Prank Patrol (partially lost Canadian children's series; 2005-2010)
_0-19_screenshot.png)
The show's logo from season 1.
Status: Partially Lost
Prank Patrol was a Canadian children's series that was created by Apartment 11 Productions and Marvista Entertainment and aired on YTV from September 6, 2005[1][2] to February 26, 2010 for 100 episodes. The show revolves around host André "Andy" Simoneau and a team of ninjas helping kids pull pranks on an unsuspecting victim (usually a family member or friend). The show became a moderate success for YTV and two international versions of the show were also made in the United Kingdom and Australia and both became successful in their own right[3][4]. The show has been compared to Punk'd, another prank show that was airing at the time.
Premise
Each episode sees Andy and the Ninjas help kids pull off pranks on an unsuspecting victim (which is usually a family member or friend), with the prank in question usually being a success. Also, each episode includes an animated segment called "Recipe For A Prank" which shows a boy and girl pulling pranks on each other. The ninjas also pull pranks on the public and Andy in some episodes.
Episodes
Season 1
| # | Episode Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Superhero | Found |
| 2 | Punk Makeover | Found |
| 3 | Rigged Resto | Found |
| 4 | Haunted House | Found |
| 5 | Video Game Comes Alive | Found |
| 6 | Dino Egg | Found |
| 7 | Karate Kid | Found |
| 8 | Lake Monster | Found |
| 9 | ESP/Telekinesis | Found |
| 10 | Bigfoot | Found |
| 11 | Rap Star | Found |
| 12 | Robots | Found |
| 13 | Aliens Exist | Found |
| 14 | Giant Spider | Found |
| 15 | The Magic Car | Found |
| 16 | Bowling Madness | Found |
| 17 | The Dinner Party | Found |
| 18 | Heavy Metal Makeover | Found |
| 19 | The Auction | Found |
| 20 | Double Date | Found |
| 21 | Dr. Frankenstein | Found |
| 22 | Grandpa Andy | Found |
| 23 | The Teleporter | Found |
| 24 | Housecleaners | Found |
| 25 | The Mummy | Found |
| 26 | The Best Of Prank Patrol | Found |
Season 2
| # | Episode Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bad News Bakery | Found |
| 2 | Genius Gorilla | Found |
| 3 | The Wrestler | Found |
| 4 | The Treasure Hunt | Found |
| 5 | Aliens Have Landed | Found |
| 6 | Iceman Cometh | Found |
| 7 | Magic Shop | Found |
| 8 | Movie Madness | Found |
| 9 | Bingo! | Found |
| 10 | Dream Machine | Found |
| 11 | Ghost Hunters | Found |
| 12 | Lost Dog | Found |
| 13 | The Office Boss | Found |
| 14 | Zombie Attack | Found |
| 15 | Bad Boyfriend | Found |
| 16 | Babysitter Blues | Found |
| 17 | Spy Kid | Found |
| 18 | Game Show | Found |
| 19 | Killer Bees | Found |
| 20 | Giant Rat | Found |
| 21 | Commercial Shoot | Found |
| 22 | Werewolf | Found |
| 23 | Invisible Boys | Found |
| 24 | Fortune Teller | Found |
| 25 | Super Dad | Found |
| 26 | Best Of | Found |
Season 3
| # | Episode Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blues Brothers | Lost |
| 2 | Giant Lizard | Lost |
| 3 | Medical Temp | Lost |
| 4 | Principal's Office | Lost |
| 5 | Car Wash | Lost |
| 6 | Mind Control | Lost |
| 7 | Medieval Warrior | Lost |
| 8 | Giant | Lost |
| 9 | Count Dracula | Partially Found |
| 10 | Da Bears | Lost |
| 11 | Lost | Lost |
| 12 | Shoplifting Granny | Lost |
| 13 | Space Station | Lost |
| 14 | Earthquake | Lost |
| 15 | Gone Fishing | Lost |
| 16 | Unknown | Lost |
| 17 | Unknown | Lost |
| 18 | Unknown | Lost |
| 19 | Ghost | Lost |
| 20 | Living Dolls | Lost |
| 21 | Mad Dentist | Lost |
| 22 | Bogus Celebrity | Partially Found |
| 23 | Time Machine | Lost |
| 24 | Secret Admirer | Lost |
| 25 | Alien Invasion | Lost |
| 26 | Best Of Prank Patrol 3 | Lost |
Season 4
| # | Episode Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Waltzing Queen | Lost |
| 2 | Bad Hair Day | Lost |
| 3 | Giant Baby | Partially Found |
| 4 | A Fashion Fiasco | Lost |
| 5 | SuperHero | Lost |
| 6 | Cockroach Wedding | Lost |
