Oldest Extant Off-Air VHS/Beta Tape You Have

[chandler0201]

Chandler...when did thrift stores start putting VHS tapes on the shelves? Would it be around the early '00s when DVD was taking off? My mind was still developing and I can't remember, but I do remember that MASSIVE display of tapes at a defunct Lynnwood (or south Everett) thrift store called Shop and Save when I was younger. I think this would have been about 2003. I remember mom bought 'George of the Jungle' on VHS from that store. Now that I remember, more than once, mom bought tapes from the thrift stores for me. I had a New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh tape that came from a thrift store if I recall.

So I just opened up a few boxes to try to answer this question and test my memory...the first tape that I found, and could recall when I bought it at a thrift store, was the highlights of the 1982 World Cup that I purchased in 1993. The original price in wax pen was there in black and red (originally priced at .79 then marked down to .39 in red). This was purchased from a local independent thrift store (who also sold home recorded VHS then too, I remember seeing many taped games of the 1990 World Cup there) that has been out of business for more than 15 years by now. From my memory the local Goodwills did not have VHS that early, but many of the local indie stores did stock them back then, I remember many had huge stacks of copies of the 1992 Winter Olympics Highlights tape that you got from Kelloggs cereal box tops at the grocery store or the Super Bowl Highlights tape that you could get from Duracell battery premiums back then. So in many ways retail stores were donating their New overstocks and remainders then just like Target does now. The first time I can recall seeing a VHS tape at Goodwill was around 1995, and did not see any DVDs until the early 2000s, and Blurays around 2011 or so (curiously only first started seeing HD DVDs years AFTER Blurays, which you would think would be the reverse but I digress).

Snagged 6 more home recorded tapes at the Goodwill bins today, all but 1 were unmarked but the age of the tape stock looked promising. I popped one of them in and the point it was left off on was gymnastics from the 1992 Summer Olympics so its already a promising start.

 

[Scott2013]

Not the best luck at the Bath Township community garage sales today. Two tapes found at one sale, both were duds. One of them had five episodes of Body Electric taped from WNEO/WEAO in 1993, but no promos in between.
Hopefully better luck next week at Seville's annual village-wide yard sale. In years past, I've usually come home with something from that neck of the woods. There's certainly some level of convenience at that community sale, as most people usually park their cars in one of the public parking areas and walk around the village hunting for garage sale treasures.

One item of interest that I've always been hoping to find, but haven't yet, in terms of VHS recordings, is recordings from WMFD Channel 68, the independent TV station in Mansfield. The other day, when I went to the local Mr. Hero (fast food chain in Northeast Ohio) to pick up some food, I saw the TVs in the dining area playing WMFD during their local newscast (Newswatch). Although most of the cable companies in the Northeast Ohio don't carry WMFD, as the station is geared more toward the North Central Ohio area, the station is available on DirecTV and Dish Network as part of the local stations from the Cleveland/Akron/Canton market those services pick up, and that particular Mr. Hero location has Dish Network. I did, however, see that WMFD is available on Spectrum in the southern part of Medina County, which would include Seville, so who knows if anyone in that little town ever took enough interest in any of WMFD's local or syndicated fare to record anything from that station. Medina County is a largely rural region of Northeast Ohio, so who knows if any hunting enthusiasts out here would have been interested in, say, The Outdoorsman with Buck McNeely. If I'm not mistaken, I believe WMFD also carried Family Feud at one point. Knowing the overall political demographics of Medina County, as well as the Mansfield area itself for that matter, it's doubtful anyone would have had any interest in taping The Chris Matthews Show on Sundays, which that station also picked up. Then you've got the high school football and basketball games within WMFD's viewing area that Channel 68 was/is known for covering. Can't say I'd be surprised if the Cloverleaf Colts ever competed against any schools closer to Mansfield or Ashland.

 

[crainbebo]

Yesterday I found more tapes at several sales in Yakima and Selah.

Church sale (Yakima)
Tape 1 - American Experience (on Hoover Dam) taped off KYVE/PBS on 1/18/1999 with promos; partial episode of Wings taped off The Discovery Channel in February 1990 with commercials; partial episode of Days of Our Lives taped off KNDO/NBC on 2/20/1986 with commercials; ends with credits to another Days of Our Lives and a few commercials taped off KNDO/NBC in April 1985. Memorex T-120
Tape 2 - Walking with Dinosaurs taped off The Discovery Channel on 4/16/2000 with commercials; partial Andrea Bocelli in Italy concert taped off KYVE/PBS in early 2000 with a pledge break originating from KCTS with George Ray; followed by rare and early content from STARZ!, 'The Mitera Target' (1977) and part of 'Scent of a Woman' (1991) taped in February 1994 with lots of promos and free preview material (this was in their first month on the air!) Scotch T-120
Tape 3 - 1993 Tournament of Roses Parade taped off KIMA/CBS on New Year's Day 1993 with commercials, followed by the Rose Bowl (Washington/Michigan) taped later that day on KAPP/ABC with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 4 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, 'Prancer' (1989), 'Miracle in the Wilderness' (1991) and first 15 minutes of 'Christmas in Connecticut' (1992) taped off TBS on 12/20-21/1993 with commercials; A Garfield Christmas Special and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas taped off KIMA/CBS on 12/23/1993 with commercials. Scotch T-120

Estate sale (Yakima)
Tape 5 - Last 10 minutes of SportsCenter, round 8 of the National Finals Rodeo, the late edition of SportsCenter, NFL Matchup and part of Racehorse Digest taped off ESPN on 12/10/1999 with commercials. Running length is 3:59 in SLP. Scotch T-120
I also found the '85 and '86 NFRs but they had the ads cut out.

