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Title: Anyone Got That On Tape?
Post by: TimK2003 on June 02, 2008, 11:02:20 PM
Plain 'n' Simple:

What was the first game show that you taped on a regular basis?


For me:  Late 1983, it was Press Your Luck as the first game show I taped on our new G.E. VCR (with a corded remote control!!!), and the only one I had taped on a regular basis as it was a great game to play at home if you had a remote control with pause.

Of course, whether or not I had 'beaten' the other 3 contestants, I only saved the episode if it was a memorable show.  Otherwise, I would tape over the shows I had seen.  (25 years ago VCR tapes were about $2.00 EACH!)


Others???
Title: Anyone Got That On Tape?
Post by: BrandonFG on June 02, 2008, 11:11:53 PM
I remember trying to tape a "Scrabble" rerun off USA c. 1992, and a summer series called "The Hollywood Game". I think the oldest thing I actually have is a Doug Davidson TPiR. One of these days, I'll get a DVD/VCR combo and check through my tapes...
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Post by: ChuckNet on June 02, 2008, 11:21:05 PM
I taped a bunch Pitfall eps off WLIG (Ch. 55, now WLNY), which reran the show during its first year on the air 85-86), along w/the Cullen Pyramid...unfortunately, my mom felt I was spending too much time taping these GS eps and not enough playing outside (was only 6 at the time), so the entire batch has long since been erased.

Chuck Donegan (The Still-Feeling-The-Loss "Chuckie Baby")
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Post by: Johnissoevil on June 02, 2008, 11:40:37 PM
I didn't start taping game shows until I got GSN in 1997.  I never thought to tape game shows before that time.  Little did I know back then what treasures I'd probably never see again in reruns.
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Post by: Chief-O on June 02, 2008, 11:50:01 PM
I actually didn't tape anything much until the ESPN Classic "Sports Challenge" reruns several years ago. The tapes, sadly, are long gone.
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Post by: Kevin Prather on June 03, 2008, 12:01:26 AM
The first taping I did was the New Year's Eve week of Win Ben Stein's Money back in '99, but the first series I recorded really regularly was Millionaire.
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Post by: William_S. on June 03, 2008, 12:22:22 AM
Mine was The Joker's Wild 1990 on USA. It was only one episode that I recorded it on my Weinerville tape. But it's been long gone when I decided to tape other stuff. Others I did were a Swedish (international tourney) episode of Jeopardy! and like TJW90 that was erased. At that point I haven't thought that much into recording or into Game Shows until around 1997. Until 2001, I got GSN and started a batch of Game Show recordings.
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Post by: pyrfan on June 03, 2008, 12:25:30 AM
We got our first VCR in January of 1986, and I would set it to tape "The $25,000 Pyramid" and "Super Password" every day while I was at school. It was great to be able to come home, rewind the tape, and play along with those great games.


Brendan
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Post by: Joe Mello on June 03, 2008, 12:34:38 AM
Ninja Warrior, although my dad taped American Gladiators when it moved to  ungodly hours.

I sort of god the idea from my dad that you only recorded stuff you would miss and then dispose of afterwards.
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Post by: Dbacksfan12 on June 03, 2008, 12:37:15 AM
Got my own personal VCR the season before TPiR's 25th...I remember recording episodes and always seeing this crappy game called "Split Decision"...
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Post by: Chelsea Thrasher on June 03, 2008, 01:22:14 AM
I'm comparatively new to the recording game compared to you guys  - started taping TPiR in March 2001.
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Post by: CarbonCpy on June 03, 2008, 01:58:16 AM
Idiot Savants.

Those tapes, like my dignity and self respect, have long since disappeared.

(gawd i miss that show)
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Post by: snowpeck on June 03, 2008, 02:53:10 AM
Liked game shows in my youth, but unfortunately didn't tape any.  I didn't discover how big of a fan I was until Comcast did a sneak preview of GSN in summer 1998.  When they added GSN to the lineup the following April, began taping Match Game 7x and Super Password.

Greg
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Post by: Allstar87 on June 03, 2008, 04:09:02 AM
I regularly taped Legends of the Hidden Temple in 1993. Also taped a Nick Arcade or two. Most of the tapes have vanished, but a scant few have managed to survive to this day.

