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Oldest Extant Off-Air VHS/Beta Tape You Have
- Thread starter Stanislav
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Good finds.
I went on a drive back down towards the lower Yakima valley this afternoon and found multiple tapes at two different sales - a yard sale locally in Ellensburg, and an estate sale in Toppenish (18 mi SE of Yakima). Estate sales today in Wapato and Zillah had no tapes. Some cool CARTOON finds today! A couple of duds.
Toppenish
Tape 1 - Frosty's Winter Wonderland and The Christmas Toy taped off Disney Channel on 12/5/1989; Babar and Father Christmas taped off HBO in December 1989 with promos before the program; The Stingiest Man in Town taped off unknown pay-TV channel; episode of Heathcliff taped off Nickelodeon in December 1989 with commercials; episode of Special Delivery (Santa's Magic Toy Bag) taped off Nickelodeon in December 1989 with commercials; Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus and The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas taped off KAPP-35 on 12/23/1989 with commercials; Casper's First Christmas taped off Disney Channel on Christmas night 1989 with a few promos. Maxell T-120
Tape 2 - Episode of The Shield taped off FX on 2/25/2003 with most commercials; another episode of The Shield taped off FX on 3/11/2003 with commercials. TDK T-160 in SP
Tape 3 - Tons of kiddie content here from October 1989: first several hours of recordings come from 10/14/1989, with Halloween is Grinch's Night taped off Disney Channel with a few promos; followed by RARE Saturday morning cartoon recordings! - Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy taped off KIMA/CBS with commercials, switching over to KNDO/NBC for Kissyfur also with commercials; then over to Nickelodeon for Special Delivery featuring Snow White cartoons with commercials; 'Cinderella' (1950) taped off Disney Channel with a couple promos; part of the ABC Weekend Special The Trouble with Mrs. Switch taped off KAPP/ABC on 10/21/1989; episodes of The Raccoons, Donald Duck Presents and first few minutes of Kids Incorporated taped off The Disney Channel on 10/23/1989 with promos. Sony T-120
Tape 4 - (S-VHS TAPE) - This tape was marked 'KYLE'S TAPE & STUFF' - apparently it was one of the kids' personal tapes! (The fact he got an S-VHS to record over and over must have been cool...) Starts with 'The Magic Voyage' (1992) copied from rental tape, then cuts to an episode of Aladdin taped off The Disney Channel circa 1994; part of 'Surf Ninjas' (1993) with no commercials, unsure if pay-TV or rental copy; end of another Aladdin episode taped over and several promos taped off The Disney Channel circa summer 1994; episode of G.I. Joe taped off USA Network's Cartoon Express circa summer 1994 with commercials. Rest of tape has the memory counter moving but it's erased. Panasonic S-VHS T-120
Ellensburg
Tape 5 - 'Born Yesterday' (1950) taped off Cinemax in May 2001 with some promos prior to the movie. RCA T-120
Toppenish
Tape 1 - Frosty's Winter Wonderland and The Christmas Toy taped off Disney Channel on 12/5/1989; Babar and Father Christmas taped off HBO in December 1989 with promos before the program; The Stingiest Man in Town taped off unknown pay-TV channel; episode of Heathcliff taped off Nickelodeon in December 1989 with commercials; episode of Special Delivery (Santa's Magic Toy Bag) taped off Nickelodeon in December 1989 with commercials; Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus and The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas taped off KAPP-35 on 12/23/1989 with commercials; Casper's First Christmas taped off Disney Channel on Christmas night 1989 with a few promos. Maxell T-120
Tape 2 - Episode of The Shield taped off FX on 2/25/2003 with most commercials; another episode of The Shield taped off FX on 3/11/2003 with commercials. TDK T-160 in SP
Tape 3 - Tons of kiddie content here from October 1989: first several hours of recordings come from 10/14/1989, with Halloween is Grinch's Night taped off Disney Channel with a few promos; followed by RARE Saturday morning cartoon recordings! - Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy taped off KIMA/CBS with commercials, switching over to KNDO/NBC for Kissyfur also with commercials; then over to Nickelodeon for Special Delivery featuring Snow White cartoons with commercials; 'Cinderella' (1950) taped off Disney Channel with a couple promos; part of the ABC Weekend Special The Trouble with Mrs. Switch taped off KAPP/ABC on 10/21/1989; episodes of The Raccoons, Donald Duck Presents and first few minutes of Kids Incorporated taped off The Disney Channel on 10/23/1989 with promos. Sony T-120
Tape 4 - (S-VHS TAPE) - This tape was marked 'KYLE'S TAPE & STUFF' - apparently it was one of the kids' personal tapes! (The fact he got an S-VHS to record over and over must have been cool...) Starts with 'The Magic Voyage' (1992) copied from rental tape, then cuts to an episode of Aladdin taped off The Disney Channel circa 1994; part of 'Surf Ninjas' (1993) with no commercials, unsure if pay-TV or rental copy; end of another Aladdin episode taped over and several promos taped off The Disney Channel circa summer 1994; episode of G.I. Joe taped off USA Network's Cartoon Express circa summer 1994 with commercials. Rest of tape has the memory counter moving but it's erased. Panasonic S-VHS T-120
Ellensburg
Tape 5 - 'Born Yesterday' (1950) taped off Cinemax in May 2001 with some promos prior to the movie. RCA T-120
Last Saturday was Hinckley, Ohio's annual community garage sale. This time, due to the pandemic, there weren't as many sales as in years past, they didn't have a flea market in the elementary school parking lot like they usually do and the church across the street from the school didn't hold a rummage sale as they have before. There were still enough sales for me to spend a good part of the day out and about out there and was able to come up with a few finds.
Garage sale #1:
TAPE 1: Episode of General Hospital and partial episode of Oprah taped from WEWS in Cleveland on 12/31/2008 with commercials; end of the 2008 Camping World RV 400 (already have part of this race on another tape), News Channel 5 at 6:00, ABC World News with Dan Harris (weekend edition) and partial two-hour episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition taped from WEWS on 9/28/2008 with commercials. TDK T-120.
I saw at least three more tapes in the box I found that one in, but the other ones I spotted were full of mold.
Garage sale #2:
TAPE 2: Most of an episode of A Haunting taped from the Discovery Channel in January 2008 with commercials; episode of Most Extreme Elimination Challenge and partial broadcast of Round 1 of the WWE Diva Search taped from Spike TV on 7/12/2004 with commercials; partial broadcast of Sex, Lies & Obsession (made-for-TV movie) taped from Lifetime on 5/7/2001 with commercials; partial Fox Night at the Movies presentation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) taped from WJW in Cleveland in July 1996 with commercials; partial broadcast of The Fugitive (1993) taped from HBO on 10/4/1994. Scotch T-120.
Garage sale #3:
TAPE 3: The Godfather: Part II (1974) and episode of Storybook Musicals (The Story of the Dancing Frog) taped from HBO in July 1993 with promos. BASF T-120.
TAPE 4: The Godfather: Part III (1990) taped from unknown premium channel circa 1993; end of Platoon (1986), Short Circuit (1986) and partial broadcast of Hired to Kill (1990) taped from Cinemax in July 1993 with promos. Scotch T-120.
TAPE 5: Episode of Power of 10 taped from WOIO in Cleveland on 9/5/2007 with commercials; episodes of All My Children taped from WEWS on September 6, 7, 10, 11 and 12, 2007 with commercials. Fuji T-120.
TAPE 6: In Search of Christmas taped from the History Channel on 12/25/2001 with commercials; Bathing Brooke and partial episode of E! True Hollywood Story (Three's Company) taped from E! on 12/30/2001 with commercials; partial episode of Jackass taped from MTV in November 2000 with commercials; partial episode of Oprah taped from WEWS in October 2000 with commercials; partial episode of All My Children taped from WEWS on 9/13/2000 with commercials; partial broadcasts of Starstruck (1998) and Suspect (1987) taped from Starz in August 2000 with promos; episode of All My Children taped from WEWS on 9/14/2000 with commercials. Sony T-160.
TAPE 7: Partial episode of The Martha Stewart Show (Vince Gill performs), episode of The View (with guest co-host Sherri Shepherd and guests Lucy Liu and Eric Mabius) and partial broadcast of News Channel 5 at Noon taped from WEWS on 1/4/2007 with commercials. Focal T-120.
