Anyone Got That On Tape?

[joshg]

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

[davemackey]

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.

[tpirfan28]

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.)

[TheGameShowGuy]

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

[Jimmy Owen]

[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.

[MikeK]

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

[Tim L]

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..

[SRIV94]

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.

[bscripps]

[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.

[wheelloon]

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.

[comicus]

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!"

[Jay Temple]

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!

[Offshored2007]

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)

[tvwxman]

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.

[joker316]

[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!"
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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)