After Legends was done making new episodes, I stopped regularly taping game shows until mid-2001.
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Post by: Craig Karlberg on June 03, 2008, 04:31:40 AM
When we had satelitte TV back in the late 1980's, my first game show taping may've been Strike It Rich.  Sometines, I sneak a blank tape of mine in my stepbrother's VCR back then & either played it back there or down in the basment.  As for the first regular taping, it had to be High Rollers(Wink Martindale version).  I did sneak in some Remote Control s Turn It Up! shows from MTV.  The most episodes off of one show was TPIR with Millionaire a bit behind.  After 2002, all taping ceased because some of my tapes weren't playing right(probably blame it on the VCR).  Sadly, hardly any of my tapes are either gone or hidden away in a storage dreawer.  If I get a DVR for the basement, TPIR will certainly return to regular taping.
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Post by: joshg on June 03, 2008, 05:09:03 AM
I think the family VCR (a Zenith) was bought early in 1988. Classic Concentration, Combs Feud & NYSI (89). I was lucky... some of the tapes still survive, thanks to summer camping trips and "Mom, I need a new tape."

Josh
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Post by: davemackey on June 03, 2008, 07:38:56 AM
First VCR was bought in '82, so I would have to think we taped Price regularly. Robair still has thousands of VHS tapes he's in the process of putting onto DVD's.
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Post by: tpirfan28 on June 03, 2008, 07:51:26 AM
First thing taped...Classic Concentration, 1993.

First regular series taped...the November run of Millionaire.

Now it's fizzled down to special events (ie TPIR MDS, Season Premieres, Series Premieres, etc.)
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Post by: TheGameShowGuy on June 03, 2008, 08:37:14 AM
My first VCR was also a GE top loader with corded remote/1 event ... bought in late June '83. (It seemed so high tech then!) The first things recorded were CBS' "$25,000 Pyramid"  , "Press Your Luck" and "TPIR".
I taped these mostly during the first weeks I had this unit...sometimes switching though to the NBC lineup of "Sale", "Wheel" ,"Dream House" and in OCT "Go" and "Match Game-Hollywood Suares"... (For the full NBC sched, awful soaps had to be recorded in between as I had onlty 1 event!- I tried to record over them though wo erasng MGHS.)
However my first recorded show occured the friday before I got my VCR on a friend's new VCR- That was "New Battlestars" in addn to CBS shows - the last "New Battlestars" ep
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Post by: Jimmy Owen on June 03, 2008, 08:37:33 AM
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'187362\' date=\'Jun 2 2008, 11:02 PM\']
Plain 'n' Simple:

What was the first game show that you taped on a regular basis?


For me:  Late 1983, it was Press Your Luck as the first game show I taped on our new G.E. VCR (with a corded remote control!!!), and the only one I had taped on a regular basis as it was a great game to play at home if you had a remote control with pause.

Of course, whether or not I had 'beaten' the other 3 contestants, I only saved the episode if it was a memorable show.  Otherwise, I would tape over the shows I had seen.  (25 years ago VCR tapes were about $2.00 EACH!)


Others???
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I got my first VCR in 84.  A $700.00 top loader.  Tapes were $15.00 each and I had to go to an appliance store in the next town to get them.  You couldn't get them at Walgreen's yet. :)

First game show I taped was an episode of "Tattletales" from CBS.  The first show I taped and kept on a regular basis was NBC TTTT.
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Post by: MikeK on June 03, 2008, 09:19:15 AM
Our family first got a VCR in 1986.  I used to tape Classic Concentration, and Bullseye and Play the Percentages reruns from USA.  Around '88, my mom used one of my tapes to record her soaps.  I still haven't forgiven her. :-P
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Post by: Tim L on June 03, 2008, 09:27:32 AM
While I got my first VCR in the late 1980's (Shintom), The Game shows on then didnt interest me enough to tape them regularly.  After getting GSN in 1998-99, I started taping Sunday/Overnight B&W, Color TTTT/WML? and various marathons..Wish I had kept more of them.  I think what is just as interesting  (thiough OT) is what peoiple did tape, if not game shows..

Lots of TNN Christmas specials with Ricky Van Shelton, Bobby Goldsboro, Riders in the Sky, Roger Whitaker, etc..from the 1988-90 period (When TNN was actually decent)

Traditional Christmas specials as far back as the 1950's-1980's Sometimes Nick at Night/TNN carried these..Stuff like Mr. Magoo, Rudolph, etc.

