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Oldest Extant Off-Air VHS/Beta Tape You Have

Estate sale--Brookpark, OH
TAPE 42: Ironside (1967 movie) taped from WBNX in Akron in March 1991 with commercials; The Fatal Image (1990 CBS made-for-TV movie) taped from WJW in Cleveland on 6/28/1991 with commercials; The Love Boat: A Summer Cruise (CBS made-for-TV movie) taped from WJW on 7/20/1991 minus most commercials. Polaroid T-120.

TAPE 43: Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987 NBC made for-TV movie) taped from WUAB in Cleveland (8 O'clock Movie) circa 1990 minus commercials; Commando (1985) taped from WEWS in Cleveland (ABC Sunday Night Movie) on 12/2/1990 with commercials (already have a recording of this airing); Columbo Goes to College taped from WEWS (ABC Sunday Night Movie) on 12/9/1990 with commercials. BASF T-120.

Estate sale--Fairlawn, OH
TAPE 44: 1988 Winter Olympic Games opening ceremonies taped from KABC in Los Angeles on 2/13/1988 with commercials; John McLaughlin's One on One taped from KCET in Los Angeles on 2/13/1988 with promos. Sony T-120.

TAPE 45: Eyewitness News at 4:00 special edition and 1984 Summer Olympic Games opening ceremonies taped from KABC on 7/28/1984 with commercials; 1984 Summer Olympic Games closing ceremonies taped from KABC on 8/12/1984 minus commercials. Sony T-120 (all second generation recordings).

TAPE 46: All four parts of Spaceflight (1985 PBS miniseries) taped from KCET in May and June 1987 with promos before and after part four; partial broadcast of the 1987 NCAA Basketball National Championship (Syracuse Orangemen vs. Indiana Hoosiers) taped from KCBS in Los Angeles on 3/30/1987 with commercials. RCA T-120.

TAPE 47: Two broadcasts of Music City Tonight taped from TNN in January and February 1994 with commercials (Lorrie Morgan is interviewed on both); partial broadcast of Music City Tonight taped from TNN in January 1994 with commercials; partial episode of The Young and the Restless taped from WJW in December 1993 with commercials (all of these were second generation recordings from another tape which had reverted to past recordings a couple of times); partial episode of L.A. Law taped from WKYC in Cleveland on 3/17/1994 with commercials. Maxell T-120.

TAPE 48: Partial broadcast of That's Dancing taped from KCET on 8/18/1987 with pledge breaks featuring Sammy Davis Jr. and Irene Cara; partial broadcast of Sentimental Swing: The Music of Tommy Dorsey taped from KCET on 8/15/1987 with pledge breaks featuring Cathy Rich, Patty Andrews and Vicki Lawrence; short clip from a broadcast of Business World taped from KABC in October 1987(?); partial broadcast of An Easter Gift of Music (with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir) taped from WNEO/WEAO in Akron on 4/15/1990. RCA T-120.

TAPE 49: Four hours of coverage of Pope John Paul II's Mass at Dodger Stadium taped from KTLA in Los Angeles on 9/16/1987. Sony T-120.
 
Scott, too bad you only got to experience gentrified-era NYC (and even Brooklyn as you move into the 2010s), but its still nice to see some '80s/'90s finds are still turning up. That KABC Eyewitness News pre-Opening Ceremony newscast is pure gold (no pun intended), as was that Pope John Paull II mass. Awesome job on that first season find of Jeopardy!, as even though the J! Archive has really strived towards being complete, there are still seven episodes from December of 1984 that aren't currently listed in the Archive, along with two other episodes from that month that only circulate via an audiorecording, and one more partial episode that begins shortly into the Double Jeopardy! round.

Meanwhile, I've encountered a unique problem with one of my three VCRs (the 1996 RCA) where after I inserted a tape that squealed the video heads after attempting to rewind it due to one of the plastic covers missing (a copy of Return To Oz), I noticed that the VCR played videos recorded in SP mode properly, but in LP and SLP mode, there was no picture and just audio. Has anyone experienced this problem before?
 
pannoni1 said:
Meanwhile, I've encountered a unique problem with one of my three VCRs (the 1996 RCA) where after I inserted a tape that squealed the video heads after attempting to rewind it due to one of the plastic covers missing (a copy of Return To Oz), I noticed that the VCR played videos recorded in SP mode properly, but in LP and SLP mode, there was no picture and just audio. Has anyone experienced this problem before?
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Someone else posted they had the same problem and people suggested it was either a problem with the heads or an alignment problem:
forum.videohelp.com

SLP has gone bonkers but SP fine on VHS/DVD PLAYER.

Hey guys, I picked up a VHS/DVD player only six months ago because I wanted something to play the old tapes on. I found out after the fact that it was
forum.videohelp.com forum.videohelp.com

Based on what you said happened, the heads might be damaged.
 
Well, my uploading backlog is getting even longer because I managed to pick up several more tapes from three different estate sales in Parma this past Friday.

Estate sale #1--unusual haul as most of the tapes from this one contained Russian TV recordings that were copied from PAL tapes, a sticker on one of the tapes I left behind here listed the name, address and phone number of an individual who made such transfers--picked up ten tapes total, most of which were duds
TAPE 1: Talking with David Frost taped from WVIZ on 7/22/1995 with promos and partial sign-off; partial broadcast of Entertainment Tonight, The Making of Jurassic Park and start of Three on 3 (local special that preempted Dateline NBC) taped from WKYC on 4/26/1995 with commercials. Scotch T-120.

TAPE 2: Partial broadcast of Mesam 90 (some kind of live music program) taped from unknown Russian TV channel in 1990; partial unknown music video program taped from unknown Russian TV channel in 1990 with commercials (short ones, one of which was an ad for the movie Ghost). Scotch T-120.

TAPE 3: 1991 Intercontinental Cup coverage simulcast from NTV Tokyo taped from unknown Russian TV channel on 12/8/1991 with commercials, these were also really short. Unknown brand T-105.


Estate sale #2
TAPE 4: Live on Five, News Channel 5 at 6:00 and start of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings taped from WEWS on 4/20/1995 with commercials; partial broadcast of Newscenter 8 at 10:00 taped from WJW on 4/20/1995 with commercials; partial broadcast of 19 News at 11:00 and start of Sightings taped from WOIO on 4/22/1995 with commercials. Scotch T-120--each of these local newscasts included a story about a 10-year-old Macedonia girl who started a fundraising effort benefiting victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, which tells me the girl may have been an extended family member of those living in the house where this was found.


Estate sale #3
TAPE 5: Four episodes of Sister Wendy's Story of Painting taped from WVIZ in September 1997 with promos. TDK T-120.

TAPE 6: American Masters taped from WVIZ on 5/7/1997 with promos; two episodes of The Simpsons taped from WJW on 5/18/1997 with commercials; part one of True Women (CBS miniseries) and start of CBS 19 News at 11 taped from WOIO on 5/18/1997 with commercials; partial episode of Ken Burns: American Lives taped from WVIZ on 2/18/1997 with promos. Maxell T-120.

TAPE 7: To Have and Have Not (1944) and The Big Sleep (1946) taped from WVIZ in December 2001 (WVIZ/PBS Big Picture Show presentations with interstitial segments from the host in between); The Crucible of the Millennium taped from WVIZ on 1/3/2002 with promos. TDK T-120.

TAPE 8: Partial broadcast of There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem with Dr. Wayne Dyer taped from WVIZ in June 2002 with pledge breaks; partial broadcast of Dr. Wayne Dyer's 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace and There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem with Dr. Wayne Dyer (the whole thing this time) taped from WVIZ in June 2002 with pledge breaks and promos; most of Stage on Screen: The Women taped from WVIZ on 6/18/2002 with promos. Fuji T-120.

TAPE 9: Two broadcasts of Great Performances (Julie Andrews: Back on Broadway and Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II) taped from WVIZ on 10/25/1995 with promos; Wonderworks Family Movie presentation of You Must Remember This and Fat Monroe (1990) taped from WVIZ on Thanksgiving 1992 with promos; partial broadcast of The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour taped from WVIZ on 7/4/1989; partial broadcast of The Best of the National Geographic Specials and partial broadcast of Mark Russell Looks at Campaign '84 taped from WVIZ in October 1988 with promos. Scotch T-120.

TAPE 10: Partial broadcast of Great Performances (Judy Garland: The Concert Years) and Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of American Music taped from WVIZ on 3/22/1985 with pledge breaks; On Stage at Wolf Trap, Even the Heavens Weep and partial broadcast of Tony Brown's Journal taped from WVIZ on 9/2/1985 with promos; partial Prize Movie presentation of City for Conquest (1940) and partial episode of The Popeye Show taped from WUAB in May 1984 with commercials. Maxell T-120.

TAPE 11: American Masters taped from WVIZ on 7/31/1989; 8 O'clock Movie presentation of Finian's Rainbow (1968) and episode of Sanford & Son taped from WUAB on 3/17/1990 with commercials (evidently they didn't broadcast The Ten O'clock News on weekends at the time); tape then reverts to home video footage of a man working on remodeling a ceiling at a shopping center. Unknown brand T-120.
 
I just got done finishing a 14-tape Betamax lot, and yes, lots consisting entirely of off-air recordings from the '80s with commercials still exist. Every tape except from one came from the Quad Cities market (Davenport/Moline/Rock Island/Bettendorf), with most of the recordings coming from miniseries, although there were a few other surprises found. Everything listed below is complete with the commercials unless otherwise noted.

