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* ''Emergency Vets'' was a popular reality/medical series on [[Animal Planet]] that ran from 1998 to 2002 with a follow-up episode in 2005 and a special in 2006. There has never been official video/DVD release of any of it. Very few full episodes exist online.
** Later, a spin-off show, ''E-Vet Interns'', started airing in 2007. It lasted more than a whole season, with only three episodes made in the second season before production stopped. It hasn't been released either.
* The 2005 Discovery Channel documentary series ''[[It Takes a Thief (2005 TV series)|It Takes a Thief]]'' has this problem, as well. It was received fairly well (with the hosts making occasional rounds to various cable news channels) and lasted two seasons. Then, in 2007, it mysteriously disappeared and hasn't been released by Discovery on DVD. This is strange, as Discovery usually releases almost anything it shows on DVD. It gets stranger, as the network decided to rebroadcast the whole series in 2009...in full High Definition for both seasons.
* ''[[Series/Monster House|Monster House]]'' (no, not [[Monster House|that one]]) vanished off both the Discovery Channel and the Internet with little fanfare and hasn't been heard from since. Which is puzzling, given that its older-sibling series ''Monster Garage'' is available.
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* ''[[Globo Loco]]'', a childrens game show from CITV, regarded as much as to be nominated for the 'Best Kids Entertainment Show' award. There's one episode on Youtube from its second series and a snippet or two, but that's it.
* ''[[Knightmare]]'' came to an abrupt end in 1994, and probably will never see the light of day again. A terrible shame, given how much fun it was and how important it was for its pioneering use of [[Chroma Key]] and virtual-reality technology. It reran on Sci-Fi Channel (UK) during the 1990s after it went off-air from CITV, and on Challenge TV in the early 2000s. It has never been released on video or DVD, except illegally.
* ''[[Police, Camera, Action!]]'', an extremely popular ITV show, has bootlegs floating around on torrent sites but has ''never'' had an official DVD release. Add [[Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things|the fact that fans want]] '''all''' versions, including the [[Edited for Syndication]] copies, and it looks impossible, but not unlikely. [[Copyright]] of police footage comes into play here. Music rights are an often-cited theory as to why the show hasn't been released.
* ''[[Police Stop]]'', which kicked off the police genre in [[The Nineties]], was a VHS-only release between 1993-1995, and then aired on television 1996-2002, before returning on [[ITV 4]] in 2008. Now, you can't get it '''at all''' unless you get the first episode via illegal downloading. Old worn VHS tapes can be found on eBay, but no digital copies.
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* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. Season sets finally saw the light of day in 2009, with the music rights sorted out for each episode to air uncut. However, the boxsets have stalled at Season 5 (with no word on how they'll handle the next couple of seasons, which constitute [[Old Shame]] on NBC's behalf) and Lionsgate released a (now sadly out-of-print) massive compilation of the best musical performances that originally aired as a quartet of specials for the show's 25th Anniversery back in 1999.
** Every episode of every season is currently available to "Watch Instantly" on Netflix. It'll cost you at least eight bucks a month, but that's a small price considering the entire set would cost hundreds of dollars anyway.
* ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'': Only Season 1 on DVD, although this is another one that UK folks can enjoy via Channel 4 on Demand.
* Seasons 3-6 of ''[[Third Watch]]''.
* If you're looking for a DVD of most of the [[NBC]]'s ''TNBC'' Saturday Morning lineup, you're going to be waiting awhile. While ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' and ''[[California Dreams]]'' eventually got releases, ''Hang Time'', ''City Guys'' and several others haven't. (It doesn't help that most of the shows were canned after one season.)
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