TLDR: For the past four-five years the entire series has been accounted for on Daily Motion, but very recently a majority of episodes have been removed from the website, making the show lost media. The copyright holders are active, almost immediately taking down the one episode I had saved when I tried to reupload it. There is hope however, as a YouTube channel called Kids Telly, which is affiliated with ITV studios, has begun uploading episodes from the show in the highest quality available
My Parents Are Aliens (MPAA) was a British children's sitcom that aired between 1999-2006, running for 8 series. Produced by ITV and broadcast on their CITV slot (the children's programming block), the show was popular in the UK, gaining multiple awards and even Bafta nominations
In December 2025 I wanted to watch some of the old Christmas specials. I sailed the seven seas but could not find the treasure I was seeking, yet to my delight I was able to find the entire series on Daily Motion, in varying degrees of quality (everything from widescreen 720p to 4:3 240p). Not only did I end up watching the entire series, I enjoyed the show so much I wrote scripts for a series by series, episode by episode retrospective. This is in large part thanks to one individual, Lucy2000, who had uploaded the majority of the series onto Daily Motion herself, and created a playlist of all episodes
At the time I did not think to record or download any of the episodes except for one (it had a small moment where the Portuguese dub kicked in which I found funny), and now it looks like I won't be able to do so and my retrospective is on indefinite hold. I went to look at the playlist again and there are only 4 episodes uploaded by Lucy2000 left, the rest being deleted thanks to copyright strikes- insert it's so over meme here
I happened to have one episode from series 6 downloaded so went to reupload it on Daily Motion and almost immediately got a copyright strike, indicating the copyright holders are active
I have downloaded what I can of what's left of the show and was pleased to find series 8 has been uploaded to the Internet Archive in its entirety, plus series 1 is available on DVD and I already have one of the two DVDs released, so will work on preserving the first series once I get the second DVD
That still leaves series 2-7 though, a few episodes have managed to remain on Daily Motion and there are some uploads on Youtube as well, although a lot of the episodes on Youtube were uploaded when videos could only last 10 minutes so they’re split up into parts 1, 2 and 3, and are in glorious 144-240p
I had assumed that was it and MPAA would be lost for a long time, however while looking on Youtube I stumbled upon something which gives me a lot of hope. There is a pretty new channel called Kids Telly, affiliated with ITV studios, which has uploaded various CITV programmes from the 90s and 2000s. Their first upload was just 3 months ago, but in the last couple of months they’ve begun uploading MPAA episodes and they’re in 720p- insert we’re so back meme here
This is admittedly slow going, right now only episodes from series 7 and 8 are on the Kids Telly channel- which is kind of weird as when the show was streaming on Brit Box and ITV X premium, ITV’s paid for streaming service, they only had series 1-6, and nothing ITV related has acknowledged series 8 since roughly 2011 due to the unpopularity of that series (the majority of the cast were new and the main characters had their memory of the past 7 series removed, which did not go down well)- but we may end up getting the good ending with the series eventually uploaded in full to Youtube via Kids Telly in the highest quality possible
Maybe that’s cope, maybe they’ll all be deleted from Kids Telly one day, but if they are I’ve already downloaded all the episodes they have so far and will download them all as and when they’re uploaded so the series can be properly preserved and can be watched again