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Oldest Extant Off-Air VHS/Beta Tape You Have

Tape digitizing has been at a snail's pace lately because of multiple things, the #1 factor being substitute teaching several days a week. (BTW, I won't try to deal with middle/high school puberty and girl/boy drama, so I only sub in elementary schools.) But I have made some decent finds.
I went up to Ellensburg on September 23rd to sub for a librarian, where I taught the K-2 block. It was a lot of fun. This was a 1/2 day job, so I arrived early to visit with some friends from CWU and visit an apartment-wide yard sale where several storage units were open with collectibles, clothes, and more. One of those units had dozens of home-recorded VHS tapes and many retail tapes. Some of them were dusty and dirty. Some unexpected finds. Along with the dirty porno tape that I stumbled across with no box. Mmm...'Sticky Fingers', anyone? 😲 I let them put that tape in the dumpster!

Tape 1 - Too new, so sending to eBay... About 1/2 hour of the Seahawks Victory Parade celebration following Super Bowl XLVIII, taped from NWCN relaying KING-5; The Beatles: A Grammy Salute taped off KIMA-DT/CBS on 2/6/2014 with commercials; episode of Katie (Couric) taped off KNDO-DT2/SWX in February 2014 with few commercials; part of 'Pony Express' (1953) taped off Cinemax circa 1990 with no promos. Unmarked T-120
Tape 2 - Last several minutes of Birdz, Daytona 500 Pole Qualifying, and start of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am taped off KIMA/CBS on 2/6/1999 with commercials; about an hour of static follows; then cuts to part of the F-1 Grand Prix of Belgium and part of Sunday SportsWeekly taped off ESPN on 8/29/1993 with commercials (and local ads from King Videocable/Ellensburg). Panasonic T-120
Tape 3 - 'The Birdcage' (1996) taped off KAPP/ABC on 11/12/1998 with commercials; part of Dean Koontz's Intensity (part 2) taped off KCYU-LP/Fox on 8/6/1997 with commercials; partial broadcast of WCW Pro Wrestling and two episodes of America's Funniest Home Videos taped off TBS on 7/20/1997 with commercials. Sony T-120
Tape 4 - Nice tape from an unexpected TV market. Episode of Wild America taped off KAET-8 Phoenix/PBS circa June 1989; Steve Benson on a Spit (locally-produced roast of the Arizona Republic editorial cartoonist) taped off KAET-8 on 6/6/1989 with promos; part of 'Will Penny' (1968) taped off KPHO-5 on 5/21/1989 with commercials; brief clip of What's Happening!! taped off KUTP-45 in March 1989 with a couple of commercials; multiple short clips of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and Captain Power follow; partial episode of Hollywood Squares (John Davidson) taped off KTSP-10 in March 1989 with commercials...my first find from this version of 'the Squares'!; Fair Game taped off KTVK-3 on 3/18/1989 with commercials...a Young People's Special, a cheap version of the ABC Afterschool Special sold to syndication - also includes most of America's Top 10 (my first episode!); part of 'Amadeus' (1984) and Headline News taped off KUTP-45 on 2/28/1989 with commercials. Scotch EG T-120
Tape 5 - 'Rain Man' (1988) and part of Northwest Weekend taped off KAPP/ABC on 8/20/1994 with commercials; coverage of the World Figure Skating Exhibition of Champions taped off ESPN in November 1994 minus commercials; 100 Years of the Hollywood Western taped off KNDO/NBC on 11/25/1994 with few commercials left in (already have this). TDK T-120
Tape 6 - Also too new to keep...two episodes of The Big Bang Theory taped off TBS on 12/18/2014 with commercials, followed by a channel flip to KIMA-DT/CBS for Elementary with commercials, and there's a little bit of Action News at the end with Terry Chick; ends with part of another Big Bang Theory repeat taped off KIMA-DT in December 2014 with a few commercials (still airs at 7 weeknights to this day). Disappointing as this tape had the '98 Indy 500 and other races originally recorded on it. BASF T-130
Tape 7 - End of Frugal Gourmet and National Geographic On Assignment (on grizzly bears) taped off KAET/PBS circa January 1990 with pledge breaks; Sammy Davis Jr.'s 60th Anniversary Celebration taped off KTVK/ABC on 2/4/1990 with commercials; cuts to an episode of Are You Being Served?, Great Railway Journeys of the West, and part of Eyes on the Prize taped off KAET/PBS circa March 1990 with a few promos. Scotch T-120

The next day (9/24), I found a few more tapes locally. One in Moxee at an estate sale and two more off Ahtanum Rd at a huge yard sale.

Moxee
Tape 8 - 'Grumpy Old Men' (1993) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; part of Perry Mason taped off TBS on 1/9/1996 with commercials; part of another Perry Mason taped off TBS on 1/10/1996 with commercials. TDK T-120

Ahtanum Rd sale
Tape 9 - 'The Ten Commandments' (1956) taped off KAPP/ABC on 4/9/1995 with commercials. Unknown brand T-120
Tape 10 - 'Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story' (1995) taped off KIMA/CBS on 1/22/1995 with commercials; most of a broadcast of Day One taped off KAPP/ABC in June 1995 with commercials; The Lawrence Welk Show: Then and Now taped off KYVE/PBS in June 1995 (pledge breaks taken out); 'Keeping Secrets' (1991) taped off KAPP/ABC on 6/11/1995 with commercials; ends with part of the Carquest Bowl taped off KIMA/CBS on 1/2/1995 with commercials. Sony T-120
 
Going through my latest finds has been a very slow process as well. The last sales I had been to were the Hinckley community garage sales the weekend after Labor Day, where I found even more tapes to check out on top of the ones I still haven't gotten around to. One of the tapes I got from one of the sales in Hinckley had some X-rated content of it as well. Found a homemade sex video at the beginning of an unmarked tape before it reverted to various TV recordings, one of them being an XFL game on NBC (presumably WKYC) from 2001. It's a TDK T-160 in SLP mode, so who knows how much more content is on it. I've only gotten about halfway through the XFL recording on this one thus far. A second tape from that same sale was labeled "The Wedding Planner." Let's hope there's no XXX content on this one.

Two more sales in Hinckley netted 20 more tapes (10 from each sale), at least three of them were marked "Discovery Channel." One of the tapes from the second sale was a C-band satellite wildfeed of PBS (or at least so says the slates on the color bars in between the shows) of a couple of instructional videos on computers from around 1995.

From one of the sales in Litchfield in July, I broke my personal record for the most recent VHS recordings I've found. One tape had a broadcast of Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson taped from WKEF in Dayton the Sunday before the 2020 election (I noticed a Trump campaign sign still in this family's garage during the sale, so this find wasn't exactly a surprise), followed by five episodes of The Fugitive on MeTV (WHIO-DT2 in Dayton) taped in the summer of 2020. Found some better content on other tapes from the same sale as well, including some motocross races on ESPN2, a couple of episodes of Behind the Music, Jay Leno's tribute to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show in 2005 and several episodes of American Idol (from Carrie Underwood and Taylor Hicks' seasons, including the 2006 finale).

I'll see how soon I can break down my findings on these tapes in more detail. It's becoming more and more difficult for me to find time to devote to these things.
 
