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Oldest Extant Off-Air VHS/Beta Tape You Have
- Thread starter Stanislav
- Start date
Ill check them out.
Finds from that Boise Beta lot. A few duds, but otherwise they are keepers. Most came from that market with a couple from Washington D.C. They were from an estate out in Star, 15 to 20 miles W of town.
Tape 1 - 'Clan of the Cave Bear' (1986) copied from rental; part of 'Yentl' (1983) copied from rental and about 15 minutes of the Penn State-Maryland football game taped off unknown station on 9/7/1985 with commercials. Maxell HGX L-750
Tape 2 - 'Rear Window' (1998) taped off KIVI/ABC on 11/22/1998 wtih commercials; partial episode of Promised Land taped off KBCI/CBS on 7/8/1997 with commercials; partial episode of The X-Files, The Outer Limits taped off KTRV/Fox on 1/12/1997 with commercials; part of The Tommyknockers taped off KIVI/ABC on 5/10/1993 with commercials; ends with a clip of Star Trek: The Next Generation taped off KTRV-12 circa early 1993 with a few commercials. Sony L-750
Tape 3 - Part 1 of Christopher Columbus and first few minutes of Eyewitness News taped off WDVM-9 D.C./CBS on 5/19/1985 with commercials (mostly IBM ads). Maxell L-750
Tape 4 - Part of 'Crimson Tide' (1995) taped off KTVB/NBC on 3/7/1999 with commercials; partial broadcast of Fox Files taped off KTRV/FOX in January 1999 with commercials; part of 'The Fugitive' (1993) taped off KTVB/NBC on 1/17/1999 with commercials; A Closer Look infomercial (with Peter Tomarken) and partial Guthy-Renker Principal Secret infomercial taped off KNIN-9 circa 1998 with commercials in between. Maxell L-750
Tape 5 - Last 30 minutes of 'Star Trek: First Contact', The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, 'Chain Reaction' (1996) and start of 'Tremors II: Aftershock' (1996) taped off HBO in December 1997 with tons of promos in between movies; cuts to last half-hour or so of part 3 of Heaven & Hell: North & South Book III taped off KIVI/ABC on 3/2/1994 with commercials; ends with about 15 minutes of The Crusaders (newsmagazine) taped off an unknown Boise station in November 1993 with commercials. Maxell L-750
Tape 6 - 'Beauty and the Beast' (1991) copied from rental; cuts to part of 'Back to the Future III' (1990) taped off KTVB/NBC on 12/13/1992 with commercials; then to a Dateline NBC clip on amnesia circa 1997; and back to 'Back to the Future III'; ends with last few minutes of part 1 of Napoleon & Josephine off unknown ABC station (either WJLA D.C. or KIVI Boise). Sony L-750
Tape 7 - A rather out-of-date recording for a Beta: 'Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister' (2002) taped off KIVI/ABC on 3/10/2002 with commercials; unknown nature documentary taped off KAID/PBS (Idaho Public Television) circa March 2002, but sadly no video due to user error; part of 'The Karate Kid' (1984) taped off HBO on 9/14/2001, followed by C-Band channel surfing through Galaxy 5, mostly on CNBC, WGN Superstation and CNN with post-9/11 coverage. Kodak XHG L-750
Tape 8 - 'The Summer of Ben Tyler' (1996), 2 News at 10, Baywatch, Baywatch Nights and part of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints infomercial taped off KBCI/CBS on 12/15-16/1996 with commercials (Hallmark ads during the movie). Sony L-750
Tape 9 - 'The Day After' (1983) rebroadcast taped off WJLA/ABC on 1/23/1989 with commercials; part of Nova (The Case of ESP) and open to Vietnam: A Television History taped off WETA/PBS on 7/17/1984 with promos; Lilias, Yoga and You and part of a rebroadcast of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour taped off WETA/PBS in May 1983 with promos. Fuji L-500
Tape 10 - Both parts of Son of the Morning Star taped off KIVI/ABC on 2/3 and 2/4/1991 with commercials. Sony ES L-750
Tape 11 - Both parts of Joan of Arc taped off KBCI/CBS on 5/16 and 5/18/1999 with commercials; postgame coverage of Super Bowl XXVI and first 5 minutes of 60 Minutes taped off KBCI/CBS on 1/26/1992 with commercials; partial broadcast of NewsCenter 7 and partial episode of The West taped off KTVB-7 in October 1991 with commercials. Sony ES L-750
Tape 12 - Part 1 of Witness to the Mob taped off KTVB/NBC on 5/10/1998 with commercials (have this off KNDO); part of 'Nobody's Fool' (1994) taped off KTVB/NBC on 4/12/1998 with commercials; part of 2 News at 10 taped off KBCI-2 on 3/15/1998 with commercials; part 2 of Separate But Equal taped off KIVI/ABC on 4/8/1991 with commercials (mostly General Motors ads). Sony L-750
Tape 13 - 'Batman Forever' (1995) and 'Darkman III: Die Darkman Die' (1996) taped off HBO on 5/4/1996 with promos. Sony L-750
Tape 14 - Even more out of date: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode, series premiere of Without a Trace and about 17 minutes of Idaho 2 News at 10 taped off KBCI/CBS on 9/26/2002 with commercials; part of 'Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace' (1999) taped off KTRV/Fox on 5/9/2002 with commercials (B&W picture and weak audio sadly); part of 'One More Mountain' (1994) taped off KIVI/ABC on 3/6/1994 with commercials; part of Ancient Prophecies taped off KTVB/NBC on 3/1/1994 with commercials; partial airing of part 2 of Cruel Doubt taped off KTVB/NBC on 5/19/1992 with commercials. Sony L-830
Tape 1 - 'Clan of the Cave Bear' (1986) copied from rental; part of 'Yentl' (1983) copied from rental and about 15 minutes of the Penn State-Maryland football game taped off unknown station on 9/7/1985 with commercials. Maxell HGX L-750
Tape 2 - 'Rear Window' (1998) taped off KIVI/ABC on 11/22/1998 wtih commercials; partial episode of Promised Land taped off KBCI/CBS on 7/8/1997 with commercials; partial episode of The X-Files, The Outer Limits taped off KTRV/Fox on 1/12/1997 with commercials; part of The Tommyknockers taped off KIVI/ABC on 5/10/1993 with commercials; ends with a clip of Star Trek: The Next Generation taped off KTRV-12 circa early 1993 with a few commercials. Sony L-750
Tape 3 - Part 1 of Christopher Columbus and first few minutes of Eyewitness News taped off WDVM-9 D.C./CBS on 5/19/1985 with commercials (mostly IBM ads). Maxell L-750
Tape 4 - Part of 'Crimson Tide' (1995) taped off KTVB/NBC on 3/7/1999 with commercials; partial broadcast of Fox Files taped off KTRV/FOX in January 1999 with commercials; part of 'The Fugitive' (1993) taped off KTVB/NBC on 1/17/1999 with commercials; A Closer Look infomercial (with Peter Tomarken) and partial Guthy-Renker Principal Secret infomercial taped off KNIN-9 circa 1998 with commercials in between. Maxell L-750
Tape 5 - Last 30 minutes of 'Star Trek: First Contact', The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, 'Chain Reaction' (1996) and start of 'Tremors II: Aftershock' (1996) taped off HBO in December 1997 with tons of promos in between movies; cuts to last half-hour or so of part 3 of Heaven & Hell: North & South Book III taped off KIVI/ABC on 3/2/1994 with commercials; ends with about 15 minutes of The Crusaders (newsmagazine) taped off an unknown Boise station in November 1993 with commercials. Maxell L-750
Tape 6 - 'Beauty and the Beast' (1991) copied from rental; cuts to part of 'Back to the Future III' (1990) taped off KTVB/NBC on 12/13/1992 with commercials; then to a Dateline NBC clip on amnesia circa 1997; and back to 'Back to the Future III'; ends with last few minutes of part 1 of Napoleon & Josephine off unknown ABC station (either WJLA D.C. or KIVI Boise). Sony L-750
Tape 7 - A rather out-of-date recording for a Beta: 'Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister' (2002) taped off KIVI/ABC on 3/10/2002 with commercials; unknown nature documentary taped off KAID/PBS (Idaho Public Television) circa March 2002, but sadly no video due to user error; part of 'The Karate Kid' (1984) taped off HBO on 9/14/2001, followed by C-Band channel surfing through Galaxy 5, mostly on CNBC, WGN Superstation and CNN with post-9/11 coverage. Kodak XHG L-750