Estate sale (Selah - of a long-time doctor and painter/artist)
Tape 6 - 'The Christmas Box' (1995) copied from rental tape; partial broadcast of Inside Edition taped off KAPP-35 in December 1996; partial broadcast of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour taped off KYVE/PBS on 9/13/1993 with a few promos afterwards. Maxell EX T-120
Tape 7 - 'Father of the Bride II' (1995) taped off KAPP/ABC on 5/16/1999 with commercials. SP. Maxell T-120
Tape 8 - Starts with a few minutes of an unknown TBN program, then cuts over to Dateline NBC (survival on Mt. Everest) taped off KNDU/NBC on 6/25/2006 with commercials. Blank after 1:06 in SP. TDK T-120
Tape 9 - The French Revolution taped off History Channel in January 2005 with commercials (local ads for Adelphia Cable in Coeur D'Alene, ID). Sony T-120

 

[chandler0201]

Finished a few of the tapes from the Goodwill bins:

Tape 1---no markings whatsoever Sony ES-HG T120
1992/8/1 Summer Olympics Evening Programming 3h5m (WXII 12)
-Nearly the complete block, missing a few minutes, highlights included Track & Field and Gymnastics
1991 unknown month partial episode of Guiding Light off WFMY2 25m

Tape 2---marked "Magnum The Final Story 5-1-1988" TDK HS T120
-1989 April? really cool local or public access American Bandstand type show called Today's Teen. I estimated the date based upon the top 40 songs used which included The Look, Wild Thing, She Drives Me Crazy, etc. Got to love the cheesy late 80s...
-1988/5/1 Magnum PI Series Finale, so tape was marked right just part of it was taped over 1h31m (WFMY2)
-Many HBO airings of programming that was taped over again and again, including the first 2 minutes of Youngblood then a complete airing of Boomerang to the first 38 minutes of Hunk which was taped over by The Making of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 1989 which was thankfully complete then ending with the last 3 minutes of Hunk

Going through the basement found some more tapes my dad made back in the 1980s, here was the first one:

1987/2/15, 2/16, and 2/17
-The first 3 parts of the infamous miniseries Amerika as originally aired on ABC (WTVD11). It is quite the timely watch now as many would agree that much of the content is happening today. I think the remaining 3 or 4 parts are on other tapes in this box. Sadly being in a humid area of the house for decades did some damage to the video tracking, that and the antenna reception on this recording wasn't the best to begin with. VCR experts always say that playing a tape back on the exact machine it was recorded on gives the best results but unfortunately that VCR is decades long gone.

 

[crainbebo]

Gonna try to hit the Goodwill bins in Pasco this Friday! Plus, I'll hit the Atomic City store in Richland where they take in any and every VHS tape. Hopefully, I'll find some vintage VK-250s or Beta tapes amongst the broken glass, ripped-up books, and people fighting each other over the three purses that are rolled out in the new bin that just came out.

 

[crainbebo]

Report of tapes to come. I pulled about 15 tapes out of Atomic City this morning, there were 90 or 100 there, but a majority were movie titles or label-less, and nearly all of those looked like '00s or late '90s stock. Then went to the Goodwill Outlet in Downtown Pasco.

Here's how it works. Apparently, the VHS tapes are NOT mixed with books and other media. DVDs are sorted and separated into their own bin. Ended up finding The Hangover Part II on Blu-Ray and the complete Season 3 DVD of Grey's Anatomy for really cheap. Where were the (few) VHS tapes located? Mixed with housewares in two separate bins, plus another bin that had various holiday decorations and broken junk. And out of the VHS tapes I found in those bins, only ONE was a home-recorded tape. Marked "96 Indy 500". Hoping it's on there w/ commercials.
They change them out about twice a day. Usually around 1:00 PM or so. Not a lot of 'aggressive' shoppers there, other Outlets have that problem...people stealing stuff out of your cart and such. Maybe that's not the case in the Columbia Basin.

I will be back out there in July or August and try my luck again. What's the best day to find old media items, Chandler? Just a random luck o' the draw, or do they get more media shipments in on Tuesdays, or Thursdays, or Mondays?

 

[chandler0201]

As for media, I used to regularly go on Thursdays and Fridays, but I've even had luck on Sundays and Tuesdays so it really is a luck of the draw. I'd say there are about 4 or 5 media bins on a good day, only 2 or 3 on a bad day and that is out of about 25 bins or so (rest are 75% clothes and 25% housewares with some electronics mixed in). I've noticed the shrinkwrapped pallets of mixed housewares (for $100 or less) sometimes have home recorded tapes on top, those went missing from those pallets and back into the media bins after I mentioned it to management. Outlets vary greatly, I've been to 3 different ones in North Carolina, one in Virginia, and one in New Jersey, some places have bins that are 90% empty others its so full you cannot even search through them. Sometimes the bins are all just books and DVDs, other places its a mix of every form of physical media you can think of, even old reel to reel audio. Competition varies greatly too, where I usually go no one bothers with media but half a dozen people fight over clothes and shoes.

Lastly, the content of the outlets varies by local management. Some places literally just dump all the unsold regular store stock into the outlet store, so you will get tons of broken VHS tapes, empty CD and DVD cases, books missing dustjackets or front covers, or video games scratched so badly you could swear they used the discs to detail their car. Other outlets have primo stock that went directly from the trunk of a car to a bin, though the one constant seems to be that home recorded VHS tapes go directly to the outlets as there seems to be a directive in NC that none can be sold in stores.

 

[crainbebo]

Finished the lot(s) from the Tri-Cities. Awful lot of rental duds, but I came away with some spectacular finds regardless. Cartoon and Nick fans will love this report...

Atomic City
Tape 1 - 'The Parent Trap' (1961), promos, Mousterpiece Theatre segment, Martin & Lewis: The Golden Age of Comedy taped off Disney Channel on 7/17/1992; ends with an SP-taped version of the same movie (likely off Disney Channel on a different date). Taper then realized it was more than 2 hours and had to record it again! Maxell T-120
Tape 2 - Eureeka's Castle Halloween special taped off Nickelodeon on Halloween 1991 with commercials; Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too taped off WCJB-20 Gainesville FL/ABC on 12/14/1991 with commercials (first find from Ocala-Gainesville!); episodes of Maya the Bee, Eureeka's Castle, The Elephant Show, and part of The World of David Gnome taped off Nickelodeon around July or August 1990 with commercials. What a find! Maxell T-120
Tape 3 - Another spectacular tape...6 hours of Garfield & Friends reruns taped off WGN-9 in December 1993 with commercials! The first rerun on the tape is from 12/8/93. Garfield & Friends aired weekdays at 7AM CT before Bozo. Gold Master T-120
Tape 4 - Episode of Medium taped off KNDU/NBC on 3/7/2007 with commercials; episode of Two and a Half Men taped off KEPR/CBS on 2/26/2007 with commercials; partial episode of Psychic Detectives taped off Court TV in January 2007 with commercials. Maxell T-120 HGX taped off multiple times, originally marked with Stephen King's The Stand, thirteen years prior in 1994.
Tape 5 - Hours worth of The Monkees taped off Nickelodeon in October 1986 with commercials! Yet another amazing find! T-120 tape, unmarked, generic.
Tape 6 - 'Citizen X' (1995) taped off the original HBO broadcast on 3/24/1995 with promos and a partial First Look segment. Scotch T-120, taped off Ren & Stimpy sadly.
Tape 7 - Starts with part of an American Masters broadcast taped off KTNW/PBS in 2009; cuts over to 'Summer School' (1987) copied from rental tape; and then 'North to Alaska' (1960), 'El Dorado' (1966) and part of 'The Shootist' (1970) taped off AMC in February 1995 with a few promos and Bob Dorian segments. Scotch T-120

Goodwill Outlet
Tape 8 - Marked as "96 Indy 500," this did not have the Indy 500. Instead, it's the Subway 500 from Martinsville, taped off KING/NBC on 10/22/2006 with commercials. Sony T-160, SP mode, ends with about 320 laps completed of 500. This likely was donated to their Wenatchee store, rejected, and sent to the Outlet in Pasco instead. Goodwill of the Columbia operates the Wenatchee store, and Seattle stations are carried on cable there.