That's something I hope I never find on a tape, a home video of a couple doing the (whatever) in the bed. I guess these people never checked their tapes before putting them out for sale!
More videos should be posted this week to Internet Archive. I've had back-to-back full-day sub jobs this week. Another one on Friday, too.
 
Just got another lot of VHS tapes from a seller in North NJ. Despite the seller's proximity to NYC, the majority of all my finds from broadcast TV were from out-of-market recordings (namely DC, Philly, south central PA, Baltimore and even my first find from the small Hagerstown, MD market. Recordings ranged from 1983 to 2011, with nothing kept after 2001 due to either being too common or recent, including some CNBC content from the mid-to late 2000s as well (not the best decade on Wall Street), a Franki Valli and the 4 Seasons concert off NJN/PBS circa 2003, and even a tape of VH1 Classic circa 2002 with no commercials with mostly R.E.M. videos. A tape recorded on 8/5/2002 had an evening block of recordings ranging from a WPVI newscast, World News Tonight, as well as summer reruns of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, but due to Marion Stokes and original broadcast copies of the game shows, I've passed on that as well. I also passed a recording of five hours of 9/11 footage off of WABC, since that's already on the Internet Archive. Scattered duds as well from the usual mix of cable/rental copies and a couple tapes with family movies or adult content, but nearly everything taped off of TV had the commercials intact. More notably, this search contained my first ever recording of a video game being played. A mix of SP and EP, with very little recorded in LP. Here's what I picked up this time (all with ads as mentioned unless otherwise):

TAPE 1: The pilot episode to Rugrats: All Growed (Grown) Up off Nickelodeon from 7/21/2001 with commercials. Yes, its Silver Age Nick and I had literally all grown up from the network by this point, but at least its pre-Spongebob Movie which I'll still pass on.

TAPE 2: Most of Port Charles, followed by episodes of All My Children, One Life To Live, General Hospital, Oprah, and about half of the WABC 5 PM News from 1/13/2000, followed by half of the WABC 5 and 6 PM News from 12/8/1999. I really miss pre-9/11 NYC!

TAPE 3: Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, Philly After Midnight, and part of the overnight rerun of Oprah off WPVI from November 1999, followed by part of a movie along with several minutes of promos of HBO around the same time, followed by coverage of the 125th Kentucky Derby and the WPVI 6 PM News rom 5/1/1999. I don't think Ms. Stokes' archives included that nightlife showcase.

TAPE 4: Begins with a Cher concert, then features an episode of Farscape and the first 10 minutes of Sliders of Sci-Fi in May 1999.

TAPE 5: Five hours of footage of the funeral of Princess Diana ogg WCAU/NBC on 9/6/1997, with commercials present during the final hour, ending with the opening with Saved By The Bell: The New Class (too bad, but at least I found a consolation prize later in this hunt). It seems like Di's reputation hasn't aged well compared to others in the Royal family, especially compared to the late Queen Elizabeth II's funeral which felt much more redeeming amid the sorrow.

TAPE 6: A concert of The Bee Gees from Las Vegas (taped 11/14/1998) off HBO from shortly afterward the taping, with about five minutes of promos after the concert

TAPE 7: All recorded off WABC on this tape, it starts with the General Hospital 35th Anniversary Special from 4/2/1998, followed by an April 1997 30-minute edited "A Daytime To Remember" broadcast of an episode of One Life To Live from March 6, 1979, then it continues with Oprah and about half of the WABC 5 O'Clock news from 4/30/1997, then it wraps up with about half of ABC's 20/20 from 4/25/1997.

TAPES 8 AND 9: I've found an episode of St. Elsewhere off PBS before, but this is my only other post-1960s find of a network show airing on PBS circa spring 1994. This was taped off WITF (the PBS affiliate for the Harrisburg-York-Lancaster area). Each tape consists of six episodes of I'll Fly Away, originally broadcast on NBC. One tape features many pledge breaks, another features some promos, while both feature some interviews and behind the scenes segments of the series.

TAPES 10-12: The first 18 episodes of NYPD Blue (essentially the entire first season except for the final four episodes), with six episodes on each tape off WJLA/ABC from September 1993 to March 1994. One tape features portions of WJLA 11 PM Newscasts.

TAPE 13: Great tape! (A T-160 recorded in EP mode). Starts with the series finale of Homefront off WJLA/ABC on 4/26/1993, then continues with Cheers from 4/29/1993 off WGAL/NBC, followed by the Quantum Leap finale from 5/5/1993 off WGAL/NBC, then episodes of Cheers from 5/6/93 (a 1 hour show) and 5/13/93 off WGAL/NBC, then wraps up with a one-hour Seinfeld episode (the Season 4 finale for that show), the entire Cheers finale including the pre-show, and the WGAL 11 PM News from 5/20/1993. I've found portions of the finale off KNDU and a certain large market affiliate that I can't recall, but to have not just a newscast following afterwards but a Seinfeld lead-in along with the three preceding episodes to the Cheers finale is gravy here.

TAPE 14: Two episodes of Baseball: When It Still Was A Game (orginally airing on HBO) off WHTM from 7/3 and 7/4/1993, followed by an episode of Roggin's Heroes taped in January 1993 (show #159 according to a production bumper present during one of the commercials), followed by a portion of the WHTM afternoon movie.

TAPE 15: Starts with a KD Lang concert of VH1 circa 1994, followed by a rebroadcast of Michael Jackson: Live and Dangerous (originally aired in August 1992) off MTV from March 1993 with some commercials

TAPE 16: Starts with about 20 minutes of the Montel Williams Show off WRC from 2/8/193, followed by Danielle Steele's Heartbeat off WRC/NBC from the same day, then an episode of Home Improvement and Michael Jackson's special interview with Oprah Winfrey off WJLA on 2/10/1993.

TAPE 17: Starts with an episode of Great Performances off WITF circa 1993 with promos after the concert, followed by most of an episode of A&E: On Stage featuring The Righteous Brothers from 1993 with some commercials, followed by a 10-minute clip of Donahue off WUSA from 1993 with a few commercials
 
TAPE 18: Begins with a brief clip of Entertainment Tonight from late 1992 or early 1993 featuring the voice actors (speaking and singing) of Disney's Aladdin, followed by I'll Fly Away off WRC/NBC from 2/5/1993, followed by Homefront from 12/17/1992 off WJLA/ABC, then more episodes of I'll Fly Away off WRC/NBC from 12/18/1992 and 1/8/1993, then it continues with about the last 25 minutes of the NBC Movie Deadly Matrimony from 11/23/1992 off WGAL, followed by another episode of Homefront and about three-quarters of ABC News Primetime Live off WHTF from 11/12/1992.



TAPE 19: Starts off with Bradymania: A very Brady Special off WJLA/ABC on 5/5/1993, followed by the Saved By The Bell graduation special off WGAL/NBC on 5/22/1993, followed by most of Santa Barbara off WHAG/NBC on 12/5 or 12/6/1991, then approximately the last half of another episode of Santa Barbara and the first half of Days of our Lives off WRC/NBC on 12/3/1991, then it wraps up with most of Another World from 12/4/1991 off WRC/NBC.