Famious Adventures of Mr. Magoo..(Half Hour Cartoons from NBC 1964-65)..I ended up with 15 eps..taped from USA Network)

Whatever I could find of Tennessee Ernie Ford..(I Love Lucy episodes taped from WOIO-19 Cleveland..When they were Fox) A 50 year tibute party (TNN) Jim Lange hosting..Cartoon Mouse on the Mayflower-syndicated (taped when WJW-8 was still CBS)

WEWS-TV 5 coverage of the tragic Cleveland Indians boating accident the first year they trained in Winter Haven, Florida (1993)..claiming the lives of pitchere Tim Crews and Steve Olin and injuring Bobby Ojeda seriously

You Cant do that On TV (Nick)
Dangermouse (Nick and WOIO-19 briefly)

Many one of a kind specials and programs that may never be on DVD..
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Post by: SRIV94 on June 03, 2008, 10:11:49 AM
First VCR was in February 1983.  First game show I taped was $otC.  (First anything I taped was the Kapalua golf tournament.)

Earliest recording I still have--the 11/24/86 SCRABBLE and SP eps.
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Post by: bscripps on June 03, 2008, 12:15:36 PM
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'187362\' date=\'Jun 2 2008, 11:02 PM\']
For me:  Late 1983, it was Press Your Luck as the first game show I taped on our new G.E. VCR (with a corded remote control!!!), and the only one I had taped on a regular basis as it was a great game to play at home if you had a remote control with pause.
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Ours was a JVC, but aside from that, I'm exactly the same--corded remote with freeze frame (and slow motion, if you wanted to cheat).  Every day I'd record PYL, then my little brother and I would play after school.  I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to save some of those tapes...

I still kick myself over losing one particular tape--in 1991, I found on the tail end of a tape one afternoon the last half hour of "Saturday Night Live", an episode of "Ironside", and a late news roundup and sign-off from WOTV.  Based on the headlines on the newscast, I dated it to April 7, 1979, one week after Three Mile Island.  And I let it get recorded over.  Oy.
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Post by: wheelloon on June 03, 2008, 12:35:06 PM
Let's see, most of the time when something would get taped when I was younger, it was because I was gonna miss the show for one reason or another *I was a most loyal game show viewer*. Since I was home all day until I was five, this usually meant the shows I'd miss would be missed because we went out to eat that night, we went to a party, or something else somebody wanted to watch was on, and thus I'd miss syndie Combs Feud and/or WOF, at night.

So about 1987 or so, the syndie WOF's were the first games taped for me *parents knew I wanted to watch Wheel, but I couldn't run the VCR until I was 5, so they did it for me*, but those eps were, much like others, taped over by other WOF's, and then Combs FF, a few years later when we were out and about or w/e. This process stopped in 1989 *the oldest surviving eps I have*, and from then on, we had an abundance of VHS tapes around the house, so overtapings stopped.

So from then on, everything that was taped I still have, and includes an array of daytime and nighttime WOF, Combs FF, a number of Classic Concentrations, some Jeopardy, some of the USA lineup including PYL, Scrabble, and Pyramid *and... yes... even Patrick Wayne, I will admit*, a little bit of 90's TPIR, and the original Carmen Sandiego. They all also include the commercials too, which adds to the nostalgia...

Then, but of course, when we got GSN in 1999, there went the VCR again, and I got more WOF's, Pyramids, PYL's and FF...

The tapes have remained in pristine quality though, which I'm very happy with *the 1989 WOF tape looks like its could be only 5 years old*. I haven't converted them to DVD yet, but I'll get to it one of these days when I have loads of free time in the foreseeable future.
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Post by: comicus on June 03, 2008, 12:54:29 PM
To my eternal, undying shame... it was Match Game '98 and 100%.  From WTTA-38, Tampa/St. Pete.

