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TwoInchQuad

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Piece by piece, they come trickling back into existence...
« on: March 29, 2006, 06:46:12 PM »
What a piece of news, even if the game is probably somewhat second-tier:

http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/news/...-the-past.shtml

I think this is now the oldest GS known to survive on tape, as it pre-dates the extant eps of "College Bowl" by about 6 months.

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DoorNumberFour

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Piece by piece, they come trickling back into existence...
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2006, 06:56:40 PM »
I love it when new stuff turns up.

Although I don't believe it's the oldest GS on tape. There's an episode of "Okay Mother" hosted by Dennis James for the DuMont network from 1947 (at least that's the year I was given when I received it).
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dzinkin

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« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2006, 07:12:03 PM »
[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'114678\' date=\'Mar 29 2006, 06:56 PM\']
Although I don't believe it's the oldest GS on tape. There's an episode of "Okay Mother" hosted by Dennis James for the DuMont network from 1947 (at least that's the year I was given when I received it).
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The episode of Okay, Mother that you have is a videotape copy of a kinescope.  The episode of Top Dollar to which Kevin is referring is an original videotape.