TAPE 20: The Perfect Tribute, the ABC Sunday Movie off WJLA on 4/21/1991, followed by The Last Godfather: The John Gotti Story off WTTG/FOX on 5/9/1992.



TAPE 21: Billy Joel's 1990 concert at Yankee Stadium, taped off The Disney Channel in April 1991 with about 13 minutes of promos afterward, including part of the spring preview. This was from a free preview weekend.



TAPE 22: The Johnny Mathis: Chances Are concert off WITF/PBS from 3/2/1991 with some pledge breaks



TAPE 23: Starts with a clip from a concert of The Bangles off an unknown station, followed by most of The Morning After (1986) off WUSA/CBS on 4/2/1989, along with part of the WUSA late news that ends during the weather segment.



TAPE 24: Consists of two episodes each of the short-lived sitcom Goodnight Beantown, Spenser For Hire, and the Days and Nights of Molly Dodd off Lifetime between 1/23/1989 and 1/30/1989, followed by about a half hour's worth of footage of someone playing Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. Molly Dodd would later get uncancelled for new shows later in 1989 on lifetime, while Goodnight Beantown has very rarely, if ever been seen on the air since.



TAPE 25: Tropica: Rock: A Hot Night in Ibiza concert followed by Fannie Hill (1970) off Showtime on 11/26/1988, with promos between the features. The color contrast is rather dark unfortunately.



TAPE 26: An hour and half worth of footage from the 1988 Democratic Convention off WNBC (commercial-free) from August 1988, followed by the second 1988 Presidential debate off WCBS on 10/13/1988 with some commercials towards the end. I've already got the later debate off NBC, but the commercials of course are different.



TAPE 27: March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) off WPIX on 12/21/1987 (amazingly with an ad for the Sega Master System despite the movie's vintage; only around Christmas to satisfy those grandkids), followed by episodes of ALF off WNBC on 1/4, 1/11, 1/25, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22, 3/7, 3/14, and 3/21/1988. A lot of the closings are incomplete, but once again thanks to DVD butchering, these are nice finds.



TAPE 28: Starts with a 15-minute clip from ABC's Wide World of Sports off WJZ on 3/7/1992 featuring the Santa Anita Handicap, followed by most of the 4th annual Breeder's Cup (begins right as the first race takes off) off WGAL/NBC on 11/21/1987, followed by various footage from the three Triple Crown horse racing events from 1988 off WHTM/ABC. The Kentucky Derby and Preakness have only one commercial break with several breaks scoped, while the Belmont Stakes footage is unscored and includes the full call to arms, loading, race, replay, winner's ceremony, and closing, along with the first few minutes of the WHTM 6 PM News.



TAPE 29: Paul Simon's Graceland concert recorded off Showtime in June 1987 with no promos, followed by the last 30 minutes of Queenie and the first five minutes of the WUSA 11 PM News from 5/11/1987 with a couple commercial breaks.



TAPE 30: Starts with most of an episode of The Howard Stern Show off WWOR in April 1992, followed by part of ALF and all of Amazing Stories off WNBC on 2/16/1987, followed by more episodes of ALF from 3/2, 3/23, 4/6, and 4/13/1987 off WNBC. I've already found a couple of those ALF episodes off KPNX that I found in a 2019 lot, along with that WJAR Amazing Stories recording from that episode from that 2015 mega-lot featuring Beatles and Beatle-related recordings.



TAPE 31: Most of the first season of Fraggle Rock recorded off HBO in 1983, with a few sweepstakes plugs after a few episodes. Very few promos, but its always neat finding the first major kids' series to air on a pay-TV network, back when Saturday Morning cartoons ruled and Nickelodeon was in its infancy.



TAPE 32: Starts with a various movie off a pay TV channel that I can't recall, then it cuts to about the last 13 minutes of All My Children, One Life To Live, and the first 15 minutes of General Hospital off WABC on 7/1/1986, followed by most of another episode of General Hospital off WABC from the week of 2/24/1986. Always nice finding those soaps, but I've always wondered if anyone in WHTM-land recorded OLTL in particular seeing those closing credits.



TAPE 33: Starts with Mr. Mom (1983) along with several minutes of promos and part of the special And If I'm Elected off HBO from August 1984, then it cuts to most of One Life To Live (missing the first 10 minutes) and the first nine minutes of General Hospital off WNBC on 7/20/1984.



Next up is another ebay lot from a seller named e-wastemanagement. The description mentions that the seller acquired these tapes from a TV and radio engineer's home. I negotiated a bit since the lot I was interested in had seven U-Matic tapes in the mix. I still don't have a U-Matic player, but based on the labels, outside of what appears to be a 1987 episode of an Oklahoma City apartment showcase, the other U-Matics didn't look to interesting. The description also says "Beta", but the other remaining tapes are actually VHS, with the T-120 on the labels being obvious. Based on the labels, there's a ton of interesting content from the 1988-89 season, including Moonlighting, thirtysomething, It's Gary Shandling, Tracey Ulman Show, an early episode of Roseanne, CBS' West 57th Newsmagazine, Hooperman, The Wonder Years, the Claymation Christmas Special, Geraldo, 20/20, Anything But Love, CBS 48 Hours, CBS Sunday Morning, and more. Interestingly, the seller's store name is "YouTubeCelebrity", but I can't recall seeing any of these tapes on YT. A number of other lots with quite a number of news shows, most from the mid-to late 1980s according to the labels, are up for sale. Hopefully they will contain commercials based on the amount of content present, which is almost certainly going to be in EP.
 
Homefront and the Saved By The Bell Special are the obvious gems of those tapes for me.

Homefront does exist online with the complete series on Archive, but the quality is TERRIBLE and is from later Lifetime reairings (and the show has never been reaired in HD or released digitally or on DVD). Season 1 is a bit better quality (and must have come from a master recording with commercials edited as the closings were there with the audio promos for Nightline) than Season 2 which looks like a 20 year old small sized Real Video Player file if anyone remembers that long ago forgotten codec.

I've never seen the Saved By the Bell Special anywhere online or even on private torrent trackers that specialize in TV content.
 
Great find on the Saved by the Bell special. Especially since Screech is no longer with us. I was able to upload about 30 videos to Archive yesterday, but nothing more...probably not 'til tomorrow afternoon (I'm up in Ellensburg subbing later).
 
The hits just keep on coming with that aforementioned lot above. Despite the seller's Little Rock location and the U-Matic that featured an apartment showcase for Oklahoma City, the finds come from the other side down I-40 from Nashville unless as described, with all commercials, when present, intact.

Tape 1: Episodes of It's Gary Shandling and The Tracey Ullman Show off WCAY/FOX on 12/18/1988 (one year before The Simpsons own Christmas special), followed by Brian Boitano: Canvas of Ice off WKRN/ABC from 12/19/1988, then the Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special off WTVF/CBS on 12/21/1988, followed by the MST3K-worthy presentation of Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961) off WCAY on 1/2/1989 (presumably, since there's a sale for New Years and there's no Christmas-themed commercials as WCAY carried New Years Eve/Day bowl games), followed by episodes of The Wonder Years and Hooperman off WKRN/ABC on 1/4/1989, both being repeats of episodes from the previous season as the after-effects of the Writers' Strike were still being felt.

