A couple of weekends ago, I found a recorded VHS tape at an estate sale in Spencer, Iowa (everything was free). It has Yu Yu Hakusho recorded off of Cartoon Network from the Toonami block around early 2003 with commercials. Will check the rest of the tape soon. I also took some used recordable CDs that were sitting in a plastic white basket (in which I have no interest in keeping, whatsoever).
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Oldest Extant Off-Air VHS/Beta Tape You Have
- Thread starter Stanislav
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Taking another look at the Hoarders episode I mentioned before, it looks like a lot of what Beverly recorded was talk shows and news programs. It looks like she also kept her VCRs running for extended periods of time to record entire blocks of programming on one channel. In pausing the video on some of the shots of VHS tapes and DVD+Rs, one of the tape labels reads "60 Min., Cold Case, BTK" (the latter referring to the made-for-TV movie The Hunt for the BTK Killer that aired on CBS on October 9, 2005). I see some that are marked with "ET" (Entertainment Tonight) and "Dr. Phil." One reads "Bill Maher" (unknown if that refers to Politically Incorrect on either Comedy Central or ABC or it refers to Real Time on HBO). Another one I saw has a label that reads "Hard Copy, Entertainment" (Hard Copy and Entertainment Tonight used to air back to back in many markets). One of the DVD+Rs in one of the shots had markings like "Shadow of Man," "Long Way Home," "Fatal Flaw" and "Fandango," and some of these I couldn't find any matches to on IMDB.
It also showed some brief glimpses of the TVs running in her house, and while A&E blurred the contents of the screens at times, I could still tell some of the programs that were playing, like The Price Is Right and CNN. One shot also briefly showed her looking through recordings on her Dish Network DVR, and from what I could see, some of them included The Dr. Oz Show, KAKE News at Ten (Wichita, Kansas), Nightline and The Bold and the Beautiful.
That said, I wonder what she could have recorded from the radio on all of those little cassette tapes throughout her house.
Do you want more religious tv stuff from 1996 and 2000?
A perfect 32 in terms of finds with my latest purchase- and all '80s at that! 99% off OTA content had the commercials intac I won't describe anything that I found, but the highlights included numerous episodes of Airwolf, including most of Season 2, including most of the summer reruns as well from that season, along with a couple episodes from the other two CBS seasons. A handful of KCBS-recorded Murder, She Wrote from the first two seasons were also found, along with a pair of Macgyvers from 1987 and 1988, a partial episode of Partners In Crime from fall 1984, Riptide and Remington Steele back-to-back off KNBC on 10/23/1984, about 20 minutes of promos off Cinemax from October 1984, one of them featuring free preview inserts, approximately the last 40 minutes of Days of our Lives (featuring a long credit roll) and the first half of Another World from 12/19/1984, a rerun of The 1984 Heart of Rock and Roll special off KTTV in June 1985 with most commercials, an NBC News Special on Nancy Reagan on 6/24/1985, an episode of KCBS's Eye on LA about get this: Flea Markets on 11/5/1985 along with the CBS Tuesday Movie "Stone Pillow" from the same night on the same tape, and the TV Movie "Vanishing Act" off KCBS on 5/4/1986. More classic gold included an episode of Donahue on 8/7/1985 off KNBC that features cooking, as well as the ABC Monday Movie "Convicted" on the same tape (this aired opposite the NBC 60th Anniversary Special on 5/12/86), along with approximately the last 20 minutes of the premiere of Codename: Foxfire as well as most of an episode of the short-lived primetime soap Berrenger's off KNBC on 1/2/71985.
I also found an episode of Moonlighting from 5/20/1986 (first rerun of the summer following the season finale), as well as a special one-hour episode of Designing Women following a full episode of Murder, She Wrote off KCBS on 2/1/1987, as well as a couple partial episodes of the TBN syndicated religious talk show Richard Hogue Sunday. Yet another tape featured an episode of A&E Dreamworks (Campaign), recorded circa September 1988 with commercials, and the tape with the newest content (and the only one recorded in BII as opposed to BIII mode) featured about 3/4th's of a rerun of the 1983 TV movie The Gift of Love, recorded off KCBS on Christmas night 1988, and then right before the credits, cuts over to most of Oprah Winfrey (missing the first few minutes), and then about 40 minutes of KABC's 4 O'Clock news follows, featuring rare footage of snow in the foothills in LA's outer suburbs. Speaking of which, I also found numerous partial newscasts (most from 1985, with a couple from 1984 and 1986) in this lot as well, mainly from KCBS, but a couple from the other Big 3 affiliates were also found as well and even one from KTLA. The only problem I've got with these is that with my main Beta machine, there's a tracking line about 85% towards the bottom that takes up nearly 5% of the picture. My spare machine seems like it doesn't have as much power, but it seems like its a bit better with tracking, so I'll have to drag it out when I eventually dub these.