TAPE 1: Parts one and two of the Peter The Great miniseries off WOC/NBC on 2/2 and 2/3/1986.
TAPE 2: Parts three and four of the Peter The Great miniseries off WOC/NBC on 2/4 and 2/5/1986. I've found partial installments as well as an installment that was missing some of the commercials previously, but this was the first time I've found them in full.
TAPE 3: The first two parts of Danielle Steel's Crossings off WQAD/ABC on 2/3 and 2/24/1986. Unfortunately, just after the intro of the second part, the recording is reduced to audio only.
TAPE 4: The third and final installment of Crossings off WQAD/ABC on 2/25/1986.
TAPE 5: Parts three and four of North & South: Book II off WQAD/ABC on 5/6 and 5/7/1986. I've previously found part three off KVIA back in 2017, but I currently have only the last hour of part four, so this tape is another upgrade. BTW, the other two tapes I didn't listed were the other four parts to this miniseries that I already have in full from the same KVIA VHS lots that was mentioned way upthread by crainbebo, so I'll be placing them in the sell pile after I farm out the local spots.
TAPE 6: Begins with around the first ten minutes of an episode of Dallas off WHBF/CBS with a few commercials, followed by part 2 of Kane & Abel off WHBF/CBS on 11/18/1985.
TAPE 7: Part 3 of Kane & Abel off WHBF/CBS on 11/19/1985, followed by around seven minutes of a M*A*S*H rerun circa August 1985 off an unknown Quad Cities station with a few ads, followed by about ten minutes of a rerun of the 1984 Solid Gold Salutes The Songs of Summer special off WOC in July 1985 with a few commercials, then it jumps to Entertainment Tonight off WHBF on 8/30/1985, then it jumps back with around the last 70 minutes of that same Solid Gold summer special off WOC. This was a total surprise as it was unmarked on the label, and it features an early story on the band R.E.M.
TAPE 8: Part four of the A.D. miniseries off WOC/NBC on 4/3/1985.
TAPE 9: The fifth and final part of the A.D. miniseries on 4/4/1985. I've found a partial broadcast off of WMAR previously.
TAPE 10: 60 Minutes and the first part of the Christopher Columbus miniseries off WHBF/CBS on 5/19/1985, with IBM being the sole sponsor for this event.
TAPE 11: The second part of Christopher Columbus off WHBF/CBS on 5/20/1985, followed by consecutive episodes of Entertainment Tonight on 5/22 and 5/23/1985 off WHBF. Hollywood surely likes to launch its summer blockbusters earlier these days rather than waiting right before Memorial Day like they were reporting on then.
TAPE 12: It Takes Two off presumably KABC on 10/28/1982 with only one commercial left in (for Wendy's), followed by around a 40-minute portion of Mid-Morning off KHJ from early November 1981 with commercials, with Pete Grymkowski, Jeff Silverman, and Barry White among the featured guests, including footage from Gold's Gym just before the aerobics craze really took off nationwide (it was already pretty big in Southern California at the time). This was likely a second-generation transfer since the tape stock was a mid-80s Sony L-750, and this was the only tape in the lot recorded in BII mode, with the rest in BIII.

This seller, JnJ Fresh Fun Finds, still has nine other lots of 14 Beta tapes posted on eBay, but they're mostly recordings of movies off HBO, TBS, TNT, USA (mostly from the late '80s and '90s) although a few lots have some labels indicating '90s network made-for-TV broadcasts from the Quad Cities based on the channel numbers provided.

Over the weekend, I checked a 15-tape VHS lot out of Metro, OH, and unfortunately, it was mostly a swing and a miss, with one tape featuring family videos of Christmases from 1957 to 1970, a couple tapes completely blank, another featuring Pay-Per-View concerts with no promos (one featuring The Who), another featuring the Alvin project with no commercials from 1989-1991 (best known for its use in Titanic), and a couple 2006-07 off-air recordings off Cleveland stations with commercials that I'm placing to the sell pile, which was around the time I became disenfranchised with current pop culture. But there were a couple of tapes I kept:

TAPE 1: Begins with a rerun of the NOVA episode Visions of the Deep circa 1990 with no promos, followed by around an hour's worth of footage from the PBA's $400,000 US Open off KTVI/ABC on 4/7/1990 with commercials, ending midway through the championship match. I REALLY enjoyed watching the pro bowlers as a kid, so this was a nice piece of nostalgia that soon led me having a birthday party at a local bowling alley. SP mode.

TAPE 2: Six episodes of Woodcarving with Rick Butz circa 1990 off a PBS affiliate labeled as "Channel 45/49" with only a couple of promos after the last tape. SLP mode.
 
pannoni1 said:
I just got done finishing a 14-tape Betamax lot, and yes, lots consisting entirely of off-air recordings from the '80s with commercials still exist. Every tape except from one came from the Quad Cities market (Davenport/Moline/Rock Island/Bettendorf), with most of the recordings coming from miniseries, although there were a few other surprises found. Everything listed below is complete with the commercials unless otherwise noted.

TAPE 1: Parts one and two of the Peter The Great miniseries off WOC/NBC on 2/2 and 2/3/1986.
TAPE 2: Parts three and four of the Peter The Great miniseries off WOC/NBC on 2/4 and 2/5/1986. I've found partial installments as well as an installment that was missing some of the commercials previously, but this was the first time I've found them in full.
TAPE 3: The first two parts of Danielle Steel's Crossings off WQAD/ABC on 2/3 and 2/24/1986. Unfortunately, just after the intro of the second part, the recording is reduced to audio only.
TAPE 4: The third and final installment of Crossings off WQAD/ABC on 2/25/1986.
TAPE 5: Parts three and four of North & South: Book II off WQAD/ABC on 5/6 and 5/7/1986. I've previously found part three off KVIA back in 2017, but I currently have only the last hour of part four, so this tape is another upgrade. BTW, the other two tapes I didn't listed were the other four parts to this miniseries that I already have in full from the same KVIA VHS lots that was mentioned way upthread by crainbebo, so I'll be placing them in the sell pile after I farm out the local spots.
TAPE 6: Begins with around the first ten minutes of an episode of Dallas off WHBF/CBS with a few commercials, followed by part 2 of Kane & Abel off WHBF/CBS on 11/18/1985.
TAPE 7: Part 3 of Kane & Abel off WHBF/CBS on 11/19/1985, followed by around seven minutes of a M*A*S*H rerun circa August 1985 off an unknown Quad Cities station with a few ads, followed by about ten minutes of a rerun of the 1984 Solid Gold Salutes The Songs of Summer special off WOC in July 1985 with a few commercials, then it jumps to Entertainment Tonight off WHBF on 8/30/1985, then it jumps back with around the last 70 minutes of that same Solid Gold summer special off WOC. This was a total surprise as it was unmarked on the label, and it features an early story on the band R.E.M.
TAPE 8: Part four of the A.D. miniseries off WOC/NBC on 4/3/1985.
TAPE 9: The fifth and final part of the A.D. miniseries on 4/4/1985. I've found a partial broadcast off of WMAR previously.
TAPE 10: 60 Minutes and the first part of the Christopher Columbus miniseries off WHBF/CBS on 5/19/1985, with IBM being the sole sponsor for this event.
TAPE 11: The second part of Christopher Columbus off WHBF/CBS on 5/20/1985, followed by consecutive episodes of Entertainment Tonight on 5/22 and 5/23/1985 off WHBF. Hollywood surely likes to launch its summer blockbusters earlier these days rather than waiting right before Memorial Day like they were reporting on then.
TAPE 12: It Takes Two off presumably KABC on 10/28/1982 with only one commercial left in (for Wendy's), followed by around a 40-minute portion of Mid-Morning off KHJ from early November 1981 with commercials, with Pete Grymkowski, Jeff Silverman, and Barry White among the featured guests, including footage from Gold's Gym just before the aerobics craze really took off nationwide (it was already pretty big in Southern California at the time). This was likely a second-generation transfer since the tape stock was a mid-80s Sony L-750, and this was the only tape in the lot recorded in BII mode, with the rest in BIII.

This seller, JnJ Fresh Fun Finds, still has nine other lots of 14 Beta tapes posted on eBay, but they're mostly recordings of movies off HBO, TBS, TNT, USA (mostly from the late '80s and '90s) although a few lots have some labels indicating '90s network made-for-TV broadcasts from the Quad Cities based on the channel numbers provided.

Over the weekend, I checked a 15-tape VHS lot out of Metro, OH, and unfortunately, it was mostly a swing and a miss, with one tape featuring family videos of Christmases from 1957 to 1970, a couple tapes completely blank, another featuring Pay-Per-View concerts with no promos (one featuring The Who), another featuring the Alvin project with no commercials from 1989-1991 (best known for its use in Titanic), and a couple 2006-07 off-air recordings off Cleveland stations with commercials that I'm placing to the sell pile, which was around the time I became disenfranchised with current pop culture. But there were a couple of tapes I kept:

TAPE 1: Begins with a rerun of the NOVA episode Visions of the Deep circa 1990 with no promos, followed by around an hour's worth of footage from the PBA's $400,000 US Open off KTVI/ABC on 4/7/1990 with commercials, ending midway through the championship match. I REALLY enjoyed watching the pro bowlers as a kid, so this was a nice piece of nostalgia that soon led me having a birthday party at a local bowling alley. SP mode.

TAPE 2: Six episodes of Woodcarving with Rick Butz circa 1990 off a PBS affiliate labeled as "Channel 45/49" with only a couple of promos after the last tape. SLP mode.
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That last tape is from WNEO Alliance and WEAO Akron, now known as Western Reserve PBS.
 
Great find on that Peter the Great miniseries, I believe it was only released in edited form on home video, cut to something like 3 hours, so if it was 4 parts at 2 hours each, it would have been at least 6 hours without commercials.
 
pannoni1 said:
I just got done finishing a 14-tape Betamax lot, and yes, lots consisting entirely of off-air recordings from the '80s with commercials still exist. Every tape except from one came from the Quad Cities market (Davenport/Moline/Rock Island/Bettendorf), with most of the recordings coming from miniseries, although there were a few other surprises found. Everything listed below is complete with the commercials unless otherwise noted.