Rest of the VHS tapes were mostly Disney (Lion King, etc.), a few Barney tapes, a Goodtimes tape of Amos 'n Andy, and a few tapes of Superbook, an animated Christian series for children. All store-bought of course. I figured that place would be buried in tapes. I probably missed the spring cleaning piles :-(

 

[pannoni1]

Nice finds everyone, especially on that Nick Jr. find.

The closest Goodwill Outlet is about half an hour away, as I'm closer to several regular Goodwills, but now I know why blank VHS tapes are only found there. Good news and bad news for today regarding tape hunting. I'll start with the bad news first. I finally got into estatesales.net today, and after searching around with "VHS", found a listing that featured a photo of a cabinet full of Betamax tapes visible in the photo seen here. ABSOLUTE ESTATE SALES - Hampstead Estate... starts on 6/19/2021

You'll see that's approximately 75 Betas in that photo, which is certainly worth an hour's drive checking out. Unfortunately, when I arrived, I noticed that the cabinet was empty, and then when I showed the organizers the photo, their response was "The family took them". It appeared that they were just "staging" the cabinet, but it shows that some families are still holding on to Beta. There's always next time, and it would be better is "VHS/Beta" was included in the listing description. Any idea if anybody else got "fooled" in that tapes were visible in a photo, but simply weren't for sale if someone hadn't already grabbed them by then?

With that, I had to just rely on trusty eBay for my next purchases, burning off a little over half of my $100 gift card I received last Christmas. The first seller recently placed several lots of about 15 VHS tapes up, of which I won two, after losing several lots from the last year by being outbid. Tape stock/recorded content looks to be late 1980s to late 1990s. Some of the labels include "Talk About Elvis/Jenny (Jones?)/Days/Another World", "Night Time/Days/Soap Awards", "Old Stars/Star Trek/Cheers", "Elvis/Days", "Days Wedding/Days Baby/Matlock with Patch", "Elvis Daughter (Priscilla)/Hollywood", "Rosie/Tom Arnold/Quantum Leap", "Melrose Place/90210", "Johnny Carson (with Soap Awards crossed out)", "Christmas 1987/Elvis & Me", "Dynasty/Knots Landing/Graduation/American Bandstand", "Quantum Leap/Priscilla Presley", "Keep all", and "Dinah Shore/Burt Reynolds/race". S/he's based in south Central PA (Lancaster/York/Harrisburg area).

The second lot which I just won consists of seven very old stock Betas, including two K-60s and a K-30. Notice how some labels say "X-1" and "X-2" on them, which was the early version of BI and BII speeds, as seen on late '70s tape stock. One tape is dated "9-8-79" on it, another saying "Improv", another just saying "Comedy", and another saying "Robin Williams". Who knows if its very early HBO specials, Mork & Mindy, or other popular improv/sitcoms of this era, and more. The seller is based out of Atlanta, so its possible even some pre-cable WTBS 17 stuff could be found.

P.S. It's not really a find and not that old, but I'm currently dubbing an eight-hour daytime aircheck off WUSA/CBS from 3/13/2000, as I actually recorded it myself back in high school just so I could catch The Price Is Right when I got home. The tape begins with a brief clip of WTTG's morning news before switching over to WUSA for the last half hour of the morning news, followed by The Early Show, Montel, Sally, TPIR, WUSA's Noon news, The Young & The Restless (remember that red intro with the weird theme?), The Bold & The Beautiful, and about half of As The World Turns. That Price episode was a rerun of an episode that originally aired on 10/20/1999, and I don't see it online currently.

 

[crainbebo]

Hit three estate sales/yard sales, two in Yakima and one in Wapato, and came up with great finds. Wapato was two duds, one pay-TV no promos, and one of Home Alone 2 off Fox with no commercials. If yesterday's Tri-Cities romp was cartoon-friendly, this romp had important events in history and one recording that not only is influential to the history of the valley but is reaching its 20th anniversary.

Yakima sale #1
Tape 1 - 'Crocodile Dundee II' (1988) copied from rental tape; part 2 of Twist of Fate and part of NewsCenter 23 at 11 taped off KNDO/NBC on 1/9/1989 with commercials; end of the Seahawks-Patriots game and part of the Broncos-Raiders NFL game taped off KNDO/NBC on 12/4/1988 with commercials. Sony T-120
Duds - One with Top Gun copied from the Paramount rental tape (complete w/ the Diet Pepsi ad at the beginning), and one with about 30 minutes of home movie footage from a hunting trip up in the Tampico area. The second one is amusing to watch and I may copy this off just because of the locality of the hunting site. They mentioned Sedge Ridge, which is (I think) NW of Tampico near Hwy 12 and Kloochman Rock...

