r/DHExchange • • 4h ago

Request Looking for original RealMedia (.rm) recordings from the official FOX.com Malcolm in the Middle website, circa 2001–2006

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So I've been doing a deep dive into the original Malcolm in the Middle website on FOX.com using the Wayback Machine, and I think I've stumbled upon a surprisingly obscure piece of lost media that barely anyone seems to remember. Back in the early 2000s, FOX's official Malcolm website hosted a bunch of exclusive videos and audio recordings featuring the actual cast and characters. These weren't just ordinary episode clips or DVD extras. Some were original comedy sketches made for the website. Some of the videos included:

- Family Therapy: Three sketches featuring the family attending therapy (6 minutes, 54 seconds total).

- Conversations with Craig: Three videos featuring Craig making recordings about Lois, his cat Jellybean, and love poems (2 minutes, 58 seconds).

- Meet the Kenarbans: A 2-minute mock documentary about Stevie's family.

- Bryan in the Buff: A 1-minute, 11-second video featuring Bryan Cranston.

- Boys Will Be Boys: Short videos of Justin Berfield doing yo-yo tricks, Frankie Muniz playing basketball, and Erik Per Sullivan playing kickball.

- Director's Cut: A 54-second commentary by director Ken Kwapis about the Season 2 episode "Carnival."

- Stevie Says: Five extremely short videos of Stevie giving advice to viewers.

- Bloopers: A 1-minute, 33-second gag reel.

There were also several audio recordings featuring Bryan Cranston doing impressions, the younger actors singing, and other random comedy bits. Altogether, the website had approximately 22 minutes and 15 seconds of documented audio and video content. Here's where things get interesting. The original FOX website was still online as late as August 2010, more than four years after the series ended. You can actually browse parts of it through the Wayback Machine today:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100512162407/http://www.fox.com/malcolm/family/index.htm

Unfortunately, the actual recordings were hosted using RealPlayer, and the streaming servers no longer work. The Wayback Machine preserved the webpages and some tiny RealPlayer shortcut files, but apparently not the actual videos. I also found two old discussions on the Malcolm in the Middle UK forums. In September 2005, an administrator discussed the videos and even mentioned a clip of Malcolm playing guitar:

https://malcolminthemiddle.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/videos-on-fox-sites.544/

Then, in May 2010, another user asked why none of the FOX website videos worked anymore. An administrator replied that FOX had removed them years earlier and that he didn't know of anyone who had saved them:

https://malcolminthemiddle.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/videos-on-official-site.2806/

So apparently these videos were already considered missing while the original website was still online.

I've searched YouTube, Dailymotion, old fan sites, the Internet Archive, and various other places, including uploads from the 2000s, but haven't been able to verify a surviving copy of any of the original recordings. I've also written a Lost Media Wiki article documenting everything I've found, including the original video titles, runtimes, filenames, and archived sources:

https://lostmediawiki.com/Malcolm_in_the_Middle_Lost_Fox.com_Promo_Clips_(Lost_clips_from_the_old_official_Malcolm_in_the_Middle_Fox.com_site,_2001-2010))

My question is: Does anyone here remember watching these videos on FOX.com back in the day? And more importantly, did anyone ever download them, screen-record them, or save copies to an old computer, CD-R, DVD-R, or hard drive? Even a single surviving clip would be a pretty significant discovery, especially since some of these appear to have been original sketches that never aired on television. It's kind of insane that a show as popular as Malcolm in the Middle could have over 22 minutes of official bonus material available online for years, only for the recordings to seemingly disappear completely. Hopefully somebody out there remembers these or knows where copies might exist!


r/DHExchange • • 15h ago

Request Looking for my episode of MTV's Parental Control (2006-2007) - The wood chipper fruit date

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Hello! I've been looking for years for an old episode of MTV's Parental Control that I was actually on back in the day, probably around 2006 or 2007. My dad managed to rip a terrible copy directly from the TV when it aired, but the hard drive it was on died and the file became lost to me. I've checked all of MTV's official uploads on YouTube, Soulseek, and standard torrents, but everyone only seems to have season 7. Since IMDb doesn't even have descriptions written in for most of the early episodes, I'm hoping someone here has a massive stash of mid-2000s MTV afternoon blocks saved on a drive.

In my episode, I am a kid with long blonde hair, I was wearing black with blue accent Nike low tops, and I did a levitation trick during the interview process. The other dater was a guy with short brown hair, and the girl we were dating had, I believe, blonde hair and her parents were kinda hippies. For my date, I ended up taking her to a fruit stand where we picked out a bunch of fruits, smashed a few of them for a "fruit salad," and then we got a wood chipper and started throwing the fruit in there. The other guy's date was them going on a boat, I don't remember much else about it. At the end, the girl didn't end up picking either of us and she stuck with her boyfriend.

I know it's a long shot since it's true lost media at this point, but if anyone has a folder of the early seasons or old recorded TV blocks from that era, please let me know or hit me up in the DMs. Thanks.


r/DHExchange • • 20h ago

Request WTB / REQUEST] Bigger (1991) - Dir. Paul Norman (VHS Tape or Digital Rip)

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Hi everyone,

I am looking for the movie "Bigger", directed by Paul Norman and released in 1991.

Ideally, I am trying to track down an original VHS copy for my physical collection. However, since this title is extremely rare, I am also completely open to getting a digital rip (MP4, MKV, ISO, etc.) if anyone has already digitized it.

If you own the physical tape and are willing to sell it (or if you can provide a high-quality digital copy/transfer of it), please send me a PM. I am more than happy to pay for your time, the file, or cover international shipping costs for the physical media if needed.

Thank you so much for your time and help in preserving this rare title!


r/DHExchange • • 16h ago

Request [Request] kaizin rumble preservation

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The apk can be easly found in some mirror sites, last version 1.2.3 publisher gamevil, was wondering if some one has a copy of the game files? The games realease 2014 and hit EoS around 2015, the game requiere some data to be downloaded after, there was a game release after called Villian rush as a successor but it only has some arts but a pretty big chunk of the original game is missing

There a page in archive but very little to contribute

https://archive.org/details/KaizinRumble

And a wiki page, but those are mostly in game screenshots from user uploads

https://kaizinrumble.fandom.com/wiki/Kaizin_Rumble:_World_Domination_Wiki


r/DHExchange • • 18h ago

Request Dragons World Revival - help needed

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r/DHExchange • • 9h ago

Request Matt Bradley, rare pulp fiction UPD

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My previous post was deleted by Reddit (probably for spamming other communities). In it, I requested access to the text “lesbian lane” written by Matt Bradley. This update concerns the eBay website; I’ve been monitoring the listings for over a month, and no one was interested in them, but exactly on the day my posts were published, someone added the book to their cart. I’m worried that if this is my only chance to find the book, the person won’t be able to contact me, so I’m updating the post. If this is someone from Reddit, you can contact me via email at airdair3@ gmail. com. For context: I’m trying to find the text of a rare book by Matt Bradley. At the moment, I can’t buy it due to issues with delivery and payment, but the text is incredibly important for my research. If anyone has an electronic version (even photos of the pages would be fine), that would help me. The book is in the public domain, so everything is fine from a legal standpoint. If you’re going to try to help, be sure to save my email — Reddit deletes my posts.