The same seller still has more lots of 16 at $1.50 per tape including shipping, less than the $2.20 or so I paid for, so I'd certainly consider grabbing one. Since I found well over four hours worth of local LA news from the '80s, it may certainly be worth considering since one clip featured a behind the scenes segment of the first Junior Star Search competition from January 1985; you just won't have that on middle America newscasts. Still, that's probably one of the closest genuine trips to being transformed back to a time when Reagan ruled, California was still where everybody dreamed to be, and of course, not one instance of a hashtag or even a .com anywhere to be found!
I also found an episode of Moonlighting from 5/20/1986 (first rerun of the summer following the season finale), as well as a special one-hour episode of Designing Women following a full episode of Murder, She Wrote off KCBS on 2/1/1987, as well as a couple partial episodes of the TBN syndicated religious talk show Richard Hogue Sunday. Yet another tape featured an episode of A&E Dreamworks (Campaign), recorded circa September 1988 with commercials, and the tape with the newest content (and the only one recorded in BII as opposed to BIII mode) featured about 3/4th's of a rerun of the 1983 TV movie The Gift of Love, recorded off KCBS on Christmas night 1988, and then right before the credits, cuts over to most of Oprah Winfrey (missing the first few minutes), and then about 40 minutes of KABC's 4 O'Clock news follows, featuring rare footage of snow in the foothills in LA's outer suburbs. Speaking of which, I also found numerous partial newscasts (most from 1985, with a couple from 1984 and 1986) in this lot as well, mainly from KCBS, but a couple from the other Big 3 affiliates were also found as well and even one from KTLA. The only problem I've got with these is that with my main Beta machine, there's a tracking line about 85% towards the bottom that takes up nearly 5% of the picture. My spare machine seems like it doesn't have as much power, but it seems like its a bit better with tracking, so I'll have to drag it out when I eventually dub these.
The same seller still has more lots of 16 at $1.50 per tape including shipping, less than the $2.20 or so I paid for, so I'd certainly consider grabbing one. Since I found well over four hours worth of local LA news from the '80s, it may certainly be worth considering since one clip featured a behind the scenes segment of the first Junior Star Search competition from January 1985; you just won't have that on middle America newscasts. Still, that's probably one of the closest genuine trips to being transformed back to a time when Reagan ruled, California was still where everybody dreamed to be, and of course, not one instance of a hashtag or even a .com anywhere to be found!
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Hi there Michael,
I have The Gift of Love on one of the tapes in that massive Ellensburg collection I got in July. It's on tape #73, the same one as Loretta Young's 'Christmas Eve'. I haven't checked yet whether it's a 1986 or 1987 broadcast (or even '88). Nice finds on the newscasts, soaps, and Eye on L.A. broadcast. Meanwhile, I continue to plug away on getting rid of the first banana box of tapes from that aforementioned lot. Way more to come over the next several months.
I have The Gift of Love on one of the tapes in that massive Ellensburg collection I got in July. It's on tape #73, the same one as Loretta Young's 'Christmas Eve'. I haven't checked yet whether it's a 1986 or 1987 broadcast (or even '88). Nice finds on the newscasts, soaps, and Eye on L.A. broadcast. Meanwhile, I continue to plug away on getting rid of the first banana box of tapes from that aforementioned lot. Way more to come over the next several months.
More new finds from this past Saturday, this time from a storage unit sale in Seville. Dug through two large tubs full of VHS tapes to pick out what I ended up taking home. I left many behind because a lot of them were caked full of mold, but I took home a grand total of 21 tapes that were in better condition. Many duds found, but here are the keepers:
TAPE 1: Partial broadcast of Sarah, Plain and Tall (CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame movie) taped from WJW in Cleveland on 2/3/1991 with commercials (I already have a full recording of this, but this one was in Hi-Fi); partial broadcast of The Compleat Beatles presumably taped from WVIZ in Cleveland circa 1987(?) (I already have a full recording of this as well, this also was in Hi-Fi). Scotch T-120.
TAPE 2: Partial broadcast of CBS This Morning presumably taped from WJW on 2/27/1992 with commercials (no local ads found); partial broadcast of Peter, Paul and Mary: 25th Anniversary Concert taped from WVIZ circa 1986. RCA T-120.
TAPE 3: The Brave Little Toaster (1987) taped from the Disney Channel circa 1990, starts with the Magical World of Disney opening and Michael Eisner's introduction to the movie, rest of the tape is blank signal. Polaroid T-120.
TAPE 4: Partial broadcast of NFL on NBC (Cleveland Browns vs. Miami Dolphins) and start of the 1993 YMCA Cleveland Corporate Challenge taped from WKYC in Cleveland on 10/10/1993 with commercials; partial broadcast of Cleveland Browns vs. New England Patriots (preseason game) taped from WOIO in Cleveland in August 1993 with commercials. Kodak T-120.