TAPE 1: Parts one and two of the Peter The Great miniseries off WOC/NBC on 2/2 and 2/3/1986.
TAPE 2: Parts three and four of the Peter The Great miniseries off WOC/NBC on 2/4 and 2/5/1986. I've found partial installments as well as an installment that was missing some of the commercials previously, but this was the first time I've found them in full.
TAPE 3: The first two parts of Danielle Steel's Crossings off WQAD/ABC on 2/3 and 2/24/1986. Unfortunately, just after the intro of the second part, the recording is reduced to audio only.
TAPE 4: The third and final installment of Crossings off WQAD/ABC on 2/25/1986.
TAPE 5: Parts three and four of North & South: Book II off WQAD/ABC on 5/6 and 5/7/1986. I've previously found part three off KVIA back in 2017, but I currently have only the last hour of part four, so this tape is another upgrade. BTW, the other two tapes I didn't listed were the other four parts to this miniseries that I already have in full from the same KVIA VHS lots that was mentioned way upthread by crainbebo, so I'll be placing them in the sell pile after I farm out the local spots.
TAPE 6: Begins with around the first ten minutes of an episode of Dallas off WHBF/CBS with a few commercials, followed by part 2 of Kane & Abel off WHBF/CBS on 11/18/1985.
TAPE 7: Part 3 of Kane & Abel off WHBF/CBS on 11/19/1985, followed by around seven minutes of a M*A*S*H rerun circa August 1985 off an unknown Quad Cities station with a few ads, followed by about ten minutes of a rerun of the 1984 Solid Gold Salutes The Songs of Summer special off WOC in July 1985 with a few commercials, then it jumps to Entertainment Tonight off WHBF on 8/30/1985, then it jumps back with around the last 70 minutes of that same Solid Gold summer special off WOC. This was a total surprise as it was unmarked on the label, and it features an early story on the band R.E.M.
TAPE 8: Part four of the A.D. miniseries off WOC/NBC on 4/3/1985.
TAPE 9: The fifth and final part of the A.D. miniseries on 4/4/1985. I've found a partial broadcast off of WMAR previously.
TAPE 10: 60 Minutes and the first part of the Christopher Columbus miniseries off WHBF/CBS on 5/19/1985, with IBM being the sole sponsor for this event.
TAPE 11: The second part of Christopher Columbus off WHBF/CBS on 5/20/1985, followed by consecutive episodes of Entertainment Tonight on 5/22 and 5/23/1985 off WHBF. Hollywood surely likes to launch its summer blockbusters earlier these days rather than waiting right before Memorial Day like they were reporting on then.
TAPE 12: It Takes Two off presumably KABC on 10/28/1982 with only one commercial left in (for Wendy's), followed by around a 40-minute portion of Mid-Morning off KHJ from early November 1981 with commercials, with Pete Grymkowski, Jeff Silverman, and Barry White among the featured guests, including footage from Gold's Gym just before the aerobics craze really took off nationwide (it was already pretty big in Southern California at the time). This was likely a second-generation transfer since the tape stock was a mid-80s Sony L-750, and this was the only tape in the lot recorded in BII mode, with the rest in BIII.

This seller, JnJ Fresh Fun Finds, still has nine other lots of 14 Beta tapes posted on eBay, but they're mostly recordings of movies off HBO, TBS, TNT, USA (mostly from the late '80s and '90s) although a few lots have some labels indicating '90s network made-for-TV broadcasts from the Quad Cities based on the channel numbers provided.

Over the weekend, I checked a 15-tape VHS lot out of Metro, OH, and unfortunately, it was mostly a swing and a miss, with one tape featuring family videos of Christmases from 1957 to 1970, a couple tapes completely blank, another featuring Pay-Per-View concerts with no promos (one featuring The Who), another featuring the Alvin project with no commercials from 1989-1991 (best known for its use in Titanic), and a couple 2006-07 off-air recordings off Cleveland stations with commercials that I'm placing to the sell pile, which was around the time I became disenfranchised with current pop culture. But there were a couple of tapes I kept:

TAPE 1: Begins with a rerun of the NOVA episode Visions of the Deep circa 1990 with no promos, followed by around an hour's worth of footage from the PBA's $400,000 US Open off KTVI/ABC on 4/7/1990 with commercials, ending midway through the championship match. I REALLY enjoyed watching the pro bowlers as a kid, so this was a nice piece of nostalgia that soon led me having a birthday party at a local bowling alley. SP mode.

TAPE 2: Six episodes of Woodcarving with Rick Butz circa 1990 off a PBS affiliate labeled as "Channel 45/49" with only a couple of promos after the last tape. SLP mode.
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Did you find any radio station commercials on these tapes? Do you have a youtube channel where you upload the commercials or not?
 
Latest finds from the past month. Busy doing a lot of other things - substitute teaching, applying for full-time work, but with spring break I can digitize a lot more thank goodness.

3/2 - Big sale in Union Gap. They are retiring from the transmission business, and they also bought storage units on the side for extra profit. In fact, I think it's been going on most of the past month as they continue to liquidate the business(es). Hundreds of VHS tapes there, but 97% of them were retail. The lady disclosed to me "I thought I threw out all of the blank tapes" when I showed them to her...but I saved a few! Told her about my side hobby and she did say there was more inventory coming.

Tape 1 - 'The Terminator' (1984) and part of News 8 at 11 taped off KGW/NBC on 9/27/1987 with commercials; partial broadcast of Amerika (part 5) taped off KATU/ABC on 2/19/1987 with commercials; Amerika Part III taped off KATU/ABC on 2/17/1987 with commercials. Scotch T-120
Tape 2 - 'The Black Hole' (1979) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; '10' (1979) taped off HBO circa 1981; partial first half of the 1988 NBA Finals Game 5 taped off KOIN/CBS on 6/16/1988 with commercials. Quasar T-120, vintage
Tape 3 - 'From Hell' (2001) taped off Cinemax on 1/15/2004 with several minutes of promos before the movie; part of 'The Punisher' (1989) taped off The Action Channel in January 2004 with a few promos afterwards; first bit of 'Stiletto Dance' (2001) taped off ActionMax in January 2004 with promos; cuts over to 'Adios, Sabata' (1970) taped off Westerns in January 2004; part of 'Shark Attack' (2001) taped off Sci-Fi Channel on 1/10/2004 with commercials. Memorex T-120
Tape 4 - 'Wholly Moses!' (1980) taped off unknown pay-TV channel; 'True Grit' (1969) taped off KPTV-12 on 2/16/1986 with commercials. KMC T-120
Tape 5 - Last few minutes of Jeopardy! and episode of Friends taped off KNDO/NBC on 2/28/2002 with commercials (in SP); season premiere of Friends taped off KNDO/NBC on 9/26/2002 minus commercials; season premiere of CSI taped off KIMA/CBS later that night minus commercials (I have an uncut broadcast from KBCI Boise); flips over to KNDO/NBC for the season premiere of ER *with* commercials, as well as Local News 11 at 11 and part of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (everything else recorded in LP). MGM T-120

3/9 - Two more sales with tapes. One in Terrace Heights, another one of those storage unit content sales, and an estate sale in Union Gap, the home of a race car driver (he did a lot of Yakima Speedway races).

Terrace Heights
Tape 1 - 'Broken Angel' (1988) taped off KAPP/ABC on 6/9/1991 with commercials; then strangely, cuts to the video signal of 'Death Becomes Her' (1992) copied from rental tape while the KAPP recording from 6/9/91 continues on the audio, probably due to user error when the second movie was recorded. So we get an audio-only aircheck of the ABC News Weekend Report, a hair curling infomercial, and the 11:45PM sign-off. The sign-off is the one they used until the 2000s, so it must have been rolled out around this time. The previous sign-off clip was being used in April of that year. Maxell T-120
Tape 2 - 'Batman' (1989) taped off HBO on 9/16/1990 with a few minutes of Test Drive free preview content before the movie. Memorex T-120 in SP
Tape 3 - Various Elvis specials taped off CMT on 6/3/2001, no commercials included until a few hours in with 'Elvis: From the Waist Up'. TDK T-120
Tape 4 - Part 1 and 2 of Return to Lonesome Dove taped off KIMA/CBS on 11/14 and 11/16/1993 with commercials (already have this). I saw a bunch of rental movies that came from OR and CA video stores, so I was hoping for a broadcast from another West Coast market. Darn! Gemini T-120

Union Gap
Tape 5 - Save Mart/Kragen 350 from Sears Point Raceway taped off ESPN on 6/27/1999 with commercials; part of the Dura Lube/Kmart 500 from Phoenix taped off TNN on 10/25/1998 with commercials; part of Super Bowl XXXII taped off KNDO/NBC on 1/25/1998 with commercials. Maxell T-120
Tape 6 - 'A Season of Hope' (1995) taped off KIMA/CBS on 1/8/1995 with commercials. Maxell T-120, SP
Tape 7 - 2007 USG DuRock 300 from Chicagoland (Busch Series) taped off KAPP/ABC on 7/14/2007 with commercials; Built Ford Tough 225 (Craftsman Trucks) taped off Speed Channel later that night minus commercials; partial broadcast of the Dodge Avenger 500 from Darlington taped off KCYU-LP/Fox on 5/13/2007 with commercials. Gold Master T-120
Tape 8 - Late-night rebroadcast of the Thirtymile Fire funeral service, Early Today, Northwest Today and part of Today taped off KNDO/NBC on 7/25/2001 with commercials. I have most of this funeral from KIMA in much better quality, but it's buried in storage. Scotch T-120
Tape 9 - 6 hours of various Food Network programs taped in September 2003 with commercials - Sara's Secrets, 30 Minute Meals, several other shows. Scotch T-120
Still have a few more to check, including one that has the Dale Earnhardt funeral on it. That was a recording I had been looking for. I will be digitizing it for my mom. She was a huge Dale Sr. fan and never got to see the funeral (which was on Fox Sports Net).

