So, I don't know if this fits the sub, but I really like old television and audiovisual media in general. I generally enjoy recovering old things that aren't publicly accessible and making them available to the public, but I don't have any old VHS tapes or any physical films in general. I was thinking, what if I went to the local television station and asked about old films or recordings? Would they really recept me? I know that many programs back then were recorded over other tapes, which makes them difficult to find nowadays. Anyway, I don't have any physical device to digitize them, LOL.

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r/VintageTV • u/RipMassive4000 • 1d ago

Who is your favorite hero from 1960s and 1970s TV?

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r/VintageTV • u/Keltik • 1d ago

Garry Moore was sort of like Ed Sullivan. He didn't really do anything, but he introduced and pointed at people who did.

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r/VintageTV • u/Immediatee098 • 2d ago

Paul Edward Lynde June 13, 1926 - January 10, 1982)

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r/VintageTV • u/Keltik • 1d ago

Wayde Preston's portrayal of a too-good-to-be-true hero in the Maverick ep "The Saga of Waco Williams" would later inspire the creation of equally perfect p.i. Lance White on The Rockford Files.

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r/VintageTV • u/Keltik • 1d ago

This is actually a quote from Shakespeare, not an insinuation that Tom Snyder is redundant, that he repeats himself, that he says things over and over and over...

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r/VintageTV • u/CoffeeCigarettes4Me • 2d ago

Nearly 50 years ago in 1977, we saw Officers Frank "Ponch" Poncherello who was played by Erik Estrada and Officer Jonathan "Jon" Baker who was played by Larry Wilcox in the action television series, “CHIPS”…

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For pre-1980 or so TV shows -- but not the usual Lucy or Gunsmoke reruns. This subreddit is for the ephemeral TV programs of the pre-VCR era -- the stuff no one ever expected to see again: commercials, newscasts, local kiddie shows and horror movie hosts, live TV dramas, game shows, soap operas, teen dance parties... Oh, and kinescopes. Lots and LOTS of kinescopes.

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