Tape 8 - 'The Summer of Ben Tyler' (1996), 2 News at 10, Baywatch, Baywatch Nights and part of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints infomercial taped off KBCI/CBS on 12/15-16/1996 with commercials (Hallmark ads during the movie). Sony L-750
Tape 9 - 'The Day After' (1983) rebroadcast taped off WJLA/ABC on 1/23/1989 with commercials; part of Nova (The Case of ESP) and open to Vietnam: A Television History taped off WETA/PBS on 7/17/1984 with promos; Lilias, Yoga and You and part of a rebroadcast of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour taped off WETA/PBS in May 1983 with promos. Fuji L-500
Tape 10 - Both parts of Son of the Morning Star taped off KIVI/ABC on 2/3 and 2/4/1991 with commercials. Sony ES L-750
Tape 11 - Both parts of Joan of Arc taped off KBCI/CBS on 5/16 and 5/18/1999 with commercials; postgame coverage of Super Bowl XXVI and first 5 minutes of 60 Minutes taped off KBCI/CBS on 1/26/1992 with commercials; partial broadcast of NewsCenter 7 and partial episode of The West taped off KTVB-7 in October 1991 with commercials. Sony ES L-750
Tape 12 - Part 1 of Witness to the Mob taped off KTVB/NBC on 5/10/1998 with commercials (have this off KNDO); part of 'Nobody's Fool' (1994) taped off KTVB/NBC on 4/12/1998 with commercials; part of 2 News at 10 taped off KBCI-2 on 3/15/1998 with commercials; part 2 of Separate But Equal taped off KIVI/ABC on 4/8/1991 with commercials (mostly General Motors ads). Sony L-750
Tape 13 - 'Batman Forever' (1995) and 'Darkman III: Die Darkman Die' (1996) taped off HBO on 5/4/1996 with promos. Sony L-750
Tape 14 - Even more out of date: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode, series premiere of Without a Trace and about 17 minutes of Idaho 2 News at 10 taped off KBCI/CBS on 9/26/2002 with commercials; part of 'Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace' (1999) taped off KTRV/Fox on 5/9/2002 with commercials (B&W picture and weak audio sadly); part of 'One More Mountain' (1994) taped off KIVI/ABC on 3/6/1994 with commercials; part of Ancient Prophecies taped off KTVB/NBC on 3/1/1994 with commercials; partial airing of part 2 of Cruel Doubt taped off KTVB/NBC on 5/19/1992 with commercials. Sony L-830
I'd wager that Penn State-Maryland game (My Terps really crushed the Nittany Lions last night BTW) is probably off WJLA since you didn't find any 1980s recordings off any Boise stations, which probably means that the seller was originally from the DMV before moving out to the Gem State circa 1990. That partial Newshour is a decent find, and intrestingly, I'm going to post a partial 1990 broadcast very soon onto one of my YouTube channels involving a decline of Donald Trump's wealth interestignly. Too bad the recorder probably went to Erol's to wipe out most of the good stuff.
Now the results for the other two boxes came in. I didn't get the tapes as shown in the seller's photo (including that A-Team/Manimal recording), but I still found some more great mid-late '80s goodies, with a pretty neat mix that included a couple CBS Monday Night sitcom blocks (my favorite night for the network at the time!), a few tapes recorded off of Bakersfield stations, and even my first high school football clip off a local station in the Lancaster/Palmdale area (where the seller was from). Just one total dud and two other tapes I decided to decline due to personal reasons and/or duplicates of stuff I already got. With one lone exception, everything recorded as shown below contained commercials. Everything was recorded in BIII speed except for a few tapes recorded in late 1988/1989, when the seller finally decided to consider quality for BII.
Going in rough reverse chronological order (all off Los Angeles "Big 3" unless otherwise noted):
TAPE 1: The Time of Our Mission: Impossible Lives off KCET on 9/28/1989, followed by episodes of Mission: Impossible (the 1988-90 version of course) on 9/28 and 10/12/1989. BII speed.
TAPE 2: Beauty and the Beast and Falcon Crest on 12/16/1988, followed by a partial broadcast of the 10th Annual ACE Cable Awards in January 1989 off KTLA. BII mode.
TAPE 3: The last 30 minutes of a high school football match between Antelope and Foothill off KRV from September 1988, followed by a hodgepodge of promos for a few cable channels (VH1, The Discovery Channel, HBO), before switching over to Cinemax for a couple movies, including Spring Break, with promos before/after each movie.
TAPE 4: Great Performances: Sweeney Todd taped off KCET in 1985 (including the closing to Wall $treet Week), followed by a rerun of The Jay Leno Show and about half of It's Showtime At The Apollo on 7/2/1988. The Leno special replaced an SNL rerun, which was especially viable in a year that had an eight month break between seasons.
TAPE 5: Pavarotti: Return to Naples, some gospel documentary, Frontline: Who Pays For AIDS?, and some roundtable show discussing the disease. Recorded off KECT on 6/12/1988 with pledge breaks, promos, and the start of the sign-off.
TAPE 6: Kate & Allie, Designing Women, Newhart, Frank's Place, and the first ten minutes off Wiseguy on 2/8/1988.
TAPE 7: Star Trek: The Next Generation and the first round of a Wheel of Fortune Saturday rerun off KCOP on 11/29/1987, most of another episode of ST: TNG on 12/5/1987, followed by most of Spenser: For Hire on 12/6/1987, and finally, an encore presentation of the BBC series Yes, Prime Minister (1985) off A&E on 12/27/1987.
TAPE 8: A rerun of the NBC TV Movie/pilot Codename: Foxfire on 7/12/1985, followed by most of KCBS 2 On The Town from 11/23/1987, and finally about 80% of the Rolling Stone: 20 Years of Rock and Roll special from the following night. I've already got approximately the last half of that special already.
TAPE 9: A rerun of A Salute To Gerhswin (1984) taped off A&E circa October 1987, followed by the NBC Monday Night At The Movies presentation of Eight Is Enough: A Family Reunion on 10/18/1987.
TAPE 10: "Cloak and Dagger" (1984) taped off KCOP on 1/9/1987, followed by almost all of the Hollywood Christmas Parade taped off KTLA on 11/30/1986. I've acquired the 1981 and 1983 parades from a trade, and its great to snatch another in a year where so many of these will be Grinched!
TAPE 11: MacGyver, The Cavanaughs, Cagney & Lacey, and most of the KCBS 11 PM News from 2/9/1987, followed by most of Moonlighting from the following day. I've already found that same Moonlighting episode previously, but its great to see a rather erratic sitcom that had most of its episodes in the following two seasons air in the summer!
TAPE 12: Murder, She Wrote and The Women of Valor, The CBS Sunday Movie (time for bed!) from 11/23/1986.
TAPE 13: My personal favorite of this block features this 4+ hour aircheck from 11/3/1986 of Channel 2 goodies! It begins with Photoplay, followed by 2 on the Town (including a rare interview with The Pointer Sisters), followed by a complete CBS Monday Night primetime block of Kate & Allie, My Sister Sam, Newhart, Designing Women, and Cagney & Lacey, with most of the KCBS 11 o'clock news that ends with Rosanna Arquette plugging a movie premiere that follows. The Paley Center should seriously consider recordings like these!
TAPE 14: Episodes of MacGyver from 2/19, 11/3, 11/10, and 11/17/1986. The 2/19 episode comes off KABC, while the others came off KBAK.
TAPE 15: Starts with Starman and the first segment of the KABC 11 PM news from 9/26/1986, followed by the Season 3 premiere of Hunter and approximately the first segment of Channel 4 News from the following night, followed by MacGyver from 9/29/1986 (I've got the rerun from the last lot, so I'll just farm the ads from that copy). The last 15 minutes of Entertainment This Week from 9/27/1986 and another episode of Photoplay from late September 1986 follows.
TAPE 16: Episodes of MacGyver off KBAK from 10/6, 10/13, 10/20, and 10/27/1986. The 10/13 episode was a rare repeat for the time of the season.
TAPE 17: Another copy of the 9/29/1986 episode of MacGyver (the recorder must of had another VCR!), followed by an episode of KABC's Eye On LA: Paradise Found recorded from the same night.
