Supernanny (partially lost original British version of Channel 4 reality television show; 2004-2008)
This article has been tagged as NSFW due to its filtered child nudity in some of the episodes (e.g. The Ball Family) and very strong profanities, uncensored or not.
UK title card.
Status: Partially Lost
Supernanny is a reality television programme produced by Ricochet South back in the first half of July 2004, following the brilliant success of one of the "Cutting Edge" programmes "Bad Behaviour" on Channel 4.
Origins
The show consists of the list of parents persistently struggling to cope with how their child would behave in such an irrational manner and how they urgently need a professional nanny by the name of Jo Frost, or what most would refer her as the title "Supernanny". She would often come up with ways that she could potentially make children behave like any normal child would.
The majority of the episodes end on a really positive note while some episodes, such as The Hillhouse-Docherty Family[1], had Jo giving up on trying to assist the family in their time of need and would leave them to figure out a way to help themselves like providing anger management class for them in order for their family to stay and remain under control. But there was an exception with The Young Family after they finished filming the episode, where their lives are getting worse and worse with the assault allegations[2], and the fact that their house was on fire one time[3].
The show lasted for four years and has been watched by more than six million people within its first year with many calling this show an "instant success". It even had its own DVD release, only in the case of season three - minus the Hillhouse-Docherty family episode.[4]
Not to mention that it would eventually be remade for American audiences a year later, with some of the episodes being the ones based from the UK, such as The Colins Family[5], The Cooke Family and The Howat Family but slightly censored. The American version ran for over 115 episodes and lasted two years longer than the original all the way from 2005 to 2011.
Availability
The majority of the British Supernanny episodes, before the year 2017 to 2019, were available in full episodes on the wide selection of video-sharing websites such as Dailymotion and YouTube until they were taken down by Warner Bros International via copyright strikes with some of the full episodes being completely lost such as the Pandit family. The strikes have gotten so bigger and bigger that the full version of certain British episodes might, in and of themselves, never see the light of day again. That was until the episodes were eventually carried over to the streaming service under the name "Max", or what was then called "HBO Max". That was however until they got pulled off from their library in late 2022 as a tax write-off, making the full versions of the British episodes completely impossible for anybody to access. There is partially posted clips from the original version still available over on the official Supernanny YouTube channel and the majority of the clips were posted prior to the tax write-off that was transpired back in 2022.
However, in late January 2022, the user by the name of James Tulloch-Knight[6] managed to recover some of the full episodes that were pulled from Dailymotion and YouTube somewhere out of the blue[7] and posted them onto Internet Archive, reducing any possibilities that they might get lost again. But half of the British episodes are still considered lost or only available through partial clips uploaded on the Supernanny channel[8].
Episodes
| # | Episode Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Woods Family | Found |
| 2 | The Steer Family | Partially Found |
| 3 | The Charles Family | Lost |
| 4 | The Collins Family | Partially Found (original version) Found (US version) |
| 5 | The Hemingway-Clegg Family | Partially Found |
| 6 | The Pandit Family | Lost |
| 7 | The Douglas Family | Partially Found |
| 8 | The Cooke Family | Lost (original version) Found (US version) |
| 9 | The Seniors Family | Found |
| 10 | The Bradbury-Lambert Family | Found (original version) Found (US version) |
| 11 | The Agate Family | Found |
| 12 | The Young Family | Partially Found |
| 13 | The Ball Family | Found |
| 14 | The Bixley Family | Found |
| 15 | The Woods Family revisited | Found |
| 16 | The Hillhouse-Docherty Family | Partially Found |
| 17 | The Howat Family | Found (original version) Found (US version) |
| 18 | The Smith-Brown Family | Found |
| 19 | The Bates Family | Found |
| 20 | The Williams Family | Found (original version) Found (US version) |
| 21 | The Pollard-Morris Family | Found |
| 22 | The Smith-Clarke Family | Found |
| 23 | The Gormley-Brickley Family | Partially Found (original version) Found (US version) |
| 24 | The Wynne-Jones Family | Partially Found |
| 25 | The Cooke Family revisited | Found |
| 26 | The Douglas Family revisited | Partially Found |
| 27 | The Hancox-Smith Family | Partially Found |
| 28 | The Porter Family | Found (original version) Found (US version) |
| 29 | The "Unknown" Family | Unaired |
| 30 | The Tomlin Family | Partially Found |
References
- ↑ A Supernanny Fandom article documenting the episode and the family themselves Retrieved 08 Oct '23
- ↑ A news article addressing Jacob's sexual assault allegations Retrieved 08 Oct '23
- ↑ A news article explaining how Joel, at the age of 3, caused arson to his own home. Retrieved 08 Oct '23
- ↑ Region 2 DVD release of season 3 - minus the Hillhouse-Docherty Family episode Retrieved 08 Oct '23
- ↑ American version of The Colins Family; a British episode Retrieved 08 Oct '23
- ↑ James Tulloch-Knight's profile at Web Archive Retrieved 08 Oct '23
- ↑ Supernanny UK S04 E01 Retrieved 08 Oct '23
- ↑ A clip of the episode "The Hancox-Smith Family" Retrieved 08 Oct '23