Things from your past you can't find on YouTube!

[HardyGirl]

Y'know how they say you can find everything on YouTube? Well...you can't. Like sometimes, you fondly remember a toy jingle, and look for it on YouTube? You're thinking it's gotta be there...nope. Maybe it was even up there once before you thought about looking for it, but it's too late, b/c it was taken down. Maybe even an obscure TV show you're itching to watch, but it's just not there. Mostly for me it's commercials, especially this time of year, when I'm remembering watching cartoons after school and these cool ads would come on. Some of the ones I can't find are:

Lakeside's Down The Drain game
Ideal Derry Daring doll and cycle
Remco Singing Mimi doll (I'd Like to Teach The World to Sing)
Superstition game (I think it was MB)
Moonstones cereal
Keebler Fruit Cremes Cookies commercial
Charleston Chew commercial (70s)
Lakeside's Booby Trap game

I know there's more, but you get the idea. So what things from your childhood that you've been looking for on YouTube and can't find?

[Mikey]

The stop-motion Levi's commercial with the guy driving down the road on his butt with the haw-haw song.

The only haw haw commercial I found has the stop-motion kid

[Duncan]

I've been looking for some of the Saturday Morning preview shows (from Fri nights), but have found only a few.

[thunderbolt]

more like from my dad's childhood, more Capt. Midnight episodes.

[BOTZWANA]

Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas. Cannot find it on Youtube NOR in Target on DVD. They have almost every other Christmas movie ever made except that one. EVERY YEAR! It is frustrating. And living in Mexico I cannot order it online. I gotta travel to Texas to find it....

[Peter Panda]

Y'know how they say you can find everything on YouTube? Well...you can't. Like sometimes, you fondly remember a toy jingle, and look for it on YouTube? You're thinking it's gotta be there...nope. Maybe it was even up there once before you thought about looking for it, but it's too late, b/c it was taken down. Maybe even an obscure TV show you're itching to watch, but it's just not there. Mostly for me it's commercials, especially this time of year, when I'm remembering watching cartoons after school and these cool ads would come on. Some of the ones I can't find are:

Lakeside's Down The Drain game
Ideal Derry Daring doll and cycle
Remco Singing Mimi doll (I'd Like to Teach The World to Sing)
Superstition game (I think it was MB)
Moonstones cereal
Keebler Fruit Cremes Cookies commercial
Charleston Chew commercial (70s)
Lakeside's Booby Trap game

I know there's more, but you get the idea. So what things from your childhood that you've been looking for on YouTube and can't find?

Moonstones cereal did have a few commercials but they are really rare...I have a couple but i don't think too many people share them.....it's something on alot of video collectors wantlists

[HardyGirl]

But you'd share w/ me, wouldn't you, Peter? *bats eyes*

Moonstones cereal did have a few commercials but they are really rare...I have a couple but i don't think too many people share them.....it's something on alot of video collectors wantlists

[mazinz]

cannot find the:
1. Mattel Rodan commercial (and even when it was originally airing it was very rare to see it)
2. Fiddlesticks World of Mazu commercial (which had this giant monster snatching up astronauts on some planet)
3. Sectaurs - ALL of the mini interlocked commercials (think it was 12 or 13 of them)

[palitoy]

Those live action Archie pilots that aired in the 70s, I'm not crazy, I saw them!

[Allie Fox]

I have found a few hidden gems by doing a search of the call letters of the stations I used to watch.
I found an old Play World (a NY/NJ area toy store) when doing a search for WPIX.

[HardyGirl]

They had those up there a long time ago. I saw them too!

Those live action Archie pilots that aired in the 70s, I'm not crazy, I saw them!

[johnnystorm]

Paul Shannon's ADVENTURE TIME, which ran on WTAE- TV in Pittsburgh PA. in the 50s & 60s. I used to watch it as a kid after school, the usual regional kid's programming. Shannon was one of those kid's shows that was instrumental in bringing back the Three Stooges, who guest starred often on the program. Shannon also appeared with other hosts in the Stooge film "The Outlaws is Coming!" along with Adam West. The show had the Stooge shorts, Kimba the White Lion, Popeye...but I think my favorite thing was sending letters to Santa via rocket ship during Christmas. I'd love to see some clips again, but I'vw never found any online anywhere.

[Mongoose1983]

David Rappaport's WIZARD TV series. So far there's some TV commercials, but not full episodes of the series. Too bad the guy took his own life. Will it ever be released on DVD? I know I'd buy it!

[HardyGirl]

I've done that w/ WNEW.

I have found a few hidden gems by doing a search of the call letters of the stations I used to watch.
I found an old Play World (a NY/NJ area toy store) when doing a search for WPIX.