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Thursday, August 29th, 2024 3:03 AM

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Freaky Stories tt0166432 Season 3 release dates are incorrect

I did some digging and found the official broadcast logs of YTV (The channel that Freaky Stories originally aired on in Canada):
https://archive.org/download/ytv-CRTC-Logs

I've also attached an image below of the log of all Freaky Stories aired episodes between September and December of 2000. I've highlighted the new episodes in green.

The correct release dates should be as follows:

3.1 - 13th of September, 2000

3.2 - 20th of September, 2000

3.3 - 27th of September, 2000

3.4 - 4th of October, 2000

3.5 - 11th of October, 2000

3.6 - 18th of October, 2000

3.7 - 25th of October, 2000

3.8 - 1st of November, 2000

3.9 - 15th of December, 2000

EVIDENCE

On these logs, you will find some numbers presented before and after the title. The numbers written before the title are the date, time and duration of the episode. For example:

000913202959210039003040FREAKY STORIES          MAGGOTS ARE FROM VENUS EP27        BIGTIMYTV   A42885 1 25307ECC

This indicates that this episode was on the 13th of September, 2000. It started at 8:29:59pm & ended at 9:00:39pm with the episode going for a total of 30 minutes and 40 seconds.

You have the episode name after that: "Maggots are from Venus", along with the chronological episode number of the entire series, EP27.

After the title you have the production code: A42885.

After that, according to the Canadian Television Broadcasting Regulations, the number 1 indicates the Country of Origin (Canada), then a space is left for Time Credits, then the most important number here which is the number 2. The code here represents a new episode. If it was the number 3, it represents a re-run. You can find the interpretation here: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-87-49/page-4.html

TITLE:

At the moment on imdb, the titles of the episodes are the mini stories that are present in the series (which I don't mind if you don't change). The title listed on the YTV log for the first episode of season 3 is "Maggots are from Venus" because in this episode, one of the two hosts (Maggot) is planning to visit his relatives on Venus.

Episode 2 of Season 3, "Gigabyte this" have the hosts ordering food using the internet.
Episode 3 of Season 3, "A word from our sponsor" have the hosts advertising a product.

Episode 4 of Season 3, "And now the news" have the hosts presenting a news segment.

Episode 5 of Season 3, "Mamas Boy" Has Maggot wanting to see his mother.

Episode 6 of Season 3, "No rhyme or reason" have the hosts reciting poetry.

Episode 7 of Season 3, "Memories of me" Has maggot lose his memory.

Episode 8 of Season 3, "One in a million" Have the hosts playing Who wants to be a millionaire.
Episode 9 of Season 3, "The masked maggot" Has the maggot dressed as a superhero.

Here are the first 3 episodes of season 3 as an example, let me know if you would like to view the rest:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t4GiNo2esICP_-09M_uG6KNvHIRPQr5Y/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VREuWcEuOAZE0IAq8m8ywm_UJLz7xT5w/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ipon_xri7QSA91zDtiM1dGaOd2FGq7Ex/view?usp=drive_link

Thanks for reading!

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22 days ago

Hi @rexta4 -

Can we have your submission references for the rejected submissions so we can take a look?

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Changes have been made, thanks guys!

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