Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone (partially lost English audio of British-American syndicated animated TV series; 1990)
The show's title card, sourced from the Hanna-Barbera Newsletter.
Status: Partially Lost
Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone (named Potsworth & Co. in European territories) was an American-British co-production between animation studio Hanna-Barbera and Sleepy Kids Ltd. (later Entertainment Rights) that aired on syndication as part of Hanna-Barbera's syndicated block "The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera" during 1990, and later reran for almost a decade on BBC as part of the "Children's BBC" block.
The series, based on stories created by Martin and Vivien Schrager-Powell, starred a group of kids, who, when going to sleep, found themselves in the "Dream Zone" where they become the titular "Midnight Patrol", who solved problems or conflicts that happened there. The members were Carter, a boy who had the ability to make any object real via his paintbrush, Keiko, a girl with a fixation on her skateboard, Rosie, a girl who didn't have any ability whatsoever (but had similar bratty traits with characters such as Lucy from Peanuts) and Nick, a little boy who gained the ability to fly like a superhero. Tagging along were Potsworth, Carter's dog who is usually sarcastic, often breaking the fourth wall to comment on the events happening around him, and Murphy, Nick's toy dinosaur.
Availability
Despite the show's popularity in Europe (to the point of being the 2nd most popular children's show in the United Kingdom, after Neighbours[1]), the show got only a select few of its episodes released on VHS, and none on DVD nor any other formats. This resulted in the episodes becoming hard-to-find online, but episodes of the show were unearthed as years went on. Furthur tying up the knot is the show's copyright status: The rights to the show are tied between Warner Bros. Discovery (evident from the show's run on Cartoon Network back in the 90s) and NBCUniversal, who owns the show via Classic Media's library.[2]
In 2010, a total of four episodes (albeit separated into three parts) were uploaded by John Feaster sourced from Cartoon Network reruns, with continuity bumpers left intact. The next year, two episodes, alongside one episode that had already been found by Feaster the year before, were uploaded by Canterville, this time separated into two parts. A few years later in 2014, "The Wishing Whale" would be uploaded by 90Geeza, who then uploaded two more episodes four years later. The last of the show's episodes to surface as of this writing is "Night of the BedBugs", which was unearthed by Times Past in 2020 sourced from a recording on Children's BBC.
Currently, this leaves three episodes remaining: "The Dozer Walks Among Us", "Dozer Quest" and "Rosie's Extra Sweet Day. As of 2022, only a small fragment of the latter remains on a CBBC Breakfast Show continuity video uploaded by jimbob8434, with the rest of the episodes only being available in German or Italian-dubbed audio.
Episode List
| 1 | Night of the BedBugs | Found |
| 2 | The Dozer Walks Among Us | Lost |
| 3 | King Potsworth | Found |
| 4 | The Nightmirror (1 | 2 | 3) | Found |
| 5 | When Bubba Rules (1 | 2 | 3) | Found |
| 6 | Nick's Super Switch | Found |
| 7 | Dozer Quest | Lost |
| 8 | Rosie's Extra Sweet Day | Lost |
| 9 | I Was a Teenage Babysitter | Found |
| 10 | The Wishing Whale | Found |
| 11 | Santanapped | Found |
| 12 | Save the Cave | Found |
| 13 | Rosie's Fuss-Attack | Found |
Gallery
A cel from "Dozer Quest".
See Also
- Boss Cat (found British opening and ending titles of "Top Cat" animated series; 1962-1989)
- CBS Storybreak "What Happened in Hamelin" (lost episode from animated series; 1987)
- Dastardly & Muttley - Operation: Pigeon Pursuit (lost build of unreleased PlayStation 2 video game; 2007-2008)
- Fender Bender 500 (partially found episodes of "Wacky Races" reboot animated series; 1990s)
- Jetsons: The Movie "Gotcha" (partially found full version of song from Hanna-Barbera animated film; 1990)
- Jetsons: The Movie - Janet Waldo performance (lost audio of animated film; 1988-1989)
- Jokebook (partially found Hanna-Barbera animated series; 1982)
- Return of the Bunjee (lost ABC Weekend special; 1985)
- Rock Odyssey (partially lost Hanna-Barbera animated film; 1987)
- Showbiz Pizza's Yogi Bear and Boo Boo Showtape (found animatronic audio showtape; 1987)
- The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (partially found Hanna Barbera live action-animated TV series; 1968-1969)
- The Flintstones (cancelled Seth MacFarlane reboot of animated series; 2013)
- The Flintstones Movie (partially found Sega Channel exclusive build of 2D movie tie-in platformer; 1995)
- The Funny World of Fred and Bunni (partially found live-action/animated variety show pilot; 1978)
- The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour (partially found NBC comedy variety show; 1978)
- The Moxy Show (partially found episodes of CGI anthology series; 1993-2000)
- The New Teen Titans "Just Say No!" (partially lost Hanna-Barbera anti-drug animated PSA; 1983)
- The Ruff and Reddy Show (found episodes of NBC Hanna-Barbera animated series; 1957-1960)
- The Snorks (partially found unaired pilot of Hanna-Barbera animated TV series; 1982)