3/17 - Went up to Spokane and Northern Quest to see Craig Ferguson live on his tour! He was hilarious! The Goodwill Outlet in Airway Heights had some VHS tapes, but only one keeper:
- Episodes of That '70s Show taped off KAYU/FOX on 9/25 and 9/26/2001 with commercials; several more That '70s Show episodes from October-November 2001 follow, none of which have commercials. TDK T-120
(I did win about $300 from the slots that night too. No big jackpot, but I'll take it. Went back to the outlet on 3/18, and got skunked completely. No VHS at all.)

And two more tapes found 3/23 from the Union Gap liquidation. More inventory came in.
Tape 1 - 'Annie' (1999) taped off KAPP/ABC on 11/7/1999 with commercials, a Wonderful World of Disney presentation. Fuji T-120 in SP
Tape 2 - 'Mr. Jones' (1993) and 'Lightning Jack' (1994) copied from rentals; when 2nd movie runs out, it cuts to the end of an episode of M*A*S*H and part of Rescue 911 taped off KCPQ-13 in October 1994 with commercials. TDK Super VHS ST-120...kind of a waste of this expensive S-VHS tape, in my opinion!

I also have 14 more Beta tapes in a box right now from Moline IL, part of a huge collection. They have various movies taped 1986-1998, some from local TV (WQAD and KLJB come to mind), others from HBO, USA, WTBS, with commercials. You might remember I bought a lot from the same eBay seller last February.
 
Crainbebo, you'll probably enjoy that next Moline lot, as I purchased one last month and hit commercials on every tape as I described in my last post.

Meanwhile, my latest VHS lot comes from a seller in the path of Monday's total eclipse. Some Canadian finds were probably the best highlights, but more shows were zapped out with their commercials then not. Nevertheless, there were still a few finds:

TAPE 1: Five episodes of You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx from the 1950s (with the syndicated title The Best of Groucho) recorded off CBN circa 1987 with no commercials. I've got several dozen episodes from trades already, so I'll have to double check those episodes to see if they're already in my collection, but its still nice to find old game shows.

TAPE 2: Personally recorded video footage of the 3rd Annual Rock 'n Roll Hall Of Fame Ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria in NYC from 1/20/1988, a total of 1 3/4 hours worth of footage that's more than the scattered clips of the event that's floating online, followed by several clips from a local Toronto news station covering Paul McCartney's Flowers In The Dirt tour from November 1989. No commercials were found, but its always nice to find local newscasts about these classic tours.

TAPE 3: An episode of the 1960s series Secret Agent off CBC circa late 1989 with no commercials, followed by Quantum Leap off WGRZ/NBC on 12/6/1989 with commercials, followed by an episode of The Munsters Today circa December 1989 off an unknown station with no commercials

TAPE 4: Three more episodes of Secret Agent off CBC circa 1989 with no commercials, followed by most of the premiere episode of the '50s sitcom Topper off YTV circa summer 1989 with commercials, followed by a mix of clips off various stations (including NBC, CTV, and other local Buffalo and southern Ontario stations including CKCO) on the death of Jim Backus on 7/3/1989, followed by a brief clip of A Current Affair on Jerry Butler and Lisa Loring off an unknown station circa summer 1989.

TAPE 5: A rerun of the 90-minute premiere of Quantum Leap off Global TV in September 1989 with commercials (I've already got the original broadcast of this), followed by the Quantum Leap episode Honeymoon Express presumably off WGRZ/NBC on 9/20/1989 with no commercials.

TAPE 6: The Munsters Scary Little Christmas (1996) taped off On TV Canada in December 1998 with commercials

TAPE 7: The Dennise The Menace episode "The Frog Jumping Contest' recorded off YTV circa 1993 with no commercials, followed by most of the Hot Body International Miss Palm Springs 1993 pageant off an unknown station with no commercials, followed by an episode of the McHale's Navy ('60s sitcom) episode "McHale's Floating Laundromat" recorded off Comedy Central in November 1993 with ads, followed by a local news clip off WGRZ on the Beatles' 30th Anniversary along with a clip on Beatles photographer Harry Benson on CBS This Morning from February 1994 with no commercials

TAPE 8: Two episodes of the BBC series Trainer off YTV in December 1993, the first episode "No Way To Treat A Lady" has the commercials, but the "James Is Missing" episode has them zapped out. This is followed by the classic Beatles videos "Hello Goodbye" and "Help" followed by a brief clip off CNN's Showbiz Today on the celebrities who passed on in 1993.

Most tapes were recorded in SP, with a few in LP. Most of the tape stock was Fuji T-120 from the late '80s/early '90s, although the You Bet Your Life Tape was a mid-80s Maxell T-120. Among the duds included a tape with more episodes of Trainer along with an episode of Acapulco H.E.A.T. with no commercials, a tape with the 1964 movie Advance To The Rear along with the Married.. With Children Episode where Kelly shoots a music video, five episodes of Police Squad (I've already got the full original broadcasts of that series anyway), a tape with four Dennis The Menace episodes and the Gilligan's Island episode "The Matchmaker" with no ads, a tape with the 1966 movie One Spy Too Many off WGLN with no ads, and one last tape with the Three Stooges short "Plane Nuts" along with a bunch of hardcore adult footage.

radiofan2023, I frequently find commercials with radio spots every now and then, but I don't have a good catalog regarding which particular ones along with where those recordings were found, so just check out my YouTube channels for them.
 
Some finds from a few weeks ago, along with some from just this weekend. Came across quite a few surprises on some of these.

Estate sale--Parma, OH
TAPE 1: Ghostbusters (1984) taped from WEWS in Cleveland (ABC Sunday Night Movie) on 1/29/1989 minus commercials; Full Metal Jacket (1987) taped from HBO in February 1989 with promos. Scotch T-120.

TAPE 2: Partial episode of ER taped from WKYC in Cleveland on 3/23/2000 with commercials. TDK T-120.


The Retro Attic--Akron, OH
TAPE 3: (Some rare content here!) All My Children taped from WEWS on 8/26/1996 with commercials; partial bootleg recording of KISS's press conference announcing their upcoming concert tour on 4/16/1996, the rest of these recordings are all KISS related; clip from Week in Rock taped from MTV in April 1996; clip from Late Night with Conan O'Brien taped from unknown NBC affiliate on 4/19/1996; KISS reunion tour promotional video recorded on 3/13/1996; KISS press conference highlights package from On the Scene Productions; clip from WBAL 11 News taped from WBAL in Baltimore on 5/4/1995 (KISS Day in Baltimore); raw video of KISS Day in Baltimore presumably recorded by WBAL on 5/4/1995; clip from a broadcast of Out of Hollywood taped from unknown channel in January 1987; partial broadcast of Blue Spotlight taped from MuchMusic in 1992 minus commercials; partial broadcast of Power 30 taped from MuchMusic in 1992 minus commercials (save for the last second or so of a couple, would have been nice to have some Canadian commercials in my collection). TDK T-120.


Estate sale--Fairlawn, OH
TAPE 4: The American Experience taped from WNET in New York City on November 14, 15 and 16, 1999 with promos (first three parts of New York: A Documentary Film). Maxell T-120.

TAPE 5: The American Experience (part four of New York: A Documentary Film) taped from WNET on 11/17/1999 with promos; The American Experience (part five of the New York docuseries), Charlie Rose (Jimmy Buffett is one of the guests) and partial rebroadcast of The American Experience taped from WNET on November 18-19, 1999 with promos. Maxell T-120.


Estate sale--Parma Heights, OH
TAPE 6: Dancing with the Stars taped from WEWS on 2/9/2006 with commercials; partial pilot episode of Crumbs taped from WEWS on 1/5/2006 with commercials; Dancing with the Stars taped from WEWS on 1/6/2006 with commercials. TDK T-120.


Estate sale--Wadsworth, OH
TAPE 7: End of a broadcast of the 1993 Kids World Council and partial episode of Clarissa Explains It All taped from Nickelodeon on 4/17/1993 with commercials; partial broadcast of My Cousin Vinny (1992) taped from unknown pay TV channel circa 1995(?); partial unknown program taped from HGTV in July 1995 with commercials; Hometime and partial episode of Furniture on the Mend taped from TLC on 7/3/1995 with commercials, cable box then flips to an unknown TBN program on WDLI in Canton, several prompts from the Warner Cable box menu show up on screen before the box switches to WKYC during the last few minutes of Montel Williams and the first few minutes of Channel 3 News at 6 with commercials and more random prompts from the cable box menu. BASF T-120.

TAPE 8: The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie taped from Nickelodeon on 8/18/2001 with commercials; partial episode of Survivor taped from WOIO in Cleveland on 10/18/2001 with commercials, one of them being the Reebok commercial with Missy Elliott's "It's a Woman's World." Maxell T-120.

TAPE 9: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer taped from WOIO on 12/2/1998 minus most commercials; Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town taped from Fox Family in December 1998 with commercials; rerun of the Chanukah episode of Rugrats taped from Nickelodeon in December 1999 with commercials; partial broadcast of Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Atlanta Hawks taped from SportsChannel Ohio on 3/7/1996 with commercials; partial final episode of Cheers and partial broadcast of Channel 3 News at 11 taped from WKYC on 5/20/1993 with commercials; partial episode of Beverly Hills 90210 taped from WOIO on 5/12/1993 with commercials. Scotch T-120.

At another estate sale in Fairlawn just this morning, I picked up one tape that turned out to be a rental dub of Pippi Longstocking (1997), but with a twist--this was dubbed from a Canadian print created by Malofilm, which would later be renamed Les Films Seville. It started with a trailer for Air Bud (1997). After the rental tape ended was a blue screen with the second VCR tuned to channel 2, but with no signal--if only there would have been some random Canadian TV recording afterward!
 
