The All New Captain Kangaroo (partially found Fox Kids reboot of CBS children's series; 1997-1998)
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Status: Partially Found
The All New Captain Kangaroo was a rebooted series of Captain Kangaroo made by Saban and TLC Entertainment for Fox Kids and Fox Family Channel made in 1997.
Availability
There are a total of 40 episodes made but only 10 have been found so far 6 of them being released on 3 individual Home Videos under the short-lived "Treasure House Series" line there was also a Birthday special that took place in Sea World called Captain Kangaroo's Birthday Party at Sea World, which was lost until March 7th, 2021, when it was uploaded to YouTube by user skullzproductions[1].
On April 14th, 2021 a Discord user under the name ChristopherT2004 found two screener tapes from Saban at a swap meet including both episodes 17 and 22 of the show and both would be uploaded to YouTube 10 months later on February 21st and 22nd of 2022 by skullzproductions.
Paul Pistore who played Mister Moose confirmed that all the episodes along with its spinoff Mister Moose's Fun Time were vaulted by Disney after they bought Fox Family and made it ABC Family later known as FreeForm mostly due to the fact this show advertised rival Florida based theme parks Sea World and Busch Gardens so it is unknown if the show will ever return.
On March 2nd, 2020 a pilot from 1996 was unearthed featuring Dave Rudolf as the titular captain looking quite similar to Bob Keeshan, Paul Pistore confirmed Dave was dropped because test audiences thought he was a bit creepy and was later recasted by the late John McDonough for the show.
On March 28th, 1998 the reboot's Captain Kangaroo as played by John McDonough as well as one of the Busch Gardens experts Margo made an appearance in the Barney special Barney's First Adventures on FOX Kids which was made to promote the film Barney's Great Adventure the special was later released on VHS, DVD and Laserdisc on September 1st, 1998 and the special was also included as a bonus feature in the DVD of the movie making this the only time the reboot Captain Kangaroo was ever seen on DVD
Episode List
| # | Episode | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happy Birthday Bunny | Lost |
| 2 | Following Directions is a Piece of Cake | Found |
| 3 | Turn About is Fair Play | Found |
| 4 | The No-Share Hare | Found |
| 5 | Safety Rules! | Found |
| 6 | It's How You Play the Game | Lost |
| 7 | Not a Creature was Stirring | Lost |
| 8 | Clean Sweep | Lost |
| 9 | Show Me | Lost |
| 10 | Watch the Birdie | Found |
| 11 | The Three Moose-Keteers | Lost |
| 12 | A Funny Thing Happened On the way to The Beach | Lost |
| 13 | Bunny in Mannersland | Lost |
| 14 | Happy Kanga-Day | Lost |
| 15 | Green Power | Lost |
| 16 | If at Fur-st You Don't Succeed--Try, Try, Again | Lost |
| 17 | When it Rains it Bores | Found |
| 18 | Moose-ton, We Have a Problem | Lost |
| 19 | Say Uncle | Lost |
| 20 | Benedict Moose | Partially Lost |
| 21 | No Dr. for BR | Lost |
| 22 | Moose-Ter Fix-it Meets Moose-a Stewart | Found |
| 23 | When the Cap's Away | Lost |
| 24 | Things That Go Moose in the Night | Lost |
| 25 | The Secret of Good Moose-trition | Found |
| 26 | A Big Moose-Take | Found |
| 27 | Is There a Doctor in the Treasure House? | Lost |
| 28 | Make Your Own Kind of Moose-ic | Lost |
| 29 | Reading is Bun-damental | Lost |
| 30 | Bun-lympics | Lost |
| 31 | Moose-a-Angelo | Lost |
| 32 | Sale of the Moose-ry | Lost |
| 33 | Long Snout Moose-ster's Haaar-ible Manners | Lost |
| 34 | One for the Bunny, Two for the Show | Lost |
| 35 | Family Treasure Tree | Lost |
| 36 | Moose-Magination | Lost |
| 37 | Moose-Search | Lost |
| 38 | Bunny and Share | Lost |
| 39 | Wake Up Little Moose-y | Lost |
| 40 | If at First Roo Don't Succeed, Fly, Fly Again | Lost |
See Also
Captain Kangaroo
Fox Kids
- Cybersix (partially lost Fox Kids version of animated series based on comic; 2000)
- Detective Conan (lost unaired Fox Kids English dub pilot; existence unconfirmed; 2000)
- The Fox Cubhouse (partially found Fox Kids preschool anthology series; 1994-1996)
- Fox Kids "Bartcasting" (found "The Simpsons" promotional event on children's program block; 1996)
- Fox Kids (partially lost animated "Frankenfox" bumpers from children's channel block; 1991-1992)
- Little Shop (partially lost Fox Kids animated series based on horror comedy film; 1991)
- The Mr. Potato Head Show (found Fox Kids puppet series; 1998-1999)
- The Slayers (lost Fox Kids version of anime series; 2001)
- Toonsylvania (partially found Fox Kids animated series; 1998-1999)
- The Vision of Escaflowne (partially lost Fox Kids dub of anime; 2000-2001)
- Youngblood (partially found production material for cancelled Fox Kids animated series based on comic; 1995)
- Zazoo U (partially found Fox Kids animated series; 1990-1991)
External Links
- Copyright Office page of episodes most of which confirmed with the found episodes. Retrieved 18 Feb '21
- A Full 66 Page guide from Temple University Libraries featuring the names of all 40 episodes of The All New Captain Kangaroo. Retrieved 22 Apr '21