Tape 2: Starts with The Mind: Thinking and a Mexico documentary off WDCN/PBS on 11/30/1988 with promos between the programs, followed by a repeat of the 1987 Muppets Christmas Special off WTFV/CBS on 12/2/1988, then an ABC News Burning Questions special Diet of Junk off WKRN on 12/29/1988, then 60 Minutes off WTFV/CBS on New Year's Day 1989, then the tape wraps up with West 57th and about the first ten minutes of the WTFV 10 PM News from 12/3/1988. The PBS shows unfortunately had less than-adequate quality with a lot of contrast loss with doubling chyron text when present, so I'll probably pass on that part of the recording.

Tape 3: The WCAY Prime Time Movie "1984" from 12/1/1988, followed by the Star Trek Saga: From One Generation To The Next special off WCAY from early December 1988 (I've already got this special), followed by episodes of Roseanne (my earliest first-run find) and the fifth season premiere of Moonlighting off WKRN/ABC on 12/6/1988.

Tape 4: Begins with another episode of West 57th off WTFV/CBS on 12/17/1988, then the Moscow Circus Special off WKRN/ABC from 12/18/1988, the last 30 minutes of CBS Sunday Morning off WTFV from that same day, then a repeat of the 1987 Claymation Christmas Special off WFTV/CBS on 12/23/1988, then a special encore presentation of the two-hour Moonlighting series premiere off WKRN/ABC on 12/27/1988, then it wraps up with most of Geraldo from 1/9/1989 off WKRN. I've already got a portion of that CBS "yuppie" newsmagazine episode, but this is a nice upgrade.

Tape 5: The 1-hour documentary "When Hair Came To Memphis", produced by WMC in Memphis about the 1970 concert of the musical. This was taken from the master copy with the colored bars at start, and thus there are no commercials. This special is found in the Paley Center's collection, but isn't found online in video form.

Tape 6: Desiree (1954) and Cannery Row (1982) off WCAY on 12/14/1988, followed by episodes of The Wonder Years from 12/7, 12/14, and 12/28/1988 off WKRN/ABC, with an episode of Hooperman tacked on to the 12/14 portion following The Wonder Years along with the first half of Hooperman following the 12/28 episode, which was a rerun of the series premiere. Speaking of which, the 2021- version isn't bad, but it just isn't quite the same as the original!

Tape 7: A Vision Shared: A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly off WDCN/PBS on 12/9/1988, followed by episodes of thirtysomething on 12/13 and 12/20/1988, as well as 1/3 and 1/10/1989 off WKRN/ABC, then it jumps ahead to The Wonder Years off WKRN/ABC on 10/11/1989, then jumps back for the first ten minutes of President Reagan's farewell address off WKRN/ABC on 1/11/1989.

Tape 8: Kicks off with The Who concert from the Universal Ampitheater in LA off WCAY/FOX on 9/13/1989, followed by the Firing Line Special Debate about how free market competitiveness is best for America off WDCN/PBS from the same evening, then followed by the ABC News special Survival Stories: Down and Out off WKRN on 9/14/1989,

Tape 9: Opens with the ABC Special Movie presentation of Scarface as well as the first several minutes of the WKRN 10 PM News from 1/7/1989, followed by a complete episode of CBS Sunday Morning off WFTV from the next morning, then an episode of 48 Hours off WFTV/CBS from 1/12/1989, then wraps up with the Cathy Valentine's Day special off WFTV/CBS on 2/10/1989 (no, not about the Go-Go). It's always great to find more real-world footage inside of a high school during the "Gen X era" since I always envisioned growing up what high school would really be like.

Tape 10: The Saturday Night Live 15th Anniversary special off WSMV/NBC on 9/24/1989 (I've found this three times previously, originally off WBZ in 2015), followed by the premiere of Free Spirit off WKRN/ABC from the same night (I've got a copy of this off WXYZ from a trade), then Geraldo off WKRN on 9/25/1989, then episodes of Roseanne, Chicken Soup, and most of the Barbara Walters Special off WKRN/ABC on 9/26/1989. This is my first find of yet another of the many short-lived sitcom flops of the 1989 fall season.

Tape 11: Full coverage from day one of the Republican National Convention off WTFV/CBS on 8/15/1988, followed by The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and the opening to the Late Show with Ross Shaefer off WCAY on 8/17/1988.

Tape 12: An episode of Austin City Limits as well as The Seven Samurai (1954) off WDCN/PBS on 5/6/1989 with promos between the programs, followed by episodes of It's Garry Shandling's Show and the Tracey Ullman Show off WCAY/FOX on 5/7/1989, then The Wonder Years and the first few minutes of War and Remembrance off WKRN/ABC on 5/9/1989.

Tape 13: Six episodes of thirtysomething off WKRN/ABC from 1988: 7/26, 8/2, 8/9, 8/23, 9/6, and 12/6. All are repeats except for the last episode in this set.

Tape 14: Excellence in the Public Sector with Tom Peter off WDCN/PBS on 8/29/1989 (no promos), followed by the NBC News special Bad Girls off WSMV on 8/30/1989, followed by the cartoon special Houndtown off WSMV/NBC, then an episode of COPS off WCAY/FOX on 9/2/1989, followed by the Faerie Tale Theatre presentation of Frog and Toad (the 1985 cartoon) off WDCN/PBS on 9/3/1989.

Three tapes were duds, two with three movies on from HBO/Showtime without promos, and the other being a heartbreaker in that the tape quality (A Wal-Mart T-120) was too loose for the VCR to properly play back without a buzzing sound quality, which is a shame since the tape opens with the 1981 Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park concert off WDCN in March 1989, followed by episodes of The Wonder Years, Anything But Love, thirtysomething, Hooperman, China Beach, and part of the WKRN 10 PM News from 3/7 and 3/8/1989. A bit pricey at around $3 each for those considering to make an offer with both the item and shipping, but still a lot great late '80s Nashville TV (with that Tracey Ullman show probably the most "country"-themed thing that I found despite the location, since even that ACL episode features the electric guitar).

That's all for awhile as I'm looking to sell some of my lots over the next couple weeks, and I've been more busy with traders lately.
 
Nice to find rare stuff from WCAY (now WUXP) when they were Fox in its newborn days. WZTV took over in 1990 and has had FOX ever since.
I have (and previously uploaded) the series premiere of Chicken Soup with Jackie Mason. It lasted 8 episodes, then yanked from the airwaves.
Pretty sure a lot of those national news specials and 48 Hours, 60 Minutes, etc. are available in the Vanderbilt archives FROM Nashville stations. It's so nice to see a lot of that footage being archived and uploaded for the general public now.

If I can get these next couple of lots sold, I'm interested in some smaller VHS lots from rural MN and U.P. MI that are on eBay right now.
 
pannoni1 said:
The hits just keep on coming with that aforementioned lot above. Despite the seller's Little Rock location and the U-Matic that featured an apartment showcase for Oklahoma City, the finds come from the other side down I-40 from Nashville unless as described, with all commercials, when present, intact.