I got GSN six months later and thought "Well, now that I have GSN, I have all the game shows I want.  Why bother taping Joker's Wild and classic TPIR?  They'll always be there!"
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Post by: Jay Temple on June 03, 2008, 01:56:37 PM
The first GS I remember taping was Clark 25KP. (I wouldn't remember this, except that I accidentally taped over part of my sister's high school graduation. Like it's my fault the school folk were too stupid to punch out the tab.) The first one I taped on a regular basis was J!
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Post by: Offshored2007 on June 03, 2008, 02:04:00 PM
First VCR: 1983: "Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour"  1984: Jeopardy! (when it was on late at night in New York).  1985 "Break The Bank" (more for Julie)
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Post by: tvwxman on June 03, 2008, 03:04:54 PM
Great question!

First show i taped daily : Match Game / Hollywood Squares. NBC in Miami didn't air it, but WPTV in Palm Beach picked it up a few months into the run (sometime over hte summer)... Mom would tape it every day for me when i was at summer camp.

That led to tapings of a new show called "Scrabble" in 84....and by the time I was back in school that fall, I was taping Sale daily too.

Then....after visiting the Museum of TV/Radio in NYC that winter, and seeing the vast collection of game shows they had, that spurred an idea : Why not tape one episode of every game show, and then , years from now, donate the collection to the musuem? Surely I'd be the only one taping game shows  in the 80s for posterity, right?

A tape trader was born a few years later becuase of those 3 tapes.
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Post by: joker316 on June 03, 2008, 03:46:21 PM
[quote name=\'CountdownRound\' post=\'187424\' date=\'Jun 3 2008, 12:54 PM\']


I got GSN six months later and thought "Well, now that I have GSN, I have all the game shows I want.  Why bother taping Joker's Wild and classic TPIR?  They'll always be there!"
[/quote]

I thought the same thing when I got GSN in late '98 on DirecTV. Somehow I have been able to make up for it with recent airings and tributes. Currently I'm up to 237 tapes and someday they will be transferred to dvd.

The earliest recording I have is the final episode of Hit Man. On Beta. With a corded remote. The only show I record regularly (other than special events or debuts) is Double Dare (we love to play along)
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Post by: joshg on June 03, 2008, 06:02:35 PM
[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'187404\' date=\'Jun 3 2008, 06:19 AM\']
Our family first got a VCR in 1986.  I used to tape Classic Concentration, and Bullseye and Play the Percentages reruns from USA.  Around '88, my mom used one of my tapes to record her soaps.  I still haven't forgiven her. :-P
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It helped that my mom didn't know how to set the VCR, hence lots of saved tapes.
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Post by: Ian Wallis on June 03, 2008, 06:11:27 PM
We got our first VCR Christmas of 1982.  First show I remember taping was one of the early episodes of Sale of the Century, on a rare 30-minute tape (they had oddball lengths back then - 30s, 60s and 90s, in addition to the 120s; I think I even remember seeing 45-minute tapes too).

I usually made a habit of taping NBC games instead of CBS - until I saw Press Your Luck later that year, and that became a taping habit for me.

I really didn't think to save a lot of it, and tapes were a lot more expensive back then.  Considering I was just about to enter college, I didn't have extra money to spend on buying a lot of tapes at the time.

Some of the earliest stuff I saved:  the Michael Larson episodes of Press Your Luck, plus some Davidson Hollywood Sqaures episodes.  In the '90s while going through tapes, I found one with episodes of '80s Truth or Consequences and Dating Game on them which I didn't even know I had.....I believe many of you are enjoying those episodes in your collections now! :) , plus a few America's Top 10 episodes that for some reason I never erased; and also a few weather forecasts (always fascinated by the weather, and statistics relating to it).

Since then it's grown to over 2400 episodes (plus assorted clips and bits), that one day soon I hope to have all converted to DVD!
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Post by: mcsittel on June 03, 2008, 07:37:07 PM
A few firsts:

First regular videotaping on our family VCR was the Pyramid/PYL/TPIR morning, and my mom would change channels for the Dream House end game for me, and I'd save off any house winners by dubbing them to our second VCR.  Oh, and both were Beta!

Once in college, I taped "Wipeout!" regularly since it came on WRAL-5 at something like 1 am.  I saved a few of those episodes-I wish I had saved more.  Ditto "Talkabout" which aired at 1 pm when I was in class.

First GS theme I *AUDIO* taped was the 5th episode of Kennedy's "Break the Bank".  I still have that tape.  It was one of those cheap-ass Certron tapes we got at Kmart.