Two more tapes were spotted at this sale as well, but they were marked as S-VHS tapes for surveillance use and I don't have an S-VHS VCR.
About a week earlier, I stopped at a garage sale in North Royalton, where I found a box full of home-recorded VHS tapes, many of which contained TV programming or footage relating to UFOs and other paranormal topics. Seller charged me five bucks for the whole box. Many duds here, but here's at least some of what I ended up finding.
TAPE 8: Pilot episode of Encounters: The Hidden Truth, episode of The X-Files and start of Fox 11 News at Ten taped from KTTV in Los Angeles on 6/24/1994 with commercials--weak audio throughout and the audio disappeared completely starting halfway through the X-Files episode. Maxell T-120.
TAPE 9: UFOs Are Real (1979) taped from WOIO (The Redeye Movie) circa 1990 minus commercials; clip from a broadcast of Hard Copy taped from WKYC circa 1990; partial episode of Unsolved Mysteries taped from WKYC in Cleveland circa 1990 minus commercials; clip from a broadcast of A Current Affair taped from WKYC circa 1990; another clip from Hard Copy on WKYC circa 1990; another clip from A Current Affair on WKYC circa 1990; partial broadcast of At Issue (never heard of this show, appears to have been a newsmagazine with a right-wing slant--the topic of this broadcast was school choice) taped from unknown channel (I'm assuming it was in first-run syndication) circa 1990, includes a commercial for the National Endowment for Liberty. Maxell T-120.
TAPE 10: The UFO Report: Sightings (Fox special that was the pilot episode of Sightings hosted by Tim White) taped from WOIO on 10/18/1991 minus commercials; UFO: The Unsolved Mystery copied from VHS release. TDK T-120.
TAPE 11: Comic Relief III taped from HBO on 3/18/1989; partial episode of Unsolved Mysteries taped from WKYC on 9/18/1991 minus commercials; partial broadcast of My Name Is Bill W. (Hallmark Hall of Fame movie) taped from WEWS on 4/30/1989 minus commercials; Hiding Out (1987) taped from HBO circa 1989. Kodak T-120.
TAPE 12: Partial broadcast of Danger in Our Skies (UPN special) taped from WUAB in Cleveland on 4/6/1998 minus commercials; UFOs: Above and Beyond taped from TLC circa 1998 minus commercials; partial broadcast of Goodfellas (1990) taped from HBO in March 1992 with promos.
TAPE 13: Clip from an episode of Sightings taped from WOIO circa 1995; clip from an episode of Mysteries, Magic and Miracles taped from the Sci-Fi Channel circa 1995; another clip from Sightings on WOIO circa 1995; clip from an episode of Encounters: The Hidden Truth taped from WJW circa 1995; unknown short film about UFOs taped from unknown channel circa 1995; yet another clip from Sightings on WOIO circa 1995; Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? taped from WJW on 9/4/1995 minus commercials (evidently Fox received so much viewer feedback the first time the special aired that they replayed the program, this time with additional footage); two partial episodes of Sightings taped from WOIO circa 1995 minus commercials; partial HBO promo break and start of an episode of Tales from the Crypt taped in March 1992. Unknown brand T-120.
This lot included various paranormal-themed clips from various other newsmagazines and talk shows including 20/20, The Morning Exchange (local program on WEWS) and even a clip from an episode of Dennis Prager's short-lived TV show with the late Carl Sagan as a guest taking questions from the show's audience.
Garage sale #1:
TAPE 1: Episode of General Hospital and partial episode of Oprah taped from WEWS in Cleveland on 12/31/2008 with commercials; end of the 2008 Camping World RV 400 (already have part of this race on another tape), News Channel 5 at 6:00, ABC World News with Dan Harris (weekend edition) and partial two-hour episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition taped from WEWS on 9/28/2008 with commercials. TDK T-120.
I saw at least three more tapes in the box I found that one in, but the other ones I spotted were full of mold.
Garage sale #2:
TAPE 2: Most of an episode of A Haunting taped from the Discovery Channel in January 2008 with commercials; episode of Most Extreme Elimination Challenge and partial broadcast of Round 1 of the WWE Diva Search taped from Spike TV on 7/12/2004 with commercials; partial broadcast of Sex, Lies & Obsession (made-for-TV movie) taped from Lifetime on 5/7/2001 with commercials; partial Fox Night at the Movies presentation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) taped from WJW in Cleveland in July 1996 with commercials; partial broadcast of The Fugitive (1993) taped from HBO on 10/4/1994. Scotch T-120.
Garage sale #3:
TAPE 3: The Godfather: Part II (1974) and episode of Storybook Musicals (The Story of the Dancing Frog) taped from HBO in July 1993 with promos. BASF T-120.
TAPE 4: The Godfather: Part III (1990) taped from unknown premium channel circa 1993; end of Platoon (1986), Short Circuit (1986) and partial broadcast of Hired to Kill (1990) taped from Cinemax in July 1993 with promos. Scotch T-120.
TAPE 5: Episode of Power of 10 taped from WOIO in Cleveland on 9/5/2007 with commercials; episodes of All My Children taped from WEWS on September 6, 7, 10, 11 and 12, 2007 with commercials. Fuji T-120.
TAPE 6: In Search of Christmas taped from the History Channel on 12/25/2001 with commercials; Bathing Brooke and partial episode of E! True Hollywood Story (Three's Company) taped from E! on 12/30/2001 with commercials; partial episode of Jackass taped from MTV in November 2000 with commercials; partial episode of Oprah taped from WEWS in October 2000 with commercials; partial episode of All My Children taped from WEWS on 9/13/2000 with commercials; partial broadcasts of Starstruck (1998) and Suspect (1987) taped from Starz in August 2000 with promos; episode of All My Children taped from WEWS on 9/14/2000 with commercials. Sony T-160.
TAPE 7: Partial episode of The Martha Stewart Show (Vince Gill performs), episode of The View (with guest co-host Sherri Shepherd and guests Lucy Liu and Eric Mabius) and partial broadcast of News Channel 5 at Noon taped from WEWS on 1/4/2007 with commercials. Focal T-120.
Two more tapes were spotted at this sale as well, but they were marked as S-VHS tapes for surveillance use and I don't have an S-VHS VCR.
About a week earlier, I stopped at a garage sale in North Royalton, where I found a box full of home-recorded VHS tapes, many of which contained TV programming or footage relating to UFOs and other paranormal topics. Seller charged me five bucks for the whole box. Many duds here, but here's at least some of what I ended up finding.
TAPE 8: Pilot episode of Encounters: The Hidden Truth, episode of The X-Files and start of Fox 11 News at Ten taped from KTTV in Los Angeles on 6/24/1994 with commercials--weak audio throughout and the audio disappeared completely starting halfway through the X-Files episode. Maxell T-120.
TAPE 9: UFOs Are Real (1979) taped from WOIO (The Redeye Movie) circa 1990 minus commercials; clip from a broadcast of Hard Copy taped from WKYC circa 1990; partial episode of Unsolved Mysteries taped from WKYC in Cleveland circa 1990 minus commercials; clip from a broadcast of A Current Affair taped from WKYC circa 1990; another clip from Hard Copy on WKYC circa 1990; another clip from A Current Affair on WKYC circa 1990; partial broadcast of At Issue (never heard of this show, appears to have been a newsmagazine with a right-wing slant--the topic of this broadcast was school choice) taped from unknown channel (I'm assuming it was in first-run syndication) circa 1990, includes a commercial for the National Endowment for Liberty. Maxell T-120.
TAPE 10: The UFO Report: Sightings (Fox special that was the pilot episode of Sightings hosted by Tim White) taped from WOIO on 10/18/1991 minus commercials; UFO: The Unsolved Mystery copied from VHS release. TDK T-120.
TAPE 11: Comic Relief III taped from HBO on 3/18/1989; partial episode of Unsolved Mysteries taped from WKYC on 9/18/1991 minus commercials; partial broadcast of My Name Is Bill W. (Hallmark Hall of Fame movie) taped from WEWS on 4/30/1989 minus commercials; Hiding Out (1987) taped from HBO circa 1989. Kodak T-120.