TAPE 18: Begins with Photoplay and the first 15 minutes or so of The Wizard from 9/23/1986, then jumps to an episode of 2 on The Town from the following night, then continues with Entertainment Tonight, Photoplay, the season premieres of The Cosby Show, Family Ties, and about the first eight minutes of Cheers from 9/25/1986. The tape then ends with about a three minute clip of Dancin' To The Hits. I've already got that Cosby episode off WJAR that I purchased back in 2016.
TAPE 19: Donahue, the KNBC 4 and 5 PM News, Entertainment Tonight, and then approximately the first segment of the Channel 4 News at 11 from 7/23/1986, followed by another episode of KCBS Eye on LA from circa July 1986.
TAPE 20: Amazing Stories, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and the NBC Sunday Night At The Movies presentation of Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun from 5/25/1986, followed by an episode of Donahue from the following day (Guest: Bill Cosby), then features a few random commercials/late news clips from spring 1986, before wrapping up with a few minutes of the KNXT late news from 2/27/1984, shortly before the switch to KCBS that spring.
TAPE 21: Begins with most of an episode of The Start of Something Big from November 1985, followed by the David Letterman Holiday Film Festival Special from 11/30/1985, then it continues with part of the CBS special movie Quarterback Princess from Thanksgiving Day 1985, then it jumps to an episode of Photoplay on 1/31/1987.
TAPE 22: Starts with a classic episode of Star Trek "The Trouble with Tribbles", as recorded off KCOP in early December 1984, followed by The Great Muppet Caper (1981), Mike Hammer, the first 12 minutes of the KCBS 11 PM News, then it cuts oddly for nearly the entire halftime report for the Thanksgiving 1984 NFL game between the Patriots and Cowboys.
TAPE 23: Features the KCBS Late Movie The Sandcastle (1977) from late October 1984, followed by The Mechanic (1972) as taped off KCOP without commercials, though it interestingly ends with another news clip from Channel 13 from November 1984.
TAPE 24: Operation Petticoat (1977), the KCBS Late Movie recorded off KCBS in the summer of 1984, followed by the last few minutes of Search For Tomorrow, Days of our Lives (no more 1972 copyright at the opening logo by this point), and the first ten minutes or so of Another World from 8/3/1984, before jumping ahead to the last 20 minutes of another episode of DOOL from earlier that summer.
TAPE 25: Parts one and two of V: The Final Battle from 5/6 and 5/7/1984.
TAPE 26: Begins with yet another recording of The Mechanic (1972) as recorded off KTLA on 5/5/1984, followed by a rerun of the 1980 TV movie Definace, the CBS Saturday Night Movies feature from 6/2/1984, with a partial KCBS 11 PM Newscast afterwards, my oldest with the now current callsign.
TAPE 27: The NBC Monday Night At The Movies presentation of Damnation Alley, along with the first segment of the KNBC late night news from 4/9/1984. This aired opposite the Oscars east of the Rockies.
TAPE 28: The CBS Special Movie (network TV premiere) of Chariots of Fire, the KNXT 11 PM News, and part of the CBS Sunday Night News from 2/5/1984.
TAPE 29: Two classic two-hour episodes of Battlestar: Galactica off KCOP on 1/15/1984 and sometime in Feb. 1984.
The one total dud was the 1986 workout tape Callanetics copied not just once from rental, but three times altogether to fill out the tape. The other two "rejects" wee one taped that contained the TV movie "Freed on Fighter" off KNBC on 1/11/1988 (already have this off KHQ), along with a documentary on The Sword of Islam (sorry, I'm not a Muhammadan). The other was a KCET block of Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery from 1989 with no pledge breaks and only brief intermission breaks at the end.
Well, I had a great time and stayed up until 2 AM last night like I'm in college, and all from the 1980s for that matter! I'm sure the other hunters will have a thrilling experience with those other six boxes, and hopefully message me to trade anything interesting that pops up in the future. Especially since a trader I got today only has '90s/early 2000s stuff, which sadly reminds me how vintage the 1980s truly are becoming. They're basically seen now what the 1950s were when I was a little kid, when the retro nostalgia focus was the '60s/'70s. It seemed like yesterday that decade switched from being "for dorks" to "retro cool"! Still, pretty soon, I'll make my jump to Santa Mode™.
Now the results for the other two boxes came in. I didn't get the tapes as shown in the seller's photo (including that A-Team/Manimal recording), but I still found some more great mid-late '80s goodies, with a pretty neat mix that included a couple CBS Monday Night sitcom blocks (my favorite night for the network at the time!), a few tapes recorded off of Bakersfield stations, and even my first high school football clip off a local station in the Lancaster/Palmdale area (where the seller was from). Just one total dud and two other tapes I decided to decline due to personal reasons and/or duplicates of stuff I already got. With one lone exception, everything recorded as shown below contained commercials. Everything was recorded in BIII speed except for a few tapes recorded in late 1988/1989, when the seller finally decided to consider quality for BII.
Going in rough reverse chronological order (all off Los Angeles "Big 3" unless otherwise noted):
TAPE 1: The Time of Our Mission: Impossible Lives off KCET on 9/28/1989, followed by episodes of Mission: Impossible (the 1988-90 version of course) on 9/28 and 10/12/1989. BII speed.
TAPE 2: Beauty and the Beast and Falcon Crest on 12/16/1988, followed by a partial broadcast of the 10th Annual ACE Cable Awards in January 1989 off KTLA. BII mode.
TAPE 3: The last 30 minutes of a high school football match between Antelope and Foothill off KRV from September 1988, followed by a hodgepodge of promos for a few cable channels (VH1, The Discovery Channel, HBO), before switching over to Cinemax for a couple movies, including Spring Break, with promos before/after each movie.
TAPE 4: Great Performances: Sweeney Todd taped off KCET in 1985 (including the closing to Wall $treet Week), followed by a rerun of The Jay Leno Show and about half of It's Showtime At The Apollo on 7/2/1988. The Leno special replaced an SNL rerun, which was especially viable in a year that had an eight month break between seasons.
TAPE 5: Pavarotti: Return to Naples, some gospel documentary, Frontline: Who Pays For AIDS?, and some roundtable show discussing the disease. Recorded off KECT on 6/12/1988 with pledge breaks, promos, and the start of the sign-off.
TAPE 6: Kate & Allie, Designing Women, Newhart, Frank's Place, and the first ten minutes off Wiseguy on 2/8/1988.
TAPE 7: Star Trek: The Next Generation and the first round of a Wheel of Fortune Saturday rerun off KCOP on 11/29/1987, most of another episode of ST: TNG on 12/5/1987, followed by most of Spenser: For Hire on 12/6/1987, and finally, an encore presentation of the BBC series Yes, Prime Minister (1985) off A&E on 12/27/1987.
TAPE 8: A rerun of the NBC TV Movie/pilot Codename: Foxfire on 7/12/1985, followed by most of KCBS 2 On The Town from 11/23/1987, and finally about 80% of the Rolling Stone: 20 Years of Rock and Roll special from the following night. I've already got approximately the last half of that special already.
TAPE 9: A rerun of A Salute To Gerhswin (1984) taped off A&E circa October 1987, followed by the NBC Monday Night At The Movies presentation of Eight Is Enough: A Family Reunion on 10/18/1987.
TAPE 10: "Cloak and Dagger" (1984) taped off KCOP on 1/9/1987, followed by almost all of the Hollywood Christmas Parade taped off KTLA on 11/30/1986. I've acquired the 1981 and 1983 parades from a trade, and its great to snatch another in a year where so many of these will be Grinched!
TAPE 11: MacGyver, The Cavanaughs, Cagney & Lacey, and most of the KCBS 11 PM News from 2/9/1987, followed by most of Moonlighting from the following day. I've already found that same Moonlighting episode previously, but its great to see a rather erratic sitcom that had most of its episodes in the following two seasons air in the summer!
TAPE 12: Murder, She Wrote and The Women of Valor, The CBS Sunday Movie (time for bed!) from 11/23/1986.
TAPE 13: My personal favorite of this block features this 4+ hour aircheck from 11/3/1986 of Channel 2 goodies! It begins with Photoplay, followed by 2 on the Town (including a rare interview with The Pointer Sisters), followed by a complete CBS Monday Night primetime block of Kate & Allie, My Sister Sam, Newhart, Designing Women, and Cagney & Lacey, with most of the KCBS 11 o'clock news that ends with Rosanna Arquette plugging a movie premiere that follows. The Paley Center should seriously consider recordings like these!
TAPE 14: Episodes of MacGyver from 2/19, 11/3, 11/10, and 11/17/1986. The 2/19 episode comes off KABC, while the others came off KBAK.