First whole GS episode I audiotaped was a Cullen "Chain Reaction"; it didn't air in our market so the best I could do was a very fuzzy signal and listen to the NBC affiliate in Knoxville TN 90 miles down the road.  Still have that somewhere too.  

I was bummed that so many of those noontime and syndie shows never aired in our market; when I went to school at NC State I was glad WPTF-28 didn't run noon news so I could watch Super Password.  I even scheduled classes around that time so I'd be able to watch it at lunch.  Sigh...

Matt
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Post by: Robert Hutchinson on June 03, 2008, 09:10:44 PM
I have no idea on the exact year, but I probably first started taping (nighttime) Wheel of Fortune around 1986, mainly because I was fascinated by A) the wheel spinning and B) seeing how quickly I could remember a puzzle I had taped a few months earlier. Soon after that was Double Dare, which actually had some replay value.

Although I don't know if it was ever a conscious decision, I too didn't worry about either taping shows I was missing or keeping on tape shows that I had seen a few times, because USA and Nickelodeon were always gonna have tons of game shows on!
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Post by: TimK2003 on June 03, 2008, 09:23:29 PM
[quote name=\'mcsittel\' post=\'187452\' date=\'Jun 3 2008, 07:37 PM\']
A few firsts:

First regular videotaping on our family VCR was the Pyramid/PYL/TPIR morning, and my mom would change channels for the Dream House end game for me, and I'd save off any house winners by dubbing them to our second VCR.  Oh, and both were Beta!
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So it was YOU who was responsible for the "6-hour Dream House Endgame Megamix" tape copy that now sits in my collection???  :-)

Now that you opened up the can of worms that is known as first audio cassette taping...

Mine was off a Pioneer top-loading stereo cassette recorder console (I forget the model number -- I finally just threw it out about a year or so ago, but it had a long healthy life).  

I had taped the ending theme (no applause) to Barry's syndicated Break the Bank around the end of 1976 -- I still have a copy of that, now on a CD!.  

I was able to get Channel 8/WJ(K)W-TV in Cleveland at around 87.9 on the FM dial of an old Olson stereo, so I taped many of the themes that were on the 7-8p checkerboard around that time, including BtB, The Muppet Show, Candid Camera, The $128K Question and Treasure Hunt.  And then later I had taped both a Gene Wood and a Johnny Olsen intro to Double Dare as well.  Only the "Break The Bank" theme has survived for over 30 years!
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Post by: Johnissoevil on June 03, 2008, 11:21:41 PM
Since we're going into audio taping...

For a short time in Winter 1989, I was audio taping episodes of nighttime Feud.  I used to have my radio where I could play everything in chipmunk voices.  It was hilarious playing back the show and hearing Ray say "Ifitsthereyouvestolenthebankifnottheywillplayfor$10,000Showme..."


Edited by me.  Note to self:  Proofread before you post, you big dummy!
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Post by: MizzouRah! on June 03, 2008, 11:55:14 PM
Wow, I guess I should feel fortunate(or old). We were always a TV family and bought our first VCR/Betamax in early '77 when I was a freshman in high school. The first tapes were around $30 each, so unfortunately we only had a few tapes which were constantly rerecorded. My first taped shows were Family Feud along w/ The Better Sex, which followed. Unfortunately none of these remain(and the Beta machine is only a memory). Somewhere in our basement storage is a tape w/ 3 original NBC Gong Shows w/o commercials. I did my own stop/start to get 3 eps into one hour. I need to track this down and find a way to get it transferred.
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Post by: Jimmy Owen on June 04, 2008, 12:04:19 AM
Since we're drifting off video taping and onto other things....did anyone else film the TV screen with a Super 8mm camera?  I filmed a "Family Feud" opening and a "Second Chance" opening in 1977.  No sound and out of focus, though.  I did audio tape shows as well, the first one being a "$10,000 Pyramid" with Fannie Flagg and Bill Cullen from '73.
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Post by: Kevin Prather on June 04, 2008, 12:06:00 AM
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'187465\' date=\'Jun 3 2008, 09:04 PM\']
Since we're drifting off video taping and onto other things....did anyone else film the TV screen with a Super 8mm camera?  I filmed a "Family Feud" opening and a "Second Chance" opening in 1977.  No sound and out of focus, though.  I did audio tape shows as well, the first one being a "$10,000 Pyramid" with Fannie Flagg and Bill Cullen from '73.
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Man, you pioneered the point-and-shoot? Get out of here.
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Post by: Jimmy Owen on June 04, 2008, 12:18:12 AM
[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'187466\' date=\'Jun 4 2008, 12:06 AM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'187465\' date=\'Jun 3 2008, 09:04 PM\']
Since we're drifting off video taping and onto other things....did anyone else film the TV screen with a Super 8mm camera?  I filmed a "Family Feud" opening and a "Second Chance" opening in 1977.  No sound and out of focus, though.  I did audio tape shows as well, the first one being a "$10,000 Pyramid" with Fannie Flagg and Bill Cullen from '73.
[/quote]
Man, you pioneered the point-and-shoot? Get out of here.
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Oh, my what have I done?? :)  