TAPE 12: Partial broadcast of Danger in Our Skies (UPN special) taped from WUAB in Cleveland on 4/6/1998 minus commercials; UFOs: Above and Beyond taped from TLC circa 1998 minus commercials; partial broadcast of Goodfellas (1990) taped from HBO in March 1992 with promos.
TAPE 13: Clip from an episode of Sightings taped from WOIO circa 1995; clip from an episode of Mysteries, Magic and Miracles taped from the Sci-Fi Channel circa 1995; another clip from Sightings on WOIO circa 1995; clip from an episode of Encounters: The Hidden Truth taped from WJW circa 1995; unknown short film about UFOs taped from unknown channel circa 1995; yet another clip from Sightings on WOIO circa 1995; Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? taped from WJW on 9/4/1995 minus commercials (evidently Fox received so much viewer feedback the first time the special aired that they replayed the program, this time with additional footage); two partial episodes of Sightings taped from WOIO circa 1995 minus commercials; partial HBO promo break and start of an episode of Tales from the Crypt taped in March 1992. Unknown brand T-120.
This lot included various paranormal-themed clips from various other newsmagazines and talk shows including 20/20, The Morning Exchange (local program on WEWS) and even a clip from an episode of Dennis Prager's short-lived TV show with the late Carl Sagan as a guest taking questions from the show's audience.
So were they having the sales at peoples houses or public establishments?
Just searched about 50 Beta tapes the other day, mostly old black/red label Zenith stock, with a few newer tapes mixed in due to similar lots. Not much in terms of broadcast finds with commercials, but I did uncover stuff ranging from my earliest content ever found off of Showtime (July 1979), which was part of a special tape that contained hours of promo bumpers, mainly from early 1981, along with a special test segment from 1979. In addition (albeit with not so great video quality), there was even footage from the shutting down of the American Educational Television network as well. Another tape contained about an hour of MTV from 11/10/1985 w/commercials (VJ: Nina Blackwood), with my earliest find containing commercials being Dick Clark's Good Old Days II, taped off WTMJ/NBC on 11/25/1978 with about 80% of the commercials intact. I've already got a copy of the Christmas 1980 rerun that I received in a trade last year, but that had a different Dick Clark Productions closing logo at the end. My oldest find overall was the Kraft 75th Anniversary Special taped off an unknown CBS station on 1/24/1978 w/no commercials, but I see that the special hasn't been posted yet anywhere online, so that's still a keeper, even if we can't see exactly what this major food firm was plugging. Another tape (an L-250) began with a 25-minute AT&T/Bell System profession video from circa 1981 that even featured animations that soon became the telecom giant's new logo, followed by about 20 minutes from a various classic car auction from sometime in the early '80s, followed by about ten minutes worth of the Cannonball Bellyflop championships from NBC Sportsworld from around the summer of 1979 with a few commercials. Speaking of old cable, another tape featured around 25 minutes from Showtime's overnight programming crawl from 3/22/1981, including various news and trivia (great for a classic movie night!), including a mention of Star Wars Episode VI as REVENGE of the Jedi. Another tape also contained over an hour of CNN Headline News from 2/12/1987 w/commercials (national cable feed), and one more contained an episode of Frontline, an episode of the current events magazine show "The '90s" off PBS, and approximately an hour's worth of CNN footage from Feb. 1991 with some commercials. It seems like CNN's most recorded event at the time was that first Gulf War.
I'm probably going to focus more on trading for awhile and start to focus more and more on posting some, but not all of my finds just to get a better balance between trading and sharing.
I'm probably going to focus more on trading for awhile and start to focus more and more on posting some, but not all of my finds just to get a better balance between trading and sharing.
The other day, I saw this episode of Hoarders on A&E (evidently it was a rerun from 2011) that had this woman who collected and saved tons of TV recordings on VHS tapes and DVD+Rs and radio recordings on audiocassettes. She would constantly have multiple VCRs and DVD recorders running in her home. The first thing that popped up in my mind, of course, was, what exactly does this woman record? They did show a few close-ups of a few of the tape labels. She lives in Towanda, Kansas, so her home market would be Wichita.
Here's the episode to give you an idea of just how much she had. Has anyone here ever come across rather insurmountable or messy hoards inside houses at estate sales?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLKCeX-KRII
As for an update on my collection, I found one unmarked tape at a garage sale in Medina yesterday. I guess I can't really call it a sale because the sign in the yard said all the merchandise on the tables was free. The tape itself was found in one of two boxes filled with VHS tapes (mostly movies) and audiocassettes. Anyway, this tape started with a partial block of Design Time Saturday Night on HGTV in September 2000 with commercials (including local ads inserted by Cablevision, now known as Spectrum)--specifically a partial episode of Room for Change, episodes of Interiors by Design and Bed & Bath Design and a partial episode of Kitty Bartholomew: You're Home. Afterward, it reverted to a couple hours of home video recordings, so I gotta imagine someone wasn't too happy about one of the family home video tapes being taped over.
Last week, my mom's friend who has been downsizing his VHS collection gave me a few more of his tapes. Some more goodies found in this set.
TAPE 1: Two-hour season finale of Melrose Place taped from WJW on 5/22/1995 with commercials. MGM T-120.
TAPE 2: Twelve O'clock High (1949) taped from the Movie Channel on 10/3/1988 with promos; The Man Who Never Was (1956) taped from Cinemax in October 1988 with promos; A Bullet Is Waiting (1954) taped from Cinemax in October 1988 with promos. BASF T-120.
TAPE 3: The Secret Heart (1946) and Shoe Shine Boy (1943) taped from TCM on 3/28/2005 with promos. BASF T-120.
TAPE 4: End of a syndicated episode of King of the Hill, episodes of Boston Public and Skin (encore presentation of the pilot episode) taped from WJW on 10/24/2003 with commercials; most of Bringing Elizabeth Home: A Katie Couric Special taped from WKYC on 10/24/2003 with commercials. TDK T-160.
TAPE 5: Episode of Boston Public, broadcast of Fox 8 News at Ten (including Friday Night Touchdown) and partial episode of Dharma & Greg taped from WJW on 9/19/2003 with commercials. TDK T-120.
TAPE 6: Episode of Boston Public and start of Joe Millionaire taped from WJW on 1/20/2003 with commercials. Memorex T-200(!)
I initially wanted to make another trip to the Litchfield Flea Market and possibly the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds Flea Market in Berea as well since the weather's been so nice, but ended up not getting to do so. I might try it again sometime within the next month before the weather gets too cold, but I don't know if there will be as many vendors there compared to the summer months. Last time I went to Litchfield, I didn't succeed in finding anything (the vendors at these outdoor flea markets always vary from week to week), but I did find a few tapes last time I went to the fairgrounds. As an added bonus, I also bought a used TiVo Series 2 DVR from one of the vendors to see if any recordings would be on it (my understanding is the Series 2 first came out in 2003 or 2004). Came across a lot of "dud" recordings, i.e. shows listed on the recordings menu that didn't play, but there were also quite a few that did play without any problems. What I found on there ranged in year from 2006 to 2009, and the original owner had the standard analog package on either Massillon Cable TV or Clear Picture Cable in Wooster, so I suspect the reason many of the recordings were "duds" was because they were made after the 2009 digital transition and MCTV/CPI may have required their subscribers to upgrade to digital boxes to continue to receive a signal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItDlfW-ipFI&t=82s
Here's the episode to give you an idea of just how much she had. Has anyone here ever come across rather insurmountable or messy hoards inside houses at estate sales?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLKCeX-KRII
As for an update on my collection, I found one unmarked tape at a garage sale in Medina yesterday. I guess I can't really call it a sale because the sign in the yard said all the merchandise on the tables was free. The tape itself was found in one of two boxes filled with VHS tapes (mostly movies) and audiocassettes. Anyway, this tape started with a partial block of Design Time Saturday Night on HGTV in September 2000 with commercials (including local ads inserted by Cablevision, now known as Spectrum)--specifically a partial episode of Room for Change, episodes of Interiors by Design and Bed & Bath Design and a partial episode of Kitty Bartholomew: You're Home. Afterward, it reverted to a couple hours of home video recordings, so I gotta imagine someone wasn't too happy about one of the family home video tapes being taped over.
Last week, my mom's friend who has been downsizing his VHS collection gave me a few more of his tapes. Some more goodies found in this set.
TAPE 1: Two-hour season finale of Melrose Place taped from WJW on 5/22/1995 with commercials. MGM T-120.
