The Ghost and Molly McGee ended recently to little recognition outside of us in the show’s small, passionate fan base. It was a great cartoon that got cancelled partway through production of season 3 due to a management shift and declining viewership on Disney+. It was such an underdog among the modern Disney Channel lineup that ripping groups on torrent sites didn’t even end up uploading every episode. It was frustrating to watch a show I love get resigned to drifting off into obscurity. It deserves better. It deserves to be remembered.
So over the past few days, I have been collecting every piece of production art, promotional media, tie-in books, websites, scripts, music, and of course the show itself in the highest quality available - with the intent of making it all available in one big torrent. (And likely uploading everything except the episodes to Archive.org) I’ve watched old content previously thought ubiquitous online slowly break and disappear over time. It sucks to watch history rot on the ostensibly-eternal internet. I want as much cultural context be preserved for this silly little forgotten show as possible, so I’ll do my part.
I’ve learned a lot doing it, too! How to crack DRM for various book, music, and video platforms, where to search for leads when normal search engines run dry, and best practices for video/audio encoding. It’s been really fun to have a project like this!
Anyway, I’ll close this by saying even average media deserves to be archived. We’re always richer for having access to more art, and you never know what’s going to inspire someone next.
I’ll post about this again once my archive is finished (Though I won’t post a link to the episodes themselves for liability reasons), so stay tuned!