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== BBC ==

* The 1982 production of [[Bertolt Brecht (Creator)|Bertolt Brecht]]'s ''Baal'' featuring [[David Bowie]] as the title character has never been released on video. A tie-in EP with Bowie performing fully-orchestrated versions of its songs was released on vinyl and cassette tape, but only two of the five songs made it to CD (via best-of collections).

* ''[[Screenwipe|Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe]]'', "a show all about television", will never be released on DVD. Brooker claimed as much himself because of the licensing issues related to all the shows and music played during the course of its current six-season run. In one episode, Brooker discusses the "fair use" clause, and how the BBC can use certain assets from television and music for free. He is known to (highly unofficially) support efforts to [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]].

* ''[[Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow (TV)|Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow]]''; not rights issues here, as they did all the music in-house. Perhaps parents aren't keen to shell out for DVDs of anarchy and [[Covered in Gunge|gunge]]? Snippets are on Youtube, and there's been a [[Clip Show]], but most of the madness has disappeared into the ether.

* ''[[Fresno]]'', a miniseries that parodied ''[[Dallas]]'' and shows like it (it was set in Fresno on a raisin plantation), only aired once on broadcast TV and has never been released in hard copy.

* ''Lou Grant'': Unavailable on DVD.

* ''[[Murphy Brown]]''. Thanks to music rights tangles (and low sales — buy the season, fans!) everything after Season 1 is stalled. That's '''200+ episodes''' sitting around collecting dust in a Warner Bros. vault. It's not in syndication. Even when it was, it was usually shoehorned into horrible middle-of-the-night time slots. The only way to have a semi-complete viewing experience is through torrents and downloads, which happen to be plagued by at least five missing episodes and the occasional removal of certain scenes for syndication (such as Mike Wallace's appearance in the [[Grand Finale]]). Since you ''can'' torrent 90% of the series, that already makes this situation better than most...but be prepared for '''long''' waits if you want to try, since the torrents rarely have seeds.

* ''[[Now You See It]]'' (Chuck Henry) — he won't clear his run as he wasn't pleased with his work. Many fans think he's being ''way'' too hard on himself.

* ''[[Bear in The Big Blue House]]'' was released heavily in the United States on both VHS and DVD, but many episodes were never given a U.S. release. Still want them? Your best bet is to try and source a DVD copy of the episodes from a foreign website.

* ''[[Bunny Town]]'', due to lack of popularity, only received one DVD release and has been off the air for a long time.

** That Disney fails to acknowledge its existance is interesting considering that on its original airing it was introduced by none other than Michael Eisner himself with the characters in roleplay (including a guest appearance by Mickey Mouse).

* ''[[Flash Forward]]'' (not the 2009 ABC show), which starred a pre-''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' and ''[[Space Cases]]'' Jewel Staite and Ben Foster, and featured a few guest appearances from Ryan Gosling. Not only did the Disney Channel stop rerunning episodes around 2001 when ''[[Lizzie Mcguire]]'' took off, it's nigh impossible to find any clips of it anywhere online.

 

== MTV ==

* ''Jackass'' currently does not have a proper release for seasons 1-3 and only exists in a "best-of" style box set; with intros excised, nothing presented in episodic order and some sketches removed (most notably the "Keep God out of California" bit) along with broadcast censorship. To be fair, the bonus disc has some previously unreleased content, including the Gumball Rally special in its entirety and a good chunk of promo content, and the regular discs have commentaries from the cast. This was averted to a degree with a "Lost Tapes" DVD that included some of the removed sketches (including almost the entire "Self-Defense Test" sketch) and more promo content, along with all the intros. This is the result of some unique legal shenanigans where Dickhouse (the Jackass production company) retains complete creative control over any shows they produce, but MTV/Paramount has final say over what goes on broadcast and DVD releases. The movies, however, are not subject to the agreement and have been released normally.

* [[The Sifl and Olly Show]] aired from 1997-99, and has yet to see an official release. Unlike other MTV series, ''S&O'' didn't include recorded music; most of the music was original, with a few covers here and there. The only episodes to see a DVD release were the unaired Season 3, published by co-creator Liam Lynch.

* ''[[Shining Time Station]]'' appears to be headed for this, likely never to get a DVD release despite having been nominated for three Emmy Awards and having Ringo Starr and George Carlin playing the Conductor. Luckily, episodes can still be found online. Rights issues are likely the problem, since it used footage from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, whose rights currently resides with [[Hi T]] Entertainment.

* ''[[Square One TV]]''

* There was a 1990s PBS miniseries called ''[[The United States Of Poetry]]'' that featured poems being read by the authors and widely varied cinematography like artistic music videos. You may be able to find a VHS copy languishing in your local library, but otherwise it's gone — although, oddly, its very dated [http://www.worldofpoetry.org/usop/ website] is still being hosted.

* ''[[Where in The World Is Carmen San Diego]]?'', and all of the original tunes by Rockapella that its episodes included. Ditto its successor series ''[[Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego]]?''