TAPE 2: Twelve O'clock High (1949) taped from the Movie Channel on 10/3/1988 with promos; The Man Who Never Was (1956) taped from Cinemax in October 1988 with promos; A Bullet Is Waiting (1954) taped from Cinemax in October 1988 with promos. BASF T-120.
TAPE 3: The Secret Heart (1946) and Shoe Shine Boy (1943) taped from TCM on 3/28/2005 with promos. BASF T-120.
TAPE 4: End of a syndicated episode of King of the Hill, episodes of Boston Public and Skin (encore presentation of the pilot episode) taped from WJW on 10/24/2003 with commercials; most of Bringing Elizabeth Home: A Katie Couric Special taped from WKYC on 10/24/2003 with commercials. TDK T-160.
TAPE 5: Episode of Boston Public, broadcast of Fox 8 News at Ten (including Friday Night Touchdown) and partial episode of Dharma & Greg taped from WJW on 9/19/2003 with commercials. TDK T-120.
TAPE 6: Episode of Boston Public and start of Joe Millionaire taped from WJW on 1/20/2003 with commercials. Memorex T-200(!)
I initially wanted to make another trip to the Litchfield Flea Market and possibly the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds Flea Market in Berea as well since the weather's been so nice, but ended up not getting to do so. I might try it again sometime within the next month before the weather gets too cold, but I don't know if there will be as many vendors there compared to the summer months. Last time I went to Litchfield, I didn't succeed in finding anything (the vendors at these outdoor flea markets always vary from week to week), but I did find a few tapes last time I went to the fairgrounds. As an added bonus, I also bought a used TiVo Series 2 DVR from one of the vendors to see if any recordings would be on it (my understanding is the Series 2 first came out in 2003 or 2004). Came across a lot of "dud" recordings, i.e. shows listed on the recordings menu that didn't play, but there were also quite a few that did play without any problems. What I found on there ranged in year from 2006 to 2009, and the original owner had the standard analog package on either Massillon Cable TV or Clear Picture Cable in Wooster, so I suspect the reason many of the recordings were "duds" was because they were made after the 2009 digital transition and MCTV/CPI may have required their subscribers to upgrade to digital boxes to continue to receive a signal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItDlfW-ipFI&t=82s
I watched that episode of Hoarders once. It's amazing how she just kept recording everything constantly but never watched anything...albeit I bet a collector would have been thrilled to get into some of those tapes albeit with a little bit of protective gear! And making sure there wasn't mold or insects all over them.
I went to a sale at a house directly on Tieton Drive near 32nd in Yakima last May that was just a dirty and dingy hoarder type environment. There was literal junk everywhere and cobwebs. The 'kids bedroom' downstairs looked like hell on earth. Toys were full of dirt and grime. Yet I was able to find two VHS tapes out of that mess and cleaned them up nicely, one of them having a late night KING 5 aircheck from 1998 including the 11:00 news. The folks running the sale bought the home when it foreclosed and the property was left abandoned. There were a bunch more retail tapes scattered around the house - some on a dining room table, some mixed in with junk in the office, and some in the kids room.
I went to a sale at a house directly on Tieton Drive near 32nd in Yakima last May that was just a dirty and dingy hoarder type environment. There was literal junk everywhere and cobwebs. The 'kids bedroom' downstairs looked like hell on earth. Toys were full of dirt and grime. Yet I was able to find two VHS tapes out of that mess and cleaned them up nicely, one of them having a late night KING 5 aircheck from 1998 including the 11:00 news. The folks running the sale bought the home when it foreclosed and the property was left abandoned. There were a bunch more retail tapes scattered around the house - some on a dining room table, some mixed in with junk in the office, and some in the kids room.
I am heading out to Yakima later this afternoon to pick up those Spokane tapes. Looks like over a hundred at this point, for a reasonable price. Yes, I have room in my apartment for all of these.
On top of what you have already which has to be in the thousands of tapes?
I have a feeling most if not all of those tapes are on their way the local landfill within days of the content he wants (the commercials and promos) being transferred to digital media.
I think it's somewhere around 450 to finish at this point. Most from that Ellensburg estate sale in late July. They told me they wanted them gone and offered me a reasonable price to take ALL of them out. No ifs and's or but's.
On the first several tapes I've received from that Yakima Craigslist lot, most were early-mid '00s cable news airchecks w/ commercials - mostly Fox News with a little MSNBC mixed in. I did find a couple tapes with multiple Travel Channel programs with commercials c. 2002-04, and 'Nevada Smith' taped off AMC around November 2003 with commercials as well. One tape is marked with the 9/11 concert, another is marked with KREM newscasts taped around the start of the War in Iraq. These tapes will likely take way too long to go through, so I will be going through most of the non-cable-news tapes and sending most of the cable news tapes off to eBay instead unsearched...
On the first several tapes I've received from that Yakima Craigslist lot, most were early-mid '00s cable news airchecks w/ commercials - mostly Fox News with a little MSNBC mixed in. I did find a couple tapes with multiple Travel Channel programs with commercials c. 2002-04, and 'Nevada Smith' taped off AMC around November 2003 with commercials as well. One tape is marked with the 9/11 concert, another is marked with KREM newscasts taped around the start of the War in Iraq. These tapes will likely take way too long to go through, so I will be going through most of the non-cable-news tapes and sending most of the cable news tapes off to eBay instead unsearched...
One tape found this afternoon at an estate sale in Wadsworth. It had the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation on WUAB in Cleveland on 5/23/1994 with most commercial breaks included, along with the start of that night's Ten O'clock News. Strangely, after the start of the opening to the show, the tape cuts to a short recording of a partial Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode taped from a distant, low-quality signal of WDIV in Detroit. A few commercials were included in that as well. Tape stock was a Kodak T-120.
More finds from my mom's former co-worker's VHS collection:
TAPE 1: Julius Caesar (1953) taped from the Movie Channel in April 1987 with promos; Texas Carnival (1951) taped from the Movie Channel in April 1987; Adam Had Four Sons (1941) taped from Cinemax in August 1989 with promos; partial broadcast of Only Angels Have Wings (1939) taped from Cinemax in March 1989 with promos. Fuji T-120.
TAPE 2: Terror by Night (1946) and start of Run for Cover (1955) taped from Cinemax in June 1988 with promos; The Dark Corner (1946) taped from Cinemax in June 1988 with promos; Cry of the City (1948) and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) taped from Cinemax in June 1988 with promos. Laser T-120.
TAPE 3: Pretty Poison (Fox made-for-TV movie) taped from WJW in Cleveland on 9/24/1996 with commercials, along with a Fox News "Voice of the People" election segment halfway through the movie; partial broadcast of Pride and Prejudice (miniseries, unknown part) taped from A&E on 2/3/1996 with commercials. BASF T-130.
TAPE 4: Detective Story (1951) taped from Cinemax in July 1989 with promos; partial broadcast of I Remember Mama (1948) taped from Cinemax in August 1986 with promos; Bachelor Mother (1939) taped from Cinemax in August 1986 with promos; Daisy Kenyon (1947) taped from Cinemax in July 1989 with promos and Max Trax segment with Tony Bennett's "Life in a Looking Glass" music video; partial Max Trax music video ("Mad About You" by Belinda Carlisle) and more promos taped from Cinemax in August 1986. BASF T-120.
TAPE 5: Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (made-for-TV documentary movie) taped from TCM on 6/1/2005 with promos; partial broadcast of American Beauty (1999) and partial episode of America Undercover (The Best of Autopsy: A Sex Crimes Special) taped from HBO in November 2000 with promos. BASF T-130.
I did get a sixth tape with the movie Hurlyburly (1998), but it got eaten up by my VCR. After hitting the play button, I rewound the tape to the beginning in playback, but once it got to the beginning, the VCR ejected the tape and turned off by itself--and the tape got snagged from the cassette inside the machine! What I was able to see beforehand was that the movie was recorded from a pay-per-view channel called Americast Express Cinema, which I had never heard of. I found very little information about it on Google. According to the note he put inside the case with the contents of the tape, it supposedly also contained an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
More finds from my mom's former co-worker's VHS collection:
TAPE 1: Julius Caesar (1953) taped from the Movie Channel in April 1987 with promos; Texas Carnival (1951) taped from the Movie Channel in April 1987; Adam Had Four Sons (1941) taped from Cinemax in August 1989 with promos; partial broadcast of Only Angels Have Wings (1939) taped from Cinemax in March 1989 with promos. Fuji T-120.
