My Phone Genie (partially found CITV series; 2012)
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Status: Partially Found
My Phone Genie is a British children's comedy-drama TV series who's first season premiered on CITV from January 1st to March 25th, 2012, and second season from September 8th to December 1st, 2012. The series would continue to be repeated on CITV until August 28th, 2016,[1][2] at which point the show was completely purged from CITV, pulled from all streaming services including ITV Hub, and without the show ever having been archived or preserved in full by anyone, resulting in almost all of its episodes becoming lost (as they are not available to watch anywhere at all).
Plot
The show revolves around a girl named Jaz Hart that has a genie in her phone named Gene after trying to download a new ringtone on her phone advertised in an online advert.
Cast
- Adam Wadsworth as Gene
- Bessie Cursons as Jaz
- Haruka Abe as Naoko
- Fox Jackson-Keen as Mobbsy
- Heather Nicol as Pene
- Lothaire Gérard as Brent
- Ethan Hammer as Reese
Episode List
Season 1
| # | Title | Synopsis | Airdate | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serve and Protect | Worried about her first day at a new school, Gene’s help to protect Jaz gets her in more trouble than she could ever have imagined. | Jan 1, 2012 | Lost |
| 2 | Home Movie | Gene makes Jaz and her friends the stars in a selection of movies after Jaz wishes that her Saturday afternoon could be more interesting. | Jan 8, 2012 | Lost |
| 3 | It's a Jungle in Here | Gene helps Jaz revive the school plants she's forgotten to water over the holidays...turning the house into a living jungle! | Jan 15, 2012 | Lost |
| 4 | Growing Pains | Annoyed at her younger brother’s silly antics, Jaz wishes he ‘would just grow up’. But the problem starts when Gene grants and made Reese into a full sized adult. | Jan 22, 2012 | Lost |
| 5 | The Sleepover | A sleepover at Jaz’s house has the kids play a game of ‘Truth or Dare’ with Gene choosing the dares! | Jan 29, 2012 | Lost |
| 6 | Talk to the Hair | Wishing for some confidence in the school debate, Jaz is surprised when Gene gives her hair a mind and uncontrollable attitude of its own. | Feb 5, 2012 | Lost |
| 7 | Cheat | When Jaz wishes for help with her school project, Gene downloads a cheat application for her which makes Jaz cheat at everything. | Feb 12, 2012 | Lost |
| 8 | Pene's Perfect Date | Gene steps in to help find Pene the perfect date for the school dance which doesn’t go exactly to plan. | Feb 19, 2012 | Lost |
| 9 | Garage Band | Jaz, Mobbsy and Naoko form a rock band and with Gene as manager become an internet sensation. | Feb 26, 2012 | Lost |
| 10 | The Exciting Life of Jaz | Jaz wishes for a more exciting life but doesn’t expect Gene to make her life into a reality show with her as the ‘star’. | Mar 5, 2012 | Lost |
| 11 | Clever | Gene grants Jaz a wish to show how smart she can be, but he makes her super smart at everything which brings its own problems. | Mar 12, 2012 | Lost |
| 12 | The Party | Gene throws a party in school detention which everybody else in the school soon wants to join in with. | Mar 19, 2012 | Lost |
| 13 | Double Losers | When Jaz gives her friends each a wish, Naoko ends up inside a video game while Mobbsy has his own problems. | Mar 26, 2012 | Lost |
Season 2
| # | Title | Synopsis | Airdate | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Side FX | Mobbsy becomes unwell just before a talent contest and Gene’s treatment has unexpected side effects. | Sep 8, 2012 | Lost |
| 15 | Jaz Plastic | Gene loses Jaz when a wish backfires and he must work out what she wished for and where she has ended up. | Sep 15, 2012 | Lost |
| 16 | Unfriend Me | Jaz wants her teacher to be more approachable so Gene creates a new social network for her. | Sep 22, 2012 | Found |
| 17 | Upgrades | When Jaz needs to clean the house after a party, Gene gets all the household appliances to help. | Sep 29, 2012 | Lost |
| 18 | Sisters | After Jaz wins tickets to a concert, she battles her sister to see who gets to go. | Oct 6, 2012 | Lost |
| 19 | Saving Face | When Jaz wakes up with a pixelated face, Gene takes control of getting her through the day without it being noticed. | Oct 13, 2012 | Lost |
| 20 | Parents Day | Jaz is disappointed when her parents can’t attend Parents’ Day, so Gene creates far more interesting parents for her. | Oct 20, 2012 | Lost |
| 21 | Indoor Activities | When Jaz, Mobbsy and Naoko miss a school trip and get locked inside the school overnight, Gene creates his own survival course for them. | Oct 27, 2012 | Lost |
| 22 | Grounded | Jaz breaks the family television and is grounded. As she is not able to leave her room, Gene brings the outside world to her. | Nov 3, 2012 | Lost |
| 23 | Technical Hitch | Jaz’s phone breaks and results in her being sent an older model with a much older Genie. Nobody ever reads the manual! | Nov 10, 2012 | Lost |
| 24 | Super Heroes | Jaz, Naoko and Mobbsy want to be superheroes, but Gene gives them all rather unusual and not very superhero powers! | Nov 17, 2012 | Lost |
| 25 | Dumb and Dummy | Gene grants Jaz’s wish to make fake things real - which leads to experiences that none of the team could ever have imagined! | Nov 24, 2012 | Found |
| 26 | Mobbsy's Girlfriend | Mobbsy’s obsession with a new Girlfriend App on his phone leads Gene to take him and the girls inside the app in order to dump her. | Dec 1, 2012 | Lost |
Availability
In total, the series had 26 episodes (13 for each season). There are only two episodes that are available and found. They originate from a streaming service called Box of Broadcasts. Those two episodes are episode 25, "Dumb and Dummy", re-ran on June 24th, 2013,[3] and episode 16, "Unfriend Me", re-ran just a year later, on August 11th, 2014,[4] and those two episodes would be uploaded to YouTube by RVF2007[5][6] where they are publically available to watch.
Other than the two found episodes, all other 24 episodes are lost. There are a few incomplete clips of the show uploaded by other YouTube users such as Dogberry98 but nothing much more than that.
See Also
- Astro Farm (partially found CiTV claymation series; 1990s)
- Billy (partially found CITV animated series; 1998-1999)
- The Diamond Brothers: South by South East (partially found ITV adaptation of children's detective book; 1991)
- Dream Street (found British children's TV series; 1999-2002)
- The Fugitives (partially found British children's sci-fi TV series; 2005)
- Pocoyo (partially lost pilots of Spanish-British children's animated comedy TV series; 2002-2004)
- Ripley and Scuff (partially found British children's television series; 2002-2003)
- Sooty's Amazing Adventures (partially lost animated spin-off of Sooty; 1996-1997)
- The Spooks of Bottle Bay (partially found British children's TV series; 1993-1995)
- StarStreet (partially lost British children's television series; 2001-2002)
- The Twins (partially found animated series; 2000)
External Links
- https://myphonegenie.fandom.com
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Phone_Genie
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2204867/
References
- ↑ http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/trilt/index.php/prog/02DF1A1F?bcast=122383186
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180717154138/https://www.dvber.co.uk/CITV/My+Phone+Genie
- ↑ https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/02DDC75E?bcast=97711004
- ↑ https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/02CE2A2A?bcast=113919478
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eFi9Y3JPIg
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0XVzDT2z8s