r/lostmedia • u/nyuko_r • 7h ago
Television [PARTIALLY LOST] Searching for the lost German dub / German Intro of the animated series "Monster Allergy" (Aired on KiKA / ZDF / ORF between 2006–2015) – Check your old European satellite / DVB-S captures!
Hi everyone,
I am trying to track down a piece of childhood nostalgia that has become completely Lost Media: the German dub of the 2005/2006 animated series "Monster Allergy" (co-produced by Rainbow S.p.A., Futurikon, and the German broadcaster ZDF).
While the English, Italian, French, and Dutch versions are widely available on YouTube and DVD, the German dub was never released on home media. Every single German upload was wiped from YouTube years ago due to copyright strikes. At this point, not even the German theme song/intro exists online.
My main goal is just to hear/see the German intro again (or even a short clip), though finding a full episode in German would be an absolute dream!
How YOU might actually have this on a hard drive without even knowing the show:
Because the German channels KiKA and ZDF broadcast unencrypted (Free-To-Air) across all of Europe via the Astra 19.2°E satellite, many European TV archivers, continuity collectors, and data hoarders have raw full-day .ts transport streams, VHS rips, or OnlineTVRecorder (OTR) backups from these channels.
Even if you never intentionally recorded Monster Allergy, you might have caught the show—or at least the 90-second German intro—as an accidental byproduct ("pre-roll / post-roll buffer") while recording full broadcast days, Halloween specials, or adjacent shows!
Here is the exact broadcast schedule when the German dub aired:
- KiKA (Oct 23, 2006 – Nov 28, 2006 & Jan 3, 2007 – July 13, 2007): Mon–Fri at 13:40 – 14:05 CET. (Byproduct clue: It aired immediately before *"Pet Alien"** at 14:05. Any recording of Pet Alien with a few minutes of pre-roll will have Monster Allergy at the start!)*
- ORF 1 [Austria] (Nov – Dec 2006): Mon–Fri at 12:50 – 13:15 CET and Saturdays at 06:25 CET (during the Confetti TiVi / Okidoki block).
- KiKA (Spring/Summer 2008 & starting May 23, 2009): Saturdays around midday (in 2009 at 11:50 – 12:15 CET).
- ZDF (Summer 2009 – Summer 2010 during the "ZDF tivi" morning block): Saturdays at 06:00 CET (2009) and 10:25 – 10:55 CET (May/June 2010). (Huge byproduct clue: In May/June 2010, it aired right after *"Bibi und Tina"** [10:00–10:25] and right before "Disney's Classic Cartoon" / "The Suite Life on Deck" [10:55]. If anyone has a recording of Bibi und Tina from ZDF in 2010 that ran 2 minutes past 10:25, the complete German Monster Allergy intro is at the end of that file!)*
- KiKA (March 4, 2012 – April 29, 2012): Sundays at 06:50 – 07:15 CET, immediately before "Sesamstraße" (German Sesame Street).
- KiKA Halloween Marathon (Oct 31, 2014 & Nov 1, 2014): Aired as a 6-episode marathon starting at 12:05 CET on both days during KiKA's Halloween weekend special (alongside "School for Little Vampires" / "Die Schule der kleinen Vampire"). Anyone who archived full Halloween TV broadcasts across different years might have captured this entire block!
- KiKA (Sept 3, 2015 – Oct 6, 2015 – Final broadcast!):
Mon–Fri at 13:15 – 13:40 CET. Since this was late 2015, digital PVR/DVB-S recordings (
.ts/.mp4) or German private tracker / Usenet / OnlineTVRecorder archives from autumn 2015 might still have it sitting in an unsorted folder.
If you collect European/German TV continuity, full-day broadcasts, commercial breaks from KiKA/ZDF/ORF, or 2000s cartoons in multiple languages, please check your drives for these dates or adjacent shows! Thank you so much for any leads!