TAPE 5: Two episodes of Trick My Truck taped from CMT on 2/3/2006 with commercials; partial episode of The Dukes of Hazzard and episode of Trick My Truck taped from CMT on 2/10/2006 with commercials; episodes of Trick My Truck taped from CMT on 2/17/2006, 2/24/2006 and 3/3/2006 with commercials; two episodes of Trick My Truck, CMT's Greatest NASCAR Comebacks, episode of True Grit and partial encore presentation of Trick My Truck taped from CMT on 3/10/2006 with commercials. Memorex T-120.
TAPE 6: The Santa Clause 2 (2002) taped from WYTV in Youngstown on 12/14/2008 with commercials; I Am Legend (2007) taped from unknown premium channel circa January 2009; Hitman (2007) taped from HBO circa January 2009, ends with short promos for HBO on Demand and Smokin' Aces; two partial episodes of Little People, Big World taped from TLC on 12/25/2008 with commercials. RCA T-120.
TAPE 7: National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets (2007) taped from Starz circa 2009; Jeff Paul's Shortcut to Internet Millions infomercial, Ronco Showtime infomercial and partial episode of Becker taped from USA in April 2009 with commercials; partial broadcast of part two of An Inconvenient Woman (ABC miniseries) taped from WEWS in Cleveland on 5/31/1991 with commercials. Unknown brand T-120.
TAPE 8: Eight Below (2006) taped from Encore Wam circa 2007; Pulp Fiction (1994) taped from the Movie Channel circa 2007 with promos. All of this was taped over a prerecorded MCA Universal Home Video retail tape of Casual Sex? (1988), which I didn't realize until after I had gotten home with these tapes. The top of the cassette had a handwritten label with the two recorded movie titles on it, but looking at it closely, I could see it was plastered over the printed label that came with the Casual Sex? movie. There was no plastic tape over the opening where the tab would be on a blank tape, but there obviously was at one point beforehand.
In another example of why I could use a different VCR than I currently have, another one of the tapes I got had several episodes of Overhaulin' on TLC recorded in July and August 2005 with commercials, but a little more than four hours into the tape, I rewound the tape a few minutes back, and when I played it, the VCR ejected the tape by itself and shut itself off. The VCR had apparently eaten the tape because it had gotten snagged out of the cassette and stuck in one of the mechanisms in the process. I managed to safely wiggle it out and reel it back into the cassette, but the last two hours of that tape are unfortunately going to remain unsearched. The tape was a Scotch T-120.
Among the writings on the labels of the tapes I left behind, many of which were full of mold, were more tapes of Overhaulin' episodes, one tape labeled "Biker Build-Off" (TLC program), one labeled "Jerry Tape" (Jerry Seinfeld? Jerry Springer?), one labeled "Toilet Toss" (???), one marked "X-rated" with a couple of other movie titles as well, and various other tapes with movie titles on the labels. There were also at least a couple of other examples similar to Tape 8, but with the plastic tape covering the empty recording tab hole.
TAPE 1: Partial broadcast of Sarah, Plain and Tall (CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame movie) taped from WJW in Cleveland on 2/3/1991 with commercials (I already have a full recording of this, but this one was in Hi-Fi); partial broadcast of The Compleat Beatles presumably taped from WVIZ in Cleveland circa 1987(?) (I already have a full recording of this as well, this also was in Hi-Fi). Scotch T-120.
TAPE 2: Partial broadcast of CBS This Morning presumably taped from WJW on 2/27/1992 with commercials (no local ads found); partial broadcast of Peter, Paul and Mary: 25th Anniversary Concert taped from WVIZ circa 1986. RCA T-120.
TAPE 3: The Brave Little Toaster (1987) taped from the Disney Channel circa 1990, starts with the Magical World of Disney opening and Michael Eisner's introduction to the movie, rest of the tape is blank signal. Polaroid T-120.
TAPE 4: Partial broadcast of NFL on NBC (Cleveland Browns vs. Miami Dolphins) and start of the 1993 YMCA Cleveland Corporate Challenge taped from WKYC in Cleveland on 10/10/1993 with commercials; partial broadcast of Cleveland Browns vs. New England Patriots (preseason game) taped from WOIO in Cleveland in August 1993 with commercials. Kodak T-120.
TAPE 5: Two episodes of Trick My Truck taped from CMT on 2/3/2006 with commercials; partial episode of The Dukes of Hazzard and episode of Trick My Truck taped from CMT on 2/10/2006 with commercials; episodes of Trick My Truck taped from CMT on 2/17/2006, 2/24/2006 and 3/3/2006 with commercials; two episodes of Trick My Truck, CMT's Greatest NASCAR Comebacks, episode of True Grit and partial encore presentation of Trick My Truck taped from CMT on 3/10/2006 with commercials. Memorex T-120.
TAPE 6: The Santa Clause 2 (2002) taped from WYTV in Youngstown on 12/14/2008 with commercials; I Am Legend (2007) taped from unknown premium channel circa January 2009; Hitman (2007) taped from HBO circa January 2009, ends with short promos for HBO on Demand and Smokin' Aces; two partial episodes of Little People, Big World taped from TLC on 12/25/2008 with commercials. RCA T-120.