I'm currently looking at a 100+ tape lot that I purchased over the weekend from a seller based near Philadelphia. This is my first ever lot via Facebook Marketplace, and photos in the listing showed a nice variety of tape stock ranging from a silver RCA VK 250 up until the mid-2000s, with most tape stock being from the '90s. I've found the complete version of that 1993 90210 episode you just found, Scott (I myself also had a partial version too), and that same tape also contained the previous episode from 5/5/1993 with commercials (the prom episode featuring dance-pop singer Cathy Dennis as guest), plus my oldest off-air Seinfeld find from August 1992 (a rerun of the subway episode, which was missing the first eight minutes) as well. Other finds so far includes most of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series off KYW/NBC with commercials, beginning during the second batter of the game and abruptly ending just a few seconds after Billy Buckner's error, meaning that the recorder must have pulled for the Red Sox (Phillies fans obviously tend to hate the Mets more). Another tape did have that same Rudolph special from 1998 with the commercials intact, where CBS billed it as a special restored edition on the pre-show intro. Other notable finds so far include an episode of She-Ra off WNYW in December 1986 with commercials, two hours of CNBC footage from 10/11/1993 with ads, part two of the Lincoln miniseries from March 1988 with ads, a full WPIX newscast from 1990, a nearly complete must-see TV NBC block from 4/30/1998, a couple SNLs from the late '90s with ads, two episodes of Blue's Clues off Nick Jr. from April 1999, one of them with the closing and commercial break after the show, the nearly full 1998 Oscars along with Nightline and a partial Politically Correct with Bill Maher featuring some past Oscar winners, a partial SportsCenter from October 1986, final round coverage of the 1999 Masters, a few Philly-area newscasts from the late '90s, a partial episode of All My Children from 11/30/1989, and even a few minutes of a 1986 episode of The Price Is Right featuring most of a Cheerleaders Showcase, the commercial break prior to the final reveal, and part of the closing. The last tape I'm looking at featured a partial 20/20 from August 1999 that features a story featuring teen lingo at the mall, some random channel surfing, and an episode of VH1's Where Are They Now: classic rock. Lots more details to come, so stay tuned!
 
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I've just finished delving through that large Facebook lot from the Philly-area seller, and this yields some of my best finds of the year so far, with a total of 66 tapes that I've kept. There were also five sealed, unused blanks, about 20 tapes recorded in the early-mid 2000s that I decided to pass on (mostly from the early '00s, with the newest tape being recorded in 2006), and about 10 other duds, including the 1990 Madonna HBO concert with no promos, a retail copy of Ice Castles (1978) missing its sleeve, a mid-80s-recorded tape featuring a Bugs Bunny special with no ads, and typical zapped tapes without ads, adult content, and family movies, although one tape featured footage from a skating rink from the mid-90s, but I couldn't depicter the name/location of the rink, so I regrettably placed that in the trash bin. Still, there was a nice mix of content in a variety of speeds, networks, and genres. The amount of local news finds is a bit less than what you expect, but that's what Marion Stokes is for. All tapes are taped off Philadelphia area stations (WPVI, WCAU (CBS before 1995, NBC after 1995), KYW (NBC before 1995, CBS after 1995), WTXF, WPHL, WHYY), with a few exceptions from that even bigger city just up I-95. Many tapes didn't match the sleeves, they came from, but most contained pink post-in notes describing the various shows they were on, and if they contained commercials.

TAPE 1: Begins with a softcore HBO G-String special from 2000, followed by episodes of Blue's Clues and part of Gullah Gullah off Nick Jr. on 4/15/1999 with no commercials, followed by another episode of Blue's Clues off Nick Jr. on 4/16/1999 with ads.

TAPE 2: Begins with the first few minutes of an episode of Home Improvement circa September 1998 off ABC with a few ads, followed by most of Get Real and the first several minutes of the WTXF 10 O'Clock News off FOX on 11/10/1999 with commercials, then it jumps ahead for most of ABC's 20/20 Wednesday and the first ten minutes or so for the WPVI 11 PM News from the same night.

TAPE 3: The last eight minutes of Access Hollywood, followed by episodes of Friends, Jessie, Frasier, and about three-fourths of Stark Raving Man for a nearly complete NBC Must-See TV block on 10/28/1999, all with commercials.

TAPE 4: Dawson's Creek and about half of Roswell off the WB on 10/21/1999 with commercials, then after a period of channel surfing, it settles for over two hours worth of morning coverage off MSNBC on 10/9/1999 with commercials (back when it wasn't as crazily far left), followed by part of Game 4 of the NLDS between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros on 10/27/1999 off ESPN with ads.

TAPE 5: Approximately the last three hours of the final round of the 1999 PGA Championship off CBS on 8/15/1999 with commercials, followed by a few miscellaneous clips at the end of the tape, including some brief college basketball action between Temple and Duke

TAPE 6: Starts off with the made-for-HBO movie "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge" from August 1999 with no promos, followed by around the last third of ABC's 20/20 Wednesday and a portion of the WPVI 11 PM News from 8/15/1999 with commercials, followed by part of the VH1 Where Are The Now? episode on classic rock from summer 1999 with commercials, then it wraps up with an overnight block off KYW/CBS on 5/25/1999 featuring part of the Late Late Show, Inside Edition, The Howie Mandel Show, and the SMC Money Makers infomerical.

TAPE 7: Most of the NCAA Men's Basketball Sweet 16 game between Temple and Purdue off KYW/CBS on 3/19/1999 with commercials and halftime, followed by an unknown movie in a foreign language off an unknown station with no commercials.

TAPE 8: Confirming that the recorder must have been an Owls fan, this tape begins with another men's college basketball game, this time off ESPN on 2/5/1999 with some commercials and the halftime zapped out, followed by a Golf Channel documentary on the 1975 Masters golf tournament circa January 1999 with commercials, then it cuts back with the last ten minutes of the Temple/Wisconsin men's basketball game off Comcast SportsNet in December 1998 with a few commercials (before it expanded down into the D.C.-Baltimore region in 2001 by buying out Home Team Sports), then it wraps up with a few minutes of footage on Lamar Odom off the International Channel circa September 1998 with a few commercials.

TAPE 9: Starts off with the Seinfeld series finale and the ER season finale off WCAU/NBC on 5/14/1998 with commercials (another common find that you'll probably hit someday), then it jumps for most of another episode of ER off WCAU on 12/17/1998 with commercials.

TAPE 10: The aforementioned "restored special edition" broadcast of Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer along with about two-thirds of Everybody Loves Raymond off KYW/CBS on 11/30/1998 with commercials, followed by most of The Drew Carey Show off WPVI/ABC on 9/30/1998 with commercials, followed by part of the WCAU 11 PM News and Saturday Night Live (guest host: Joan Allen with Jewel the musical guest) off WCAU/NBC on 11/14/1998 with commercials.

TAPE 11: Parts 9 through 12 of the HBO mini-series From Earth To The Moon from May 1998 with promos after each installment, including one for the premiere of Sex And The City.

TAPE 12: Both parts of The Last Don II miniseries off KYW/CBS on 5/3 and 5/5/1998 with commercials, most of the late newscast follows the second part.

TAPE 13: Begins with about the last ten minutes of the WCAU 11 PM News and the opening segment of SNL from 4/4/1998 with a few commercials, followed by a nearly complete NBC Must-See TV Block (Friends, Just Shoot Me, Seinfeld, Veronica's Closet, ER) off WCAU on 4/30/1998 with commercials, followed by most of an episode of The White Shadow off TV Land circa January 1998 with commercials (and a few Retromercials!), then the tape wraps up with about a half hour from the 25th American Music Awards off WPVI/ABC on 1/25/1998 with a few commercials. I also have the full sitcom blocks from the previous and following Thursdays.

TAPE 14: Starts with The Sopranos off HBO from sometime in 2000 with only a couple promos, then it jumps back to most of the 1998 Academy Awards, the WPVI 11 PM News, Nightline, and most of Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher off WPVI/ABC on 3/23/1998 with commercials.

TAPE 15: The Temple vs. UMass men's basketball game off ESPN2 on 2/3/1998 with most commercials and part of the halftime.

TAPE 16: Begins with about a 15-minute clip of the Senior Skins Game off WPVI/ABC on 1/30/1998 with a few commercials, followed by most of the Lasalle-Temple men's basketball game off Comcast SportsNet on 1/17/1998 with commercials and halftime, followed by part of The Making of Shell's Wonderful World of Golf clip off The Golf Channel from the same day, then it cuts back to CSN with about a 20-minute clip of the Warriors-76ers game from the same night.

TAPE 17: About two-thirds of the WCAU 11 PM News and Saturday Night Live (Host: Matthew Perry) off WCAU/NBC on 10/4/1997 with commercials.

TAPE 18: Starts with about the last 25 minutes of SNL and most of Comedy Showcase off WCAU/NBC on 5/24/1997 with commercials, then it jumps over to about the last half of The World's Scariest Police Chases 2 off WTXF/FOX on 5/20/1997 with no commercials, followed by a partial episode of Melrose Place off WTXF/FOX on 5/19/1997 with commercials, followed by back-to-back all new episodes of Married.. With Children and the first few minutes of the FOX 29 10 PM News off WTXF/FOX on 4/28/1997 with commercials, then it jumps back with about 20 minutes from an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 off WTXF/FOX in November 1992 with a few commercials.

TAPE 19: Two more men's college basketball games featuring Owls, starting off with Bonaventure/Temple off Comcast SportsNet on 1/11/1997 with commercials and halftime, followed by LaSalle/Temple off ESPN 2 with commercials, but most of the halftime missing.

TAPE 20: Begins with a second round March Madness game featuring Temple and Cincinnati off KYW/CBS on 3/17/1996 with commercials, but with the halftime missing, followed by a few minutes from the 1996 Wimbledon with no commercials.

(MORE TO COME)
 
TAPE 21: Beverly Hills 90210 and the Celebrity First Loves special off WTXF/FOX on 2/8/1995 with commercials, followed by about the last two-thirds of Seinfeld off KYW/NBC on 8/26/1992 with commercials (a rerun of "The Subway" and my earliest off-air Seinfeld find so far), followed by more episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 off WTXF/FOX on 5/5 and 5/12/1993 with commercials, then the tape wraps up with about two-thirds of Seinfeld off KYW/NBC on 5/12/1993 with commercials.