Also, there's a picture of me opening presents on Christmas morning circa late '60's with the category board for Fleming J! clearly visible on our B&W TV.
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Post by: Jay Temple on June 04, 2008, 12:37:14 AM
first audio: a $10KP in 1975
For a time, before I had a VCR, I had a timer and tape recorder set up to record Clark25 every morning.
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Post by: Jumpondees on June 04, 2008, 12:38:18 AM
Only because I was never home to watch it as it aired, and I never overtaped or got rid of any tapes...I think I have the first 4 full seasons of Bergeron's Squares on tape as well as (and I'm almost embarrased to admit this) the full run of MG 98
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Post by: petek66 on June 04, 2008, 02:04:43 AM
I also did the light timer/tape recorder setup to audiotape Family Feud around 1977 or so (age 11) while I was in school. I still have one of those tapes that had an exceptionally good Fast Money. Awhile back I missed catching the episode on GSN by one day. The flipside of the tape has a Name That Tune (Kennedy).  I started video taping in '83 with $25K Pyramid, but saving tapes for collectability never occurred to me.
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Post by: clemon79 on June 04, 2008, 02:49:51 AM
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'187465\' date=\'Jun 3 2008, 09:04 PM\']
Since we're drifting off video taping and onto other things....did anyone else film the TV screen with a Super 8mm camera?[/quote]
No, but I did sit in front of the TV with a stone tablet and a chisel once.
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Post by: Jimmy Owen on June 04, 2008, 03:49:51 AM
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'187476\' date=\'Jun 4 2008, 02:49 AM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'187465\' date=\'Jun 3 2008, 09:04 PM\']
Since we're drifting off video taping and onto other things....did anyone else film the TV screen with a Super 8mm camera?[/quote]
No, but I did sit in front of the TV with a stone tablet and a chisel once.
[/quote]

Ahh.. You must have been a fan of "The Prize is Priced." :)
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Post by: ChuckNet on June 04, 2008, 05:15:19 PM
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Ours was a JVC, but aside from that, I'm exactly the same--corded remote with freeze frame (and slow motion, if you wanted to cheat). Every day I'd record PYL, then my little brother and I would play after school. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to save some of those tapes...

I hear that...and yeah, our first VCR was also a JVC w/the wired remote. Earliest GS eps I recall taping were NTT (Lange) and a first-season J!, back when WABC aired them from 4-PM in early 85.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Post by: ChuckNet on June 04, 2008, 05:20:07 PM
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First show i taped daily : Match Game / Hollywood Squares. NBC in Miami didn't air it, but WPTV in Palm Beach picked it up a few months into the run (sometime over hte summer)... Mom would tape it every day for me when i was at summer camp.

And if any of you were wondering where that 6/29/84 ep. w/McLean Stevenson, Arlene Francis, Chuck Woolery, et al. came from, now you know...a fact Matt mentioned to me way back in 96, as I recall. :-)

Chuck Donegan (The Reminiscing "Chuckie Baby")
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Post by: tvwxman on June 04, 2008, 06:58:56 PM
[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' post=\'187509\' date=\'Jun 4 2008, 05:20 PM\']
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First show i taped daily : Match Game / Hollywood Squares. NBC in Miami didn't air it, but WPTV in Palm Beach picked it up a few months into the run (sometime over hte summer)... Mom would tape it every day for me when i was at summer camp.

