Teen Angel (partially lost Disney Channel serial drama; 1989)
A still of Jason Priestley as main character Buzz Gunderson.
Status:
Teen Angel: Partially Lost
Teen Angel Returns: Found
Date found: 04 Feb 2024 (Teen Angel Returns)
Found by: Vexer6, Anonymous, &
Sincerely Yours MMC (Teen Angel Returns)
Teen Angel (not to be confused with the 1997 sitcom of the same name) was a fantasy serial drama that aired on the Disney Channel in 1989, debuting on The All New Mickey Mouse Club on April 24th, and ending on May 22nd, 1989.[1] The episodes are 6-8 minutes at length when it first aired.
The show starred a pre-Beverly Hills, 90210 Jason Priestley as greaser guardian angel Buzz Gunderson, who died in a car wreck in 1959. Buzz would be given various assignments and tasks to complete in order to get into heaven.
A sequel series, Teen Angel Returns, with Priestley, Robyn Lively, and future Beverly Hills, 90210 co-star Jennie Garth, followed. It aired from October 2nd to 22nd, 1989.[2]
Reruns
Both series would air as 6-8 minute episodes in-between the All New Mickey Mouse Club program on Disney Channel in 1989. A few years later, these 6-8 minute episodes were later compiled and merged into four 25 to 30-minute episodes and aired as a stand-alone program on Disney Channel with the first series airing somewhere around 1993 and the sequel series airing somewhere around 1994[3].
Availability
ANMMC episodes
Prior to 2020, three unknown segments from various users resurfaced online from unknown episodes, though two dubbed in German. According to various users and mentions, the show seems to have a large German fanbase, possibly explaining why most of the only information on the show is in German. On June 2nd, 2013 however, YouTube user Jesse Blue uploaded the first two episodes of the series, albeit in the German dub.
On various days in August 2020, YouTube user and Disney archivist Sincerely Yours MMC uploaded various episodes of the Disney show All New Mickey Mouse Club (ANMMC) with Teen Angel and its sequel series airing in-between the episodes. From these ANMMC episodes, six episodes of Teen Angel were retrieved (episodes 1-5 and 11) and five episodes from Teen Angel Returns (episodes 3-4, 8-9, and 13) were retrieved and marked as found.
Three months later, on November 9th, 2020, the 10th episode of Teen Angel Returns was found from the same user from their October 23rd, 1989 ANMMC episode upload. This marks 12 episodes found from both series overall in 2020.
In 2021, two episodes in the Teen Angel Returns series were uploaded by the same user via ANMMC uploads being the 12th episode of the series uploaded on April and the first episode of the series being uploaded on November of that year.
On January 14th, 2022, the same user would upload the second episode of Teen Angel Returns and on April 6th, 2022, a different YouTube user by the name of TVpica would upload an airing of the finale episode of Teen Angel in English dub with German subtitles. Sincerely Yours MMC would the 5th episode of Teen Angel Returns on March 2nd, 2023, and the 6th episode of Teen Angel on April 4th, 2023.
Sincerely Yours MMC would upload the 6th episode of Teen Angel Returns on February 2nd, 2024 and the 7th episode of Teen Angel on March 31st, 2024.
Reruns
On February 4th, 2024, LMW user Vexer6 obtained copies of the reruns of all Teen Angel Returns via an anonymous Sitcoms Online user who kindly shared their copy of episodes with them. Vexer6 would later upload this episodes on the Internet Archive[3]. However, as these episodes were the reruns from and around 1994, they do not contain any episode titles and the "To Be Continued..." text always shown in 6-8 minute versions in ANMMC.
While the original ANMMC 6-8 minute version of episodes 7 and 11 of Teen Angel Returns has not been found, these episodes can be traced via the reruns. As the episodes before and after episodes 7 and 11 are found and the 1996 rerun of Teen Angel Returns has been shared via Vexer6's upload, the timestamps of these episodes can be traced as follows via the scenes that come before and the scenes that come after the missing episodes:
- Episode 7 of Teen Angel Returns is in Episode 2 of Vexer6's upload on the Internet Archive starting at 23:28 up until the end of the episode. The scene before 23:28 is the last scene on the 6th episode of the series and the first scene on Episode 3 of Vexer6's upload after the recap is the first scene on the 8th episode of the series.
- Episode 11 of Teen Angel Returns is in Episode 4 of Vexer6's upload on the Internet Archive from 03:35 up until 10:42. The last scene before the credits of Episode 3 on Vexer6's upload is the last scene of the 10th episode of the series, while the scene at 10:42 is the very first scene on the 12th episode of the series.
With this, all of Teen Angel Returns has been found, with three more episodes from Teen Angel missing.
