The Jersey (partially lost Disney Channel sports-themed comedy series; 1999-2004)
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Status: Partially Lost
The Jersey was Disney Channel sports-themed comedy show that aired 64 episodes between January 1999 and March 2004.[1][2] The show featured a group of teenagers who came into possession of the titular jersey, a magical piece of clothing that would place the kids into the bodies of real-life sports icons such as professional skateboarder Tony Hawk. The transformations would often be shown in "Quantum Leap Style" with some shots featuring the teenage actors as the sports star and other shots featuring the athlete as a guest star.
The show never received a home video release and is not available on Disney's streaming platform Disney+ despite other Disney Channel shows of the time such as So Weird being regularly available. It is not known why the series has not been made more widely available. It can be speculated that the show's extensive use of real-life sports teams may have created difficult licensing agreements with the athletic organizations involved complicating any future releases.
Availability
A YouTube playlist for the found episodes can be found here.
Of all 64 episodes aired, only 29 episodes have been fully found and are available prior to 2023 with all credits to YouTube user gleeful321 for uploading 19 full episodes across multiple seasons of the series, and YouTube user DarkManX16 for uploading 9 more episodes across seasons of this series, with promos and bumpers included.
Another YouTube user, DisneyAndStuff101, uploaded his airing of the episode, "Three Boys And A Nephew", to YouTube, making 30 episodes found.
The episode, "Origins: Part 1", has clips from the episode, "Origins: Part 2", which is shown from the first minutes of its episode, marking it partially found.
On October 29th, 2023, YouTube user DarkManX16 uploaded 6 more previously missing episodes from the series.
The pilot and the very first episode of the series, "The Magic Jersey", uploaded by gleeful321, had a missing scene in the beginning as it transitions to the scenes with the kids roller-skating, marking it partially lost until November 30th, 2023 when Vexer6 uploaded a full version with the complete beginning from a user from the Sitcoms Online forums uploaded it online, making 36 out of 64 episodes found.
Season 1
The first season started airing on January 30th, 1999, and aired its final episode a year after on June 24th, 2000, spanning 19 episodes in total, leaving 5 episodes missing.
| # | Episode Title | Air Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Magic Jersey | Jan 30th, 1999 | Found |
| 2 | In Training | Sep 24th, 1999 | Found |
| 3 | Be True To You | Oct 1st, 1999 | Found |
| 4 | Heroes | Oct 8th, 1999 | Lost |
| 5 | Ouch | Oct 15th, 1999 | Lost |
| 6 | Team Player | Oct 22nd, 1999 | Found |
| 7 | Get Back On The Horse | Nov 5th, 1999 | Lost |
| 8 | Fathers And Sons | Dec 10th, 1999 | Lost |
| 9 | Beauty And The Beast | Jan 7th, 2000 | Found |
| 10 | Nick's A Chick | Jan 14th, 2000 | Found |
| 11 | Election | Jan 21st, 2000 | Found |
| 12 | The Prize | Jan 28th, 2000 | Found |
| 13 | Speeding Bullet | Feb 11th, 2000 | Found |
| 14 | The Girlfriend | Mar 25th, 2000 | Found |
| 15 | Elliot And Goliath | Apr 15th, 2000 | Found |
| 16 | Take Me Out To The Ball Game | Apr 29th, 2000 | Found |
| 17 | Mother's Day | May 13th, 2000 | Lost |
| 18 | Batgirl | Jun 3rd, 2000 | Found |
| 19 | Legacy | Jun 24th, 2000 | Found |
Season 2
The second season aired 3 months after the last episode of the first series aired, on the 2nd of September in 2000, having 21 total span of episodes lasting up until October 25th, 2001, when the last episode of this season aired. This leaves 9 episodes missing for this season.
