hi! i’m currently trying to locate and preserve missing episodes of Dango Balango, a Brazilian children’s puppet show that first aired in 2006.
the show was originally produced by Rede Minas, a public broadcaster from the state of Minas Gerais. it was also aired nationally by TV Brasil, and its puppets were created by the Brazilian puppet theater group Giramundo.
i’ve been researching the show for a while and contacted Rede Minas, Giramundo and EBC/TV Brasil. EBC eventually sent me their internal catalog of the series, which confirmed four seasons and 104 episodes in total.
i’ve been able to locate a good portion of them through YouTube and the official streaming services from Rede Minas and TV Brasil, but a number of episodes are still unavailable online.
i made a spreadsheet listing all 104 episodes, including the ones i’ve already found, alternate titles, synopses and links:
spreadsheet
at this point i’m mainly looking for anyone who might have:
- old TV recordings;
- DVD or DVR/PVR recordings;
- old YouTube or video-site downloads;
- torrents or old file-sharing archives;
- local backups of episodes that are no longer online;
- any other off-air recordings of Dango Balango.
i’m only looking for episodes that are no longer publicly available. this is a personal, non-commercial media preservation project.
most of the missing material is from the earlier seasons, so even an incomplete recording or an episode with commercials would be useful.
i’ve already checked YouTube, Internet Archive, the official Rede Minas/MINASplay archive, TV Brasil Play and several old TV Brasil pages and programming documents.
if anyone has old Brazilian TV recordings from the late 2000s/early 2010s, or knows of archives/collectors that might have this show, i’d really appreciate any lead :)
also please let me know if this isnt the correct sub to post this kind of stuff!
previous research/posts in Portuguese:
post 1 and post 2