TAPE 7: National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets (2007) taped from Starz circa 2009; Jeff Paul's Shortcut to Internet Millions infomercial, Ronco Showtime infomercial and partial episode of Becker taped from USA in April 2009 with commercials; partial broadcast of part two of An Inconvenient Woman (ABC miniseries) taped from WEWS in Cleveland on 5/31/1991 with commercials. Unknown brand T-120.
TAPE 8: Eight Below (2006) taped from Encore Wam circa 2007; Pulp Fiction (1994) taped from the Movie Channel circa 2007 with promos. All of this was taped over a prerecorded MCA Universal Home Video retail tape of Casual Sex? (1988), which I didn't realize until after I had gotten home with these tapes. The top of the cassette had a handwritten label with the two recorded movie titles on it, but looking at it closely, I could see it was plastered over the printed label that came with the Casual Sex? movie. There was no plastic tape over the opening where the tab would be on a blank tape, but there obviously was at one point beforehand.
In another example of why I could use a different VCR than I currently have, another one of the tapes I got had several episodes of Overhaulin' on TLC recorded in July and August 2005 with commercials, but a little more than four hours into the tape, I rewound the tape a few minutes back, and when I played it, the VCR ejected the tape by itself and shut itself off. The VCR had apparently eaten the tape because it had gotten snagged out of the cassette and stuck in one of the mechanisms in the process. I managed to safely wiggle it out and reel it back into the cassette, but the last two hours of that tape are unfortunately going to remain unsearched. The tape was a Scotch T-120.
Among the writings on the labels of the tapes I left behind, many of which were full of mold, were more tapes of Overhaulin' episodes, one tape labeled "Biker Build-Off" (TLC program), one labeled "Jerry Tape" (Jerry Seinfeld? Jerry Springer?), one labeled "Toilet Toss" (???), one marked "X-rated" with a couple of other movie titles as well, and various other tapes with movie titles on the labels. There were also at least a couple of other examples similar to Tape 8, but with the plastic tape covering the empty recording tab hole.
Judging from their content, more than one person (husband and wife, possibly children?) was making these recordings, so it could very well have been either of them. Or maybe even Jerry Van Dyke, although why anyone would tape his annoying early-career appearances on his brother Dick's sitcom is beyond my understanding.
Did your Panasonic S-VHS VCR have the feature shown in this video? This is something the AG-1980 has.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isMIfLUPz-s
Nope, didn't have the loud fast-forward audio noise that's in the video. The S-VHS was a PV-S7470. And actually I think it wasn't a bad tape after all. Now that I remember, the VCR accidentally hit the floor one time and nothing worked after that. A shame, since it was a great VCR and could play all of the S-VHS tapes I have and still need to convert to DVD.
I went back down to Yakima this morning and hit an estate sale off Lincoln Ave, near Gilbert Park. This sale was mixed, with about half being duds...and here's the rest.
Tape 1 - 'The Cowboys' (1972) taped off KSTW-11 in February 1990 with commercials; Austin City Limits broadcast taped off KYVE/PBS in the mid-1990s with a partial pledge break; partial broadcast of Nasty Boys taped off KNDO/NBC in March 1990 with commercials; end of Kingbowl '86 coverage (West Valley losing to Burlington) taped off KIMA-29 on 12/6/1986; last few minutes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and open to Late Night with David Letterman taped off KNDO/NBC early morning 12/18/1986 with commercials; end of the Philadelphia Eagles/L.A. Raiders game taped off KIMA/CBS on 11/30/1986 with commercials; part of 'The Principal' (1987) taped off KSTW-11 in February 1990 with commercials. RCA T-120
Tape 2 - 'Mrs. Doubtfire' (1993) taped off HBO circa spring 1995; 2nd half of the NFC Championship between the 49ers and Cowboys taped off KPDX/FOX (49 Portland) on 1/15/1995 with commercials; then flips over to Showtime for the end of 'Another Stakeout' (1993) and Ready or Not with several free preview promos; ends with last 15 minutes of 'The Mighty Ducks' (1992) taped off unknown channel. Unknown T-120
Tape 3 - First 19 minutes has a Beavis & Butthead episode taped off MTV minus commercials (c. 1994), then cuts to the last 6-7 minutes of Home Improvement and 20 minutes of the Moon Over Miami premiere taped off KAPP/ABC on 9/15/1993 with commercials (the latter program I already have). Then cuts again to most of the Marvin Hagler vs. Sugar Ray Leonard fight taped off HBO on 4/11/1987 (a duplicate of a tape found 9/21/19), then cuts to some promos and The Hitchhiker taped off HBO in March 1987 with promos. Scotch T-120
Tape 4 - Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 2001 and start of Fiesta in the Skies taped off KYVE/PBS in January 2001 with promos (all of which were off KCTS' feed but simulcasted); partial Northwest Newschannel 8 at 5pm broadcast taped off KGW-8 Portland in late 1995 with commercials; ends with about 40 minutes of an unknown 1990s British drama off pay-TV (no commercials). Maxell T-120
A fifth tape not 'counted' had 'Operation Thunderbolt' (1977) copied from a rental tape, and a tiny clip (3 minutes or so) of Good Morning America at the end, taped 6/21/1985 with a couple commercials off KAPP/ABC. First time finding a David Hartman GMA. Too bad this tape was a VK-250 RCA that had even older TV airchecks recorded over by the rental bootleg. UGH.