TAPE 15: Starts with Starman and the first segment of the KABC 11 PM news from 9/26/1986, followed by the Season 3 premiere of Hunter and approximately the first segment of Channel 4 News from the following night, followed by MacGyver from 9/29/1986 (I've got the rerun from the last lot, so I'll just farm the ads from that copy). The last 15 minutes of Entertainment This Week from 9/27/1986 and another episode of Photoplay from late September 1986 follows.
TAPE 16: Episodes of MacGyver off KBAK from 10/6, 10/13, 10/20, and 10/27/1986. The 10/13 episode was a rare repeat for the time of the season.
TAPE 17: Another copy of the 9/29/1986 episode of MacGyver (the recorder must of had another VCR!), followed by an episode of KABC's Eye On LA: Paradise Found recorded from the same night.
TAPE 18: Begins with Photoplay and the first 15 minutes or so of The Wizard from 9/23/1986, then jumps to an episode of 2 on The Town from the following night, then continues with Entertainment Tonight, Photoplay, the season premieres of The Cosby Show, Family Ties, and about the first eight minutes of Cheers from 9/25/1986. The tape then ends with about a three minute clip of Dancin' To The Hits. I've already got that Cosby episode off WJAR that I purchased back in 2016.
TAPE 19: Donahue, the KNBC 4 and 5 PM News, Entertainment Tonight, and then approximately the first segment of the Channel 4 News at 11 from 7/23/1986, followed by another episode of KCBS Eye on LA from circa July 1986.
TAPE 20: Amazing Stories, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and the NBC Sunday Night At The Movies presentation of Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun from 5/25/1986, followed by an episode of Donahue from the following day (Guest: Bill Cosby), then features a few random commercials/late news clips from spring 1986, before wrapping up with a few minutes of the KNXT late news from 2/27/1984, shortly before the switch to KCBS that spring.
TAPE 21: Begins with most of an episode of The Start of Something Big from November 1985, followed by the David Letterman Holiday Film Festival Special from 11/30/1985, then it continues with part of the CBS special movie Quarterback Princess from Thanksgiving Day 1985, then it jumps to an episode of Photoplay on 1/31/1987.
TAPE 22: Starts with a classic episode of Star Trek "The Trouble with Tribbles", as recorded off KCOP in early December 1984, followed by The Great Muppet Caper (1981), Mike Hammer, the first 12 minutes of the KCBS 11 PM News, then it cuts oddly for nearly the entire halftime report for the Thanksgiving 1984 NFL game between the Patriots and Cowboys.
TAPE 23: Features the KCBS Late Movie The Sandcastle (1977) from late October 1984, followed by The Mechanic (1972) as taped off KCOP without commercials, though it interestingly ends with another news clip from Channel 13 from November 1984.
TAPE 24: Operation Petticoat (1977), the KCBS Late Movie recorded off KCBS in the summer of 1984, followed by the last few minutes of Search For Tomorrow, Days of our Lives (no more 1972 copyright at the opening logo by this point), and the first ten minutes or so of Another World from 8/3/1984, before jumping ahead to the last 20 minutes of another episode of DOOL from earlier that summer.
TAPE 25: Parts one and two of V: The Final Battle from 5/6 and 5/7/1984.
TAPE 26: Begins with yet another recording of The Mechanic (1972) as recorded off KTLA on 5/5/1984, followed by a rerun of the 1980 TV movie Definace, the CBS Saturday Night Movies feature from 6/2/1984, with a partial KCBS 11 PM Newscast afterwards, my oldest with the now current callsign.
TAPE 27: The NBC Monday Night At The Movies presentation of Damnation Alley, along with the first segment of the KNBC late night news from 4/9/1984. This aired opposite the Oscars east of the Rockies.
TAPE 28: The CBS Special Movie (network TV premiere) of Chariots of Fire, the KNXT 11 PM News, and part of the CBS Sunday Night News from 2/5/1984.
TAPE 29: Two classic two-hour episodes of Battlestar: Galactica off KCOP on 1/15/1984 and sometime in Feb. 1984.
The one total dud was the 1986 workout tape Callanetics copied not just once from rental, but three times altogether to fill out the tape. The other two "rejects" wee one taped that contained the TV movie "Freed on Fighter" off KNBC on 1/11/1988 (already have this off KHQ), along with a documentary on The Sword of Islam (sorry, I'm not a Muhammadan). The other was a KCET block of Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery from 1989 with no pledge breaks and only brief intermission breaks at the end.
Well, I had a great time and stayed up until 2 AM last night like I'm in college, and all from the 1980s for that matter! I'm sure the other hunters will have a thrilling experience with those other six boxes, and hopefully message me to trade anything interesting that pops up in the future. Especially since a trader I got today only has '90s/early 2000s stuff, which sadly reminds me how vintage the 1980s truly are becoming. They're basically seen now what the 1950s were when I was a little kid, when the retro nostalgia focus was the '60s/'70s. It seemed like yesterday that decade switched from being "for dorks" to "retro cool"! Still, pretty soon, I'll make my jump to Santa Mode™.
Nice finds especially the Days of Our Lives from '84.
The seller got those Beta tapes from a local estate sale...one of the tapes is marked with a name. I searched that name in the white pages and found out he lived in Great Falls, VA (Fairfax County) prior to moving to Boise. Thus the D.C. recordings.
The seller got those Beta tapes from a local estate sale...one of the tapes is marked with a name. I searched that name in the white pages and found out he lived in Great Falls, VA (Fairfax County) prior to moving to Boise. Thus the D.C. recordings.
Hey everyone,
I know it has been a longtime since you've heard from me, I used to go by VideoSurferNetwork, but I am slowly unifying my YouTube channel name across many platforms, YardLionREW. Anyways, I did come across some Betamax tapes, unfortunately my VCR has passed on. I would love to continue digitizing. They're mostly movies and TV shows with commercials from Miami in the 80s and 90s.
I know it has been a longtime since you've heard from me, I used to go by VideoSurferNetwork, but I am slowly unifying my YouTube channel name across many platforms, YardLionREW. Anyways, I did come across some Betamax tapes, unfortunately my VCR has passed on. I would love to continue digitizing. They're mostly movies and TV shows with commercials from Miami in the 80s and 90s.
Well, last weekend, I took advantage of the unseasonably mild weather spell we had here in Northeast Ohio and took a trip to the Litchfield Flea Market. Just one vendor selling used blank tapes this time, and--deja vu all over again--many of his tapes were full of mold. I picked out the three cleanest ones from the box. Only one tape worth digitizing, and it contained a 15-20 minute aircheck of XM Satellite Radio's now-defunct Soul Street channel (now known as Soul Town on SiriusXM) recorded from DirecTV's XM music channel lineup. Estimated to be from 2007 or 2008. More specifically, this was a special program called The Soul Street Doo Wop Show. The other two tapes were duds containing movies copied from VHS or DVD rentals.
A couple of local listings on estatesales.net for this weekend caught my eye, but with the number of COVID cases rapidly rising, I'm not sure if I'm going to want to go or not.
I did some browsing on eBay, and there's this one individual in Redmond, Oregon, who has a lot of VHS tapes to sell. What's somewhat odd, though, is that he/she posts many of their tapes individually rather than in groups, and some of them can be overpriced in my opinion. Believe it or not, this person is also selling tapes that were recorded just earlier this year (well, at least they're from a market that's rather underrepresented on YouTube--Bend is market #187 on the Nielsen scale). And crainbebo, I believe some of the tapes I'm seeing on this page were originally sold by you on eBay.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_od..._trksid=p2046732.m570.l1313&_nkw=VHS&_sacat=0
A couple of local listings on estatesales.net for this weekend caught my eye, but with the number of COVID cases rapidly rising, I'm not sure if I'm going to want to go or not.
I did some browsing on eBay, and there's this one individual in Redmond, Oregon, who has a lot of VHS tapes to sell. What's somewhat odd, though, is that he/she posts many of their tapes individually rather than in groups, and some of them can be overpriced in my opinion. Believe it or not, this person is also selling tapes that were recorded just earlier this year (well, at least they're from a market that's rather underrepresented on YouTube--Bend is market #187 on the Nielsen scale). And crainbebo, I believe some of the tapes I'm seeing on this page were originally sold by you on eBay.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_od..._trksid=p2046732.m570.l1313&_nkw=VHS&_sacat=0
The eBay seller down in Oregon has bought some of my lots and has sold them second-hand before, yes.
