old Eli during the Disney Channel's launch countdown on April 18, 1983.

The series started to have a ramp up in people joining the search for it on December 12, 2016, when Lost Media Wiki user "ccateni" made a thread trying to get people to "help" him find the series.

On December 16, 2016, LMW user "theraincrafter" managed to contact a script writer of the TV show and obtain a script of an episode called "Just in Time". He then posted a download to the script along with emails sent to the script writer of the show on the original forum for the search of Dreamfinders. It confirms many of the rumors of the show while also giving an accurate depiction of how the show would appear on TV.

Gallery

Dreamfinder/Old Eli appears at 1:23