Tape 1 - 'The Cowboys' (1972) taped off KSTW-11 in February 1990 with commercials; Austin City Limits broadcast taped off KYVE/PBS in the mid-1990s with a partial pledge break; partial broadcast of Nasty Boys taped off KNDO/NBC in March 1990 with commercials; end of Kingbowl '86 coverage (West Valley losing to Burlington) taped off KIMA-29 on 12/6/1986; last few minutes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and open to Late Night with David Letterman taped off KNDO/NBC early morning 12/18/1986 with commercials; end of the Philadelphia Eagles/L.A. Raiders game taped off KIMA/CBS on 11/30/1986 with commercials; part of 'The Principal' (1987) taped off KSTW-11 in February 1990 with commercials. RCA T-120
Tape 2 - 'Mrs. Doubtfire' (1993) taped off HBO circa spring 1995; 2nd half of the NFC Championship between the 49ers and Cowboys taped off KPDX/FOX (49 Portland) on 1/15/1995 with commercials; then flips over to Showtime for the end of 'Another Stakeout' (1993) and Ready or Not with several free preview promos; ends with last 15 minutes of 'The Mighty Ducks' (1992) taped off unknown channel. Unknown T-120
Tape 3 - First 19 minutes has a Beavis & Butthead episode taped off MTV minus commercials (c. 1994), then cuts to the last 6-7 minutes of Home Improvement and 20 minutes of the Moon Over Miami premiere taped off KAPP/ABC on 9/15/1993 with commercials (the latter program I already have). Then cuts again to most of the Marvin Hagler vs. Sugar Ray Leonard fight taped off HBO on 4/11/1987 (a duplicate of a tape found 9/21/19), then cuts to some promos and The Hitchhiker taped off HBO in March 1987 with promos. Scotch T-120
Tape 4 - Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 2001 and start of Fiesta in the Skies taped off KYVE/PBS in January 2001 with promos (all of which were off KCTS' feed but simulcasted); partial Northwest Newschannel 8 at 5pm broadcast taped off KGW-8 Portland in late 1995 with commercials; ends with about 40 minutes of an unknown 1990s British drama off pay-TV (no commercials). Maxell T-120
A fifth tape not 'counted' had 'Operation Thunderbolt' (1977) copied from a rental tape, and a tiny clip (3 minutes or so) of Good Morning America at the end, taped 6/21/1985 with a couple commercials off KAPP/ABC. First time finding a David Hartman GMA. Too bad this tape was a VK-250 RCA that had even older TV airchecks recorded over by the rental bootleg. UGH.
Dude... you gotta start posting your TV airchecks to Archive!
No time to do that. 26 hours of work a week + three virtual online university classes creates a busy week, every week, for me.
I post stuff to Archive that YouTube would take down. Bell Philip soaps, Wheel, Jeopardy, TNN stuff (had a strike from Jim Owens once), Siskel & Ebert's, Sally episodes, Oprah's, etc.
In one of the tapes I recently acquired from that older lady's storage unit in Yakima was a tape that had two movies and the third item was marked 'Fandango'. OOH...the TNN game show! Can't wait to view that.
I post stuff to Archive that YouTube would take down. Bell Philip soaps, Wheel, Jeopardy, TNN stuff (had a strike from Jim Owens once), Siskel & Ebert's, Sally episodes, Oprah's, etc.
In one of the tapes I recently acquired from that older lady's storage unit in Yakima was a tape that had two movies and the third item was marked 'Fandango'. OOH...the TNN game show! Can't wait to view that.
I won't get too excited and I'd bet that it's 98% likely that it's going to be the 1985 movie starring Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson. People just didn't tape game shows much unless if they or a friend/family member were on it (audience or contestant), or maybe once in awhile you'll have a Jeopardy! fan, and I've found a couple lots where I've discovered quite a few Jeopardy! episodes.
Well, I decided to buy three more lots of Beta tapes from that CA seller after discovering a lower price (~$1.50 each) on them. This is one of those "Grab bag" lots though where the photo shown on the listing doesn't necessarily reflect the tapes you'll receive. But given that I had a successful lot previously with nothing but '80s, with commercials found on every time (and quite a few partial newscasts), I'm certainly going to go for more. One tape in the stock photo showed both "The A-Team" and "Manimal" on the same tape, along with "Some Concert In Israel" and "last 1/2 of movie" on it as well, indicating that some 1983 content is possible (my oldest recording in the last lot was from August 1984). I'll have a one in three chance of landing it, but sometimes, it could lead to unexpected surprises.