Earlier this week I went down to Moxee WA (6 mi E of Yakima) to take advantage of a Craigslist lot. Probably 70-80 tapes. These were an interesting mixture of sources. One half seemed to come from local and cable TV in Yakima, the other (which is mostly what I'm posting right now) was a very interesting mix of content from C-Band. Apparently the former owner used to live in Tonasket, WA, way up by Omak. With likely no cable and only a couple weak translators, they had a big dish for many years. More to come...
Tape 1 - 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri' (1954) taped off WGN-9 (Galaxy 1, tp 3) on 9/17/1988 with commercials. JVC T-120
Tape 2 - 'Free Willy' (1993) taped off HBO (west feed, Galaxy 5 tp 8) on 9/10/1994 with a minute or so of free preview content prior to the movie; afterwards they flip over to Satcom C1 for the last several minutes of America's Most Wanted taped off KDVR/Fox with commercials (on transponder 5). Kodak T-120
Tape 3 - 'Captain Ron' (1992) taped off The Movie Channel (Satcom C4, tp 22 west feed) on 2/8/1994 with promos. Kodak T-120
Tape 4 - 'I'll See You in My Dreams' (1951) taped off AMC on 10/3/1998 with promos. Taped off cable instead of satellite. Memorex T-120
Tape 5 - 30 Years of National Geographic Specials taped off KNBC/NBC (Spacenet 4, tp 6) on 8/5/1995 with commercials; ends with the last few minutes of an Oprah Winfrey episode and several minutes of Colorado's 7 News at 5 taped off KMGH-7 (Satcom C1, tp 2) in late 1994. BASF T-120 taped over about five times
Tape 6 - 'Babe' (1995) taped off unknown channel, no promos/ads; about an hour of Atlanta Olympics coverage (beach volleyball) taped off KUSA/NBC (Satcom C1, tp 14) in July 1996 with commercials...this one was in LP. Fuji T-120
Tape 7 - Showtime Championship Boxing Preview taped in September 1992, then flips over to Discovery Channel (Galaxy 5, tp 12) for the last half of Wings with commercials, and ends with a half-hour of Nashville Now taped off TNN that same evening with commercials (over on tp 18, G5). Scotch T-120
Tape 8 - Part 2 of Queen taped off KMGH/CBS (C1-tp 2) on 2/16/1993 with commercials (already have this from KIMA). Polaroid T-120
Tape 9 - Showtime Championship Boxing (Tyson vs. Ruddick) taped off Showtime on 3/18/1991; promos and part of 'Homer & Eddie' (1989) taped off Cinemax on 2/24/1991 (Galaxy 1, tp 19). Polaroid HG T-120
Tape 10 - Part 2 of Cleopatra taped off WKRN/ABC 2 Nashville on 5/24/1999 with commercials (on GE-1, tp 10 - one of the PT24 East stations). GE T-120
Tape 11 - Grand Ole Opry 75th Anniversary Special taped off KCBS/CBS on 11/23/2000 with commercials. I'm assuming 2000 was when these folks transitioned from C-Band to DirecTV, as KCBS has always been a DNS option on DIRECTV. RCA T-120
Tape 12 - Spinks vs. Cooney fight replay taped off the ABC west coast feed (Telstar 302, tp 10) on 6/26/1987 with commercials and black during local time! This is my second time finding a C-Band raw feed from a network. I found an Unsolved Mysteries and Homicide: Life on the Street once from the Satcom C1 NBC feed, taped 2/3/93. Next is part of 'Excalibur' (1981) and 'The Emerald Forest' (1985) taped off unknown pay-TV channels; broadcast of Playboy Comedy Theatre taped off The Playboy Channel circa early 1987; last few minutes of the Grand Ole Opry 60th Anniversary Special taped off K10DL/CBS (KREM-2 translator Tonasket WA) on 1/14/1986 with a few commercials (this wasn't off C-Band...picture was ghosty and multipathed like analog TV); ends with the last few minutes of an unknown fishing show, also not from C-Band. SKC T-120
Tape 13 - ''night Mother' (1986), 'Peggy Sue Got Married' (1986) and 'White Nights' (1985) taped off HBO and Cinemax , no promos; ends with confirmation of the unknown analog TV stations seen in tape 12 - end of 'The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James' (1986) taped off KHQ/NBC (translator K08CX Tonasket) on 2/17/1986 with commercials; followed by a brief clip of an ID and start of KREM 2 Weekend News taped in January 1986 (off K10DL Tonasket in terrible quality...keep in mind these translators were likely not microwave relays. They were probably getting their KREM signal from another translator and feeding it in the chain to Tonasket, so whatever K10DL got was the signal fed to Tonasket residents.); ends with a few minutes of Wide World of Sports coverage of the 43rd Grand Prix of Monaco taped off KXLY/ABC (K12CX Tonasket) on 5/19/1985 with a couple commercials. SKC T-120
Tape 14 - Roy Orbison & Friends: A Black and White Night taped off Cinemax in 1988; 20/20 segment on scuba diving taped off unknown ABC station (maybe the network feed on Telstar 301/302?) sometime in 1988; part of 'La Bamba' (1987) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; ends with part of the ABC News Weekend Report taped 6/19/1988 (off the Telstar 302 ABC network feed) with commercials.
Tape 15 - 'As Good as It Gets' (1997), 'Knock Off' (1998) and part of 'Gods and Monsters' (1998) taped off The Movie Channel on 3/10-11/2000 with lots of promos during a free preview. TDK T-160
Tape 16 - 'Two Came Back' (1997) taped off WABC/ABC on 6/25/2001 with commercials (another example of DirecTV DNS service). Maxell T-120
Tape 17 - 'The Mask' (1994) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; part of the All-Star Salute to Country Music (ahem...Ralph Emery) taped off TNN on 3/7/1990 with commercials. Kodak T-120
Tape 18 - A&E Biography (Judy Garland) taped off A&E in February 2001 with commercials (local Yakima-inserted ads this time). Fuji T-120
Tape 19 - 'Inherit the Wind' (1950) taped off TNT on 1/30/1995 with commercials (local Yakima-inserted ads); 'River of No Return' (1954) taped off AMC on 2/12/1995 with tons of promos, especially afterwards. TDK T-120
Tape 20 - 'Legends of the Fall' (1994) and part of 'The Shawshank Redemption' (1994) taped off Showtime on 1/6/1996 with free preview content afterwards (I have this movie already but not many of the promos that aired after); end of 'The Flintstones' (1994) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; partial broadcast of USA Tuesday Night Fights taped off USA Network on 12/14/1993 with commercials; partial segment of Primetime Live taped off KUSA/ABC circa 1993 (on stranger danger). Kodak T-120
Tape 21 - Episode of Fishing the West taped off NESN (New England Sports Network, Satcom F4 tp 13) in March 1988 with commercials (episode was filmed off the coast of Neah Bay, WA); part of 'Ernest Goes to Camp' (1987) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; episode of Centennial taped off KWGN-2 on 1/25/1988 (Not Ready for Bedtime Movie, on Satcom F1 tp 14) with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 22 - 'For Me and My Gal' (1942) taped off KYVE/PBS in December 2003; 'Take Me Home: The John Denver Story' (2000) taped off Lifetime in December 2003 with commercials. Sony T-120
Tape 23 - Tyson vs. Stewart fight taped off HBO on 12/8/1990; partial George Foreman vs. Ken Lakusta Tuesday Night Fights broadcast taped off USA on 7/31/1990 with commercials. Sony T-120
Tape 24 - Tyson vs. Spinks fight (all 91 seconds of it...) taped off HBO on 6/27/1988; George Foreman vs. Carlos Hernandez fight taped off USA Network on 6/26/1988 with commercials; end of 'Rhinestone' (1984) taped off unknown channel; ends with several minutes of color bars taped off KVOS-12 Bellingham in the mid '80s, over-the-air with a ghosty picture. Panasonic Hi-Fi T-120
Tape 25 - Tyson vs. Carl Williams fight taped off HBO on 7/21/1989 (all 93 seconds of it!); part of 'The Front Page' (1974) taped off Showtime on 6/4/1989 with promos. Memorex T-120
Tape 26 - 'The Other Sister' (1999) and 'Lovers and Other Strangers' (1970) taped off Love Stories in June 2002 with promos. Maxell T-120
Tape 27 - Starts with 20 minutes of an unknown 1950s movie; cuts over to part of 'Sudden Impact' (1983) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; and continues with episodes of Country Sportsman and The Bassmasters taped off TNN in March 1988 with commercials; 'Neighbors' (1981) and 'Star Trek III: The Search for Spock' (1984) taped off unknown pay-TV channels; ends with a couple minutes of Sanford & Son taped off (I assume) TBS. Panasonic Hi-Fi T-120
Tape 28 - 'Soldier of Fortune' (1955) taped off AMC circa 1998 with Bob Dorian open/close segments. TDK T-120
In addition the lot also contained some retail movies (like Casablanca and Cast Away, which I will be donating to the thrift store), plus three promotional videos...and maybe more as I look at the last two boxes. One for ABS systems in General Motors vehicles, a promotional video for the 1995 Chevy Blazer, and a 1993 video on Select-Comfort beds.
