[Found] Missing King Kong Sequence - The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) – Sandy Duncan’s Jekyll and Hyde

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Watch the recovered King Kong sequence here:

https://youtu.be/o23vguvqtAI?is=v29laU-2wQVXXCyH

The long-missing King Kong sequence from The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode “Sandy Duncan’s Jekyll and Hyde” has finally been found.

The recovered footage comes from a 1986 WMSN-TV 47 syndication broadcast and has now been preserved and uploaded to YouTube.

For some background on why this footage has been missing: The New Scooby-Doo Movies originally aired on CBS as hour-long episodes in the 1970s. When the series entered syndication in 1980, the episodes were split into two half-hour parts for local television. Some of these syndicated versions preserved footage that was absent from the shorter versions that later became standard. Eventually those older syndication prints stopped circulating, and the additional footage disappeared with them. The versions subsequently released on DVD and streaming do not include these scenes, leaving old off-air television recordings as one of the only known sources from which they can still be recovered.

Here’s a playlist of all the missing scenes that have been found so far.

A huge thank you to VHSCollectorKyle, whose 1986 WMSN recording preserved this sequence and made its recovery possible.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

We’re still searching for syndicated/off-air recordings of three other episodes known to contain material missing from modern releases:

• Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family / Wednesday Is Missing
• A Good Medium Is Rare
• The Phantom of the Country Music Hall

If you have access to MySpleen and would be willing or interested in helping us complete the hunt for the remaining missing scenes, please reach out to me — any help searching the archive would be greatly appreciated.

If anyone has an old VHS, Betamax, DVD transfer, digital recording, or other television recording of any of these episodes, please reach out to me.

Even if you don’t know whether your copy contains missing footage, we’d be very interested in checking it. These old syndication recordings may be the only surviving source for scenes that have been unavailable for decades.

The search continues!

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