The Real Captain Flamingo Show (partially found special episodes of "Captain Flamingo" Canadian-Filipino children's animated series; 2007)

The title card for the specials.

Status: Partially Found

Captain Flamingo was a Canadian-Filipino animated television series created by Suzanne Bolch and John May and produced by Breakthrough Entertainment, Heroic Film Company, Atomic Cartoons and Philippine Animation Studio Inc (PASI). The series revolved around a young boy named Milo Powell, who, deciding to take a stand from little kids everywhere, decides to become a superhero. Armed with his backpack full of joke store novelty items, Captain Flamingo saves the day with a little help from his best pal Lizbeth. Together, they save kids from unusual situations in completely unusual ways.

The series ran on YTV in Canada for 52 half-hour episodes, broadcast over three seasons. The series has also aired on Jetix in the United States and certain parts of the world. However, around the same time the third season was being produced in 2007 (although it didn't air until 2008), the series has also produced two half-hour special episodes known as The Real Captain Flamingo Show, in which the specials contain short vignettes and original songs. Information regarding these special episodes are rather scarce other than that they were meant to serve as separate multi-platform content for internet and mobile platforms. While the main series itself is available online if you know where to look, other than some screenshots and brief clips, both of the special episodes hasn't been fully resurfaced yet, as of 2024.

Availability

The vignettes and songs were both supposedly available on YTV and Jetix's websites (including both the United States and certain other territories) in around 2008. However, since YTV stopped carrying the show after 2010 (as well as changing their website) and Jetix was rebranded as Disney XD in 2009 (which included a new website and also doesn't carry this show), these videos are no longer available.

An old PASI demo reel that used to be available on their website does contain some clips from the special episodes (alongside fellow PASI cartoons Producing Parker and Groove High) rather than using clips of the main series, but said reel has since became lost due to the site domain expiring around 2020, and although it's been archived on the Wayback Machine, the video itself is unplayable due to technological limits. The only proof of the reel existing is that screenshots from said reel were posted on PASI's non-Flash site (specifically, one of the final frames from the special intro used for those episodes in place of the show's normal intro, and another with Captain Flamingo jumping from a trampoline, alongside a few others from Producing Parker). PASI's Flash site also contained a few screenshots from the special episodes on their homepage, possibly being some of the title cards used for some of the vignettes.

On August 25, 2009, user TekenFilmNL uploaded the special intro dubbed in Dutch to the special episodes on YouTube. However, since around May 2024, the video (as well as the rest of the channel) has since set to private.

An animation reel by former PASI animator Ryan Diamzon was discovered on YouTube which contains brief footage of one of the specials, specifically a scene where Quantum Vigilante is floating in space. Another video posted by Diamzon, when he was interviewed for "Passion to Profession", a few more clips from the specials was resurfaced sourced from the lost PASI reel, the scenes being the Captain jumping through various obstacles, and the same scene of Quantum Vigilante floating in space which Milo sees on his TV.

The current distributor of the series is 9 Story Media Group (who bought the kids and family slate of Breakthrough back in 2018), who has the series (including both specials) in their catalogue on their website. There are 'screenings' available for both the main series and specials but no one has attempted contact with them yet.

Gallery

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  A frame from the special intro used for these episodes (also was the thumbnail to the now-private Dutch-dubbed intro).

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  Screenshot from the special intro used for these episodes.

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  Screenshot from one of the specials.

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  Screenshot from one of the specials.

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  Possible title card for one of the vignettes, "Lizbethcam: A Brand New Day!".

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  Possible title card for one of the vignettes, "Flamingo for a Day".

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  Possible title card for one of the vignettes, "Otto Shop".

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  Possible title card for one of the vignettes, "101 Ways to Be a Superhero".

Footage

Clips from the specials sourced from the lost PASI reel (2:09)

Animation reel by Ryan Diamzon (0:13, 1:04, 2:19).

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)
• Prank Patrol (partially lost Canadian children's series; 2005-2010)
• 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)