TAPE 2: Terror by Night (1946) and start of Run for Cover (1955) taped from Cinemax in June 1988 with promos; The Dark Corner (1946) taped from Cinemax in June 1988 with promos; Cry of the City (1948) and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) taped from Cinemax in June 1988 with promos. Laser T-120.
TAPE 3: Pretty Poison (Fox made-for-TV movie) taped from WJW in Cleveland on 9/24/1996 with commercials, along with a Fox News "Voice of the People" election segment halfway through the movie; partial broadcast of Pride and Prejudice (miniseries, unknown part) taped from A&E on 2/3/1996 with commercials. BASF T-130.
TAPE 4: Detective Story (1951) taped from Cinemax in July 1989 with promos; partial broadcast of I Remember Mama (1948) taped from Cinemax in August 1986 with promos; Bachelor Mother (1939) taped from Cinemax in August 1986 with promos; Daisy Kenyon (1947) taped from Cinemax in July 1989 with promos and Max Trax segment with Tony Bennett's "Life in a Looking Glass" music video; partial Max Trax music video ("Mad About You" by Belinda Carlisle) and more promos taped from Cinemax in August 1986. BASF T-120.
TAPE 5: Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (made-for-TV documentary movie) taped from TCM on 6/1/2005 with promos; partial broadcast of American Beauty (1999) and partial episode of America Undercover (The Best of Autopsy: A Sex Crimes Special) taped from HBO in November 2000 with promos. BASF T-130.
I did get a sixth tape with the movie Hurlyburly (1998), but it got eaten up by my VCR. After hitting the play button, I rewound the tape to the beginning in playback, but once it got to the beginning, the VCR ejected the tape and turned off by itself--and the tape got snagged from the cassette inside the machine! What I was able to see beforehand was that the movie was recorded from a pay-per-view channel called Americast Express Cinema, which I had never heard of. I found very little information about it on Google. According to the note he put inside the case with the contents of the tape, it supposedly also contained an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
The Fresh Prince clip off WDIV...did WKYC preempt it for something else (sports? Billy Graham?) Perhaps that's why, and they had a good antenna that could not only get ch 4 Detroit, but possibly it was enhanced by a little tropo.
In the Spokane lot, which I will be shedding about 50% of it for eBay since those tapes are just Fox News/MSNBC/CNN from after 9/11 and during the War on Terror, I found a first for me - episodes of Storm Stories off TWC. They were taped 7/16/2003 and include commercials plus Local on the 8s from their Weatherstar XL setup at Comcast Spokane. A blast from the past. Replace the Spokane with Everett, and you have one of the hundreds of pieces of my childhood set up. Previously found an episode of It Could Happen Tomorrow from 2006, and a tiny blip of TWC from the Feb 1996 NW floods, but no full LOT8s in the 'wild' until now. Next step - find a complete TWC clip with a 4000 or 3000 forecast. I'd love to find one from Yakima. They had TWC from basically the beginning on Cox Cable (1982-83). Ellensburg didn't get TWC for years and years. Even in 1999 and early-mid 2000 they were missing from cable here!! Sometime around late 2000, Charter finally gave Ellensburg 70+ channels of cable and with that, TWC.
A few days ago I also took about 60 tapes off the hands of an older woman who I had left my phone number with a long time ago at a yard sale in Yakima. She recorded a lot of classic TV shows, Wonderful World of Disney, and tons of classic movies, many from Nostalgia Channel, AMC, TNT, KSTW and TBS. Sadly I have found very few tapes with commercials so far. But some diamonds in the rough: 4 hours of Top Cops reruns taped from USA in 1996 with commercials; 'Home in Wyomin' ('42) taped off TNN in 1987 minus commercials, but included all the Melody Ranch segments with Gene Autry himself (about 12 minutes total - a great find), and another first - an episode of Madame's Place, the short-lived sitcom about a socialite woman puppet, taped off a 5AM USA rerun in September 1989 with commercials, obviously all 800 numbers/promos. So there will be a few random keepers here but a vast majority are being shedded off to eBay or recycling bins sadly...she recorded everything in LP mode and packed the tapes full with more than just two movies most of the time. Even on recordings marked in the late evening, ads were pulled out everywhere. Did she have a VCR with an automatic pause-out feature?
Apart from that, no tapes at estate sales or yard sales the past few weeks. I think I got spoiled at the unprecedented lot I received in late July.
In the Spokane lot, which I will be shedding about 50% of it for eBay since those tapes are just Fox News/MSNBC/CNN from after 9/11 and during the War on Terror, I found a first for me - episodes of Storm Stories off TWC. They were taped 7/16/2003 and include commercials plus Local on the 8s from their Weatherstar XL setup at Comcast Spokane. A blast from the past. Replace the Spokane with Everett, and you have one of the hundreds of pieces of my childhood set up. Previously found an episode of It Could Happen Tomorrow from 2006, and a tiny blip of TWC from the Feb 1996 NW floods, but no full LOT8s in the 'wild' until now. Next step - find a complete TWC clip with a 4000 or 3000 forecast. I'd love to find one from Yakima. They had TWC from basically the beginning on Cox Cable (1982-83). Ellensburg didn't get TWC for years and years. Even in 1999 and early-mid 2000 they were missing from cable here!! Sometime around late 2000, Charter finally gave Ellensburg 70+ channels of cable and with that, TWC.
A few days ago I also took about 60 tapes off the hands of an older woman who I had left my phone number with a long time ago at a yard sale in Yakima. She recorded a lot of classic TV shows, Wonderful World of Disney, and tons of classic movies, many from Nostalgia Channel, AMC, TNT, KSTW and TBS. Sadly I have found very few tapes with commercials so far. But some diamonds in the rough: 4 hours of Top Cops reruns taped from USA in 1996 with commercials; 'Home in Wyomin' ('42) taped off TNN in 1987 minus commercials, but included all the Melody Ranch segments with Gene Autry himself (about 12 minutes total - a great find), and another first - an episode of Madame's Place, the short-lived sitcom about a socialite woman puppet, taped off a 5AM USA rerun in September 1989 with commercials, obviously all 800 numbers/promos. So there will be a few random keepers here but a vast majority are being shedded off to eBay or recycling bins sadly...she recorded everything in LP mode and packed the tapes full with more than just two movies most of the time. Even on recordings marked in the late evening, ads were pulled out everywhere. Did she have a VCR with an automatic pause-out feature?
Apart from that, no tapes at estate sales or yard sales the past few weeks. I think I got spoiled at the unprecedented lot I received in late July.
All the Billy Graham specials aired on WEWS here in Cleveland. Up until 1997, Northeast Ohioans could very easily flip over to WAKC (now WVPX) in Akron to see whatever ABC programs were preempted on WEWS.
I find it hard to believe Ellensburg's cable company didn't pick up the Weather Channel until 2000. The only Weather Channel footage I've managed to find thus far was a couple of random clips from the evening of February 22, 2003. The original owner of the tape was recording Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on AMC, but flipped over to the Weather Channel during a couple of the commercial breaks. I also have about a three-second clip of a Local Forecast from 1997 on Cox Cable before the start of a pay TV recording of The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
I find it hard to believe Ellensburg's cable company didn't pick up the Weather Channel until 2000. The only Weather Channel footage I've managed to find thus far was a couple of random clips from the evening of February 22, 2003. The original owner of the tape was recording Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on AMC, but flipped over to the Weather Channel during a couple of the commercial breaks. I also have about a three-second clip of a Local Forecast from 1997 on Cox Cable before the start of a pay TV recording of The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
Well this is interesting.
Twice in the past two weeks I have had videos taken down from YouTube for 'inappropriate content' per community guidelines, but no strikes. And they are both TNT breaks. One from 1992, one from 1995. Have no idea who is doing this but they need to stop and find better things to do. Thankfully the first video was restored, I'm waiting on the second one.
And another first: on my old account, a KAPP commercial break from around Xmas 1992 is 'pending' a copyright strike unless I take it down in the next few days. This is a much better approach to takedowns IMO. It warns me and allows me to take it off without penalty. Apparently a commercial was claimed by someone. The organization was black-orientated, so it was likely the Exclamation Fragrance commercial or a KFC ad with a black family. Whatever, goes to Archive later today.