And if any of you were wondering where that 6/29/84 ep. w/McLean Stevenson, Arlene Francis, Chuck Woolery, et al. came from, now you know...a fact Matt mentioned to me way back in 96, as I recall. :-)

Chuck Donegan (The Reminiscing "Chuckie Baby")
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And now you know....the rest of the / Shut up, Paul.
Title: Anyone Got That On Tape?
Post by: davidhammett on June 05, 2008, 01:52:11 AM
I bought my first VCR back in September, 1984 just to be able to tape the new version of "Jeopardy!" that was airing at 10:30 am in Atlanta while I was at work.  I also managed to do the "tape one episode of every show" thing for a while, which netted me much in trades when people found out I had syndie "Match Game" and "Catch Phrase."

Now, if our CBS affiliate had been showing PYL at 10:30 instead of J!, I would've gotten the VCR sooner....
Title: Anyone Got That On Tape?
Post by: Ian Wallis on June 05, 2008, 04:51:49 PM
Audio tape:  in '77 I "appropriated" my dad's old reel-to-reel tape recorder and recorded just about any good theme from TV I could find.  It was always a bonus to get a few seconds of a game show theme without applause!  I rarely recorded entire shows.

I used to love the music on Dating Game, Whew, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy '78, etc.  Also recorded themes from other TV shows like Bewitched (back in the '70s you actually heard more than just today's standard two opening themes).

Unfortunately a lot of it is lost to time now.  I still have the tapes, but my dad's machine was one of those rare 4-track machines, which meant 2 on each side of the tape.  It doesn't work very well anymore and it's hard to find other reel-to-reels that will do 2 tracks on each side (most do 1 only).  I did save some of it to audio cassette though.

I also loved the theme from an short-lived NBC show called America Alive.  I've got 3 versions of the theme all largely without applause...but having said that, does anybody out there have clean copies of that one, by any chance?  (I'm a sucker for a great melody!)
Title: Anyone Got That On Tape?
Post by: sshuffield70 on June 05, 2008, 06:55:28 PM
I don't know the whereabouts of the audio tape, but I can confirm a previous recording of a Tic Tac Dough program from the early 80s (however, it should be noted that 70s eps aired in Dallas in the 80s).  Hopefully, I can find it.
Title: Anyone Got That On Tape?
Post by: mcsittel on June 05, 2008, 10:44:05 PM
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'187459\' date=\'Jun 3 2008, 08:23 PM\']
So it was YOU who was responsible for the "6-hour Dream House Endgame Megamix" tape copy that now sits in my collection???  :-)
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Indeed I am!  Well, with help from Mom of course... :)
Title: Anyone Got That On Tape?
Post by: Winkfan on June 07, 2008, 07:47:24 PM
I got my first VCR in 1988, and the first game show I ever taped was The All-New Dating Game w/Jeff MacGregor emceeing.

Cordially,
Tammy
Title: Anyone Got That On Tape?
Post by: Card Shark on June 08, 2008, 09:55:43 AM
Circa Christmas break 1986, I got really spoiled by being able to watch the CBS morning lineup each day with Pyramid, Card Sharks and TPIR. Immediately after winter break, the Rafferty CS was moved from 4:30 p.m. on WPVI to 4:30 a.m. So, in order to see my favorite show, my parents taped the entire morning lineup for me for about 2 weeks.
Title: Anyone Got That On Tape?
Post by: davemackey on June 08, 2008, 07:37:31 PM
[quote name=\'Winkfan\' post=\'187653\' date=\'Jun 7 2008, 07:47 PM\']
I got my first VCR in 1988, and the first game show I ever taped was The All-New Dating Game w/Jeff MacGregor emceeing.

Cordially,
Tammy
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Welcome back Tammy! Good to see you again.
Title: Anyone Got That On Tape?
Post by: Gsguy on June 08, 2008, 08:34:45 PM
First shows I remember taping on a daily basis was The Price is Right around early 1998.
Title: Anyone Got That On Tape?
Post by: TimK2003 on June 08, 2008, 11:09:04 PM
[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'187702\' date=\'Jun 8 2008, 07:37 PM\']
[quote name=\'Winkfan\' post=\'187653\' date=\'Jun 7 2008, 07:47 PM\']
I got my first VCR in 1988, and the first game show I ever taped was The All-New Dating Game w/Jeff MacGregor emceeing.

Cordially,
Tammy
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Welcome back Tammy! Good to see you again.
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