| 7 | Motorpsycho | Lost |
| 8 | The Donkey Con | Lost |
| 9 | Blades of Sorrow | Lost |
| 10 | Anime Scam | Lost |
| 11 | Breaking News | Lost |
| 12 | Creepy Cloning | Lost |
| 13 | Leprechaun’s Lair | Lost |
| 14 | The Exercise Chef | Lost |
| 15 | Most Wanted | Lost |
| 16 | Superstar | Lost |
| 17 | Haunted Garden | Lost |
| 18 | Looney Library | Lost |
| 19 | Magic Guitar | Lost |
| 20 | Icky Feet | Lost |
| 21 | Boogeyman | Partially Found |
| 22 | Freaky Fortunes | Partially Found |
Availability
The show would occasionally air on Discovery Kids Canada alongside YTV and would sometimes air in Australia on ABC3 (as the Australian version would air on ABC3). After it's final episode aired in February 2010, YTV would briefly reran the show until 2013, when the show was completely scrubbed from the channel. In 2014, the now defunct BBC Kids[9] (a Canadian version of the CBBC block from the United Kingdom) aired reruns of the first two seasons of Prank Patrol until 2017, when the channel closed down. The show never aired on television again after 2017 and episodes were very hard to come by. From November 2018 to March 2019, YouTube user DangerousVHS uploaded the first two seasons of the show to YouTube that came from the BBC Kids reruns[10]. Because BBC Kids never reran the final two seasons of the show, very little of those seasons have resurfaced. Recordings of the original YTV airings of the show are very rare to come by. Only the intro from the third season and two clips from two season four episodes can be found online. The rest of the show remains lost to this day.
See Also
- Anthony Ant (partially lost HBO/YTV animated series based on books; 1999)
- Big BBQ Blowout (partially found interstitials of YTV event; 2006)
- Borderline High (lost Canadian afterschool special; 1992)
- Caitlin's Way (partially found Nickelodeon/YTV teen drama series, promos, and dubs; 2000-2002)
- D'Myna Leagues (partially found second season of Canadian animated series; 2002)
- Freaky Stories (found Canadian animated/live-action horror TV series; 1997-2000)
- Fries With That? (found YTV sitcom; 2004)
- Mischief City (partially found Canadian animated children's TV series; 2005)
- Monster Buster Club "The New Recruits" (found episode of children's TV series; 2008)
- Monster By Mistake! (found CGI animated series; 1996-2003)
- The Real Captain Flamingo Show (partially found special episodes of "Captain Flamingo" Canadian-Filipino children's animated series; 2007)
- Stickin' Around (partially found pre-series shorts of Nelvana animated series; 1994)
- The Sticklers (lost pitch pilot of 'Stickin' Around' Nelvana animated series; early 1990s)
- Treasure (partially found BBC animated series; 2001-2002)
- The Twins (partially found animated series; 2000)
- Weird Years (partially lost animated comedy series; 2006)
- Weird-Oh's (partially lost American/Canadian CGI animated TV series; 1999)
- YTV.com (partially found online games; 1998-2006)
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080705193828/http://www.channelcanada.com/Article919.html
- ↑ https://youtu.be/CdnD0DpU2Xc
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100411074708/http://www.bakermedia.co.uk/spage-latest_projects_and_case_studies-bbc_tvs_prank_patrol.html
- ↑ https://tvtonight.com.au/2010/04/renewed-prank-patrol.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120402190703/http://prankpatrol.apartment11.tv/seasons/show/1
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120320060138/http://prankpatrol.apartment11.tv/seasons/show/3
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120402185643/http://prankpatrol.apartment11.tv/seasons/show/4
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120320060217/http://prankpatrol.apartment11.tv/seasons/show/9
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160331002103/http://bbckids.ca/shows/prank-patrol
- ↑ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtKz87JWQAT7KtLBjT9BfZii5yOSW527E