Tuesday, November 24, 2009

TV series I've recorded on VHS and never watched but will keep forever

I'm always running four vcr's.  This is a partial list: Every episode of West Wing after the first one.  Every episode of Lost after the first or second season.  Battlestar Galactica.  Torchwood.  Doctor Who.  The third season of Mad Men though I never watched the first two.  Season one of Dexter when it was on CBS.  The last season of the Chris Isaak Show.  Johnny Staccato. Jericho.  Life on Mars (American and British). Ashes to Ashes, the sequel. The Inside Room. The 4400.  The Nine. EZ Streets. 30 Days. 60 Minutes. Every PBS documentary about Jews, the Bible, about 50% of their docs on Iraq and Afghanistan. Independent Lens. Have Gun Will Travel which I dubbed from the Time Life Series subscription before returning the originals.  Vanished.  Kidnapped.  Pasadena.

Shows I've watched but keep in the archive: Grounded for Life, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Masterpiece Mystery most shows,  The Ben Stiller Show, The 90's, TV Nation and The Awful Truth, Cadfael Mysteries.  Brooklyn Bridge I have on Betacam from taping it at work.


DVD sets I owned but have never opened:  Wonderfalls, I Claudius, The Prisoner, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Hercule Poirot, Nowhere Man. Buffy the Vampire Slayer seasons 1 and 2.

This doesn't even touch the classic movies I got from taping TCM and AMC around the clock for the first couple of years I had cable.  Every movie Barbara Stanwyck was in, Bette Davis, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Bogey and Bacall.  Joan Blondell, Ann Sothern.  (can you tell them apart?) Doris Day. Rock Hudson. Betty Hutton.   I stopped cataloging years ago when I got up over 400.   I love that Robert Osborne even though he believed Mama Cass died from choking on a ham sandwich.

There are thousands of video cassettes here of all formats and sizes  and dozens of dvd's.  How can I ever move house?

2 comments:

  1. Hi -
    I would LOVE to buy a copy of the Chris Isaak Show season you mention above. Any chance? I am desperate. You should sell on eBay too.
    trudiischu@yahoo.com

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  2. Hah! I am not currently in the video distribution business but I feel your pain. My vcr's are not at present patched for dubbing but that's a good project for 2010. Stay tuned to the blog for further updates.

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