Yakima sale #2 - Cherry-picked through these due to too much 2000s and even early '10s tape stock. Tape 6 proves that even though the tape was early 1990s Memorex.
Tape 2 - 'Lethal Weapon 3' (1992) taped off KAPP/ABC on 9/17/1998 with commercials; partial episode of Days of Our Lives and open to The Howie Mandel Show taped off KNDO/NBC on 7/13/1998 with commercials; another partial episode of Days of Our Lives and first few minutes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman taped off KNDO/NBC on 6/4/1998 with commercials; another partial episode of Days of Our Lives taped off KNDO/NBC in May 1998 with commercials. TDK S-HG T-120
Tape 3 - About 4 hours of 9/11 coverage taped off KIMA/CBS. Starts with a view of the Pentagon still on fire (this was after both towers went down, probably 8AM PT or so). I did not see any local break-ins, as I think the network did not allow the stations to air local coverage at the time it was recorded, but there are some crawls on prayer services and central Washington impacts. Sony T-120
Tape 4 - A piece of Yakima history: the entire procession and most of the funeral of the four firefighters killed during the Thirtymile Fire, taped off KIMA on 7/24/2001. Solemn music was played during the entire procession, with no commentary from the news anchors. There is some commentary in between the procession and funeral as family members, fellow firefighters, and the public walk into the SunDome. TDK T-160 in SP mode
Tape 5 - 2000 Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremonies taped off KNDO/NBC on 9/15/2000 with commercials (complete, compared to the KGW recording I found about a month and a half ago). TDK T-160
Tape 6 - Starts with an hour of the London Olympics Opening Ceremonies taped off KNDO-DT/NBC on 7/27/2012 with commercials; then cuts to equestrian coverage at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and open to an early episode of The Rosie O'Donnell Show taped off KNDO/NBC on 7/31/1996 with commercials; partial episode of The Bold and the Beautiful and about half of As the World Turns taped off KIMA/CBS on 12/9/1994 with commercials. Memorex T-120
Tape 7 - Two-part series finale of Walker, Texas Ranger taped off KIMA/CBS on 5/19/2001 with commercials. TDK T-120 (SP)

 

[Jman8606]

Finished the lot(s) from the Tri-Cities. Awful lot of rental duds, but I came away with some spectacular finds regardless. Cartoon and Nick fans will love this report...

Atomic City
Tape 1 - 'The Parent Trap' (1961), promos, Mousterpiece Theatre segment, Martin & Lewis: The Golden Age of Comedy taped off Disney Channel on 7/17/1992; ends with an SP-taped version of the same movie (likely off Disney Channel on a different date). Taper then realized it was more than 2 hours and had to record it again! Maxell T-120
Tape 2 - Eureeka's Castle Halloween special taped off Nickelodeon on Halloween 1991 with commercials; Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too taped off WCJB-20 Gainesville FL/ABC on 12/14/1991 with commercials (first find from Ocala-Gainesville!); episodes of Maya the Bee, Eureeka's Castle, The Elephant Show, and part of The World of David Gnome taped off Nickelodeon around July or August 1990 with commercials. What a find! Maxell T-120
Tape 3 - Another spectacular tape...6 hours of Garfield & Friends reruns taped off WGN-9 in December 1993 with commercials! The first rerun on the tape is from 12/8/93. Garfield & Friends aired weekdays at 7AM CT before Bozo. Gold Master T-120
Tape 4 - Episode of Medium taped off KNDU/NBC on 3/7/2007 with commercials; episode of Two and a Half Men taped off KEPR/CBS on 2/26/2007 with commercials; partial episode of Psychic Detectives taped off Court TV in January 2007 with commercials. Maxell T-120 HGX taped off multiple times, originally marked with Stephen King's The Stand, thirteen years prior in 1994.
Tape 5 - Hours worth of The Monkees taped off Nickelodeon in October 1986 with commercials! Yet another amazing find! T-120 tape, unmarked, generic.
Tape 6 - 'Citizen X' (1995) taped off the original HBO broadcast on 3/24/1995 with promos and a partial First Look segment. Scotch T-120, taped off Ren & Stimpy sadly.
Tape 7 - Starts with part of an American Masters broadcast taped off KTNW/PBS in 2009; cuts over to 'Summer School' (1987) copied from rental tape; and then 'North to Alaska' (1960), 'El Dorado' (1966) and part of 'The Shootist' (1970) taped off AMC in February 1995 with a few promos and Bob Dorian segments. Scotch T-120

Goodwill Outlet
Tape 8 - Marked as "96 Indy 500," this did not have the Indy 500. Instead, it's the Subway 500 from Martinsville, taped off KING/NBC on 10/22/2006 with commercials. Sony T-160, SP mode, ends with about 320 laps completed of 500. This likely was donated to their Wenatchee store, rejected, and sent to the Outlet in Pasco instead. Goodwill of the Columbia operates the Wenatchee store, and Seattle stations are carried on cable there.

Rest of the VHS tapes were mostly Disney (Lion King, etc.), a few Barney tapes, a Goodtimes tape of Amos 'n Andy, and a few tapes of Superbook, an animated Christian series for children. All store-bought of course. I figured that place would be buried in tapes. I probably missed the spring cleaning piles :-(

That must have been the local feed of WGN because I would watch Bozo every morning before school and The Flintstones would come on before it.

 

[crainbebo]

Actually, not so fast, as WGN's national feed did air Garfield & Friends at 5AM PT (7AM CT) in December '93. It followed a religious program, sometimes In Touch and sometimes Robert Schuller (which aired at 6 or 6:30). Then Bozo came on, followed by the Flintstones at 8:30 CT (6:30 PT). I saw a few scattered PSAs and 800 numbers in between the cereal and toy ads, which correlates to a plaster over the Chicago feed (but weren't they running morning news at that point locally?)

 

[Scott2013]

I may have to take my VCR/DVD recorder combo back to the repair shop tomorrow. A bad tape I got this weekend caused some playback issues with it, in which the picture would be replaced by static. I was able to fix the visual aspect of it by cleaning the heads, but the Hi-Fi stereo sound still doesn't work even after multiple head cleanings. Compared to the last issue I had with it a few months ago, this problem isn't as severe as the tape-eating problem it had before, so hopefully it won't cost nearly as much to have it fixed. The ultimate irony is I found the same make/model at one of the community yard sales in Seville yesterday selling for only $20 and didn't buy it because I didn't anticipate this happening.

At any rate, here's what I was able to look at thus far of my finds from this weekend.

North Royalton estate sale/barn sale--two keepers of eight tapes found, many more left behind
TAPE 1: Episode of The Sopranos taped from HBO on 6/6/2004; episode of Deadwood taped from HBO on 6/6/2004; end of an episode of Another World and start of an episode of The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour taped from WKYC in Cleveland in February 1984 with commercials. Scotch T-120.

TAPE 2: Episode of Prison Break taped from WJW in Cleveland on 3/20/2006 with commercials, very distorted and scrambled aerial signal, so unable to convert anything from that recording; partial broadcast of Voyage (USA made-for-TV movie), episode of MacGyver and partial episode of The Hitchhiker taped from USA on June 2-3, 1993 with commercials. Unknown brand T-120.


Seville yard sale #1--left two additional tapes behind because one was moldy and the other had a broken tape barrier
TAPE 3: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town taped from the Family Channel in December 1996 with commercials; A Christmas Carol (animated special) taped from the Family Channel in December 1996 with commercials; How the Grinch Stole Christmas taped from WBNX in Akron on 12/14/2001 with commercials. Unknown brand T-120.