TAPE 22: Most of Mad About You, Friends, and Seinfeld off KYW/NBC on 1/5/1995 with commercials, followed by several minutes of Eye To Eye with Connie Chung off WCAU/CBS from the same night, followed by another episode of Friends, an NBC News Special Report featuring a Presidential Address by Clinton, Seinfeld, and the short-lived Madman Of The People off KYW/NBC on 12/15/1994 with commercials, followed by part of a syndicated rerun of Cheers off WTXF in December 1994 with a few commercials, followed by several minutes from the WTXF 10 O'Clock News on 12/7/1994 with a few commercials. This is my first ever find of "Madman", while I've already got the same special report off ABC from that night. Also, remember that Philadelphia's 1995 network switch that involved a Westinghouse-owned station didn't happen until September of that year, unlike Baltimore's which happened at the start of 1995.

TAPE 23: Most of Mad About You, Wings, and Seinfeld off KYW/NBC on 5/12/1994 with commercials, followed by about a 30-minute portion of The Stand miniseries off WPVI/ABC in May 1994 with a few commercials.

TAPE 24: Starts with an episode of All My Children off WPVI/ABC in August 1994 with commercials (features a funeral), followed by ESPN's coverage of the Hollywood Gold Cup from July 1994 with commercials, followed by part of the FOX movie "Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman" (1993) off WTXF in May 1994 with some commercials. That remake of the 1958 drive-in classic was originally made for HBO.

TAPE 25: About a dozen episodes of Easy Does It Off The Discovery Channel, with the episodes from 12/31/1993, 1/3, 1/7, 1/12, 1/3, 1/14, and 1/17/1994 having the commercials intact, with several episodes being scoped without the ads.

TAPE 26: Guarding Tess (1994) and The Crow (1994) off an unknown network with no commercials/promos, followed by nearly a full episode of The Beliver's Voice of Victory with Kenneth Copeland off WPHL on 11/19/1993 with a few commercials. Religious programming outside the Bible Belt? I'll take it.

TAPE 27: Episodes of All My Children off WPVI/ABC on 4/26 and 4/27/1993 with commercials, followed by an episode of Barney & Friends (ugh) and two partial episodes of Sesame Street from early 1993 off WHYY/PBS with a few promos, followed by two episodes of The Rockford Files off A&E circa May 1993 with commercials, followed by a partial episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine off WPHL circa May 1993 with a few commercials.

TAPE 28: Most of the NFC Divisional playoff game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys off WCAU/CBS on 1/10/1993 with commercials and halftime (begins early in the second quarter), followed by some hardcore adult content for around 20 minutes, then about a ten-minute clip off the Byron Allen Show featuring Sheena Easton circa 1991, then after a bunch of channel surfing, it settles down with about the last quarter of One Life To Live, General Hospital, and about half of Oprah Winfrey (guest: Diana Ross) off WPVI/ABC on 10/25/1993 with commercials. I've already got the other NFL playoff game (Redskins-49ers) from that same afternoon that I received off a Craigslist find from a seller who was from the DC area but moved to Hawaii in 2019. Unfortunately for NFL fans, that game was blacked out in the Philly area according to a message shown near the end of the game.

TAPE 29: Three episodes of the WHYY kids' show "What Is It?" from 9/20, 9/21, and 9/22/1993 with a few funding sponsors, followed by a partial broadcast of All My Children off WPVI/ABC on 11/30/1989 with commercials, followed by Born On The Fourth Of July (1989) off an unknown premium cable station circa 1990 with no promos, followed by most of an episode of Sesame Street circa spring 1991 off WHYY/PBS with a few promos, then over two hours worth of afternoon footage off CNBC on 10/11/1993 with commercials.

TAPE 30: Begins with about half an hour of coverage of horse racing from Hollywood Park off ESPN in early 1994 with commercials, followed by 25 minutes of coverage from the 1993 Academy Awards off WPVI/ABC on 3/29/1993 with a few commercials, followed by a classic episode of The Lucy Show and two episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show off Nick at Nite in June 1993 with commercials, then it returns back for about the last 45 minutes of the 1993 Oscars with more commercials, followed by a short news clip off WPVI on the Jacksons on 11/15/1992, then it wraps up with nearly an hour's worth of coverage from TNT's NBA All-Star Saturday on 2/8/1992 with commercials, including portions of the NBA Shootout and Slam Dunk competitions.

TAPE 31: Most of E.T. (1982) and the first few minutes of Evening Shade off WCAU/CBS on Thanksgiving night 1992 with commercials, many of which were for Sears. There was also a special post-movie featurette about the memories of the film from various folks.

TAPE 32: About ten minutes from a syndicated Elton John special from late 1991 with very few commercials, followed by a brief Howard Stern clip off an unknown station with no commercials, followed by the PBS special Who Will Teach For America? (produced in 1991, aired in early 1992) off WHYY with a few commercials, followed by Elvis: The Great Performances off WCAU in April 1992 with very few commercials, followed by the final Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (it had to turn up again) off KYW/NBC on 5/22/1992 with commercials, followed by Al Gore's Speech from the 1992 Democratic National Convention off WPVI/ABC in July 1992 with no commercials

TAPE 33: Begins with a portion of the Richard Pryor: Live On The Sunset Strip (1982) and Whoopi Goldberg: Direct From Brooklyn off HBO from early 1986 with no promos, followed by Starman (1984) taped off an unknown station with no promos/commercials, then following a couple home movies, it jumps over to Nick Jr. with an episode of Maya The Bee "Grandma Locust" and the first few minutes of The Little Bits "Legend of The Red Light" from April 1992 with commercials.

TAPE 34: Begins with a couple clips from ABC's This Week With David Brinkley from late 1991 with no commercials, followed by part of the Eagles-Cowboys game off WCAU/CBS on 12/15/1991 with commercials (begins midway through the 3rd quarter), then the tape winds up with the 1992 State Of The Union address off WPVI/ABC on 1/28/1992 with the Democratic response and one commercial break after the speeches.

TAPE 35: Little Giants (1994) copied from a rental, followed by about 30 minutes of Jesus Is Lord with Kenneth Copeland off WPHL in December 1991 with a few commercials.

TAPE 36: Ray Charles: 50 Years off WTXF/FOX on 10/6/1991 with commercials, followed by episodes of All My Children from 9/18 and 11/7/1991 off WPVI/ABC with commercials, followed by about 38 minutes of footage off QVC on 11/2/1991 with commercials (yes, the "Santa" button was already activated), then it jumps back for more episodes of All My Children from 11/4 and 11/5/1991 off WPVI/ABC with commercials. My earliest QVC find, and it makes sense given the company is headquartered in the Philly area. I previously found that Ray Charles special back in 2015 in that mega lot that I've mentioned upthread with all the Beatles references in each tape.

TAPE 37: A colorized version of Ransom (1956), taped off TNT in June 1991 with commercials, followed by a partial episode of All My Children off WPVI/ABC on 6/14/1991 with a few commercials, a complete episode of AMC from 6/17/1991 with ads, then another partial episode of AMC from 5/27/1991 with ads.

TAPE 38: The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show off WCAU/CBS on 2/17/1991 with a few commercials (I've already got this anyways), followed by a clip from the Mary Tyler Moore anniversary special, some various Gulf War news coverage off CNN, ABC, and Nightline, followed by about the last hour of the 63rd Academy Awards off WPVI/ABC on 3/25/1991 with commercials.

TAPE 39: Starts off with part of the 1990 Frank Sinatra special concert off KYW with few commercials, followed by several minutes from another Eagles-Cowboys game from 1990 (no commercials), followed by President Bush's announcement on Iraq's invasion of Kuwait off WPVI/ABC on 1/15/1991 (I've already got the CBS airing), followed by A&E Stage's "The Rivals" from early 1991 with commercials, including some South Jersey inserts, followed by part of the documentary Jimmy Carter: Citzien off the Discovery Channel from early 1991 with a few commercials.

TAPE 40: Kicks off with the PBS documentary Barnum off WHYY/PBS circa early 1990 with a few promos, followed by a portion of the Family of Spies miniseries off WCAU/CBS on 2/6/1990 with commercials, then it jumps for a full WPIX 10 O'Clock newscast and the first several minutes of USA Tonight on 3/2/1990 with commercials.

TAPE 41: No off-air content on this tape, but this family video includes nearly an hour's worth of footage from Busch Gardens Tampa on 2/25/1990, and there may have been a brief clip of Cypress Gardens footage as well.

(EVEN MORE TO COME)
 
TAPE 42: Approximately the last 55 minutes of the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox MLB game off WPIX on 6/12/1989 with commercials, followed by A&E World of Stage's presentation of the making of Les Misérables on 7/20/1989 with commercials, followed by The American Experience episode "Forever Baseball" off WHYY/PBS in 1989 with a few funding sponsors, followed by Field of Dreams (1989) taped off an unknown premium cable station, followed by the opening and last 20 minutes of the 1990 Bikini Open off a pay-per-view service.

TAPE 43: Begins with about 30 minutes of footage about the Hinton-Moot court competition on C-SPAN in 1989 (a commercial-free network), followed by a documentary of ancient art of the western world off WHYY/PBS circa 1989, followed by A Charlie Brown Christmas off WCAU/CBS on 12/22/1989 with commercials, followed by Love & Death (1975) off a rental, followed by Phil Rizzuto: Holy Cow! and the opening to the Yankees-Kanas City Royals MLB game from 1990 with a few commercials

TAPE 44: Another non-terrestrial TV recording, this tape features a Christmas play from The Fairton Christian Center in Fairton, NJ on 1217/1989, complete with semi-professional credits. Thanks to the information present and all of the cast present, this makes this item worthy for the Santa pile for this piece of local community theater.