I think my chances are about 60% likely. She often taped TNN stuff at the ends of these tapes. Some had Statler Bros, some had Nashville Now clips with Ralph Emery, and one had Country Kitchen with Florence Henderson (with guest Little Jimmy Dickens). Will check later this week
I'm surprised you get copyright strikes on your TNN uploads. There's plenty of TNN material on YouTube, from Nashville Network segments to "American Music Shop" to several episodes of "The Texas Connection" that have been getting plenty of views since the death of host Jerry Jeff Walker. Why are you being targeted?
I got a copyright strike for a generic TNN promo by Jim Owens Entertainment. And a couple other YouTubers' I know have gotten strikes from Jim Owens for TNN programming.
Because I was at two strikes when I got that strike a couple years back, I dumped every TNN video off YouTube and they are now exclusive to my Archive.org account. I was afraid another random TNN promo would get me the nightmare suspension of my account...
Because I was at two strikes when I got that strike a couple years back, I dumped every TNN video off YouTube and they are now exclusive to my Archive.org account. I was afraid another random TNN promo would get me the nightmare suspension of my account...
Box one of three came in yesterday and with one exception, every tape once again was filled with commercials. A better mixture of dramas, some made-for-TV movies, a couple rare sitcoms, a talk show episode, some more local news, a couple conclusions of MNF games, and even the first few minutes of a game show. The only dud was one tape featuring a couple movies recorded off HBO from around fall 1984 with just a few seconds of promos.
Note: All tapes are recorded off the "Big 3" Los Angeles stations (KABC, KCBS, KNBC) with commercials unless otherwise indicated.
TAPE 1: MacGyver ("Bushmate") followed by the ABC Monday Night Movie "Fight For Live", along with the first several minutes of Channel 7's Eyewitness News on 3/23/1987, followed by Spies "From China With Love" and the first several minutes of the CBS Tuesday Move "A Different Affair" on 3/24/1987.
TAPE 2: My only non-OTA find turned out to be the most annoying. It starts with the closing credits of some BBC show, followed by Episode 3 of Jayne Ere (1983 BBC miniseries) recorded off A&E sometime in 1988 with commercials, and then shortly after the closing credits, it loops back to the exact same closing sequences as described in the beginning, and continues to loop for nine times throughout the entire tape! I'm not sure if this was a special preview for non-cable subscribers since that HBO recording above may have also been a special preview. Still, it was annoying seeing Juan Valdez, Socrates, and The New Yorker appear again and again just when you thought we'd move on after seeing part of the Macintosh commercial at the end!
TAPE 3: The last half hour of the Bears-Packers Monday Night Football game followed by the season 2 premiere of MacGyver on 9/23/1986, followed interestingly by the second episode of MacGyver's second season, but actually taken from the 12/1/1986 rerun, with most of an episode of the rather short-lived '70s drama Ellery Queen rounding out the tape, with this of course being ABC 7 filler content to fill the gap between primetime programming and the news. IIRC Peter Jennings came between that and the late local news.
TAPE 4: MacGyver "Out In The Cold" from 2/16/1987, followed by about three fourths of the second installment of the Amerika miniseries on 2/15/1987.
TAPE 5: This recording from 4/4/1987 not only features some footage of some cult '70s drama, but also a full block of primetime dramas on ABC as well. It begins with about two-thirds of an episode of S.W.A.T. and most of the 1976 Blue Knight episode "Everybody Needs A Little Attention" off KTTV, with some promos heralding the Fourth Network for its launch the next day. A full block on ABC 7 with Starman, Ohara, and Spenser: For Hire follows.
TAPE 6: The first three installments of the Fresno miniseries from 11/16-/11/18/1986.
TAPE 7: Recorded on my second birthday (2/22/1987), a full ABC primetime block featuring The Parent Trap II (just seven months after its premiere on The Disney Channel) and the final installment of Amerika are featured, along with much of the KABC 11 PM news as well.
TAPE 8: We're back to back from consecutive knights from Tape 5 (4/5/1987), this time from Sunday Night's most popular network. That's right, the network that brings you Murder, She Wrote, followed by a follow-up to the mid-80s drama in the CBS Sunday Movie with "Still Crazy Like A Fox", with the first segment of KCBS's late news following. Its amazing how quickly Channel 2 in LA changed their news opening graphics in just a couple years BTW.
TAPE 9: Too bad this tape was only about 20% full since it could have led to Carson and Letterman and also incomplete with what was recorded, but I'll still settle for the last half of the premiere of The Bronx Zoo and most of KNBC Channel 4 News at 11 on 3/19/1987.
TAPE 10: A broadcast edit of the theatrical film The Cheap Detective along with the first ten minutes of KABC's late news on 8/22/1987, followed by approximately 70% of the world premiere movie "The Man Who Fell To Earth" along with another ten minute clip of ABC 7 at 11 on 8/23/1987. The copyright of that movie was 1986, indicating that it likely was shelved and/or postponed due to a special report or event. It's not as well known as the 1976 version starring David Bowie. In fact, the Los Angeles Times misidentified it in their TV preview section as that film.