TAPE 4: Both parts of Gulliver's Travels (NBC miniseries) taped from WKYC on February 4 and 5, 1996 with commercials. Not converting this one because the tape made some abnormal playback noises after rewinding it to the beginning. I already have both parts of this miniseries taped from KNBC in Los Angeles. Scotch T-120.


Seville yard sale #2--this one had the tape that caused my VCR problems, but the other one I got there was good
TAPE 5: Adventures in Babysitting (1987) taped from Showtime circa 1988; end of an episode of Scrabble and partial episode of Days of Our Lives taped from WKYC on 10/31/1988 with commercials; partial broadcast of High Plains Drifter (1973) taped from SuperStation TBS in October 1988 with commercials; episode of The A-Team taped from WWOR in Secaucus (was available on many cable systems throughout the eastern U.S. at that time) in July 1988 with commercials. ATL T-120.

Three additional tapes from another yard sale in Seville currently remain unsearched. One has the titles "Purple Hearts" and "Unfaithfully Yours" written on the label, one has "Siege of Firebase Gloria" written on the label and the third has "The Gallant Breed (USMC History)" written on the label and "North and South Book 2 2nd Tape" written on the case. Last thing I would need is for one of these tapes to cause my machine trouble after getting it fixed, assuming it can be fixed, I certainly hope.

Based on what I described earlier with the broken Hi-Fi stereo audio, if anyone happens to have an idea of how I can fix it, I would appreciate any information. I'm hoping I can get it manually cleaned by the folks at the repair shop again, which is something I would a bit scared to do myself not really knowing what I'd be doing. Wish me luck.

Bonus find from another sale in Seville--a Panasonic ReplayTV DVR. I was able to hook it up to my TV and DVD recorder, and it worked, but I couldn't access anything on it yet (assuming any recordings are on there) because no remote was included. I ordered one from eBay and am waiting on that.
For those unfamiliar with ReplayTV, here's some additional information.

ReplayTV - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[crainbebo]

Purchased 16 tapes from eBay this weekend out of Riverton, Wyoming. This is out in the middle of nowhere - 10,000 people live here and it's home to Central Wyoming College. And all of this footage seems to be from Wyoming, making it one of my rarest TV finds! However, nothing from NBC (KTWO) or ABC (KFNB/KFNE). Just KCWC and KGWL recordings exclusively. Wonder why...maybe they weren't able to get ABC very well over the air. These were antenna recordings. 10 keepers with 6 duds.

Tape 1 - All three parts of Black Fox taped off KGWL/CBS on 7/28, 8/4 and 8/11/1995 - latter two have commercials. Maxell GX T-120
Tape 2 - 'A Season of Hope' (1995) taped off KGWL/CBS on 1/8/1995 minus commercials; 48 Hours: Discipline: When Is It Too Much? taped off KGWL/CBS on 1/19/1995 with some commercials; Great Performances: Paddy Chayefsky's The Mother taped off unknown PBS (likely KCWC Riverton) in January or February 1995 with commercials; 'The Piano Lesson' (1995) taped off KGWL/CBS on 2/5/1995 with all Hallmark commercials, but the local break was paused out (%$&@!) Maxell T-120
Tape 3 - Episode of Small Business Today taped off KCWC/PBS circa April 1994; several episodes of Furniture on the Mend taped off KCWC/PBS in May 1994, a few with promos in between. Rare content from one of America's most-rural PBS stations. Memorex T-120
Tape 4 - How'd They Do That? episode taped off KGWL/CBS on 3/10/1993 with commercials; The British Royal Family in 1992: My Horrible Year? and Elizabeth R. taped off KCWC/PBS in March 1993 with promos; ends with one of Nature's 'Natures of Sex' episodes taped off KCWC/PBS in November 1993. Scotch T-120
Tape 5 - Mystery! episode (Campion), Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler and 11:05PM sign-off taped off KCWC/PBS on 12/19/1991 with promos; two more Campion episodes on Mystery! and two Inspector Alleyn 'Mystery!' episodes taped off KCWC/PBS without promos, circa December 1991-January 1992. Sony ES T-120
Tape 6 - Along the Oregon Trail with the Grizzlies taped off KCWC/PBS circa 1995; last few minutes of MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and Main Street, Wyoming taped off KCWC/PBS on 3/17/1995 with pledge breaks (Main Street Wyoming was locally-produced); A Celtic Celebration, Lawrence Welk special, a concert with The Eagles, Geronimo: The Final Campaign (with Will Rogers Jr.) and Green Gold: From the Maya to the Moon taped off KCWC/PBS in March and April 1995 (no promos). Maxell GX T-120
Tape 7 - 60 Minutes: The Entertainers taped off KGWL/CBS on 10/4/1991 minus commercials; 60 Minutes segment with Barbra Streisand taped 11/23/1991; Scared Silent with Oprah Winfrey taped off KCWC/PBS on 9/4/1992; 'The Shell Seekers' (1989) taped off KGWL/CBS on 1/31/1993 minus commercials; 60 Minutes segment with Whoopi Goldberg taped off KGWL/CBS in February 1993; State of the Union Address and first few minutes of In the Heat of the Night taped off KGWL/CBS on 2/17/1993 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 8 - Episode of How'd They Do That? taped off KGWL/CBS on 3/24/1993 with commercials, along with 48 Hours taped later that night (interview with President Clinton) with commercials and about 5 minutes of GWN News afterwards; America's Education Revolution taped off KCWC/PBS in April 1993; American Playhouse: Fires in the Mirror taped off KCWC/PBS on 4/28/1993. Scotch T-120
Tape 9 - Hard Copy, an early episode of Extra!, Christy, Northern Exposure and Under Suspicion taped off KGWL/CBS on 7/19/1995 with commercials; CBS Reports: Legacy of Shame and 48 Hours taped off KGWL/CBS on 7/20/1995 with commercials. Maxell T-120
Tape 10 - Several episodes of Under Suspicion taped off KGWL/CBS in the fall of 1994 minus commercials. This crime drama, set in Portland with a female lead detective, only lasted a season, so I am keeping this. Scotch T-120

Meanwhile, I am likely taking a break from sales this weekend. This is because of the record-breaking heatwave we're going into.
Ellensburg temperatures will be 104-108 over the next few days. Tuesday will be 108. I think our all-time record is 109. VERY close.
Yakima WILL see historic records broken, on the other hand. Even the National Weather Service is calling for 111 to 113 Monday and Tuesday. These temperatures have never been seen before in recorded history.
Tri-Cities will be very close to all-time records with consecutive days at 113F Mon to Tue.
Seattle forecast calls for 103F on Monday. Ties the all time record set on July 29th, 2009 (and I was around to witness it. It was miserable. Sticky, terrible, deep south-like heat. At least our heat is dry like Phoenix or Vegas.)