TAPE 45: Starts with the X-rated film Having It All copied from a rental, followed by a brief clip from a Yankees baseball game, followed by most of a rerun of the 1987 Hall of Fame movie The Secret Garden off WCAU/CBS on 12/16/1989 with commercials, with the SP speed a consequence of the recording cutting off a bit short.

TAPE 46: Begins with episodes of Days of our Lives off KYW/NBC on 11/6, 11/7, and 11/8/1989 with commercials, followed by the end of an unknown movie and an episode of Sneak Previews off WHYY/PBS on 10/12/1985 with some promos.

TAPE 47: Begins with the final game of the 1989 NBA finals between the LA Lakers and Detroit Pistons with no commercials, followed by a motivational program entitled "Thriving On Chaos" off WHYY/PBS in 1989 with a few promos, followed by most of Game 4 of the 1996 NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and Seattle Supersonics with no commercials.

TAPE 48: Starts with the Peter, Paul and Mary Christmas Special off WHYY/PBS in December 1989 with a couple promos, followed by Lilies of the Field (1963) and part of a syndicated rerun taped off WTAF in November 1989 with commercials, followed by the second half of 60 Minutes off WCAU/CBS on 1/15/1989 with commercials, followed by the end of an Eagles NFL game and local postgame coverage from 12/18/1988 with a few commercials.

TAPE 49: Starts with a brief clip from a Phillies-Astros MLB game from 1988, followed by footage from the 1988 Democratic National Convention off C-SPAN on 7/22/1988 (a morning rebroadcast from the previous night's coverage), followed by the last few minutes of Evening Magazine, Night Court, and the 1988 Vice Presidential Debate (Quayle vs. Bentsen) off KYW/NBC on 10/5/1988 with commercials, followed by a portion of the 1994 Academy Awards off WPVI/ABC with no commercials. That Night Court network rerun was a last-minute scheduling decision as TV Guide didn't have it listed in the schedule at the time.

TAPE 50: Begins with Motown Returns To The Apollo off an unknown NBC station (possibly WNBC given what's on the rest of this tape) on 5/18/1985 with no commercials, followed by the Merry Motown Christmas special off an unknown NBC station on 12/14/1987 with no commercials, followed by a syndicated rerun of the Motown 25 special from 1983 off WNYW on 6/1/1988 with commercials, followed by She-Ra and most of the Chuck Norris cartoon off WNYW on 12/19/1986 with commercials.

TAPE 51: Missing (1982) and Sophie's Choice (1982) taped off HBO circa 1983 with no promos, followed by Candidate '88 with Marvin Kalb on the 1988 Presidential Candidates recorded off WHYY/PBS with no promos, followed by about the last half hour of Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve '86 off WPVI/ABC just after midnight on 1/1/1986 with commercials (the lineup felt more CBS' Happy New Year America with a couple '60s Motown groups and The Judds as guests). Too bad politics "trumped" music here, but maybe the rest of the special is out there.

TAPE 52: A Place In The Sun (1951) taped off Showtime in April 1988 with several minutes of promos after the movie, followed by most of part two of Gore Vidal's Lincoln off KYW/NBC on 3/28/1988 with commercials.

TAPE 53: Begins with a clip from ABC's 20/20 about Phantom Of The Opera from late 1987 or early 1988, followed by most of an episode of The Frugal Gourmet off WHYY/PBS from around the same time, followed by the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 20th Anniversary special off WCAU/CBS on 2/3/1988 with commercials, then about three-quarters of the 1988 NBA All-Star Game off WCAU/CBS on 2/7/1988 with commercials and halftime, followed by A Bob Hope special off KYW/NBC on 3/5/1988 with commercials, followed by about two-thirds of an episode of Club MTV circa May 1989 off MTV with no commercials.

TAPE 54: Starts off with a clip about hairstyles from KYW's People Are Talking from sometime in 1987, followed by part of Sentimental Swing: The Music of Tommy Dorsey off WHYY/PBS on 8/22/1987 with no pledge breaks (I've already got a copy of this broadcast off the same station with the pledge breaks intact), followed by Wild In The Streets (1968) off WTXF in October 1987 with commercials, followed by a short clip from ESPN SportsCenter from 9/29/1987 on Don Mattingly's 6th grand slam in a season, followed by an episode of America By Design off WHYY/PBS around fall 1987 with some promos, followed by part of Game 2 of the 1987 World Series off KYW/NBC with few commercials, followed by another episode of America By Design off WHYY/PBS in 1987 with a few promos.

TAPE 55: Starts off with Amy Grant: Headin' Home For The Holidays off KYW/NBC on 12/21/1986 with commercials (that Peter Cetera duet at the time probably caused a lot of non-Christian music fans to check it out), followed by a clip from 60 Minutes on the town of Lourdes, France circa early 1987, followed by a documentary on Mother Teresa off WHYY/PBS from early 1987 with a few promos, followed by The Power of Excellence: The Forgotten off WHYY/PBS around March 1987 with a few promos, followed a montage of various concert clips, including Bruce Springsteen and The Beach Boys Hawaii special.

TAPE 56: Most of game 2 of the 1986 World Series (Red Sox-New York Mets) off KYW/NBC on 10/19/1986 with no commercials, followed by most of game 6 of the '86 World Series off KYW/NBC on 10/25/1986 with commercials, beginning in the bottom of the 1st inning and ending abruptly after Bill Buckner's infamous bobble.

TAPE 57: Madonna: The Virgin Tour (1985) copied from rental, followed by almost all of game 7 of the 1986 ALCS (California Angels vs. Red Sox) off WPVI/ABC on 10/15/1986 with commercials, followed by two episodes of The Day The Universe Changed off WHYY/PBS in October 1986 with a few promos, followed by part of an episode of Newhart off presumably WCAU/CBS circa late 1986 with no commercials.

TAPE 58: Part of Ted Turner's interview on Larry King Live in late 1985 or early 1986 with a few commercials, followed by part of the MTV Midweek Special starring Tears For Fears in early 1986 with no commercials, followed by a documentary on the 1978 World Series during a rain delay of a 1986 Yankees baseball game off WPIX with a few commercials, followed by the documentary Pride of Place: Building The American Dream off WNET/PBS from sometime in 1986 with a couple promos, followed by the Pavarotti Silver Jubilee Concert at Madison Square Garden off WNET/PBS from 1986 with a few promos, followed by part of ESPN SportsCenter from 10/12/1986 with no commercials.

TAPE 59: Mask (1985) off presumably Showtime circa July 1986 with no promos, followed by Running (1979), the ABC Saturday Night Movie taped off WPVI on 7/12/1986 with some commercials

TAPE 60: Starts with adult film True Crimes Of Passion (1983) copied off a rental, followed by a performance of Pippin off of WHYY/PBS circa 1985, followed by a couple random music videos, followed by the We Are The World behind the scenes special off HBO in December 1985 with a couple promos, followed by Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) taped off HBO in early 1986 with no promos
 
TAPE 61: Begins with an episode of Jean Shepherd's America off WHYY/PBS circa 1985 with no promos, followed by an American Playhouse episode on the Making of West Side Story off WHY/PBS in 1985 with a couple promos, followed by a pre-game ceremony honoring Phil Rizzuto's jersey retirement at a Yankees game, taped off WPIX on 8/5/1985, then it jumps to around the sixth inning of a Chicago White Sox-Yankees game from the previous day, taped off WPIX with commercials

TAPE 62: Kicks off with a few minutes of promos off PRISM followed by Baseball's Greatest Games: The New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox on the 1978 play-in game, taped off PRISM in December 1991 with commercials (yes, despite being a pay TV network in the Philly area, they did air ads outside of movies and some specials), followed by a short clip from 12 Angry Men (1957), then this is followed by Lost For Life (1957) also off an unknown pay TV network, but the big winner was around two hours worth of MTV footage from 7/14/1985 with commercials, with Nina Blackwood being the VJ mentioning that Live Aid had ended just a few hours ago.

TAPE 63: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) taped off WPHL on 3/28/1985 with commercials, followed by an episode of Great Performances about The The Taylor Company ballet, taped off WHYY/PBS on 3/29/1985 with some promos, followed by a few random clips from Late Night with David Letterman, The Gong Show off USA, and another episode of Great Performances entitled Lawrence Olivier: A Life off WHYY/PBS from sometime in 1985 with no promos.

TAPE 64: Most of the NBC Monday Night At The Movies premiere presentation of A Reason To Live, recorded off KYW on 1/7/1985 with commercials, followed by A Tour Of Graceland off WHYY/PBS on 1/8/1985 with no promos, followed by Barbara Mandrell: Something Special off WCAU/CBS on 1/9/1985 with commercials

TAPE 65: It's A Wonderful Life (1941) taped off WTBS on 12/24/1983 with no commercials, followed by A Walk Through The 20th Century With Bill Moyers on the Teddy Roosevelt era off WHYY/PBS circa January 1984 with no promos, followed by the 1984 Sate Of The Union address off WHYY/PBS on 1/25/1984 with several minutes of post-speech commentary by MacNeil and Lehrer, followed by Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser off WHYY/PBS on 6/22/1984 with promos after the broadcast, which interestingly had the electronic slate intact at the start of the episode, indicating that it was episode #1352 of the run. This was the RCA SelectaVision VK 250 tape.

TAPE 66: Starts with Brother, Son, Sister, Moon (1973) taped off an unknown station with no commercials, followed by most of ABC's 20/20 featuring Geraldo Rivera's interview with Barbra Streisand off presumably WPVI on 11/1/79183 with no commercials, intro, or closing, followed by about the first 20 minutes of the MTV Saturday Concert featuring U2 At Red Rocks Amphitheatre on 11/19/1983 with a few commercials before concert (my second oldest MTV find, but too bad its partial), followed by part of the NFL game between my personal two most hated teams in the league (the Chiefs and Cowboys, taped off KYW/NBC on 11/201/983 with commercials and halftime, beginning early in the second quarter and ending midway through the third), then it jumps to clips from the St. Louis (football) Cardinals/Cowboys game taped off WCAU/CBS on Thanksgiving Day 1983 with a few commercials, followed by a brief 20/20 clip on Linda Ronstadt circa 1984 with no commercials, followed by footage from then Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson's speech at Concord Baptist Church off C-SPAN circa spring 1984 (my oldest find from this network). TDK Super Avilyn T-120.