I have rapidly been going through Ellensburg tapes from this past July. Some of the newest finds:
Tape 37 - (#486) - 'Braveheart' part 2 (1995) copied from rental tape; reverts back to partial clips of 'North to Alaska' and another B&W John Wayne movie taped off K53CY in summer 1990 with a few commercials. BASF T-130
Tape 38 - (#417) - Both parts of Texas taped off KAPP/ABC on 4/16-17/1995 with commercials (already have this from an estate sale earlier this year before the pandemic); Biography episodes on Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr. taped off A&E on 10/23 and 10/25/1995 with commercials. TDK T-120
Tape 39 - (#193) - Last hour of U.S. Open coverage and 'Around the World in 80 Days (1956) taped off USA Network on 9/2/1990 with commercials; 'Camp Cucamonga' (1990) taped off KNDO/NBC on 9/23/1990 with commercials; part of 'The Last Bandit' taped off A&E circa early 1992 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 40 - (#286) - 'A Tale of Two Cities' (1935) taped off TNT in the early morning hours of 12/30/1992 with commercials; 'The Last Bandit' (1949) taped off A&E on 2/25/1993 with commercials; 'The Boy and the Pirates' (1960) taped off TNT on 8/24/1993 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 41 - (#370) - Columbo Undercover taped off KAPP/ABC on 5/2/1994 with commercials; 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby' taped off KCTS-9 circa early May 1994 with a few seconds of color bars afterwards (apparently they signed off without warning afterwards); 'Law of the Lawless' (1964) taped off TNT on 5/4/1994 with commercials; 'Ebbie' (1995) taped off Lifetime on 12/10/1995 with commercials. BASF T-160
Tape 42 - (#151) - 'Cleopatra' (1963) taped off TBS on 12/16/1989 with commercials (already have this); episode of Murder, She Wrote taped off KIMA/CBS on 10/3/1993 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 43 - (#516) - Episode of JAG taped off KIMA/CBS on 4/27/1999 with commercials; 'Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years' (1999) taped off KIMA/CBS on 4/18/1999 with commercials; 'Missing Pieces' (2000) taped off KIMA/CBS on 2/6/2000 with commercials (Hallmark Hall of Fame); 'That Old Feeling' (1997) taped off USA Network on 2/25/2000 with commercials. TDK T-160
Tape 44 - (#523) - Multiple Cary Grant movies taped off TCM on 1/18/2001 with promos scattered throughout: 'None But the Lonely Heart' (1944), 'Every Girl Should Be Married' (1950) and 'North By Northwest' (1959); also includes a couple One Reel Wonders including a vintage MGM travelogue of England. TDK T-160
Tape 45 - (#504) - 'The Fountainhead' (1949) taped off TCM on 1/20/2001 with promos; 'Crossfire Trail' (2001) taped off TNT on 1/21/2001 with commercials; 'For Love of Olivia' (2001) taped off KIMA/CBS on 3/18/2001 with commercials and news open; coverage of the Summer Olympics from Sydney taped off KNDO/NBC on 9/28/2000 with commercials; most of Meet the Press taped off KNDO/NBC on 10/1/2000 with commercials. TDK T-160
Tape 46 - (Unmarked) - 39th Academy of Country Music Awards and first few minutes of KIMA News at 11 taped off KIMA/CBS on 5/26/2004 with commercials. TDK T-120, blank after just over 3 hrs
Tape 47 - (#224) - 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' (1988) taped off KIMA/CBS on 11/12/1991 with commercials (duplicate); 'Back to the Future III' (1990) taped off KNDO/NBC on 11/17/1991 with commercials (also a duplicate); part of 'White Fang' (1991) taped off KIMA/CBS on 1/4/1992 with commercials (have about 1/2 hour of this from KIRO). Scotch EG T-120
Tape 48 - (#326) - Multiple movies taped on 8/14/1993, all with commercials - 'Arthur' (1981) taped off USA Network; 'That Darn Cat' (1965) taped off KAPP-35 and 'Runaway Heart' (1990) taped off Lifetime. BASF T-130
Tape 49 - (#147) - 'Outrageous Fortune' (1987) taped off KOMO/ABC on 11/19/1989 with commercials; 'The Shell Seekers' (1989) taped off KOMO/ABC (Hallmark Hall of Fame) on 12/3/1989 with commercials; 'Howard Beach: Making a Case for Murder' (1989) taped off KING/NBC on 12/4/1989 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 50 - (#149) - Both parts of 'Gone with the Wind' (1939) taped off TBS on 12/14-15/1989 with commercials (already have this...multiple times!); A&E Biography on Norman Schwarzkopf taped 1/11/1994 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 51 - (#405) - 'Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride' (1992) taped off K68EB on 1/29/1995 with commercials; flips over to KSTW-11 a few hours later for a taping of 'Annie' (1982) with commercials; ends with 'Drop-Out Father' (1982) taped off Lifetime in February 1995 with commercials. TDK T-120
Tape #52 - (#202) - 'Escape from Sobibor' (1987) taped off KIMA/CBS on 8/12/1990 with commercials; 'Crocodile Dundee II' (1988) taped off KIMA/CBS on 5/14/1991 with commercials; episode of The Real West taped off A&E on 2/10/1994 with commercials; ends with about 10 minutes of part 2 of Love & Hate: A Marriage Made in Hell taped off KNDO/NBC on 7/16/1990 with commercials (already have this from a tape found at an Oct 2018 estate sale). Scotch T-120
Tape #53 - (#324) - 'Without Reservations' (1946 - Colorized) taped off TBS early on 8/4/1993 with commercials; 'Sam Cade' (1972) taped off A&E later that day with commercials; 'Raising Arizona' (1987) taped off USA Network on 8/6/1993 with commercials. TDK T-120
Tape #54 - (#207) - 1991 Tony Awards taped off KIMA/CBS on 6/2/1991 with commercials; 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1969) and first 10 minutes of 'Little Shop of Horrors' (1960) taped off USA Network in the early morning hours of 6/25/1993 with commercials; partial episode of Jake and the Fatman taped off KIMA/CBS on 5/15/1991 with commercials, then flips over to KNDO/NBC for that night's episode of Quantum Leap with commercials; ends with last 10 minutes of 'Victim of Love' (1991) taped off KIMA/CBS on 5/5/1991 with a few commercials (already have this from KXTV). Scotch T-120
Tape 55 - (#356) - 'A Few Good Men' (1992) taped off Showtime circa February 1994; 'In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders' (1988) taped off K68EB in September 1994 with commercials; 'Hocus Pocus' (1993) taped off Disney Channel on 12/4/1994 with over 20 minutes of promos and free preview content afterwards; ends with a rarity - KNDO *signing on the air* around 5:50AM on 1/18/1994, also includes about 5 minutes of AgDay! BASF T-130
Tape 56 - (#263) - 'The Greatest Show on Earth' (1952) taped off TNT's 100% Weird on 10/3/1992 (midnight Eastern) with commercials; 'Sons of Katie Elder' (1965) taped off TNT on 10/10/1992 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 57 - (#298) - 'Written on the Wind' (1956) taped off A&E on 3/10/1993 with commercials; Murder, She Wrote episode taped off KIMA/CBS on 3/14/1993 with commercials, then flips over to KNDO/NBC for 'Kuffs' (1992) with commercials; ends with an episode of Wildlife Mysteries taped off A&E in May 1993 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 58 - (#178) - 'The Thin Man Goes Home' (1945) and 'Song of The Thin Man' (1947) taped off KCTS-9 circa June 1990; 'The Thin Man' (1934) taped off TNT on 6/23/1993 with commercials; ends with a partial episode of Bodies in Motion and full episode of Body Shaping with Cory Everson taped off ESPN in May 1990 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 59 - (#138) - All three parts of Favorite Son taped off KING/NBC on 10/30-11/1/1988 with commercials; already have this from KCRA but includes different local ads. Kodak T-120
Tape 60 - (#507) - 'A Season for Miracles' (1999) taped off KIMA/CBS on 12/12/1999 with commercials; 'Charade' (1963) taped off KYVE/PBS on 1/21/2000 with promos and midnight sign-off; when the cable provider switches PBS feeds to KCTS after KYVE cuts the juice, the tape records about a half hour of Charlie Rose and several promos prior to it. TDK T-120
Tape 61 - (Unmarked) - Episode of 60 Minutes taped off KIMA/CBS on 9/11/2005 with commercials; most of part 2 of 'Reversible Errors' taped off KIMA/CBS on 5/25/2004 with commercials; partial syndicated rerun of NYPD Blue, Providence, Hot Ticket and 2:30AM sign off taped off KIMA-29 early morning 5/24/2004 with commercials. It's the same sign-off as I found from 2/2/2003 a few years back. TDK T-120
Twice in the past two weeks I have had videos taken down from YouTube for 'inappropriate content' per community guidelines, but no strikes. And they are both TNT breaks. One from 1992, one from 1995. Have no idea who is doing this but they need to stop and find better things to do. Thankfully the first video was restored, I'm waiting on the second one.