 

[Jman8606]

I know the feeling! It has been hot here! And I live in the deep south!

 

[pannoni1]

I've started to check out the eBay lot of tapes from Lilitz, PA (About 90 minutes west of Philadelphia). There was a reason why many of those lots sold well last year on eBay based on the content found here. More for the programs than the local content, but its a nice way to attract more soap traders as my individual finds for each head into the triple digits in terms of number of episodes. Seven out of eight keepers so far.

TAPE 1: Days Of Our Lives: One Stormy Night and the 1992 Soap Opera Awards off KYW/NBC on 1/10/1992 with most commercials. LP mode.

TAPE 2: Most of an episode of Days of our Lives off KYW/NBC on 11/23/1990 with most commercials, followed by a partial episode of Matlock off KYW/NBC on 11/27/90 with some commercials, then most of Marilyn: Something's Got To Give off WTAF/FOX on 12/13/1990 with commercials, then ending with a partial broadcast of the 1991 Soap Opera Awards off WGAL/NBC with some commercials. Also in LP throughout.

TAPE 3: Starts with clips from WGAL's Noon News, KYW's People are Talking, and A Current Affair from 1/27/1988 with a few commercials, followed by the last 30 minutes of some classic movie off WGBS with no commercials, then wraps up with Days of our Lives and about the first 15 minutes of Another World off WGAL/NBC on 1/27/1988 with commercials. The news portion is in LP, the movie clip in EP, and the soap portion in SP.

TAPE 4: Most of Vicki! and all of Days of our Lives off KYW/NBC on 11/2/1992 with most commercials, followed by the last few minutes of Quantum Leap from April 1992 off presumably either WGAL or KYW with a few commercials. SP mode.

TAPE 5: Part of Vicki from October 1993 off KYW with commercials (Featuring several veteran screen starlets), followed by about half of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation off WTAF circa May 1993 with some commercials, followed by the last 20 minutes or so of Beverly Hills 90210 off WTAF/FOX on 5/12/1993 with commercials, followed by part of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno from the Bull & Finch Pub in Boston to celebrate the Cheers finale, presumably off KYW on 5/20/1993 without commercials. SP mode.

TAPE 6: Beverly Hills 90210 off WPMT/FOX on 11/6/1995 with commercials, followed by another episode of 90210 from approximately the same time without commercials. SP mode.

TAPE 7: Starts with the Improvisation special from 1986 without commercials, then continues with the last three-fourths of another World and about the first ten minutes of Another World off WGAL/NBC with commercials, followed by the last 15 minutes of another episode of Another World from around October 1986 off WGAL/NBC with commercials, then finishes up with most of Days of our Lives, Another World, and two-thirds of Santa Barbara off WGAL/NBC with commercials. The Improv and first AW episode was in LP, the short AW clip in SP, and the largest block was in EP.

More to come tomorrow.

 

[pannoni1]

Continuing from yesterday:

TAPE 8: Starts with most of This Is Your Life (Roy Rogers), off AMC in March 1991 with some promos, followed by most of Quantum Leap off WGAL/NBC on 3/20/1991 with commercials, followed by most of an Elvis special and the first few minutes of Studs of WPHL in on 8/14/1991 with some commercials. LP mode.

TAPE 9: Most of Dinah Shore & Burt Reynolds: A Special Conversation off TNN on 7/10/1991 with commercials (Lancaster County PA inserts), followed by the last half of the NASCAR All Banquet Frozen Foods 300 (From Sonoma, CA, far from a place associated with the sport) off ESPN on 6/9/1991 w/commercials, then taped over by the last 40 minutes of the Martinsville 500 off ESPN on 4/28/91 with some commercials, then ending with about of 45 minutes of what was supposed to be the 1991 Atlanta 500 off WPVI/ABC with ads, but a rain delay forced ABC to present the last leg of the 1990 Atlanta 500, a few laps of an IndyCar race, as well as the ARCA 500K. All in EP mode except for the Atlanta segment, which was in SP.

TAPE 10: Begins with a couple home movies about a baby's first birthday, then cuts back into The Last Days of Elvis, starting about 45 minutes into the 2-hour show, followed by the first segment of The Howard Stern Show off E! on 9/23/1999 with commercials. SP mode, but unfortunately, the recorder's TV was having reception problems with the cable, meaning that the picture quality is somewhat snowy.

TAPE 11: Starts off with the last 25 minutes of the 1990 Soap Opera Awards off WGAL/NBC on 1/15/1990 with commercials, followed by most of Elvis Heart & Soul: The Untold Stories off TNN in January 1990 with a few commercials, followed by a clip of A Current Affair from early 1990 on assassination, then oddly, it jumps BACK to another 40 minutes of the 1990 Soap Opera Awards (no overlap with the prior segment) off WGAL/NBC with commercials. SP mode.

TAPE 12: Begins with a short clip of the Will Shriner Show circa July 1988, then continues with about a ten minutes of Santa Barbara from 7/29/1988 featuring the start of Keith and Gina's wedding with a few commercials (my brother's birthday BTW), followed by part of Hour Magazine off WGAL on 8/1/1988 (summer rerun) with commercials, then about half of Santa Barbara from the same day with commercials, wrapping up with another brief clip of Hour Magazine. EP mode. Too bad though since about 70% of the tape is blank.

TAPE 13: Starts with almost an hour of various clips from Days of our Lives from circa summer 1995 with no commercials, then approximately half of Another World from July 1995 off WGAL/NBC with commercials, then a little more than half of Days of our Lives, and O.J. Simpson trial update, and the first couple minutes of Another World off WGAL/NBC on 7/13/1995 with some commercials. SP mode.

TAPE 14: Starts with short clips from A Current Affair, The Joan Rivers Show, and Entertainment Tonight circa 1989, followed by an episode of Evening Magazine off KYW from 1989 with a few commercials, then jumps to part of the 1991 Golden Globe Awards without commercials, followed by part of the Exploring Psychic Powers special off WLYH/CBS from 6/7/1989 with a couple commercial breaks, followed by about two-thirds of Santa Barbara from 7/17/1989 off WGAL/NBC with commercials. Most is in EP mode except for the Golden Globe and Psychic Powers specials which were LP.