Episodes
Teen Angel
# | Episode Name | Status |
---|---|---|
1 | Down To Earth | Found (6:32 - 14:04) |
2 | Just A Dream | Found (9:25 - 15:45) |
3 | Born Too Late | Found (6:38 - 13:13) |
4 | What A Drag! | Found (6:49 - 14:45) |
5 | Flunking Out | Found (9:36 - 16:36) |
6 | Date With An Angel | Found (8:43 - 15:53) |
7 | Alive & Kicking | Found (9:37 - 15:45) |
8 | Title unknown | Lost |
9 | Title unknown | Lost |
10 | Title unknown | Lost |
11 | Winner Takes All | Found (8:39 - 16:36) (low quality; has frequent stutters) |
12 | Cloud Nine | Found |
Teen Angel Returns
- Note 1: For those that does not want to watch the 6-8 minute ANNMC episodes of the series and wants to watch the completed series (1994 reruns) from Vexer6's uploads, it is available to be watched here.
- Note 2: All of Teen Angel Returns has been found on April 14th, 2024, by LMW user Vexer6 from an anonymous Sitcoms Online user. However, as these episodes are reruns and are 25 to 30-minutes in length, some of the episode titles are not documented and is unknown. To suffice, the only missing episodes that had not yet been found from ANMMC episodes, episodes 7 and 11, are deduced based on scenes from found ANMMC episodes that appeared in the reruns, thus they will be labeled on the table below with the text "[from reruns]".
- Note 3: The original 6-8 minute ANMMC episodes of episodes 7 and 11 are still lost but will still be added and would replaced the reruns linked in the table once found. This will also be the case for its title. The link located on the first note however would not be deleted for those that wants to watch the reruns instead.
- Note 4: The title on the reruns is not the same as the titles in the ANMMC episodes.
# | Episode Name | Status |
---|---|---|
1 | Return To Earth | Found (11:33 - 19:53) |
2 | No Angel | Found (7:20 - 15:27) |
3 | The Driving Test | Found (9:21 - 17:37) |
4 | Near Miss | Found (10:21 - 18:10) |
5 | The Jerk | Found (9:10 - 17:25) |
6 | The Gutterball | Found (6:51 - 14:14) |
7 | Title unknown | Found (23:28 - 29:20) [from reruns] |
8 | Getting Desperate | Found (8:24 - 16:32) |
9 | Buzz Off! | Found (9:22 - 17:37) |
10 | Never Say Never | Found (8:26 - 15:06) |
11 | Title unknown | Found (03:35 - 10:42) [from reruns] |
12 | Oldies But Goodies | Found (11:23 - 19:33) |
13 | Dream Come True | Found (7:39 - 13:53) |
Gallery
See Also
Disney Channel
- 101 Dalmatians: The Series (partially found pitch pilot of Disney animated TV series based on animated film; 1996)
- The All-New Mickey Mouse Club (partially found revival of Disney variety TV series; 1989-1994)
- Amazing Animals (found Disney Channel educational animated series; 1996-1999)
- Amphibiland (found pitch pilot of "Amphibia" Disney Channel animated series; 2018)
- Arwin! (partially found pitch pilot of cancelled spin-off of "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" Disney Channel sitcom; 2007)
- Bonkers "Fall Apart Bomb Squad" (found episode of Disney Channel animated series; 1993)
- Country Club (partially lost test pilot of "Big City Greens" Disney Channel adventure-comedy animated series; 2015)
- Disney Channel Interactive (lost Dish Network game channel; late 2000s)
- Disney Channel "Disney's One Too" (partially lost "Recess" gags of TV channel block; 1999-2003)
- Disney Channel "Wand Idents" (partially found bumpers from TV channel; 2003-present)
- Disney's Coyote Tales (found Disney Channel extended version of "The Coyote's Lament" animated short; 1991)
- Disney's Doug (found episodes of animated TV series; 1996-1999)
- Dreamfinders (unproduced Disney Channel series based on "Journey Into Imagination" Epcot ride; 1983)
- Dumbo's Circus (partially found Disney Channel live-action puppet series; 1985-1986)
- Fish Hooks (partially found test pilot of Disney Channel animated series; 2009)
- Going Wild with Jeff Corwin (partially found Disney Channel documentary series; 1997-1999)
- Gravity Falls (found Comic Con 2012 promo of Disney Channel animated mystery comedy series; 2012)
- Gravity Falls (found pitch pilot of Disney Channel animated mystery comedy series; 2010)
- Hannah Montana (lost production material of cancelled anime adaptation of Disney Channel teen sitcom; 2009-2010)
- Herbie the Lovebug (lost Disney Channel animated pilot; late 1990s-2000s)
- The Jersey (partially lost Disney Channel sports-themed comedy series; 1999-2004)
- J.O.N.A.S. (partially found original pilot of "Jonas" Disney Channel comedy series; 2007)
- Katbot (partially found unreleased Disney Channel animated series; 2005)
- Lizzie McGuire "Season 3" (lost production material of cancelled season of Disney Channel comedy series; 2020)
- Minnie Takes Care of Pluto (found Mickey Mouse Works animated short; 2000)
