Pokémon "Pocket Monsters, Winter Special!" (lost unaired "clip show" episode of anime series; 1998)

Status: Lost

Set to air on January 6th, 1998, in Japan was a clip show called "Pocket Monsters, Winter Special!" (ポケットモンスター・冬のスペシャル!). This episode would have aired right after "Snow Way Out!". It is unknown how long the episode would have been, though it would have summed up episodes until "Holiday Hi-Jynx" (which itself never aired in some countries due to Jynx looking like an African-American stereotype). The episode was cancelled after the "Dennō Senshi Porygon" incident, which ended up giving Pokémon a four-month hiatus. A different version of this special that showed "Holiday Hi-Jynx" and "Snow Way Out" later aired on October 5, 1998, and became an hour long. Though the clip show version never aired.

This episode shares the reputation of being one of five Pokémon episodes to have never been released, the other four being "It's New Year's Eve! Pocket Monsters Encore" (a 1997 episode that was ultimately cancelled due to the fallout following the infamous "Pokémon seizure incident"), "Rocket-dan VS Plasma-dan!" (a two part 2011 episode that was cancelled shortly after the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami) and "Battle of the Quaking Island! Barboach VS Whiscash!!" (a 2004 episode that was cancelled as a result of the Chuetsu earthquake of the same year).

See Also

• Pokémon "Computer Warrior Porygon" (lost unaired English dub of anime episode; 1998)
• Pokémon "The Legend of Dratini" (non-existent unaired English dub of anime episode; 1997)
• Pokémon "Battle Aboard the St. Anne" (found first American broadcast version of anime episode; 1998)
• Pokémon "Battle of the Quaking Island! Barboach VS Whiscash!!" (partially found unaired episode of anime; 2004)
• Pokémon "Cream of the Croagunk Crop" (found original "Hiroki version" of anime episode; 2008)
• Pokémon "Rocket-dan VS Plasma-dan!" (partially found unaired two-part episode of anime; 2011)
• Pokémon 3: The Movie (lost first draft of script of anime film; late 1990s)
• Pokémon 3D Adventure: Mew o Sagase! (lost 3D short of anime; 2005)
• Pokémon 4D: Pikachu's Ocean Adventure (partially found 4D short of anime; 2006)
• Pokémon! I Choose You! (found original Japanese airing of anime series pilot; 1997)
• Pokémon "It's New Year's Eve! Pocket Monsters Encore" (lost unaired special of anime series; 1997)
• Pokémon "Pocket Monsters, Fall Special!" (found "clip show" episode of anime series; 1997)