Tape 1: Episodes of It's Gary Shandling and The Tracey Ullman Show off WCAY/FOX on 12/18/1988 (one year before The Simpsons own Christmas special), followed by Brian Boitano: Canvas of Ice off WKRN/ABC from 12/19/1988, then the Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special off WTVF/CBS on 12/21/1988, followed by the MST3K-worthy presentation of Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961) off WCAY on 1/2/1989 (presumably, since there's a sale for New Years and there's no Christmas-themed commercials as WCAY carried New Years Eve/Day bowl games), followed by episodes of The Wonder Years and Hooperman off WKRN/ABC on 1/4/1989, both being repeats of episodes from the previous season as the after-effects of the Writers' Strike were still being felt.

Tape 2: Starts with The Mind: Thinking and a Mexico documentary off WDCN/PBS on 11/30/1988 with promos between the programs, followed by a repeat of the 1987 Muppets Christmas Special off WTFV/CBS on 12/2/1988, then an ABC News Burning Questions special Diet of Junk off WKRN on 12/29/1988, then 60 Minutes off WTFV/CBS on New Year's Day 1989, then the tape wraps up with West 57th and about the first ten minutes of the WTFV 10 PM News from 12/3/1988. The PBS shows unfortunately had less than-adequate quality with a lot of contrast loss with doubling chyron text when present, so I'll probably pass on that part of the recording.

Tape 3: The WCAY Prime Time Movie "1984" from 12/1/1988, followed by the Star Trek Saga: From One Generation To The Next special off WCAY from early December 1988 (I've already got this special), followed by episodes of Roseanne (my earliest first-run find) and the fifth season premiere of Moonlighting off WKRN/ABC on 12/6/1988.

Tape 4: Begins with another episode of West 57th off WTFV/CBS on 12/17/1988, then the Moscow Circus Special off WKRN/ABC from 12/18/1988, the last 30 minutes of CBS Sunday Morning off WTFV from that same day, then a repeat of the 1987 Claymation Christmas Special off WFTV/CBS on 12/23/1988, then a special encore presentation of the two-hour Moonlighting series premiere off WKRN/ABC on 12/27/1988, then it wraps up with most of Geraldo from 1/9/1989 off WKRN. I've already got a portion of that CBS "yuppie" newsmagazine episode, but this is a nice upgrade.

Tape 5: The 1-hour documentary "When Hair Came To Memphis", produced by WMC in Memphis about the 1970 concert of the musical. This was taken from the master copy with the colored bars at start, and thus there are no commercials. This special is found in the Paley Center's collection, but isn't found online in video form.

Tape 6: Desiree (1954) and Cannery Row (1982) off WCAY on 12/14/1988, followed by episodes of The Wonder Years from 12/7, 12/14, and 12/28/1988 off WKRN/ABC, with an episode of Hooperman tacked on to the 12/14 portion following The Wonder Years along with the first half of Hooperman following the 12/28 episode, which was a rerun of the series premiere. Speaking of which, the 2021- version isn't bad, but it just isn't quite the same as the original!

Tape 7: A Vision Shared: A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly off WDCN/PBS on 12/9/1988, followed by episodes of thirtysomething on 12/13 and 12/20/1988, as well as 1/3 and 1/10/1989 off WKRN/ABC, then it jumps ahead to The Wonder Years off WKRN/ABC on 10/11/1989, then jumps back for the first ten minutes of President Reagan's farewell address off WKRN/ABC on 1/11/1989.

Tape 8: Kicks off with The Who concert from the Universal Ampitheater in LA off WCAY/FOX on 9/13/1989, followed by the Firing Line Special Debate about how free market competitiveness is best for America off WDCN/PBS from the same evening, then followed by the ABC News special Survival Stories: Down and Out off WKRN on 9/14/1989,

Tape 9: Opens with the ABC Special Movie presentation of Scarface as well as the first several minutes of the WKRN 10 PM News from 1/7/1989, followed by a complete episode of CBS Sunday Morning off WFTV from the next morning, then an episode of 48 Hours off WFTV/CBS from 1/12/1989, then wraps up with the Cathy Valentine's Day special off WFTV/CBS on 2/10/1989 (no, not about the Go-Go). It's always great to find more real-world footage inside of a high school during the "Gen X era" since I always envisioned growing up what high school would really be like.

Tape 10: The Saturday Night Live 15th Anniversary special off WSMV/NBC on 9/24/1989 (I've found this three times previously, originally off WBZ in 2015), followed by the premiere of Free Spirit off WKRN/ABC from the same night (I've got a copy of this off WXYZ from a trade), then Geraldo off WKRN on 9/25/1989, then episodes of Roseanne, Chicken Soup, and most of the Barbara Walters Special off WKRN/ABC on 9/26/1989. This is my first find of yet another of the many short-lived sitcom flops of the 1989 fall season.

Tape 11: Full coverage from day one of the Republican National Convention off WTFV/CBS on 8/15/1988, followed by The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and the opening to the Late Show with Ross Shaefer off WCAY on 8/17/1988.

Tape 12: An episode of Austin City Limits as well as The Seven Samurai (1954) off WDCN/PBS on 5/6/1989 with promos between the programs, followed by episodes of It's Garry Shandling's Show and the Tracey Ullman Show off WCAY/FOX on 5/7/1989, then The Wonder Years and the first few minutes of War and Remembrance off WKRN/ABC on 5/9/1989.

Tape 13: Six episodes of thirtysomething off WKRN/ABC from 1988: 7/26, 8/2, 8/9, 8/23, 9/6, and 12/6. All are repeats except for the last episode in this set.

Tape 14: Excellence in the Public Sector with Tom Peter off WDCN/PBS on 8/29/1989 (no promos), followed by the NBC News special Bad Girls off WSMV on 8/30/1989, followed by the cartoon special Houndtown off WSMV/NBC, then an episode of COPS off WCAY/FOX on 9/2/1989, followed by the Faerie Tale Theatre presentation of Frog and Toad (the 1985 cartoon) off WDCN/PBS on 9/3/1989.

Three tapes were duds, two with three movies on from HBO/Showtime without promos, and the other being a heartbreaker in that the tape quality (A Wal-Mart T-120) was too loose for the VCR to properly play back without a buzzing sound quality, which is a shame since the tape opens with the 1981 Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park concert off WDCN in March 1989, followed by episodes of The Wonder Years, Anything But Love, thirtysomething, Hooperman, China Beach, and part of the WKRN 10 PM News from 3/7 and 3/8/1989. A bit pricey at around $3 each for those considering to make an offer with both the item and shipping, but still a lot great late '80s Nashville TV (with that Tracey Ullman show probably the most "country"-themed thing that I found despite the location, since even that ACL episode features the electric guitar).

That's all for awhile as I'm looking to sell some of my lots over the next couple weeks, and I've been more busy with traders lately.
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The Nashville station was WTVF. Bud Hedinger worked at both WFTV and WTVF.
 
crainbebo said:
Nice to find rare stuff from WCAY (now WUXP) when they were Fox in its newborn days. WZTV took over in 1990 and has had FOX ever since.
I have (and previously uploaded) the series premiere of Chicken Soup with Jackie Mason. It lasted 8 episodes, then yanked from the airwaves.
Pretty sure a lot of those national news specials and 48 Hours, 60 Minutes, etc. are available in the Vanderbilt archives FROM Nashville stations. It's so nice to see a lot of that footage being archived and uploaded for the general public now.