- Mousercise (partially found Disney Channel exercise series; 1983-1996)
- Mouseterpiece Theater (partially found Disney Channel cartoon compilation series; 1983-1990)
- The Owl House (found test animation of Disney Channel animated series; 2017)
- Pepper Ann (found Disney animated TV series; 1997-2000)
- Pepper Ann (partially found Nickelodeon pitch pilot of Disney animated series; 1996)
- Phineas and Ferb "Delivery of Destiny" (partially found Simon Pegg version of Disney Channel animated series episode; 2013)
- Phineas and Ferb: Spot the Diff (found Disney Channel animated special; 2008)
- The Proud Family (partially found Nickelodeon pitch pilot of Disney Channel animated sitcom; 1999)
- Recess "The Break In" (partially found pitch pilot of Disney animated TV series; 1996)
- Shooting Star Milkshake Bar (found full version of "Phineas and Ferb" song; 2008)
- Star and the Forces of Evil (found pitch pilot of Disney Channel animated series; 2011)
- Talespin (lost Phil Harris audio recordings from Disney Channel animated series; 1990)
- Welcome to Pooh Corner (partially found Disney Channel live-action puppet series; 1983-1986)
- What's Stevie Thinking? (lost pitch pilot of cancelled spin-off of "Lizzie McGuire" Disney Channel comedy series; 2005)
Playhouse Disney
- Adventures in Nutrition with Captain Carlos (found Playhouse Disney animated short series; 2004-2007)
- Bear in the Big Blue House (found unaired pilot of Disney Channel puppet series; 1997)
- Bear in the Big Blue House (found Playhouse Disney puppet series; 1997-2006)
- The Book of Pooh (found Playhouse Disney puppet series; 2001-2004)
- Breakfast with Bear (partially found spin-off of "Bear in the Big Blue House" Playhouse Disney puppet series; 2005-2006)
- Handy Manny (partially found DKP Studios pilot of Playhouse Disney CGI animated series; 2005)
- Imagination Movers (found pitch pilot of Playhouse Disney series based on children's music group; 2006)
- JoJo's Circus (partially lost Playhouse Disney stop-motion animated series; 2003-2007)
- Little Einsteins (partially found British dub of Playhouse Disney animated series; 2005-2010)
- Little Einstein (partially found pitch pilots of Playhouse Disney animated series; 2003-2004)
- My Friends Tigger & Pooh (partially found test pilots of Playhouse Disney CGI animated series; 2005/2006)
- Out of the Box (partially lost Playhouse Disney children's series; 1998-2004)
- PB&J Otter (found original credits sequences of Playhouse Disney animated series; 1998-2000)
- Playhouse Disney UK (partially found interstitial material of TV channel block; 1999-2006)
- Stanley (found pitch pilot of Playhouse Disney animated series; 1999)
Disney Junior
- Beverly Hills Chihuahuas (found pitch pilot of cancelled Disney Junior animated adaptation of film series; 2012)
- Jake's Team Pirate (found pitch pilot of "Jake and the Never Land Pirates" Disney Junior animated series; 2009)
- Jungle Junction (lost pitch pilots of Disney Junior CGI animated series; 2003-2008)
Toon Disney
- Teamo Supremo (partially lost Toon Disney animated series; 2002-2004)
- Toon News (partially found Toon Disney CGI animated interstitial series; 2004/2005)
Disney XD
- The 7D (found pitch pilot of Disney XD animated series; 2012)
- Billion Dollar Freshmen (lost pitch pilot of "Lab Rats" Disney XD live-action comedy series; 2010)
- Commando Crash (lost pitch pilot of cancelled spin-off of "Crash & Bernstein" Disney XD sitcom; 2014)
- DXP (partially lost Disney XD video game block; 2017)
- Power Rangers Animated Series (lost Disney XD pilot of animated adaptation of live-action superhero series; existence unconfirmed; 2007-2009)
- Very Important House (found Disney XD animated pitch pilot; 2016)
Other
- Green Monkeys (lost Disney animated pitch pilot; 1999)
- Kingdom Hearts (found animatic of cancelled Disney animated TV adaptation of game series; 2003)
- La Chambre Folle (lost French Disney children's TV block; 1998)
- Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (found English dub of anime series; 2015)
- The Mouse Factory (found Disney live-action/animated TV series; 1972-1973)
- Robodz (partially found Disney Toei animated TV series; 2008)
- The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show (found episodes of Disney animated TV series; 1995)
- X-Heart (partially found unreleased English dub of "X-Coração" Brazilian animated TV series; 2014)
External Links
References
- ↑ Cotter, Bill (1997). The Wonderful World of Disney Television. Hyperion Books. pp. 297, 583. ISBN 0-7868-6359-5.
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/disneytozofficia00smit/page/656
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Vexer6's upload of all Teen Angel Returns in the Internet Archive Retrieved 20 Jul '24