Mr. Bogus (partially lost animated TV series; 1991-1993)
Status: Partially found
Mr. Bogus is an American animated TV series originally aired in September 1991 until November 1993. It had three seasons and had 43 episodes total.
The show was based on a series of over 300 French/Belgian claymation shorts called Bogus from 1987; about 42 were inserted in the 1991 American series proper as transitional skits.
Premise
Mr. Bogus is a tiny yellow gremlin-like creature who lives between the walls of a normal suburban house. He likes to play with common household objects and tends to get involved in trouble, but he is a good-natured person and tries to help others too, usually the humans of his environment who are unaware of his existence.
Loss
This animated series didn't have a proper re-release after it finished being re-aired on TV in English. It had a few VHS releases in miscellaneous foreign countries, but most episodes that are available online come from personal recordings.
Many episodes have been recovered, but are only available in a foreign dub ranging from Portuguese, Greek, French, Croatian and Korean.
Found episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Gallery
French children's magazine announcing the original Bogus claymation series on Antenne 2.
Article about the Bogus series. It notably describes the name as slang from Belgian city Tournai to describe a little man, and coincidentally being similar to the English word that was a trendy word in the late 80s.
Portuguese VHS release.
Portuguese VHS release.
Portuguese VHS release.