TAPE 15: Kicks off with the Days of our Lives primetime special episode Night Sings without commercials, followed by the 1993 Soap Opera Awards off KYW/NBC on 2/26/1993 with a few commercials, followed by Vicki! (Elvis tribune from Las Vegas) off KYW on 3/3/1993 with commercials and a partial EBS test following the show. The mostly scoped block is LP, with the Vicki! episode in EP.

TAPE 16: The Amish: Between Two Worlds off WITF circa May 1994 with a couple promos at the start, followed by episodes of Home Improvement and Grace Under Fire off WPVI/ABC on 5/11/1994 with commercials, two episodes of Are You Being Served Again? off WITF with a few promos in between the shows. EP mode.

TAPE 17: The Gambler Returns: The Luck of The Draw off KYW/NBC on 11/3 & 11/4/1991 with most commercials. LP mode.

TAPE 18: Great tape here! Begins with several clips of Hour Magazine featuring Elizabeth Taylor from 1987 (From four consecutive episodes, featuring some behind the scenes footage of her Passion fragrance media campaign), and then after about 15 minutes of a Western off HBO, it then jumps back OTA for the end of the WGAL Noon News, Wordplay (the next to last episode of this game show hosted by the late Tom Kennedy), Days of our Lives, Another World, and most of Santa Barbara off WGAL/NBC on 9/3/1987 with commercials. LP mode.

TAPE 19: Starts with a couple minutes of a family movie, followed by almost all of Days of our Lives from 7/23/1988 off WGAL/NBC with commercials, then the rest of the tape blank despite less than a fifth recorded on. I recently received the full episode (Steve & Kayla's wedding) in a trade, so this looks to head to the sell pile. EP mode.

TAPE 20: Most of the Tonight Show 25th Anniversary Special (missing the first ten minutes) off WGAL/NBC on 10/1/1987 with commercials, followed by 2 1/2 hours worth of coverage from the Iran-Contra Affair off WGAL/NBC with a few commercials. LP mode.

TAPE 21: Part People Are Talking (Philadelphia edition) off KYW circa May 1987 with commercials (guest: Deborah Presley), followed by most of Happy Birthday Hollywood off WHTM/ABC on 5/18/1987 w/commercials, and then rounding it out with Days of our Lives from 5/27/1987 off WGAL/NBC with commercials. EP mode, except for the DOOL episode which is in SP.

TAPE 22: Most of Dynasty from 5/15/1985 off WLYH/ABC with commercials, followed by most of Knots Landing off WHP/CBS with commercials, then a 20 minute B&W video of John Piersol McCaskey High School's graduation ceremony from 6/6/1985 (it's in the city of Lancaster, PA for those who don't know), followed by a partial broadcast of the American Bandstand 33 1/3 Anniversary Special from 12/1/1985 off WLYH/ABC with commercials. Considering the time remaining, I was hoping for a regular Saturday morning episode given that I've already got that special and there were high schoolers earlier in the tape instead of settling for their parent's music of the time, but 1985 content from a midsized market isn't easy to find either. SP mode for Dynasty, EP for Knots Landing, and LP for the graduation and partial special. You can definitely tell the noticeable tracking wear in some of the EP-recorded tapes compared to the smooth quality of the SP and LP ones.

In addition to several total duds, there were a few "near misses" including a couple minutes of promos of HBO in December 1981 including a seasonal ident (off a tape that featured Superman '78), as well as a couple commercial breaks off WPHL on 3/3/1989 between syndicated reruns of Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, with most of the tape being rental duds. Another "near miss" started with about a minute of Dinosaurs, followed by "The Woman Who Loved Elvis" off WHTM/ABC on 4/18/93 with only a couple commercials at the start, followed by about the first 20 minutes of Quantum Leap from 4/20/93 off WGAL/NBC with a few commercials. One dud featured a blue screen with "Laservision Side B" on it, indicating that it was copied off a LaserDisc, which I've never seen before. I've seen DVD to VHS dubs as I've previously indicated.

Still, a pretty decent haul with soaps, specials, talk shows, as well as a little auto racing, a hard to find game show, a mini-sitcom block, and even a side of news and local educational content. I've got those old stock Betas from Atlanta coming soon as tha heat wave comes our way.

 

[Scott2013]

No new tapes today or yesterday, but I did pick up a "new" VCR/DVD recorder dual unit at a garage sale earlier today. This one is a Sony RDR-VX555. It came with a remote, but apparently it doesn't work with this unit, which I didn't realize until after I got it home. The remote model number is RMT-D240A. Every time I would press a button on it, the words "DVD 2" would appear on the display at the front of the unit. Not sure what that's supposed to mean. I was able to test the overall playback functions of it without the remote, and it works well from what I've seen overall. Biggest con with this one is it plays SLP/mono audio recordings with very quiet audio compared to my Magnavox ZV427MG9. I saw at least one seller on eBay is selling replacement remotes for the RDR-VX555, but I'm not sure if those have the buttons needed to do VHS-to-DVD dubbing and to finalize recorded DVDs.

As for my Magnavox, I took it to the shop this past Monday. I called a couple of days ago regarding an estimate, and they said the VCR unit needs to be manually cleaned--not exactly a big surprise given the circumstances.
BUT according to someone I contacted on YouTube who also repairs electronics...
"The tape may have damaged the Hi-Fi head(s) on the rotating cylinder. You need a microscope to actually view the heads. You can do a visual inspection and see if a video/Hi-Fi head is damaged without a microscope."
Would a manual cleaning similar to what I see on many of these tutorial videos on YouTube fix that kind of damage?

 

[danderson6500]

I've started to check out the eBay lot of tapes from Lilitz, PA (About 90 minutes west of Philadelphia). There was a reason why many of those lots sold well last year on eBay based on the content found here. More for the programs than the local content, but its a nice way to attract more soap traders as my individual finds for each head into the triple digits in terms of number of episodes. Seven out of eight keepers so far.

TAPE 1: Days Of Our Lives: One Stormy Night and the 1992 Soap Opera Awards off KYW/NBC on 1/10/1992 with most commercials. LP mode.

TAPE 2: Most of an episode of Days of our Lives off KYW/NBC on 11/23/1990 with most commercials, followed by a partial episode of Matlock off KYW/NBC on 11/27/90 with some commercials, then most of Marilyn: Something's Got To Give off WTAF/FOX on 12/13/1990 with commercials, then ending with a partial broadcast of the 1991 Soap Opera Awards off WGAL/NBC with some commercials. Also in LP throughout.