And another first: on my old account, a KAPP commercial break from around Xmas 1992 is 'pending' a copyright strike unless I take it down in the next few days. This is a much better approach to takedowns IMO. It warns me and allows me to take it off without penalty. Apparently a commercial was claimed by someone. The organization was black-orientated, so it was likely the Exclamation Fragrance commercial or a KFC ad with a black family. Whatever, goes to Archive later today.
I have rapidly been going through Ellensburg tapes from this past July. Some of the newest finds:
Tape 37 - (#486) - 'Braveheart' part 2 (1995) copied from rental tape; reverts back to partial clips of 'North to Alaska' and another B&W John Wayne movie taped off K53CY in summer 1990 with a few commercials. BASF T-130
Tape 38 - (#417) - Both parts of Texas taped off KAPP/ABC on 4/16-17/1995 with commercials (already have this from an estate sale earlier this year before the pandemic); Biography episodes on Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr. taped off A&E on 10/23 and 10/25/1995 with commercials. TDK T-120
Tape 39 - (#193) - Last hour of U.S. Open coverage and 'Around the World in 80 Days (1956) taped off USA Network on 9/2/1990 with commercials; 'Camp Cucamonga' (1990) taped off KNDO/NBC on 9/23/1990 with commercials; part of 'The Last Bandit' taped off A&E circa early 1992 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 40 - (#286) - 'A Tale of Two Cities' (1935) taped off TNT in the early morning hours of 12/30/1992 with commercials; 'The Last Bandit' (1949) taped off A&E on 2/25/1993 with commercials; 'The Boy and the Pirates' (1960) taped off TNT on 8/24/1993 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 41 - (#370) - Columbo Undercover taped off KAPP/ABC on 5/2/1994 with commercials; 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby' taped off KCTS-9 circa early May 1994 with a few seconds of color bars afterwards (apparently they signed off without warning afterwards); 'Law of the Lawless' (1964) taped off TNT on 5/4/1994 with commercials; 'Ebbie' (1995) taped off Lifetime on 12/10/1995 with commercials. BASF T-160
Tape 42 - (#151) - 'Cleopatra' (1963) taped off TBS on 12/16/1989 with commercials (already have this); episode of Murder, She Wrote taped off KIMA/CBS on 10/3/1993 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 43 - (#516) - Episode of JAG taped off KIMA/CBS on 4/27/1999 with commercials; 'Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years' (1999) taped off KIMA/CBS on 4/18/1999 with commercials; 'Missing Pieces' (2000) taped off KIMA/CBS on 2/6/2000 with commercials (Hallmark Hall of Fame); 'That Old Feeling' (1997) taped off USA Network on 2/25/2000 with commercials. TDK T-160
Tape 44 - (#523) - Multiple Cary Grant movies taped off TCM on 1/18/2001 with promos scattered throughout: 'None But the Lonely Heart' (1944), 'Every Girl Should Be Married' (1950) and 'North By Northwest' (1959); also includes a couple One Reel Wonders including a vintage MGM travelogue of England. TDK T-160
Tape 45 - (#504) - 'The Fountainhead' (1949) taped off TCM on 1/20/2001 with promos; 'Crossfire Trail' (2001) taped off TNT on 1/21/2001 with commercials; 'For Love of Olivia' (2001) taped off KIMA/CBS on 3/18/2001 with commercials and news open; coverage of the Summer Olympics from Sydney taped off KNDO/NBC on 9/28/2000 with commercials; most of Meet the Press taped off KNDO/NBC on 10/1/2000 with commercials. TDK T-160
Tape 46 - (Unmarked) - 39th Academy of Country Music Awards and first few minutes of KIMA News at 11 taped off KIMA/CBS on 5/26/2004 with commercials. TDK T-120, blank after just over 3 hrs
Tape 47 - (#224) - 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' (1988) taped off KIMA/CBS on 11/12/1991 with commercials (duplicate); 'Back to the Future III' (1990) taped off KNDO/NBC on 11/17/1991 with commercials (also a duplicate); part of 'White Fang' (1991) taped off KIMA/CBS on 1/4/1992 with commercials (have about 1/2 hour of this from KIRO). Scotch EG T-120
Tape 48 - (#326) - Multiple movies taped on 8/14/1993, all with commercials - 'Arthur' (1981) taped off USA Network; 'That Darn Cat' (1965) taped off KAPP-35 and 'Runaway Heart' (1990) taped off Lifetime. BASF T-130
Tape 49 - (#147) - 'Outrageous Fortune' (1987) taped off KOMO/ABC on 11/19/1989 with commercials; 'The Shell Seekers' (1989) taped off KOMO/ABC (Hallmark Hall of Fame) on 12/3/1989 with commercials; 'Howard Beach: Making a Case for Murder' (1989) taped off KING/NBC on 12/4/1989 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 50 - (#149) - Both parts of 'Gone with the Wind' (1939) taped off TBS on 12/14-15/1989 with commercials (already have this...multiple times!); A&E Biography on Norman Schwarzkopf taped 1/11/1994 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 51 - (#405) - 'Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride' (1992) taped off K68EB on 1/29/1995 with commercials; flips over to KSTW-11 a few hours later for a taping of 'Annie' (1982) with commercials; ends with 'Drop-Out Father' (1982) taped off Lifetime in February 1995 with commercials. TDK T-120
Tape #52 - (#202) - 'Escape from Sobibor' (1987) taped off KIMA/CBS on 8/12/1990 with commercials; 'Crocodile Dundee II' (1988) taped off KIMA/CBS on 5/14/1991 with commercials; episode of The Real West taped off A&E on 2/10/1994 with commercials; ends with about 10 minutes of part 2 of Love & Hate: A Marriage Made in Hell taped off KNDO/NBC on 7/16/1990 with commercials (already have this from a tape found at an Oct 2018 estate sale). Scotch T-120
Tape #53 - (#324) - 'Without Reservations' (1946 - Colorized) taped off TBS early on 8/4/1993 with commercials; 'Sam Cade' (1972) taped off A&E later that day with commercials; 'Raising Arizona' (1987) taped off USA Network on 8/6/1993 with commercials. TDK T-120
Tape #54 - (#207) - 1991 Tony Awards taped off KIMA/CBS on 6/2/1991 with commercials; 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1969) and first 10 minutes of 'Little Shop of Horrors' (1960) taped off USA Network in the early morning hours of 6/25/1993 with commercials; partial episode of Jake and the Fatman taped off KIMA/CBS on 5/15/1991 with commercials, then flips over to KNDO/NBC for that night's episode of Quantum Leap with commercials; ends with last 10 minutes of 'Victim of Love' (1991) taped off KIMA/CBS on 5/5/1991 with a few commercials (already have this from KXTV). Scotch T-120
Tape 55 - (#356) - 'A Few Good Men' (1992) taped off Showtime circa February 1994; 'In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders' (1988) taped off K68EB in September 1994 with commercials; 'Hocus Pocus' (1993) taped off Disney Channel on 12/4/1994 with over 20 minutes of promos and free preview content afterwards; ends with a rarity - KNDO *signing on the air* around 5:50AM on 1/18/1994, also includes about 5 minutes of AgDay! BASF T-130
Tape 56 - (#263) - 'The Greatest Show on Earth' (1952) taped off TNT's 100% Weird on 10/3/1992 (midnight Eastern) with commercials; 'Sons of Katie Elder' (1965) taped off TNT on 10/10/1992 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 57 - (#298) - 'Written on the Wind' (1956) taped off A&E on 3/10/1993 with commercials; Murder, She Wrote episode taped off KIMA/CBS on 3/14/1993 with commercials, then flips over to KNDO/NBC for 'Kuffs' (1992) with commercials; ends with an episode of Wildlife Mysteries taped off A&E in May 1993 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 58 - (#178) - 'The Thin Man Goes Home' (1945) and 'Song of The Thin Man' (1947) taped off KCTS-9 circa June 1990; 'The Thin Man' (1934) taped off TNT on 6/23/1993 with commercials; ends with a partial episode of Bodies in Motion and full episode of Body Shaping with Cory Everson taped off ESPN in May 1990 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 59 - (#138) - All three parts of Favorite Son taped off KING/NBC on 10/30-11/1/1988 with commercials; already have this from KCRA but includes different local ads. Kodak T-120
Tape 60 - (#507) - 'A Season for Miracles' (1999) taped off KIMA/CBS on 12/12/1999 with commercials; 'Charade' (1963) taped off KYVE/PBS on 1/21/2000 with promos and midnight sign-off; when the cable provider switches PBS feeds to KCTS after KYVE cuts the juice, the tape records about a half hour of Charlie Rose and several promos prior to it. TDK T-120
Tape 61 - (Unmarked) - Episode of 60 Minutes taped off KIMA/CBS on 9/11/2005 with commercials; most of part 2 of 'Reversible Errors' taped off KIMA/CBS on 5/25/2004 with commercials; partial syndicated rerun of NYPD Blue, Providence, Hot Ticket and 2:30AM sign off taped off KIMA-29 early morning 5/24/2004 with commercials. It's the same sign-off as I found from 2/2/2003 a few years back. TDK T-120
Do you want to buy more religious TBN recordings on blank vhs tapes?