If I can get these next couple of lots sold, I'm interested in some smaller VHS lots from rural MN and U.P. MI that are on eBay right no
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The hits just keep on coming with that aforementioned lot above. Despite the seller's Little Rock location and the U-Matic that featured an apartment showcase for Oklahoma City, the finds come from the other side down I-40 from Nashville unless as described, with all commercials, when present, intact.

Tape 1: Episodes of It's Gary Shandling and The Tracey Ullman Show off WCAY/FOX on 12/18/1988 (one year before The Simpsons own Christmas special), followed by Brian Boitano: Canvas of Ice off WKRN/ABC from 12/19/1988, then the Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special off WTVF/CBS on 12/21/1988, followed by the MST3K-worthy presentation of Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961) off WCAY on 1/2/1989 (presumably, since there's a sale for New Years and there's no Christmas-themed commercials as WCAY carried New Years Eve/Day bowl games), followed by episodes of The Wonder Years and Hooperman off WKRN/ABC on 1/4/1989, both being repeats of episodes from the previous season as the after-effects of the Writers' Strike were still being felt.

Tape 2: Starts with The Mind: Thinking and a Mexico documentary off WDCN/PBS on 11/30/1988 with promos between the programs, followed by a repeat of the 1987 Muppets Christmas Special off WTFV/CBS on 12/2/1988, then an ABC News Burning Questions special Diet of Junk off WKRN on 12/29/1988, then 60 Minutes off WTFV/CBS on New Year's Day 1989, then the tape wraps up with West 57th and about the first ten minutes of the WTFV 10 PM News from 12/3/1988. The PBS shows unfortunately had less than-adequate quality with a lot of contrast loss with doubling chyron text when present, so I'll probably pass on that part of the recording.

Tape 3: The WCAY Prime Time Movie "1984" from 12/1/1988, followed by the Star Trek Saga: From One Generation To The Next special off WCAY from early December 1988 (I've already got this special), followed by episodes of Roseanne (my earliest first-run find) and the fifth season premiere of Moonlighting off WKRN/ABC on 12/6/1988.

Tape 4: Begins with another episode of West 57th off WTFV/CBS on 12/17/1988, then the Moscow Circus Special off WKRN/ABC from 12/18/1988, the last 30 minutes of CBS Sunday Morning off WTFV from that same day, then a repeat of the 1987 Claymation Christmas Special off WFTV/CBS on 12/23/1988, then a special encore presentation of the two-hour Moonlighting series premiere off WKRN/ABC on 12/27/1988, then it wraps up with most of Geraldo from 1/9/1989 off WKRN. I've already got a portion of that CBS "yuppie" newsmagazine episode, but this is a nice upgrade.

Tape 5: The 1-hour documentary "When Hair Came To Memphis", produced by WMC in Memphis about the 1970 concert of the musical. This was taken from the master copy with the colored bars at start, and thus there are no commercials. This special is found in the Paley Center's collection, but isn't found online in video form.

Tape 6: Desiree (1954) and Cannery Row (1982) off WCAY on 12/14/1988, followed by episodes of The Wonder Years from 12/7, 12/14, and 12/28/1988 off WKRN/ABC, with an episode of Hooperman tacked on to the 12/14 portion following The Wonder Years along with the first half of Hooperman following the 12/28 episode, which was a rerun of the series premiere. Speaking of which, the 2021- version isn't bad, but it just isn't quite the same as the original!

Tape 7: A Vision Shared: A Tribute To Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly off WDCN/PBS on 12/9/1988, followed by episodes of thirtysomething on 12/13 and 12/20/1988, as well as 1/3 and 1/10/1989 off WKRN/ABC, then it jumps ahead to The Wonder Years off WKRN/ABC on 10/11/1989, then jumps back for the first ten minutes of President Reagan's farewell address off WKRN/ABC on 1/11/1989.

Tape 8: Kicks off with The Who concert from the Universal Ampitheater in LA off WCAY/FOX on 9/13/1989, followed by the Firing Line Special Debate about how free market competitiveness is best for America off WDCN/PBS from the same evening, then followed by the ABC News special Survival Stories: Down and Out off WKRN on 9/14/1989,

Tape 9: Opens with the ABC Special Movie presentation of Scarface as well as the first several minutes of the WKRN 10 PM News from 1/7/1989, followed by a complete episode of CBS Sunday Morning off WFTV from the next morning, then an episode of 48 Hours off WFTV/CBS from 1/12/1989, then wraps up with the Cathy Valentine's Day special off WFTV/CBS on 2/10/1989 (no, not about the Go-Go). It's always great to find more real-world footage inside of a high school during the "Gen X era" since I always envisioned growing up what high school would really be like.

Tape 10: The Saturday Night Live 15th Anniversary special off WSMV/NBC on 9/24/1989 (I've found this three times previously, originally off WBZ in 2015), followed by the premiere of Free Spirit off WKRN/ABC from the same night (I've got a copy of this off WXYZ from a trade), then Geraldo off WKRN on 9/25/1989, then episodes of Roseanne, Chicken Soup, and most of the Barbara Walters Special off WKRN/ABC on 9/26/1989. This is my first find of yet another of the many short-lived sitcom flops of the 1989 fall season.

Tape 11: Full coverage from day one of the Republican National Convention off WTFV/CBS on 8/15/1988, followed by The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and the opening to the Late Show with Ross Shaefer off WCAY on 8/17/1988.

Tape 12: An episode of Austin City Limits as well as The Seven Samurai (1954) off WDCN/PBS on 5/6/1989 with promos between the programs, followed by episodes of It's Garry Shandling's Show and the Tracey Ullman Show off WCAY/FOX on 5/7/1989, then The Wonder Years and the first few minutes of War and Remembrance off WKRN/ABC on 5/9/1989.

Tape 13: Six episodes of thirtysomething off WKRN/ABC from 1988: 7/26, 8/2, 8/9, 8/23, 9/6, and 12/6. All are repeats except for the last episode in this set.

Tape 14: Excellence in the Public Sector with Tom Peter off WDCN/PBS on 8/29/1989 (no promos), followed by the NBC News special Bad Girls off WSMV on 8/30/1989, followed by the cartoon special Houndtown off WSMV/NBC, then an episode of COPS off WCAY/FOX on 9/2/1989, followed by the Faerie Tale Theatre presentation of Frog and Toad (the 1985 cartoon) off WDCN/PBS on 9/3/1989.

Three tapes were duds, two with three movies on from HBO/Showtime without promos, and the other being a heartbreaker in that the tape quality (A Wal-Mart T-120) was too loose for the VCR to properly play back without a buzzing sound quality, which is a shame since the tape opens with the 1981 Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park concert off WDCN in March 1989, followed by episodes of The Wonder Years, Anything But Love, thirtysomething, Hooperman, China Beach, and part of the WKRN 10 PM News from 3/7 and 3/8/1989. A bit pricey at around $3 each for those considering to make an offer with both the item and shipping, but still a lot great late '80s Nashville TV (with that Tracey Ullman show probably the most "country"-themed thing that I found despite the location, since even that ACL episode features the electric guitar).