Earlier this week I went down to Moxee WA (6 mi E of Yakima) to take advantage of a Craigslist lot. Probably 70-80 tapes. These were an interesting mixture of sources. One half seemed to come from local and cable TV in Yakima, the other (which is mostly what I'm posting right now) was a very interesting mix of content from C-Band. Apparently the former owner used to live in Tonasket, WA, way up by Omak. With likely no cable and only a couple weak translators, they had a big dish for many years. More to come...
Tape 1 - 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri' (1954) taped off WGN-9 (Galaxy 1, tp 3) on 9/17/1988 with commercials. JVC T-120
Tape 2 - 'Free Willy' (1993) taped off HBO (west feed, Galaxy 5 tp 8) on 9/10/1994 with a minute or so of free preview content prior to the movie; afterwards they flip over to Satcom C1 for the last several minutes of America's Most Wanted taped off KDVR/Fox with commercials (on transponder 5). Kodak T-120
Tape 3 - 'Captain Ron' (1992) taped off The Movie Channel (Satcom C4, tp 22 west feed) on 2/8/1994 with promos. Kodak T-120
Tape 4 - 'I'll See You in My Dreams' (1951) taped off AMC on 10/3/1998 with promos. Taped off cable instead of satellite. Memorex T-120
Tape 5 - 30 Years of National Geographic Specials taped off KNBC/NBC (Spacenet 4, tp 6) on 8/5/1995 with commercials; ends with the last few minutes of an Oprah Winfrey episode and several minutes of Colorado's 7 News at 5 taped off KMGH-7 (Satcom C1, tp 2) in late 1994. BASF T-120 taped over about five times
Tape 6 - 'Babe' (1995) taped off unknown channel, no promos/ads; about an hour of Atlanta Olympics coverage (beach volleyball) taped off KUSA/NBC (Satcom C1, tp 14) in July 1996 with commercials...this one was in LP. Fuji T-120
Tape 7 - Showtime Championship Boxing Preview taped in September 1992, then flips over to Discovery Channel (Galaxy 5, tp 12) for the last half of Wings with commercials, and ends with a half-hour of Nashville Now taped off TNN that same evening with commercials (over on tp 18, G5). Scotch T-120
Tape 8 - Part 2 of Queen taped off KMGH/CBS (C1-tp 2) on 2/16/1993 with commercials (already have this from KIMA). Polaroid T-120
Tape 9 - Showtime Championship Boxing (Tyson vs. Ruddick) taped off Showtime on 3/18/1991; promos and part of 'Homer & Eddie' (1989) taped off Cinemax on 2/24/1991 (Galaxy 1, tp 19). Polaroid HG T-120
Tape 10 - Part 2 of Cleopatra taped off WKRN/ABC 2 Nashville on 5/24/1999 with commercials (on GE-1, tp 10 - one of the PT24 East stations). GE T-120
Tape 11 - Grand Ole Opry 75th Anniversary Special taped off KCBS/CBS on 11/23/2000 with commercials. I'm assuming 2000 was when these folks transitioned from C-Band to DirecTV, as KCBS has always been a DNS option on DIRECTV. RCA T-120
Tape 12 - Spinks vs. Cooney fight replay taped off the ABC west coast feed (Telstar 302, tp 10) on 6/26/1987 with commercials and black during local time! This is my second time finding a C-Band raw feed from a network. I found an Unsolved Mysteries and Homicide: Life on the Street once from the Satcom C1 NBC feed, taped 2/3/93. Next is part of 'Excalibur' (1981) and 'The Emerald Forest' (1985) taped off unknown pay-TV channels; broadcast of Playboy Comedy Theatre taped off The Playboy Channel circa early 1987; last few minutes of the Grand Ole Opry 60th Anniversary Special taped off K10DL/CBS (KREM-2 translator Tonasket WA) on 1/14/1986 with a few commercials (this wasn't off C-Band...picture was ghosty and multipathed like analog TV); ends with the last few minutes of an unknown fishing show, also not from C-Band. SKC T-120
Tape 13 - ''night Mother' (1986), 'Peggy Sue Got Married' (1986) and 'White Nights' (1985) taped off HBO and Cinemax , no promos; ends with confirmation of the unknown analog TV stations seen in tape 12 - end of 'The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James' (1986) taped off KHQ/NBC (translator K08CX Tonasket) on 2/17/1986 with commercials; followed by a brief clip of an ID and start of KREM 2 Weekend News taped in January 1986 (off K10DL Tonasket in terrible quality...keep in mind these translators were likely not microwave relays. They were probably getting their KREM signal from another translator and feeding it in the chain to Tonasket, so whatever K10DL got was the signal fed to Tonasket residents.); ends with a few minutes of Wide World of Sports coverage of the 43rd Grand Prix of Monaco taped off KXLY/ABC (K12CX Tonasket) on 5/19/1985 with a couple commercials. SKC T-120
Tape 14 - Roy Orbison & Friends: A Black and White Night taped off Cinemax in 1988; 20/20 segment on scuba diving taped off unknown ABC station (maybe the network feed on Telstar 301/302?) sometime in 1988; part of 'La Bamba' (1987) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; ends with part of the ABC News Weekend Report taped 6/19/1988 (off the Telstar 302 ABC network feed) with commercials.
Tape 15 - 'As Good as It Gets' (1997), 'Knock Off' (1998) and part of 'Gods and Monsters' (1998) taped off The Movie Channel on 3/10-11/2000 with lots of promos during a free preview. TDK T-160
Tape 16 - 'Two Came Back' (1997) taped off WABC/ABC on 6/25/2001 with commercials (another example of DirecTV DNS service). Maxell T-120
Tape 17 - 'The Mask' (1994) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; part of the All-Star Salute to Country Music (ahem...Ralph Emery) taped off TNN on 3/7/1990 with commercials. Kodak T-120
Tape 18 - A&E Biography (Judy Garland) taped off A&E in February 2001 with commercials (local Yakima-inserted ads this time). Fuji T-120
Tape 19 - 'Inherit the Wind' (1950) taped off TNT on 1/30/1995 with commercials (local Yakima-inserted ads); 'River of No Return' (1954) taped off AMC on 2/12/1995 with tons of promos, especially afterwards. TDK T-120
Tape 20 - 'Legends of the Fall' (1994) and part of 'The Shawshank Redemption' (1994) taped off Showtime on 1/6/1996 with free preview content afterwards (I have this movie already but not many of the promos that aired after); end of 'The Flintstones' (1994) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; partial broadcast of USA Tuesday Night Fights taped off USA Network on 12/14/1993 with commercials; partial segment of Primetime Live taped off KUSA/ABC circa 1993 (on stranger danger). Kodak T-120
Tape 21 - Episode of Fishing the West taped off NESN (New England Sports Network, Satcom F4 tp 13) in March 1988 with commercials (episode was filmed off the coast of Neah Bay, WA); part of 'Ernest Goes to Camp' (1987) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; episode of Centennial taped off KWGN-2 on 1/25/1988 (Not Ready for Bedtime Movie, on Satcom F1 tp 14) with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 22 - 'For Me and My Gal' (1942) taped off KYVE/PBS in December 2003; 'Take Me Home: The John Denver Story' (2000) taped off Lifetime in December 2003 with commercials. Sony T-120
Tape 23 - Tyson vs. Stewart fight taped off HBO on 12/8/1990; partial George Foreman vs. Ken Lakusta Tuesday Night Fights broadcast taped off USA on 7/31/1990 with commercials. Sony T-120
Tape 24 - Tyson vs. Spinks fight (all 91 seconds of it...) taped off HBO on 6/27/1988; George Foreman vs. Carlos Hernandez fight taped off USA Network on 6/26/1988 with commercials; end of 'Rhinestone' (1984) taped off unknown channel; ends with several minutes of color bars taped off KVOS-12 Bellingham in the mid '80s, over-the-air with a ghosty picture. Panasonic Hi-Fi T-120
Tape 25 - Tyson vs. Carl Williams fight taped off HBO on 7/21/1989 (all 93 seconds of it!); part of 'The Front Page' (1974) taped off Showtime on 6/4/1989 with promos. Memorex T-120
Tape 26 - 'The Other Sister' (1999) and 'Lovers and Other Strangers' (1970) taped off Love Stories in June 2002 with promos. Maxell T-120
Tape 27 - Starts with 20 minutes of an unknown 1950s movie; cuts over to part of 'Sudden Impact' (1983) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; and continues with episodes of Country Sportsman and The Bassmasters taped off TNN in March 1988 with commercials; 'Neighbors' (1981) and 'Star Trek III: The Search for Spock' (1984) taped off unknown pay-TV channels; ends with a couple minutes of Sanford & Son taped off (I assume) TBS. Panasonic Hi-Fi T-120
Tape 28 - 'Soldier of Fortune' (1955) taped off AMC circa 1998 with Bob Dorian open/close segments. TDK T-120
In addition the lot also contained some retail movies (like Casablanca and Cast Away, which I will be donating to the thrift store), plus three promotional videos...and maybe more as I look at the last two boxes. One for ABS systems in General Motors vehicles, a promotional video for the 1995 Chevy Blazer, and a 1993 video on Select-Comfort beds.