There was one movie I cant remember the title, but someone had recorded it for me from either HBO or Cinemax in the 80s that had a dance where right at the end, someone jumped in the pool. And at one point, a hot dog was shown while the dance was going on. Does anyone remember this movie airing on one of those channels?
One tape found at an estate sale in Hinckley yesterday--a Scotch T-120. Starts with The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited (CBS special), an episode of Judging Amy and the first few minutes of 19 Action News at 11 on WOIO on May 11, 2004 with commercials. Then it reverts to partial broadcasts of The Ballad of Josie (1967) and The Swarm (1978) on the Family Channel on May 16, 1998 with commercials.
My mom's friend also came through with more tapes from his collection when she met up with him and a few other friends earlier this week.
TAPE 1: Parts three, four, five and six of Centennial (NBC miniseries) taped from TNT in November 1991 with commercials. Certron T-120.
TAPE 2: True to Life (1943) taped from Showtime in November 1990 with promos; The Girl from Jones Beach (1949) and Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948) taped from TNT on 11/30/1990 with commercials; episode of Jeopardy (one of the contestants is from the Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn, Ohio) taped from WEWS on 12/5/1990 with commercials, also has the night's Ohio Lottery drawings. Memorex T-120.
TAPE 3: First two hours of AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movie Quotes (CBS special) taped from Bravo in September 2005 with commercials. Scotch T-60 in LP mode.
Lastly, I'm wondering if I should invest in purchasing a new (to me) VCR. I've had my Magnavox VCR/DVD recorder dual unit for seven years now and am not sure how much longer it's going to last. It's obviously a rather cheaply-made unit compared to others I've seen out there, i.e. I always have to adjust the tracking most times that I play back a tape recorded in LP or SLP mode and the playback of audio on LP or SLP recordings in mono audio will sometimes sound very warbly. It would be nice to have another VCR/DVD recorder dual unit to easily dub tapes to DVD+Rs (I know Panasonic and Sony have made such before and those two companies usually make pretty good quality items), but it seems like I'd be more likely to find a standalone VCR out in the wild than to find one of the combos. I do, however, have a Roxio capture card I ordered from Amazon last year but have not yet used. I'm still using the AOA DVD Ripper, as well as the Wonderfox DVD Ripper, but if I ever have to downgrade to a standalone unit, that's when the capture card will come in handy.
Oh, if only this model was easier to find in the wild. A couple of lucky VHS enthusiasts I know on YouTube ('Smoke' and 'The Vista Group') have one of these and the videos they post are often much more superior quality compared to mine. Not surprisingly, this model costs a pretty penny on eBay, and since it's a rather professional-grade item by comparison, I can see why.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...57.m570.l1312&_nkw=Panasonic+AG-1980&_sacat=0
My mom's friend also came through with more tapes from his collection when she met up with him and a few other friends earlier this week.
TAPE 1: Parts three, four, five and six of Centennial (NBC miniseries) taped from TNT in November 1991 with commercials. Certron T-120.
TAPE 2: True to Life (1943) taped from Showtime in November 1990 with promos; The Girl from Jones Beach (1949) and Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948) taped from TNT on 11/30/1990 with commercials; episode of Jeopardy (one of the contestants is from the Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn, Ohio) taped from WEWS on 12/5/1990 with commercials, also has the night's Ohio Lottery drawings. Memorex T-120.
TAPE 3: First two hours of AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movie Quotes (CBS special) taped from Bravo in September 2005 with commercials. Scotch T-60 in LP mode.
Lastly, I'm wondering if I should invest in purchasing a new (to me) VCR. I've had my Magnavox VCR/DVD recorder dual unit for seven years now and am not sure how much longer it's going to last. It's obviously a rather cheaply-made unit compared to others I've seen out there, i.e. I always have to adjust the tracking most times that I play back a tape recorded in LP or SLP mode and the playback of audio on LP or SLP recordings in mono audio will sometimes sound very warbly. It would be nice to have another VCR/DVD recorder dual unit to easily dub tapes to DVD+Rs (I know Panasonic and Sony have made such before and those two companies usually make pretty good quality items), but it seems like I'd be more likely to find a standalone VCR out in the wild than to find one of the combos. I do, however, have a Roxio capture card I ordered from Amazon last year but have not yet used. I'm still using the AOA DVD Ripper, as well as the Wonderfox DVD Ripper, but if I ever have to downgrade to a standalone unit, that's when the capture card will come in handy.
Oh, if only this model was easier to find in the wild. A couple of lucky VHS enthusiasts I know on YouTube ('Smoke' and 'The Vista Group') have one of these and the videos they post are often much more superior quality compared to mine. Not surprisingly, this model costs a pretty penny on eBay, and since it's a rather professional-grade item by comparison, I can see why.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...57.m570.l1312&_nkw=Panasonic+AG-1980&_sacat=0
I've heard great things about the AG-1980. Sometimes the capacitors do go out however. Seriously, the best VCR to me so far are the cheap Sony SLV-N55's, and my Quasar mono VCR from 2001 has been really good to me so far. If a tape is recorded in Hi-Fi I puli it off with the Sony, but most of the time mono tapes will be copied from the Quasar. I used to have a Panasonic S-VHS that was awesome, but one bad tape ruined it.
I am also looking at a food dehydrator, but not for food. Over the years I have purchased several Ampex tapes at estate sales and they have been the worst tapes. Squealing heads, slow fast-forward, even heads being nearly shot. And why you ask? Ampex used a back-coating on the bottom of the magnetic tape that makes it difficult to play in VCRs, thus resulting in sticky-shed syndrome. Often these Ampex tapes have great mid-late '80s content on them. On the VHS subreddit, a poster wrote that throwing the reels in a dehydrator at 130F for 6 hours seems to do the trick.
I have some Ampex tapes that need DVD conversion, so I wouldn't mind having that option. It's hard to believe they got away with that back coating.
I am also looking at a food dehydrator, but not for food. Over the years I have purchased several Ampex tapes at estate sales and they have been the worst tapes. Squealing heads, slow fast-forward, even heads being nearly shot. And why you ask? Ampex used a back-coating on the bottom of the magnetic tape that makes it difficult to play in VCRs, thus resulting in sticky-shed syndrome. Often these Ampex tapes have great mid-late '80s content on them. On the VHS subreddit, a poster wrote that throwing the reels in a dehydrator at 130F for 6 hours seems to do the trick.
I have some Ampex tapes that need DVD conversion, so I wouldn't mind having that option. It's hard to believe they got away with that back coating.