| # | Episode Title | Air Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Stealing The Stoplight | Sep 2nd, 2000 | Found |
| 21 | Sophomore Year | Sep 9th, 2000 | Found |
| 22 | Unemployed | Sep 16th, 2000 | Found |
| 23 | Breaking The Rules | Sep 23rd, 2000 | Found |
| 24 | Trust Me | Sep 30th, 2000 | Found |
| 25 | Halloween | Oct 14th, 2000 | Found |
| 26 | They Say It's Your Birthday | Oct 21st, 2000 | Found |
| 27 | Bowling For Jets | Nov 3rd, 2000 | Lost |
| 28 | Thanksgiving Day | Nov 11th, 2000 | Lost |
| 29 | It's My Party | Nov 25th, 2000 | Found |
| 30 | Star Tutor | Dec 15th, 2000 | Lost |
| 31 | A Curfew Too Many | Dec 22nd, 2000 | Lost |
| 32 | Fake Me Out | Jan 5th, 2001 | Lost |
| 33 | Truth And Consequences | Jan 12th, 2001 | Found |
| 34 | Jersey Of Dreams | Feb 8th, 2001 | Found |
| 35 | The Sadie Incident | Mar 1st, 2001 | Lost |
| 36 | Three Boys And A Nephew | Mar 8th, 2001 | Found |
| 37 | Surfing | Jul 5th, 2001 | Lost |
| 38 | Speaking Of Coleman | Oct 11th, 2001 | Found |
| 39 | This Rocks | Oct 18th, 2001 | Lost |
| 40 | Pop Quiz | Oct 25th, 2001 | Lost |
Season 3
The third and final season aired a year after the second season ended, on October 5th, 2002, and aired its final episode on March 23rd, 2004, with a total of 24 episodes, leaving 13 episodes missing with one partially found episode.
| # | Episode Title | Air Date | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | Bringing The Heat | Oct 5th, 2002 | Found | No notes. |
| 42 | It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Jersey | Oct 6th, 2002 | Lost | |
| 43 | Out On A Limb | Oct 12th, 2002 | Found | |
| 44 | Willa Jumps | Oct 19th, 2002 | Lost | |
| 45 | Halloween 2: The Legend Of Henry | Oct 27th, 2002 | Lost | |
| 46 | Coleman's Big Date | Nov 2nd, 2002 | Found | |
| 47 | NFL Virus | Nov 9th, 2002 | Found | |
| 48 | Playbook | Nov 16th, 2002 | Lost | |
| 49 | Cheers, Jeers and Tears | Nov 23rd, 2002 | Found | |
| 50 | Alley Of Dreams | Nov 30th, 2002 | Found | |
| 51 | Dueling Coaches | Dec 7th, 2002 | Lost | |
| 52 | Tomorrowland | Dec 14th, 2002 | Found | |
| 53 | Jersey Switch | Dec 21st, 2002 | Found | |
| 54 | The Doghouse | Dec 28th, 2002 | Found | |
| 55 | Riding The Bench | Jan 26th, 2003 | Lost | |
| 56 | Fantasy Football | Jan 26th, 2003 | Lost | |
| 57 | Origins: Part 1 | Apr 26th, 2003 | Partially Found | Clips from the episode can be found on the first minutes of "Origins: Part 2". (0:00 - 1:25) |
| 58 | Origins: Part 2 | May 17th, 2003 | Found | No notes. |
| 59 | Basketball Diaries | May 31st, 2003 | Lost | |
| 60 | Owning Up | Oct 11th, 2003 | Lost | |
| 61 | The New Kid In Town | Nov 1st, 2003 | Lost | |
| 62 | Player Faker | Nov 8th, 2003 | Lost | |
| 63 | Polar Express | Nov 24th, 2003 | Lost | |
| 64 | What's Gotten Into Elliot Rifkin? | Mar 23rd, 2004 | Lost |
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)
- 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)
- Teen Angel (partially found Disney Channel serial drama; 1989)
- 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
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jersey
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Jersey_episodes
- https://imdb.com/title/tt0211816/