Why is Season 1 Episode 5 missing from The Oregon Experience?
March 4, 2024 11:13 PM   Subscribe

Just started watching The Oregon Experience and I noticed that episode 5 is missing from the OPB app and the OPB website. Anyone know what's up?
posted by middlethird to Media & Arts (3 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: There are still a lot of references to the video's page in search engines (especially on different PBS network sites), so it's very weird that it seems to have been scrubbed completely from OPB and PBS. Even on the article page about the episode, the video player just says the video is missing. The article mentions he is "controversial," so perhaps somebody didn't like something that was said about him in the episode and forced it to be taken down?

That said, you can find what appears to be the full episode on OPB's YouTube channel. Why it was posted there two months ago but removed from their site is a mystery.
posted by tubedogg at 2:23 AM on March 5, 2024


Best answer: After going down a very deep rabbit hole, it looks like season 2 is also missing an episode, Episode 4. I wonder if it's just bad archiving? But now I'm super curious as to other's insights.
posted by Torosaurus at 2:16 PM on March 5, 2024


Response by poster: Thank you both! I did a little more searching myself and here's what I think is an archive link to OPB's old Season 2 Episode 4 page. I still wonder why it's missing though.
posted by middlethird at 4:53 PM on March 5, 2024


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