Starstuff was a local children's TV program on WCAU-TV 10 out of Philadelphia, PA. The first episode aired on Friday, August 29th 1980 at 7:00pm, with subsequent episodes being aired at 8:00am on Sundays. There were 18 episodes in total. The show was rerun for several years in the 80s, typically airing at 6am on Saturdays. It was never released or reshown by WCAU.

Episode 11 was provided to me by show writer Dorothy Louise in June of 2003 after she had found my Starstuff fan website. A fellow fan named Roger from Net Tech Industries helpfully volunteered to convert it to MPG format for me, and then I made it available online for free. There was much rejoicing.

On December 1st, 2004, lead actor Todd Porter contacted me after finding my site. He had all 18 episodes and shipped them to me for digitizing. They were in some sort of TV studio format that I had no means of playing. Luckily for the Starstuff fan community, we had among us the president of an established media production company who was enthusiastic about getting the job done. In fact, he was the very first person to ever email me after finding my Starstuff page, back in July 2003. He was perfect.

So in early 2005, I personally handed all 18 tapes over to Shawn Van Der Poel at the offices of RadioTakeover in Cherry Hill, NJ. He disappeared shortly afterwards, was unresponsive to contact attempts, and to this day nobody knows where the tapes went. I was so crushed that I allowed my starstuff.net domain to expire. The last time the website was archived was mid 2008: [ Ссылка ]

I've contacted WCAU several times about the show but I never got anywhere. Episode 11 is all that remains of my personal effort. I wish this story ended differently, but I am still so grateful to have this one episode. Dorothy Louise is a hero. Todd Porter is a saint.

Edit (2021-06-13) - The story isn't over. Thanks to the admin of the Facebook Starstuff page ([ Ссылка ]), three more episodes have been found! They were digitized off Betamax by someone named Grant, who also clipped several newspaper mentions of Starstuff here: [ Ссылка ]

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