That's all for awhile as I'm looking to sell some of my lots over the next couple weeks, and I've been more busy with traders lately.
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What?! You never went to high school?!
 
Cool finds on the thirtysomething stuff Crainbebo! That is quite a hard show to find recorded, I only stumbled upon one episode from a continuous recording of an ABC block in years of doing this.
 
Nope, that wasn't me. That was Michael Pannoni ;-)
I got skunked at several estate sales this past weekend...no tapes except for factory-retail movies.
 
Went to a rummage sale in Henderson, TN (in the Jackson, TN market, one of the nation's smallest) several days ago and found several tapes. The majority of the recordings were from the late 2000s, but there were a few notable ones. Here's what I found:

Tape 1 (2000s Fujifilm): "The Christmas Shoes" taped from WREG (CBS, Memphis) on December 1, 2002

Tape 2 (2000s Maxell T-160): American Idol season finale and partial newscast from WHBQ (Fox, Memphis) on May 24, 2006:

Tape 3 (2000s Maxell): American Idol episode, no comms, taped from WHBQ in 2006

Tape 4 (2000s Maxell): Wheel of Fortune and 2006 Winter Olympics events, taped from WMC (NBC, Memphis) on February 21, 2006

Tape 5 (2000s TDK Revue): The Music Man, no comms, taped from WBBJ (ABC, Jackson, TN) in 2003

Tape 6 (2000s TDK Revue): Columbo episode "Columbo Likes the Nightlife," taped from WBBJ on January 30, 2003

Tape 7 (late 2000s TDK): AL vs. KY basketball, no comms, taped from Fox on March 8, 2007; FL vs. OH State basketball, no comms, taped from WREG on April 2, 2007; "Road to the Final Four," partial, taped from WREG in 2007

Tape 8 (late 2000s TDK): AL. vs. KY football, partial, taped from SEC Network on October 3, 2009; CBS Sunday Morning, partial, taped from WREG on March 7, 2010; Auburn vs. KY football, partial, taped from ESPN2 on October 9, 2010; FL vs. KY basketball, partial, taped from WREG on March 7, 2010; Butler vs. KS State basketball, partial, no comms, taped from WREG on March 27, 2010; Special Report with Bret Baier, partial, taped from Fox News in early 2010

Tape 9 (late 2000s TDK): "The Benny Goodman Story" and "The Glenn Miller Story," no comms, taped from TCM in c. 2007; American Idol, partial, taped from WJKT (Fox, Jackson, TN) in early 2007

Tape 10 (late 2000s TDK): Memphis vs. Georgetown basketball, partial, taped from WREG on December 13, 2008; KY vs. TN basketball, partial, no comms, taped from ESPN on January 13, 2009; KY vs. TN basketball, no comms, taped from WREG on February 21, 2009; Ole Miss vs. KY basketball, partial, no comms, taped from FS South on March 12, 2009; UNLV vs. KY basketball, partial, no comms, taped from ESPN on March 17, 2009; 48 Hours Mystery, partial, taped from WREG in early 2009

Tape 11 (late 1980s-early 1990s TDK E-HG): Dub of early 1980s Walt Disney HV release of Mary Poppins (what a waste!)

Tape 12 (2000s Sony): A Painted House, no comms, taped from WREG on April 27, 2003

Tape 13 (2000s Sony): Parent Trap, taped from Hallmark in June 2004; Skylark, partial, and Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End, no comms, taped from Hallmark on April 18, 2004

Tape 14 (2000s RCA): Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End, taped from Hallmark on May 8, 2004

Tape 15 (2000s RCA): Parent Trap (1961), taped from Hallmark in June 2004

Tape 16 (1990s Kodak): Real American Stories, partial, no comms, taped from Fox News on April 4, 2010; KY vs. Ole Miss football, partial, taped from SEC Network on October 2, 2010; The Big Easy, taped from USA on Paducah, KY cable in December 1996

Tape 17 (late 1980s Polaroid): Partial newscast from WOWL (NBC, Florence, AL) on April 7, 1992; Skylark, taped from WCBI (CBS, Columbus, MS) on February 7, 1993

Tape 18 (1990s Recoton): No Time for Sergeants, taped from TBS on February 8, 1995

Tape 19 (mid 1980s Gemini): Days of Our Lives, taped from WMC in 2006; The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, partial, taped from WMC in March 2006; American Idol, partial, and Free Ride, taped from WHBQ on March 1, 2006 (it had potential)

Tape 20 (1980s Walmart, moldy, had to use a donor VCR): Where Pigeons Go to Die, taped from WOWL on January 9, 1990; just one commercial break taped from WOWL in September 1989

Tape 21 (unknown): The Music Man, partial, no comms, taped from WBBJ in 2003; Promised Land, partial, and Diagnosis Murder "Obsession," partial, taped from WCBI in May 1998

Tape 22 (late 1980s Polaroid): Places in the Heart, taped from WOWL on May 28, 1989
 
Nice small-town stuff there. Especially the WOWL newscast, as WAFF was making headway into the Shoals.
Wikipedia is wrong on 'Where Pigeons Go to Die.' It was aired on January 29th, 1990. 1/9/90 was part 2 of Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, which I have from KING 5 Seattle.

Finally found one lone VHS tape in Union Gap this weekend (moving sale), it had Peter Jennings Reporting: Jerusalem Stories (12/22/97, KAPP n/c), KNDO/KNDU Live at Eleven (12/21/97 w/c) and a couple parts of Shogun on it n/c, taped from KSTW in early 1986.
The estate sale operator said that they would have a HUGE packed sale next week in East Valley...hopefully there's boxes and shelves full of tapes.
I also picked up a few prerecorded C-60 cassettes from the '80s with 'western' written on the labels. This was from a sale in Selah/Pomona near the Training Center. Hopefully local radio airchecks but you never know.
 
anotherguyTN said:
Oshawott,
I just found your You Tube Channel and will definitely be checking some things there since we're in the same area. Thanks!
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Very good, I don't often find people who share my hobby in this area.
I'm actually down here for college; I'm taking advantage of any opportunity I get to find tapes, especially since the Jackson market is so tiny. I do the same back home, too, for I'm from the Paducah, KY market. Finding Jackson, TN or Paducah market stuff online is rare and I don't know of any tape collectors in the Paducah market besides me, so I'm making the most of yard sales and whatnot.
 
Well, it looks as though my VHS hobby may be on hiatus longer than I thought.

Internet Archive has disabled my account, on Halloween of all days. Michael Pannoni, look out :-(

edit - AVTB is still up for now, but 100s of soaps and other non-news/commercial content will likely never see the light of YouTube/Archive again. I hope there will be (or is) a Pluto TV channel for old Y&R and Days...
 
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I'm still working my way through the many tapes I've picked up within the last four months and today I got seven more at an estate sale in North Royalton. Rather than continue to keep everybody in suspense about the contents I've found thus far and hold off on listing them until I've gone through all of them, I'll just let you know what I've found thus far and revisit this thread after I get through the rest. Here goes.



Estate sale--Middleburg Heights, OH

TAPE 1: Coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial, CNN News Update, Talk Back Live, Inside Politics and more coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial taped from CNN on 2/27/1995 with commercials, NO AUDIO--my guess is maybe they had their cable box muted by mistake, but that kind of ruined this one. Scotch T-120.

