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== Other Examples ==
* ''[[The Honeymooners]]'': One of the most noteworthy sets of "Lost Episodes" belongs to the legendary Jackie Gleason series. Seventy-nine episodes were missing for several decades and thought to be lost ... until they were "recovered" in the mid-1980s (shortly before Gleason's death). Many, but not all of the "Lost 79" have now been recovered.
** Many of the "lost" episodes were produced by the [[DuMont]] Network, which was on the air for a few years in the late 40s and early 50s. Almost all of the [[DuMont]] programming is long lost - in fact, most of the then-surviving reels were dumped in the ocean in the mid- 1970s. Only a handful of shows remain today - a sizable run of ''Life Is Worth Living'' (an early show featuring talks by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the films coming from his private collection), spotty selections of ''Captain Video'' (the first sci-fi television series), ''Rocky King, Detective'', and a few others.
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* ''[[My Three Sons]]'': Although all episodes exist and have been aired, the CBS color episodes spanning the sixth through the first half of the 11th season (1965-early 1971) were for years the only episodes shown in syndication. The ABC black-and-white episodes from 1960-1965, along with the final 1-1/2 color seasons (spring 1971-1972) were included in a second syndication package that was not nearly as widely distributed.
* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'': The legendary CBS comedy starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had a Christmas episode, aired in 1956 and never seen again on terrestrial TV ... until December 1989 when it was rebroadcast. Although the episode is in TVLand's library, it is rarely shown.
* ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]''
** ''You Can't Do That on Television'' was originally a local programme on an Ottawa station. The very first season from 1979 is gone because it was done live and never recorded for future reruns. A [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/fire-destroys-ctv-ottawa-newsroom-1.937489 7 Feb 2010 fire] at the CJOH-TV production facility also destroyed many master tapes of the earlier episodes.
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* A 1971 episode of ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]'' was never aired (and probably never will be) because a guest, ''Prevention Magazine'' publisher J.I. Rodale, [[Fatal Method Acting|died of a heart attack during taping]]. The story about the guest's death was told by Cavett himself.
* Many, many, many early [[Soap Opera|Soap Operas]] have episodes that are presumed lost (i.e. ''[[As the World Turns]]'', ''[[Guiding Light]]'', and ''[[Search for Tomorrow]]'') by the producers of the programs (Procter & Gamble for the most part). Most soaps, according to [[The Other Wiki]], began preserving the episodes by 1976 to 1979. However, some soaps already began preserving early episodes prior to that time. For example, ''[[The Young and The Restless]]'' still has all the episodes since its
** Some soaps even have all of their episodes gone. For example, Procter & Gamble erased all the episodes of ''[[Search for Tomorrow]]'''s CBS run.
** Even when episodes survived, [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|good luck seeing any re-runs]]. With few exceptions (such as the odd re-runs of the first two episodes of ''[[Days of Our Lives]]''), soaps aren't re-run anywhere even when the tapes survived.
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* [[NASA]] and the [[wikipedia:Apollo 11 missing tapes|Apollo 11 missing tapes]]. ("To the moon, Alice, [[The Honeymooners|to the moon!]]") The raw video from the Apollo moonwalk was in a reduced-quality, incompatible slow-scan TV format. Plenty of copies of the screenshots which went out to the world survive, but the SSTV originals?
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