Hard to believe, but on this day 50 years ago, MFSB's T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia) topped the Billboard charts, so it shows how incredibly I can still find stuff even 80% as far back in time.
 
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When I started doing these logs 8+ years ago, I pretty much avoided anything post 1995 or so, now I do appreciate "newer stuff" because even 2004 is 20 years ago now! Man when did we get so old?

Tape 124
1.1997/3/7 ACC Quarterfinals Clemson vs Maryland (WRAL JP Sports) (2h9m JIP 18M 1st Half)
2.1997/3/7 ACC Quarterfinals Duke vs NC State (WRAL JP Sports) (2h25m)
3.1997/3/7 Seinfeld syndicated airing (8m partial) (WRAL)
4.1997/3/7 WRAL 5PM News (30m)
5.1997/3/7 WRAL 530 News (22m most)
TRT 5h35m

Tape 125
1.2008/8/20 Olympic Basketball Quarterfinals USA vs Australia (USA) (1h49m)
2.2008/8/22 Olympic Basketball Semifinals USA vs Argentina (WNCN NBC) (1h44m)
3.2008/8/24 Olympic Basketball Finals USA vs Spain (WNCN NBC) (2h31m)
4.2001/10/x WKFT 40 News Brief and Secret Adventures of Jules Verne partial (12m)
TRT 6h10m

Tape 126 6+ hour TBS uninterrupted block
1.1989/9/22 Planet of the Apes (TBS) (2h17m) missing open
2.1989/9/22 Beneath the Planet of the Apes (TBS) (2h)
3.1989/9/22 Three Stooges Classics (TBS) (19m)
4.1989/9/22 Green Acres (TBS) (30m)
5.1989/9/22 Gomer Pyle USMC (TBS) (30m)
6.1989/9/22 Headline News Hurricane Hugo (TBS) (30m)
7.1989/9/22 Tom & Jerry’s Funhouse (TBS) (5m partial)
TRT 6h8m

Tape 127 5+ hour CBS uninterrupted block
1.1993/2/27 CBS Evening News (7m partial) (WRAL)
2.1993/2/27 Hee Haw Silver (1h) (WRAL)
3.1993/2/27 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman (1h) (WRAL)
4.1993/2/27 CBS Saturday Movie- Mother of The Bride (2h) (WRAL) part of a weird trilogy of films with Rue McClanahan
5.1993/2/27 WRAL 11PM News (30m)
6.1993/2/27 Roseanne 4x17 syndicated (30m) (WRAL)
7.1993/2/27 Cinema 5- Car Wash (12m partial) (WRAL)
TRT 5h18m

Tape 128
1.??? SNL 15x20 (33m partial commercials cut) Comedy Central airing
2.1992/11/1 SNL Presidential Bash (2h) (WRDC)
3.1992/11/7 Best of SNL (53m commercials cut) (WRDC)
4.1990/12/31 New Years Eve World Party (43m partial) (MTV) SP
5.1991/1/1 MTV Music Videos (6m) SP
TRT 4h15m

Tape 129
1.1985? Austin City Limits- Tammy Wynette (58m) (WMVS)
2.1985? Austin City Limits- Roger Hill, Earl Thomas Connelly (58m) (WMVS)
TRT 1h56m SP

Tape 130
1.Some early 90s home movies (51m)
2.Brief TV clip
3.1992/4/x Bold & The Beautiful (28m partial) (WRAL)
4.1992/4/x As The World Turns (33m partial) (WRAL)
TRT 2h1m SP

Tape 131
1.2002/11/25 Davidson at Duke (ESPN2) (2h16m missing 1st minute otherwise complete)
2.2002/11/30 John Wooden Classic UCLA vs Duke (WRAL) (1h38m most commercials cut)
3.2002/12/3 ACC Big 10 Challenge Ohio St vs Duke (ESPN) (1h47m some commercials cut) + beginning of Maryland vs Indiana which was next (8m)
4.2002/11/2x WRAL 5PM News (4m partial)
TRT 5h52m

Tape 132
All of these were on WRAL same night but in a weird order
1.2005/3/1 Amazing Race Season Premiere (1h27m most)
2.2005/3/1 WRAL 11PM News (30m)
3.2005/3/1 Late Show With David Letterman (3m open only)
4.2005/3/1 Inside Edition (11m partial)
5.2005/3/1 The Insiders (30m)
6.2005/3/1 NCIS (1h)
7.2005/3/1 Amazing Race same as #1 (26m)
TRT 4h7m

Tape 133
1.1995/10/6 Young & The Restless (WRAL) (1h)
2.1995/2/1x True Grit (WTVD) (1h3m partial)
TRT 2h3m SP

Tape 134
Weird one here, first chunk is almost like a bizarre mixtape of Discovery Channel content plus a home movie, then ends with many episodes of The Bertice Berry Show, a talk show I've never heard of before.
1.??? Justice Files (14m partial) (Discovery)
2.??? War documentary series (12m partial) (Discovery)
3.??? Justice Files (10m partial) (Discovery)
4.1993? BETs Listening Party (19m partial)
5.Home movie of karate class (31m)
6.1993? Martin 2x7 (21m commercials cut) (WLFL)
7.??? Skydiving clip (8m) (Discovery)
8.Random TV clips
9.??? War documentary series (30m partial) (Discovery)
10.1994/2/x Bertice Berry Show (41m most) (WRAL) topic “Slum houses”
11.1994/2/12 Soul Train (20m partial) (WTVD)
12.Music videos (7m)
13.1994/2/20 Martin 2x20 (20m partial) (WLFL)
14.1994/2/20 Living Single 1x20 (26m) (WLFL)
15.1994? Bertice Berry Show (22m partial) (WRAL) topic “Older women dressing slutty”
16.1994? Bertice Berry Show (58m) (WRAL)
topic “Bad mother-in-law”
17.1994/4/x WTVD11 NOON News (26m partial)
TRT 6h

Tape 135
1.TMNT 2 rental tape copy (5m partial)
2.1991/4/19 Boxing PPV with these 3 fights:
Paez vs Suarez, Morrison vs Vaulin, and Holyfield vs Foreman (3h11m open slightly taped over and ending commentary slightly cut) TRT 3h16m
 
chandler0201 said:
Tape 134
Weird one here, first chunk is almost like a bizarre mixtape of Discovery Channel content plus a home movie, then ends with many episodes of The Bertice Berry Show, a talk show I've never heard of before.
1.??? Justice Files (14m partial) (Discovery)
2.??? War documentary series (12m partial) (Discovery)
3.??? Justice Files (10m partial) (Discovery)
4.1993? BETs Listening Party (19m partial)
5.Home movie of karate class (31m)
6.1993? Martin 2x7 (21m commercials cut) (WLFL)
7.??? Skydiving clip (8m) (Discovery)
8.Random TV clips
9.??? War documentary series (30m partial) (Discovery)
10.1994/2/x Bertice Berry Show (41m most) (WRAL) topic “Slum houses”
11.1994/2/12 Soul Train (20m partial) (WTVD)
12.Music videos (7m)
13.1994/2/20 Martin 2x20 (20m partial) (WLFL)
14.1994/2/20 Living Single 1x20 (26m) (WLFL)
15.1994? Bertice Berry Show (22m partial) (WRAL) topic “Older women dressing slutty”
16.1994? Bertice Berry Show (58m) (WRAL)
topic “Bad mother-in-law”
17.1994/4/x WTVD11 NOON News (26m partial)
TRT 6h
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Bertice Berry’s show was only on for a year or so, I found out about it watching old episodes of Talk Soup on YouTube. What did you think of it? I thought Rolonda was better.
 
I have only two partial episodes of Bertice Berry, but from the looks of it, it easily could have filed a void left behind from what Oprah Winfrey's show used to be as it was starting to become more highbrow around this time. Topics such as straight people being mistaken as gay, or helping friends who are struggling were the focus, and it wasn't too trashy like Jerry Springer was quickly evolving into.

Its not too much, but any find of any '90s BET footage (and much of Tape 134 with all the black-oriented programming) is a winner to me. Even though I live near some of the cities with some of the highest African-American populations (and my Philly lot did feature a family video of a black family on one tape), its surprisingly difficult to find BET content, since black households tend to be less well-off to afford cable, tended to buy a VCR later than the white population, and many still only had OTA TV at the time with antennas on their roofs before satellites made it more affordable around the early 2000s.

Also, I never knew about those post-run Hee Haw Silver reruns as the show had aired its final episode the previous year. TNN did briefly air Hee Haw reruns around 1997, but the changing attitudes of the '90s (even within country music itself) did not bode well for the Millennials coming of age. I would like to see an episode from the final season (1991-92) turn up someday with its attempt to become more modern, but many markets had dropped the show by then (especially the big markets).

Yes, time marches on and its inevitable that the share of finds from the 2000s will be greater than the 1980s compared to even a decade ago, but as long as I keep finding a sufficient amount of tapes with 1980s/'90s content on them, those decades will remain my focus and will continue to defer on any 21st century content for now, even though the early 2000s is pretty much vintage nowadays (even some "Classic hits" radio stations are starting to add songs from that decade). There's apt to be more blank lots coming on the market as people pass on and leave behind their tape collections instead of passing them down to their relatives, provided that they don't throw them out.

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What’s your youtube channel url or the name?
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I currently have three YouTube channels: pannoni4, pannoni8, pannoni14. I used to post almost everything that wasn't suspect to takedowns, but I have tended to back off a bit to encourage some traders.
 


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