About

Symitri Productions has been around since 2012. Mitch and I incorporated it because we wanted to make things — music videos, short films, whatever we could get off the ground. We kept at it for years. Nothing we made set the world on fire but that was never really the point. We were just two guys from Easton who liked making things.

Growing up in the early 90s was a strange time for television. Police Academy, Robocop, even The Toxic Avenger somehow became Saturday morning cartoons. But both of us had this memory of something that felt like the opposite — a live-action kids' show that seemed like it was made for adults. Something you'd catch at 3am on USA Up All Nite, flipping channels between the guy who lit his car on fire and the sex talk hotline. For years we assumed we'd imagined it.

We spent a long time trying to find it. Forums, VHS trading groups, Usenet archives, old TV guide indexes — nothing. The show didn't seem to exist anywhere. We couldn't even agree on what it was called. At some point you start to wonder if you're chasing something that was never there.

Then in 2024 a mutual friend introduced us to Marc Kroll at a party in Philadelphia. Marc is a cinematographer with a long career and a good memory for productions he'd worked on. We hit it off. Over the course of getting to know him he mentioned he'd worked on a kids' show at Butler Street Studios in 1992 — and on one of the films that preceded it. We told him what we remembered. He knew exactly what we were talking about.

At some point he showed us a shoebox of stuff he'd kept from his career. Set photos, mementos, a Polaroid from the set of The Toxic Avenger he's unreasonably proud of. And in there, a call sheet from the first day of shooting at Butler Street. January 23rd, 1992. Wally called at 6am. That was it for us.

He explained why we'd never been able to find anything — most of it burned when the studio caught fire on Halloween night, 1993. What survived was scattered across boxes, mislabeled tapes, and forgotten storage units across three states. Marc started making introductions. Materials started surfacing. We put this site up in January 2025 so we'd have somewhere to document things as they came in.

Since then, new pieces keep surfacing. Some of them answer questions. Some of them create worse ones.