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101 Dalmatians: The Series (partially found pitch pilot of Disney animated TV series based on animated film; 1996)

Much like how Disney's Recess originally began production with a pitch pilot that would remain untelevised indefinitely, 101 Dalmatians: The Series was first pitched as a pilot or "demo" to Disney in around 1996 (The Recess pilot was also pitched at the same time as 101 Dalmatians). History In 1996, Disney's 101 Dalmatians live-action remake was released. The animated series pilot had to be finished, and the actual show had to be started by early 1997. Unlike the Recess pilot, however, this Dalmatians pilot wouldn't be later remade into an episode of the TV show. It seems that the characters and animation would have been very close to what would be in the final product. Still, not much else is known about it, other than the fact it was possibly going to have another main character called dubbed Penny, a female Dalmatian puppy. Penny's existence is evidenced by an artist drawing the removed character in a sneak peek for the series (twinned with Recess) in betwe

0-sen Hayato (partially found anime series; 1964)

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0-sen Hayato   (0戦はやと, Zero-sen Hayato) is one of mangaka Naoki Tsuji's earlier works that was created around 1963-1964 [1]  and was serialized in the Weekly Shonen King manga magazine. It would later receive an anime adaptation with the same name that aired from January 21st, 1964, until October 27th, 1964. The show aired on the Fuji TV channel at around 6:15-6:45 p.m. on Tuesdays in Japan and was believed to have spanned a total of 38 episodes [2] , though in 2022, it was recently discovered that the show had a 39th episode, and was not previously documented in other sites [3] . Though the show ended on October 27th, 1964, it is likely and possible that the show might have had a 40th episode if following its weekly schedule,  though the existence of a 40th episode remains unconfirmed. Each episode was around 15 minutes [4] . This was the earliest animated show produced by P Productions [5] , who had worked on various tokusatsu and animes in the 60s, such as Donkikko, and Harris&#