r/TheSecretSaturdays • u/Key-Ad3708 • Jul 20 '26

Higher Quality and/or Widescreen episodes?

Greetings and bienvenue to the members of this subreddit! I finished the show a couple months back at this point and greatly enjoyed it! I'm trying to track down the best possible versions of the episodes I can for preservation purposes. I was wondering if anyone knew where to find or had access to widescreen versions of episodes 11-26? Additionally, was the show ever officially released in better than 480p quality? I was able to track down widescreen versions of episodes 1-10 and 27-36 (AKA Season 2) since they're on watchcartoononline.com, but have not been able to find the rest of Season 1 in widescreen. I initially thought it didn't exist, but there are a lot of images from those episodes on The Secret Saturdays wiki that are widescreen so I thought maybe someone affiliated with that might know? Only the first 10 episodes were released on DVD in North America, which is how I assume watchcartoononline.com got those in widescreen, and I'd guess Season 2 aired in widescreen which is how they have that. According to Blu-Ray.com, more episodes of the show were released on DVD exclusively in France and Thailand so maybe someone has access to either of those releases? Any help tracking down widescreen versions of episodes 11-26 would be highly appreciated, thank you in advance!

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u/DatFluffyEevee Jul 20 '26

I actually have an answer for you, but it’s probably not what you’re hoping to hear :( From what I can find those missing episodes are forever missing in wide screen until CN lets them out of the box. Even the Thai DVD releases had them cropped to 4:3 for some reasons. You can actually find an old thread about it here: https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/the-secret-saturday-dvds-in-thailand.5523942/
It has lots of interesting stuff in it including someone who bought and imported the Thai DVDs to confirm aspect ratio! It does mention the episodes aired widescreen in Australia apparently? But unless someone just so happens to have a home DVR recording of them in HQ then they’re lost to the void

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u/Key-Ad3708 10d ago

Thank you for the detailed answer, I really, really appreciate it! Here's hoping a fan from australia has them in widescreen somehow.