TAPE 11: Murder, She Wrote and the CBS Sunday Movie "Deadly Care", along with the first segment of the KCBS 11 o'clock news. Interestingly though, the commercial break between M,SW and the movie, along with the movie's intro is missing.
TAPE 12: MacGyver "Friends" from 4/6/1987, followed by another episode of the short-lived spy drama Spies, most of Moonlighting, Max Headroom, and the first segment of KABC's News at 11 on 4/7/1987.
TAPE 13: The Season 3 premiere of Murder, She Wrote followed by most of Raiders of the Lost Ark on 9/28/1986. I've already farmed out the commercials from WPVI of that movie, and have also seen WCBS posted as well.
TAPE 14: Ohara (a rerun of "Eddie", Spencer For Hire "The Road Back", the closing of the KNBC 11 PM News, and Saturday Night Live (host: Bill Murray) from 3/21/1987. I've already got a copy of the network rerun from 12/26/1987 off KTSM, but of course it doesn't hurt having the OB as well!
TAPE 15: Now this tape features some rare stuff! It begins with the premiere of Max Headroom from 3/31/1987 (part of the intro is missing), followed by the premieres of the short-lived sitcoms Roxie and Take Five (these lasted just two weeks each before CBS booted them) from 4/1/1987, then it continues with a rerun of Donahue (guest: Diahann Carrol) on 4/2/1987, followed by about half an hour of syndicated TBN religious programming, Entertainment Tonight, and about the first five minutes of Card Sharks with Bill Rafferty from the same night as the Donahue rerun. I have about three-fourths of that ET episode that I received in a trade earlier this year, and have learned now that the 1985 Donahue episode on cooking from my last lot was also a rerun, since it features that "The preceding program is prerecorded" voiceover over the Multimedia Entertainment logo at the end (and I was scared to death as a kid of that logo since it felt like a Tylenol pill that was going to gill your veins, since those rapidly expanding/closing blue MULTIMEDIAS gave me jitters!)
As you can see, most of these were clustered around February-early April of 1987, with a few from the later portions of 1986. As you can see on the link below for the seller I purchased these from, most of these were those Sony L-750 with the diagonal stripes, along with a few grey/black line Maxell L-750s, and I didn't receive any tapes with the labels shown in the photo.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-Of-16-...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Well with six lots I didn't purchase, hopefully that will cross over eventually in the form of trades, and if weren't for the fact that I'd pretty much hit my capacity, I'd be buying more. We'll see if those steel-colored BASF cases and/or High Output High Resolution TDKs come in the next batch so that I could get those 1983-84 tapes potentially!
Note: All tapes are recorded off the "Big 3" Los Angeles stations (KABC, KCBS, KNBC) with commercials unless otherwise indicated.
TAPE 1: MacGyver ("Bushmate") followed by the ABC Monday Night Movie "Fight For Live", along with the first several minutes of Channel 7's Eyewitness News on 3/23/1987, followed by Spies "From China With Love" and the first several minutes of the CBS Tuesday Move "A Different Affair" on 3/24/1987.
TAPE 2: My only non-OTA find turned out to be the most annoying. It starts with the closing credits of some BBC show, followed by Episode 3 of Jayne Ere (1983 BBC miniseries) recorded off A&E sometime in 1988 with commercials, and then shortly after the closing credits, it loops back to the exact same closing sequences as described in the beginning, and continues to loop for nine times throughout the entire tape! I'm not sure if this was a special preview for non-cable subscribers since that HBO recording above may have also been a special preview. Still, it was annoying seeing Juan Valdez, Socrates, and The New Yorker appear again and again just when you thought we'd move on after seeing part of the Macintosh commercial at the end!
TAPE 3: The last half hour of the Bears-Packers Monday Night Football game followed by the season 2 premiere of MacGyver on 9/23/1986, followed interestingly by the second episode of MacGyver's second season, but actually taken from the 12/1/1986 rerun, with most of an episode of the rather short-lived '70s drama Ellery Queen rounding out the tape, with this of course being ABC 7 filler content to fill the gap between primetime programming and the news. IIRC Peter Jennings came between that and the late local news.
TAPE 4: MacGyver "Out In The Cold" from 2/16/1987, followed by about three fourths of the second installment of the Amerika miniseries on 2/15/1987.
TAPE 5: This recording from 4/4/1987 not only features some footage of some cult '70s drama, but also a full block of primetime dramas on ABC as well. It begins with about two-thirds of an episode of S.W.A.T. and most of the 1976 Blue Knight episode "Everybody Needs A Little Attention" off KTTV, with some promos heralding the Fourth Network for its launch the next day. A full block on ABC 7 with Starman, Ohara, and Spenser: For Hire follows.
TAPE 6: The first three installments of the Fresno miniseries from 11/16-/11/18/1986.
TAPE 7: Recorded on my second birthday (2/22/1987), a full ABC primetime block featuring The Parent Trap II (just seven months after its premiere on The Disney Channel) and the final installment of Amerika are featured, along with much of the KABC 11 PM news as well.