More from that lot. Helps that so many are in SP mode. Easy to inventory. I'm still going through the rest of the C-Band tapes before I get to the ones from Yakima cable...most of those being classic movies from AMC, TNT, TBS and TCM, and a few A&E Biographies. Many John Wayne movies in the 2nd half of the lot.
Tapes from the big dish are so fun to look at! In comparison to lots from homes that had cable, C-Band was the wild west of television. Some of this stuff came directly from network feeds on Telstar 302, others came from distant network services from stations on both the west and east coast. And then there was superstation stuff and pay-TV. No syndicated wild feeds sadly, that would have been even better.
Tape 29 - 'March of the Penguins' (2005) taped off Hallmark Channel in December 2006 with commercials. Fujifilm T-120
Tape 30 - 'Shane' (1953) taped off AMC early on 3/20/2000 with promos and a couple commercials. RCA T-120
Tape 31 - 'Outback Bound' (1988) taped off the CBS west coast feed (Telstar 302, tp 16) on 10/11/1988 with commercials and black screen during local breaks. Gold Master T-120
Tape 32 - Showtime Championship Boxing rebroadcast of Foreman vs. Cooney taped off Showtime in late January 1990; part of 'The Hot Rock' (1972) taped off WSBK-38 Boston on 1/20/1990 w/ commercials - my first find from Boston! (Spacenet 3, tp 3)
Tape 33 - 'Giant' (1956) taped off TBS on 10/30/1988 with commercials (on Galaxy 1, tp 18). JVC T-120
Tape 34 - The Life and Times of Marty Robbins taped off TNN on 1/24/1995 with commercials (Galaxy 5, tp 18); part of 'The Avenging Angel' (1995) taped off TNT on 1/22/1995 with commercials (G5-tp17). Kodak T-120
Tape 35 - Part 1 of Queen taped off WRAL/CBS on 2/14/1993 with commercials (already have this from KIMA as well). As it was taped off the PT24 East C-Band feed on Satcom F2 tp 2, the Primetime 24 service blotted out some of the North Carolina ads for national satellite-related commercials, PSAs, and direct-response ads. They did the same with WSEE Erie when they went to satellite, albeit their first CBS PT24 (WBBM) did not do this. KMGH's C-Band feed was not interrupted by these ads. Polaroid T-120
Tape 36 - The Andy Griffith Reunion taped off KMGH/CBS on 2/10/1993 with commercials; cuts over to The Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour taped off E! in December 1993 with commercials (on Satcom C3, tp 23...and my oldest find from E! - now I need to find something from Movietime); part of 'Late for Dinner' (1991) from unknown pay-TV channel; part of 'Battle of the Coral Sea' (1959) taped off TNT on 1/26/1993 with commercials. Polaroid T-120
Tape 37 - 'Red River' (1988) taped off the CBS West Coast Feed on 4/10/1988 with commercials and start of the CBS Sunday Night News. Gemini T-120
Tape 38 - 'Casino' (1995) and part of 'Seven' (1995) taped off Starz! in November 1996 with a few promos in between. Fuji T-120
Tape 39 - The Caesar's Palace 20th Birthday Special taped off Showtime on 2/26/1988 with promos (Galaxy 1, tp 5). Memorex T-120
Tape 40 - CBS Summer Playhouse: My Africa and start of the 11:01PM Newsnet feed taped off CBS' Telstar 302 Pacific time feed on 6/21/1988 with commercials; 'When the Legends Die' (1972) taped off KDVR-31 on 6/26/1988 with commercials (my oldest find from them! They were on Satcom F1R, Tp 20 at the time.) Kodak T-120
Tape 41 - Hagler vs. Leonard fight recap taped off HBO on 4/11/1987 (already have this); about six minutes of KOMO 4 News: 6:30 Report taped on 4/13/1987 with commercials, then goes blank. RCA T-120
Tape 42 - Part of 'Sommersby' (1993) taped off KNBC/NBC on 4/7/1996 with commercials (Spacenet 4, tp 6). SP mode, cuts off a half-hour before the end of the movie. Kodak T-120
Tape 43 - Starts with about 5 minutes of Colorado's 7 News at 11:30am taped off KMGH-7 sometime in May 1994 with commercials; then cuts to nearly all of 'Home Alone 2: Lost in New York' (1992) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; and ends with part of Roses Are for the Rich taped off Lifetime on 12/17/1993 with commercials, flipping over to Satcom C1 for the end of Good Cop, Bad Kid? with Edward James Olmos on the Eastern time NBC feed (C1-8), and over to KMGH on C1-6 for the first eight minutes of 60 Minutes w/ commercials. Kodak T-120
Tape 44 - 'The Adventures of Milo & Otis' (1986), Going...Going...Gone (endangered animals special) and open of 'Toys' (1992) taped off HBO2 on 12/17/1994 with promos. Master T-120
Tape 45 - Elvis: His Life and Times (syndicated special on the King of Rock 'n Roll) taped off KOMO-4 in August 1997 with commercials (off the PT24 West feed at Spacenet 4, tp 8 - not taped locally). TDK T-120
Tapes from the big dish are so fun to look at! In comparison to lots from homes that had cable, C-Band was the wild west of television. Some of this stuff came directly from network feeds on Telstar 302, others came from distant network services from stations on both the west and east coast. And then there was superstation stuff and pay-TV. No syndicated wild feeds sadly, that would have been even better.
