Weird-Oh's (partially lost American/Canadian CGI animated TV series; 1999)
Introduction
Weird-Oh's is a short-lived animated series about these wacky characters having these wacky adventures living in this town called "Weirdsville". The main characters are Digger and Eddie.This show is based off the 1960's Weird-Oh's toys. The series only had 13 episodes (26 segments) and 3 VHS tapes, 1 DVD release and 1 unaired pilot. It debuted on Fox Kids in 1999 but got cancelled and brought back in 2000 on YTV in Canada in reruns. ADV in 2000 release the whole series (excluding unaired pilot) in 3 cassettes titled "Lights Camera Traction","Wheel Trouble", and "Traffic Jam". In 2005 YTV released the whole series onto DVD. Till this day all releases of this show are extremely rare to come by and due to limited production only 500 copies of each got sent into market but only in Canada.
Pilot
The only existence of the unaired pilot is this clip right here.
List of Episodes
The segments are:
- Diary of a Mad Sister (FOUND)
- Black-Eyed Babysitters (FOUND)
- Daddy Dismissed (INCOMPLETE)
- Rebel Without a Ride (FOUND)
- R.I.P. Off Wade
- Lights, Camera, Traction
- Gods and Monster Trucks (FOUND)
- Killer McB, I Set You Free (FOUND)
- Getting Over Davey (FOUND)
- Grand Theft Weird-Oh (FOUND)
- Headlocks for Homework (FOUND)
- Turbocharged Theatrical Tragedy
- A Birthday Wish
- Pranks for the Memories
- Street Sense (FOUND)
- Not Without My Gator (FOUND)
- Family Fuel
- Y2 Chaos
- The Ever-Spending Story
- I Do?
- The Cycle of No Escape
- A Tale of Two Wades
- Legend of the Phantom Racer
- The Blue N' Marooned
- Head Gasket of the Class
- Beach Blanket Traffic Jam
Cancellation
The cancellation of this show was due to ratings so bad the production company will never make a series like Weird-Oh's again.
Hope
You can find volume 1 and 3 on amazon and the full length 1st episode on vimeo but in bad quailty format and the segment "Gods and Monster Trucks on YouTube.
Update 2/3/14: Several episodes, including "Headlocks For Homework", have been found!
Update: 6/22/2014: Episodes 8 and 16 have been found! Furthermore Russamation doesn't have the pilot episode due to his reply and animation reels have
been found.
1 month ago Unfortunately, I never had a full copy, only these shots.
I would like everyone's support to finally have this series fully released. Weird ohs volume 1 costs $20,00 http://www.amazon.com/Weird-Ohs-VHS-Mark-Acheson/dp/B00004Y7JM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404977387&sr=8-1&keywords=Weird+ohs+VHS+1
The 3rd volume costs $77.88 http://www.amazon.com/Weird-Ohs-VHS-Mark-Acheson/dp/B000055XQI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404978165&sr=8-1&keywords=Weird+ohs+VHS+3
I would hope for support on buying these and to share them with the world so everyone can enjoy this short aired show.
Update: 3/16/2015: Street Sense, Getting Over Davey, Grand Theft Weird-Oh and Rebel Without A Ride have been found! (These are watchable on YouTube)