TAPE 3: Starts with clips from WGAL's Noon News, KYW's People are Talking, and A Current Affair from 1/27/1988 with a few commercials, followed by the last 30 minutes of some classic movie off WGBS with no commercials, then wraps up with Days of our Lives and about the first 15 minutes of Another World off WGAL/NBC on 1/27/1988 with commercials. The news portion is in LP, the movie clip in EP, and the soap portion in SP.

TAPE 4: Most of Vicki! and all of Days of our Lives off KYW/NBC on 11/2/1992 with most commercials, followed by the last few minutes of Quantum Leap from April 1992 off presumably either WGAL or KYW with a few commercials. SP mode.

TAPE 5: Part of Vicki from October 1993 off KYW with commercials (Featuring several veteran screen starlets), followed by about half of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation off WTAF circa May 1993 with some commercials, followed by the last 20 minutes or so of Beverly Hills 90210 off WTAF/FOX on 5/12/1993 with commercials, followed by part of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno from the Bull & Finch Pub in Boston to celebrate the Cheers finale, presumably off KYW on 5/20/1993 without commercials. SP mode.

TAPE 6: Beverly Hills 90210 off WPMT/FOX on 11/6/1995 with commercials, followed by another episode of 90210 from approximately the same time without commercials. SP mode.

TAPE 7: Starts with the Improvisation special from 1986 without commercials, then continues with the last three-fourths of another World and about the first ten minutes of Another World off WGAL/NBC with commercials, followed by the last 15 minutes of another episode of Another World from around October 1986 off WGAL/NBC with commercials, then finishes up with most of Days of our Lives, Another World, and two-thirds of Santa Barbara off WGAL/NBC with commercials. The Improv and first AW episode was in LP, the short AW clip in SP, and the largest block was in EP.

More to come tomorrow.

The NASCAR race from California you mention, Ricky Rudd got a Black Flag for aggressive driving, when he was leading the race! NASCAR officials spotted a flagrant incident involving him and second-place driver Davey Allison. Rudd's tapping of Davey Allison at the White flag earned him a black-flag of 5 seconds added to his total time; enough to put Allison as the winner. I was watching that at the same time as some show that was airing on ABC, cant remember the show's name, but the race was on ESPN.

 

[crainbebo]

Well I broke my 'not going to sales' promise yesterday, and hit an estate sale SW of Ellensburg in the Manastash canyon. Temperature was still in the mid 80s when I got there, so I escaped the 100+ of yesterday afternoon (and the 105+ today, 109 tomorrow!) Dozens of tapes greeted me, and I picked up 15 (12 keepers). There were two boxes of tapes - they seemed to come from two different individuals based on the content and writing on the labels. Some really nice stuff here including a TV show that used to be a family tradition decades ago:

Tape 1 - 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' (1988) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; 'Blue Hawaii' (1961) taped off TBS on 8/10/1990 with commercials; 'Broken Arrow' (1950) taped off American Movie Classics on 8/14/1990 with promos
Tape 2 - 'The Yearling' (1946) taped off Showtime circa 1990; 'Dead End' (1937) taped off TNT on 8/16/1990 with commercials (TCI Seattle)
Tape 3 - 'Me, Myself & Irene' (2000), 10PM NWCN simulcast (entitled 'Northwest News Tonight') and part of 3rd Rock from the Sun taped off KCYU-LP/Fox on 5/21/2003 with commercials. Scotch T-160 in SP
Tape 4 - 'Touching the Void' (2003 documentary) taped off KYVE/PBS in late November 2004 with promos prior; nearly complete episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation taped off KIMA/CBS on Thanksgiving 2004 with commercials; episode of CSI: Miami taped off KIMA/CBS on 11/29/2004 with commercials; episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation taped off KIMA/CBS on 12/2/2004 with commercials (rerun of the 'Viva Las Vegas' episode from earlier that season); partial episode of The Late Late Show (guest host D.L. Hughley, during the interim period between Kilborn and Ferguson), 1:35AM sign-off (for maintenance), 5:30AM sign-on, Life Today with James Dobson and part of the CBS Morning News taped off KIMA/CBS early on 11/18/2004 with commercials. First time I have found a KIMA sign-on! Because the cable feed kept going overnight (apparently either this was taped OTA in Ellensburg on channel 51, or Charter's feed in Ellensburg didn't get the memo), the OTA signal just popped right in with the Aim High America SSB right before 5:30, no color bars or ID slide. Scotch T-160, which explains the sign-on recording (in the 8-hour EP mode).
Tape 5 - 'Night World' (1932) taped off American Movie Classics circa mid-1988; 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' (1949) taped off KSTW-11 on 10/6/1988 with commercials; 'Lethal Weapon' (1987) taped off unknown pay-TV channel. Quasar T-120
Tape 6 - Three episodes of Predators & Prey taped off The Discovery Channel in February 1994 with commercials. BASF T-130
Tape 7 - 'Psycho' (1960) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; 'Crocodile Dundee' (1986) taped off Showtime circa 1988; part of 'Travis McGee' (1983) taped off KSTW in June 1987 with commercials. Sony T-120
Tape 8 - 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' (1941) taped off TBS early on 11/4/1988 with commercials; 'Klute' (1971) taped off Showtime that same night with promos afterwards; 'Overboard' (1987) taped off unknown pay channel. Memorex HG T-120
Tape 9 - 'Father of the Bride' (1950), 'China Seas' (1935) and 'Red Dust' (1932) taped off TNT on 6/12/1990 with commercials. Kodak T-120
Tape 10 - Coverage of the 2001 Westminster Dog Show taped off USA Network in June 2001 with commercials (with some Dish Network-inserted ads as well). Sony T-120
Tape 11 - Broadcast of Music City Tonight (with George Jones) taped off TNN on 4/19/1994 with commercials (TCI Seattle inserts); In the Hank Williams Tradition taped off TNN on 5/11/1994 with commercials; George Jones & Friends Hall of Fame Special taped off TNN on 6/7/1994 with commercials; ends with an episode of Hee Haw taped off TNN in June 1994 with commercials (guests George Jones and Tammy Wynette!) My family watched Hee Haw every week in the '70s and '80s...it's a classic show. Fuji T-120
Tape 12 - 'Giant' (1956) and 'Rebel Without a Cause' (1955) taped off TBS on 10/14/1990 with commercials. BASF T-160