Tape 29 - 'March of the Penguins' (2005) taped off Hallmark Channel in December 2006 with commercials. Fujifilm T-120
Tape 30 - 'Shane' (1953) taped off AMC early on 3/20/2000 with promos and a couple commercials. RCA T-120
Tape 31 - 'Outback Bound' (1988) taped off the CBS west coast feed (Telstar 302, tp 16) on 10/11/1988 with commercials and black screen during local breaks. Gold Master T-120
Tape 32 - Showtime Championship Boxing rebroadcast of Foreman vs. Cooney taped off Showtime in late January 1990; part of 'The Hot Rock' (1972) taped off WSBK-38 Boston on 1/20/1990 w/ commercials - my first find from Boston! (Spacenet 3, tp 3)
Tape 33 - 'Giant' (1956) taped off TBS on 10/30/1988 with commercials (on Galaxy 1, tp 18). JVC T-120
Tape 34 - The Life and Times of Marty Robbins taped off TNN on 1/24/1995 with commercials (Galaxy 5, tp 18); part of 'The Avenging Angel' (1995) taped off TNT on 1/22/1995 with commercials (G5-tp17). Kodak T-120
Tape 35 - Part 1 of Queen taped off WRAL/CBS on 2/14/1993 with commercials (already have this from KIMA as well). As it was taped off the PT24 East C-Band feed on Satcom F2 tp 2, the Primetime 24 service blotted out some of the North Carolina ads for national satellite-related commercials, PSAs, and direct-response ads. They did the same with WSEE Erie when they went to satellite, albeit their first CBS PT24 (WBBM) did not do this. KMGH's C-Band feed was not interrupted by these ads. Polaroid T-120
Tape 36 - The Andy Griffith Reunion taped off KMGH/CBS on 2/10/1993 with commercials; cuts over to The Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour taped off E! in December 1993 with commercials (on Satcom C3, tp 23...and my oldest find from E! - now I need to find something from Movietime); part of 'Late for Dinner' (1991) from unknown pay-TV channel; part of 'Battle of the Coral Sea' (1959) taped off TNT on 1/26/1993 with commercials. Polaroid T-120
Tape 37 - 'Red River' (1988) taped off the CBS West Coast Feed on 4/10/1988 with commercials and start of the CBS Sunday Night News. Gemini T-120
Tape 38 - 'Casino' (1995) and part of 'Seven' (1995) taped off Starz! in November 1996 with a few promos in between. Fuji T-120
Tape 39 - The Caesar's Palace 20th Birthday Special taped off Showtime on 2/26/1988 with promos (Galaxy 1, tp 5). Memorex T-120
Tape 40 - CBS Summer Playhouse: My Africa and start of the 11:01PM Newsnet feed taped off CBS' Telstar 302 Pacific time feed on 6/21/1988 with commercials; 'When the Legends Die' (1972) taped off KDVR-31 on 6/26/1988 with commercials (my oldest find from them! They were on Satcom F1R, Tp 20 at the time.) Kodak T-120
Tape 41 - Hagler vs. Leonard fight recap taped off HBO on 4/11/1987 (already have this); about six minutes of KOMO 4 News: 6:30 Report taped on 4/13/1987 with commercials, then goes blank. RCA T-120
Tape 42 - Part of 'Sommersby' (1993) taped off KNBC/NBC on 4/7/1996 with commercials (Spacenet 4, tp 6). SP mode, cuts off a half-hour before the end of the movie. Kodak T-120
Tape 43 - Starts with about 5 minutes of Colorado's 7 News at 11:30am taped off KMGH-7 sometime in May 1994 with commercials; then cuts to nearly all of 'Home Alone 2: Lost in New York' (1992) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; and ends with part of Roses Are for the Rich taped off Lifetime on 12/17/1993 with commercials, flipping over to Satcom C1 for the end of Good Cop, Bad Kid? with Edward James Olmos on the Eastern time NBC feed (C1-8), and over to KMGH on C1-6 for the first eight minutes of 60 Minutes w/ commercials. Kodak T-120
Tape 44 - 'The Adventures of Milo & Otis' (1986), Going...Going...Gone (endangered animals special) and open of 'Toys' (1992) taped off HBO2 on 12/17/1994 with promos. Master T-120
Tape 45 - Elvis: His Life and Times (syndicated special on the King of Rock 'n Roll) taped off KOMO-4 in August 1997 with commercials (off the PT24 West feed at Spacenet 4, tp 8 - not taped locally). TDK T-120
That's quite an impressive lot. I haven't found nearly as much content that was unique to the C-band satellite service. The closest thing I have to a network wildfeed is a broadcast of The Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration from the PBS network feed from 1993. Starts with an opening slate and countdown and has bumpers placed where local stations would air their pledge drive breaks. And then there's the episode of The Marshal I have taped from the Primetime 24 feed of KOMO in Seattle in 1995.
Yesterday I stopped at a garage sale and picked up a tape of a broadcast of Firing Line with William Buckley Jr. on WVIZ in Cleveland from September 25, 1986. It ended with a few promos after the program, but before I could digitize anything, after rewinding the tape a few minutes and then hitting play--you guessed it--my VCR ate the tape.
I have my eye on an Amazon listing for the exact same make and model, which is the least expensive listing I could find on Amazon in terms of VCR/DVD recorder dual units. Before I go for that one, I'm waiting on a response to a question I asked the seller confirming that the unit was recently tested and everything is fully functional.
Yesterday I stopped at a garage sale and picked up a tape of a broadcast of Firing Line with William Buckley Jr. on WVIZ in Cleveland from September 25, 1986. It ended with a few promos after the program, but before I could digitize anything, after rewinding the tape a few minutes and then hitting play--you guessed it--my VCR ate the tape.
I have my eye on an Amazon listing for the exact same make and model, which is the least expensive listing I could find on Amazon in terms of VCR/DVD recorder dual units. Before I go for that one, I'm waiting on a response to a question I asked the seller confirming that the unit was recently tested and everything is fully functional.
Spreading the word about this lot here:
https://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/emd/d/smyrna-huge-lot-of-previously-recorded/7217952869.html
Could be some gold in there for those that want to take on a huge collection.
https://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/emd/d/smyrna-huge-lot-of-previously-recorded/7217952869.html
Could be some gold in there for those that want to take on a huge collection.
Way too many tapes at this time for me. I've even got a copy of the 1985 TNN Farm Aid recording off a Beta from a previous lot that I purchased a couple years ago that I still haven't digitized at this time. Still, Craigslist was where I purchased a huge lot of over 100 tapes featuring all those Star Search recordings off of Pittsburgh stations almost two years ago, and just last night, I digitized a 1985 KDKA news special "Pittsburgh is #1" special about Rand McNally's best places to live rankings. No commercials, but still neat to find those local specials.
Still, with a tape that has a 1984 CBS Soaps block as well as the possibility of finding local (W)TBS spots instead of those nationally broadcast with 800 ads, makes it quite tempting for those with the time/space.
Speaking of which, here's another big VHS lot on eBay that isn't quite as large and is also by the original owner, and maybe worth considering if you live in the mid-Atlantic region. With approximately enough tapes to make up a custom calendar, this owner who lives in the same market as Marion Stokes, features a similar array of various labels, even including a couple Eurozone tapes as well, one of them an early '80s Panasonic NV-E-120. This lot did end yesterday at the same price shown, but upon asking the seller about commercials, the response was unfortunately that while most of those tapes were originally taped off OTA stations, they were later taped over by mostly pay cable stations. That doesn't leave out the possibility of those end-of-tape surprises though if the recorder pressed stop after the second/third movie, especially if the movies have a shorter runtime. I live just two hours away from him/her, but given the deepening pandemic and having enough tapes for awhile, I passed.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/274577184257?ViewItem=&item=274577184257
The copyright police strike again, this time by Disney
Unfortunately ABC and the Big Mouse wants to tighten their vaults:
Sad to see another classic soap be added to the "do not post" list despite being off the air for a decade now. Surprisingly, there aren't too many soap traders compared to other genres, but that's about 70 classic One Life To Live episodes I had to take down across my five channels. To other YouTubers, now's the time to purge!
Unfortunately ABC and the Big Mouse wants to tighten their vaults:
Sad to see another classic soap be added to the "do not post" list despite being off the air for a decade now. Surprisingly, there aren't too many soap traders compared to other genres, but that's about 70 classic One Life To Live episodes I had to take down across my five channels. To other YouTubers, now's the time to purge!
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I never understood why they would go the nuclear option with a full copyright strike when they could just de-monetize your video and get money from the video when they claim rights to it. I've had that happen 3-4 times a year and it does not affect my account at all.
One tape of note from recent finds:
This one seems to be a 4 hour timer recording on MSG Network from May 16, 1996:
1.Complete replay of Dwight Gooden's no hitter from May 14, 1996
2.MSG Sports Desk (similar to Sportscenter but with more of a New York sports centric focus)
3.Heavyweight Explosion Pro Boxing, incomplete, ended after 30 minutes
Ended at 4 hour mark with last 2 hours blank.
MSG had an interesting mix of typical syndicated late night commercials and local fare, including one that aired multiple times for the new fangled flip and brick cell phones of the day, my dad had the exact Audiovox model they showed in the commercial sometime mid 1997.
This one seems to be a 4 hour timer recording on MSG Network from May 16, 1996:
1.Complete replay of Dwight Gooden's no hitter from May 14, 1996
2.MSG Sports Desk (similar to Sportscenter but with more of a New York sports centric focus)
3.Heavyweight Explosion Pro Boxing, incomplete, ended after 30 minutes
Ended at 4 hour mark with last 2 hours blank.
MSG had an interesting mix of typical syndicated late night commercials and local fare, including one that aired multiple times for the new fangled flip and brick cell phones of the day, my dad had the exact Audiovox model they showed in the commercial sometime mid 1997.