anyone erased the tapes just like the professionals?

[jwgreek8606]

Has anyone "taped over" shows that you regret taping over knowing the nostalgia value in the future. I remember in 1999, I was going thru some old videotape and I came across a tape of Andy Griffith reruns that my parents taped off of TBS in 1989. The tape also included original commercials and promos off of TBS. A year later in 2000, I bring the tape to Alabama with me and I accidentally leave it at my uncle's house in Montgomery, flash forward to October I go with my mom to Alabama for her high school class reunion, I find the tape finally not realizing I left it there and as I put it in, I notice that my uncle and aunt taped over it with half of NBC's crappy must see TV lineup. Since then, I regretted ever leaving the tape at my uncle's house and I should have broke the tab off of it to keep from it being taped over.

 

[landtuna]

"The Andy Griffith Show" is still being shown on cable.

As for the "timeless" commercials....they can be found archived all over the Internet. I just found a bunch more http://www.archive.org but there are many additional places as well.

 

[mbayus]

I go back way before VCRs. When I was 8 years old, (that would have been 1960) I got my first tape recorder. Because my dad new about audio and video equipment, we new how to hook it up directly to the TV and record through the line in jack. I use to record tv shows complete with IDs and commercials. I would reuse the tapes, and now, I don't have a one. I am a blind person and have been from birth, so I never cared about the pictures. I am sorry I didn't keep them, because I had local newscasts and everything. O well.

 

[Rob Jason]

Yea-I had a clean copy of Uncle Walter's last segment on the air (3/6/81)...And it went all the way through to the net ID after a network golf promo, with a clean fade to black.

One night, when Leno was doing his show from NYC, I got all excited and threw in a tape when jack Paar walked on. I grabbed the Uncle Walter tape, and fast forwarded it, but not far enough. It cuts out during the closing credits of Walter's last show. It didn;'t take long to regret what I did.

True, all this stuff is on the internet now. But a clean copy that you can watch on your TV is better.

 

[Ultimajock]

...circa '94, C-SPAN did a simulcast of Chuck Harder's syndicated "For the People" radio show, and I taped it because (a) the radio station I was working for at the time, WXOL in Oshkosh WI, was carrying the show and (b) his two guests that day were what I then though was the odd combination of Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader. (After subsequent dealings with both Nader and Harder, my opinion of both men has plummeted, but that's another subject for another site.) I wound up taping over the thing within a year or so. Then, when I became the Chicago and Milwaukee columnist for the late and lamented RadioDigest.com, one of the folks I became acquainted with online was Harry Shearer, and in an email exchange with him I mentioned the day that both Buchanan and Nader appeared on Harder's C-SPAN simulcast. Harry asked if I'd taped the thing ...