TAPE 2: In Search of History taped from the History Channel on 5/8/1998 with commercials. Fuji T-120.

TAPE 3: Channel 3 News at 6 and NBC Nightly News (Brian Williams substituting for Tom Brokaw) taped from WKYC in Cleveland on 8/15/1995 with commercials. Scotch T-120.

TAPE 4: Survive the Savage Sea (ABC made-for-TV movie) and first couple minutes of News Channel 5 at 11 taped from WEWS in Cleveland on 1/6/1992 with commercials. BASF T-120.

TAPE 5: Tough, Rough & Ready: Inside the Toughman World Championship and coverage of two rounds of the 1994 Toughman Eastern Regional Championship taped from Prime Sports/SportsChannel Ohio in May 1994 with commercials; 1994 Toughman World Championship taped from Viewer's Choice Pay-Per-View on 5/20/1994. Image T-120.

Bonus finds: Three Sony HF-90 audiocassettes altogether containing Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey's final Detroit Tigers broadcast on WJR on October 6, 1991 complete with commercials. The Tigers played against the Baltimore Orioles that night, and it was also the final game played at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Surprised to find Detroit radio content in Cleveland? Don't be! WJR is a 50,000-watt station that can be heard throughout much of the eastern US and Canada, especially at night!



Estate sale--Wellington, OH

TAPE 6: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, NatureWorks, Take a Look, Reading Rainbow, Zoboomafoo, Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat and Zoom taped from WVIZ in Cleveland in February 2002 with promos; partial episode of ER and first few minutes of Channel 3 News at 11:00 taped from WKYC on 1/3/2002 with commercials; partial episode of ER taped from WKYC on 10/4/2001 with commercials; partial broadcast of Dateline NBC taped from WKYC on 4/12/1999 with commercials; Felicity taped from WBNX in Akron on 4/13/1999 with commercials. Unknown brand T-120.

TAPE 7: The American Experience episode on Duke Ellington taped from WHA in Madison (Wisconsin Public Television) on 12/9/1991, no promos, but starts with local underwriting credits. Sony T-120.

TAPE 8: Partial broadcast of It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Channel 3 News at 11, Christmas Eve at St. Peter's Basilica, Meet John Doe (1941) (distributed by Feed the Children complete with multiple commercials for the organization), Serving a Little Christmas with Jim Brickman and Friends (joined in progress), Early Today and partial broadcast of Solemn Mass of Christmas taped from WKYC on December 24-25, 2009 with commercials. Sony T-160.

TAPE 9: In Touch with Charles Stanley taped from WUAB in Cleveland on 1/11/1998 and 1/18/1998; last few minutes of Secrets to Creating Wealth Conference infomercial and In Touch with Charles Stanley taped from WUAB on 1/25/1998 with commercials in between; one hour of scrambled aerial signal; partial broadcast of Believer's Voice of Victory taped from WGN in January 1998. Polaroid T-120.

TAPE 10: A Stranger in Town (CBS made-for-TV movie) taped from WOIO in Cleveland on 7/14/1996 with commercials. Fuji T-120.

TAPE 11: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (ABC Wonderful World of Disney made-for-TV movie), Before Women Had Wings (ABC made-for-TV movie) and most of News Channel 5 at 11 taped from WEWS on 11/2/1997 with commercials. Fuji T-120.

TAPE 12: Oprah episode with Prince taped from WEWS on 9/2/1997 (not the original broadcast) with commercials. Fuji T-120.

TAPE 13: In Touch with Charles Stanley taped from WUAB on 1/4/1998; most of 43 Focus, The Juiceman infomercial, T-Fal Ingenio Fat Free infomercial and PVA 10X infomercial taped from WUAB on 12/28/1997 with commercials; In Touch with Charles Stanley taped from INSP in December 1997 with promos afterward; partial broadcast of Hour of Power and most of a Channel 43 Weekend Movie presentation of Sibling Rivalry (1990) taped from WUAB on 12/28/1997 with commercials. Memorex T-120.

TAPE 14: Partial broadcast of Round 3 of the 127th British Open, The Legend of the British Open (syndicated special joined in progress) and partial MLS on ABC broadcast of Chicago Fire vs. DC United taped from WEWS on 7/18/1998 with commercials. Fuji T-160.

TAPE 15: Partial broadcast of the final round of the 1998 BellSouth Classic taped from WOIO on 5/10/1998 with commercials. Fuji T-160.

TAPE 16: 1997 Tiger Woods Invitational and partial broadcast of Fox Sports News Primetime taped from SportsChannel Ohio (not long before being renamed Fox Sports Ohio) on 11/16/1997 with commercials. Fuji T-120.

TAPE 17: Partial broadcast of the final round of the 1998 Masters Tournament and partial broadcast of 60 Minutes taped from WOIO on 4/12/1998 with commercials; partial episode of The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, As the World Turns, Guiding Light and partial episode of Judge Judy taped from WOIO on 4/3/1998 with commercials. Fuji T-120.

TAPE 18: Partial episode of Family Matters and Round 1 of the 1997 MasterCard PGA Grand Slam taped from TBS Superstation on 11/18/1997 with commercials. Fuji T-120.

TAPE 19: Partial episode of Family Matters and Round 2 of the 1997 MasterCard PGA Grand Slam taped from TBS Superstation on 11/19/1997 with commercials. Fuji T-120.

TAPE 20: Oprah episode with Dennis Rodman taped from WEWS on 5/6/1996 with commercials. Memorex T-120.

TAPE 21: Round 2 of the 1998 NEC World Series of Golf taped from USA on 8/16/1998 with commercials; short clip from the CBS 19 News NEC Invitational Wrap-Up with Ronnie Duncan taped from WOIO on 8/16/1998; partial broadcast of the final round of the 1998 Pilot Pen Invitational and partial broadcast of Round 3 of the 1998 NEC World Series of Golf taped from WOIO on 8/17/1998 with commercials. Fuji T-160.

TAPE 22: Final round of the 1997 Motorola Western Open taped from WOIO on 7/6/1997 with commercials; Outside the Lines broadcast on Tiger Woods taped from ESPN on 7/15/1997 with commercials. Fuji T-120.

TAPE 23: Round 2 of the 1998 Mercedes Championships taped from WEWS on 1/10/1998 with commercials. Polaroid T-120.

TAPE 24: Round 1 of the 1997 Skins Game taped from WEWS on 11/29/1997 with commercials; Round 2 of the 1997 Skins Game taped from WEWS on 11/30/1997 with commercials; clip from The Ten Most Fascinating People of 1997 (Barbara Walters interviews Tiger Woods) taped from WEWS on 12/2/1997; In Touch with Charles Stanley taped from WUAB in December 1997. Memorex T-120.

TAPE 25: Partial broadcast of Round 1 of the 1998 Buick Invitational, episode of Golf Hawaii and partial episode of NBA Fantastics taped from ESPN on 2/7/1998 with commercials. Unknown brand T-120.

Honorable mention: A tape of a music video recorded by Columbus "cop rock" band Hot Pursuit--neat find! Someone already posted it on YouTube quite some time ago:

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