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

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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^[1]^[2] 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.^[3]^[4]

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.^[4] 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, as well as the reel not being archived. 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).^[5] 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.^[6] While the main series itself is available online if you know where to look, other than these screenshots, both of the special episodes hasn't been fully resurfaced yet, as of 2024.

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.^[7] There are 'screenings' available for both the main series and specials but no one has attempted contact with them yet.