TAPE 8: We're back to back from consecutive knights from Tape 5 (4/5/1987), this time from Sunday Night's most popular network. That's right, the network that brings you Murder, She Wrote, followed by a follow-up to the mid-80s drama in the CBS Sunday Movie with "Still Crazy Like A Fox", with the first segment of KCBS's late news following. Its amazing how quickly Channel 2 in LA changed their news opening graphics in just a couple years BTW.
TAPE 9: Too bad this tape was only about 20% full since it could have led to Carson and Letterman and also incomplete with what was recorded, but I'll still settle for the last half of the premiere of The Bronx Zoo and most of KNBC Channel 4 News at 11 on 3/19/1987.
TAPE 10: A broadcast edit of the theatrical film The Cheap Detective along with the first ten minutes of KABC's late news on 8/22/1987, followed by approximately 70% of the world premiere movie "The Man Who Fell To Earth" along with another ten minute clip of ABC 7 at 11 on 8/23/1987. The copyright of that movie was 1986, indicating that it likely was shelved and/or postponed due to a special report or event. It's not as well known as the 1976 version starring David Bowie. In fact, the Los Angeles Times misidentified it in their TV preview section as that film.
TAPE 11: Murder, She Wrote and the CBS Sunday Movie "Deadly Care", along with the first segment of the KCBS 11 o'clock news. Interestingly though, the commercial break between M,SW and the movie, along with the movie's intro is missing.
TAPE 12: MacGyver "Friends" from 4/6/1987, followed by another episode of the short-lived spy drama Spies, most of Moonlighting, Max Headroom, and the first segment of KABC's News at 11 on 4/7/1987.
TAPE 13: The Season 3 premiere of Murder, She Wrote followed by most of Raiders of the Lost Ark on 9/28/1986. I've already farmed out the commercials from WPVI of that movie, and have also seen WCBS posted as well.
TAPE 14: Ohara (a rerun of "Eddie", Spencer For Hire "The Road Back", the closing of the KNBC 11 PM News, and Saturday Night Live (host: Bill Murray) from 3/21/1987. I've already got a copy of the network rerun from 12/26/1987 off KTSM, but of course it doesn't hurt having the OB as well!
TAPE 15: Now this tape features some rare stuff! It begins with the premiere of Max Headroom from 3/31/1987 (part of the intro is missing), followed by the premieres of the short-lived sitcoms Roxie and Take Five (these lasted just two weeks each before CBS booted them) from 4/1/1987, then it continues with a rerun of Donahue (guest: Diahann Carrol) on 4/2/1987, followed by about half an hour of syndicated TBN religious programming, Entertainment Tonight, and about the first five minutes of Card Sharks with Bill Rafferty from the same night as the Donahue rerun. I have about three-fourths of that ET episode that I received in a trade earlier this year, and have learned now that the 1985 Donahue episode on cooking from my last lot was also a rerun, since it features that "The preceding program is prerecorded" voiceover over the Multimedia Entertainment logo at the end (and I was scared to death as a kid of that logo since it felt like a Tylenol pill that was going to gill your veins, since those rapidly expanding/closing blue MULTIMEDIAS gave me jitters!)
As you can see, most of these were clustered around February-early April of 1987, with a few from the later portions of 1986. As you can see on the link below for the seller I purchased these from, most of these were those Sony L-750 with the diagonal stripes, along with a few grey/black line Maxell L-750s, and I didn't receive any tapes with the labels shown in the photo.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-Of-16-...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Well with six lots I didn't purchase, hopefully that will cross over eventually in the form of trades, and if weren't for the fact that I'd pretty much hit my capacity, I'd be buying more. We'll see if those steel-colored BASF cases and/or High Output High Resolution TDKs come in the next batch so that I could get those 1983-84 tapes potentially!
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You mentioned Betas...
I am waiting on a package of 18 to come to my door from Boise. Another hard-to-find market for me, but especially in the Betamax format. Looks like I'll finally add 'The Day After' to my collection, I am hoping it's a KIVI original broadcast. Also some other miniseries, movies and a Super Bowl or two listed along with some unlabeled's. Looking forward to it!
I am waiting on a package of 18 to come to my door from Boise. Another hard-to-find market for me, but especially in the Betamax format. Looks like I'll finally add 'The Day After' to my collection, I am hoping it's a KIVI original broadcast. Also some other miniseries, movies and a Super Bowl or two listed along with some unlabeled's. Looking forward to it!
Have you had the chance to watch that "Fandango" tape yet? Was it the TNN quiz show or the movie? I found a full hour of the TNN show on YouTube yesterday, posted by one of the contestants (he won on the first show, lost on the second). I'd forgotten how hard those questions were! All three contestants on each show consistently named singers and songs after hearing just a couple of words, and could complete lyrics nearly flawlessly. I was a huge country music fan in those days, but trying to "play along" as I watched, I couldn't even come close to what those amazing contestants were doing.