# What's the oldest show you still have on your DVR?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 2, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167 "2011-01-02T21:00:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/1 "2011-01-02T21:00:23Z")
Personally, my oldest show is “Visions of England” from PBS HD, recorded on September 27, 2008.
---
### Author:  [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/2 "2011-01-02T21:23:34Z")
Not very old - an episode of Home Movies from 12/16/10. It’s one of my favorite episodes, and I hate to delete it because Adult Swim just rotated the show back out of their lineup.
---
### Author:  [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/3 "2011-01-02T21:26:00Z")
I still have an episode of _Jeopardy!_ from November 24, 2008 on my DVR. In fact, I have both the HD and the standard-def versions.
---
### Author:  [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/4 "2011-01-02T21:43:45Z")
Do Netflix downloaded ones count too? If so mine is Shawshank Redemption, which I’ve had for about a year now. If not, then the oldest is “Parenthood” recorded on 12/4/10.
---
### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/5 "2011-01-02T21:50:58Z")
An episode of SNL with Ryan Reynolds hosting from the first week of October, 2009.
---
### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/6 "2011-01-02T22:03:47Z")
Two Twilight Zone episodes that we recorded on 1/1/06 during a marathon - “Living Doll” and “Night Calls”.
---
### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2011, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/7 "2011-01-02T22:04:59Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#):
>
> I still have an episode of _Jeopardy!_ from November 24, 2008 on my DVR. In fact, I have both the HD and the standard-def versions.
What made you record and keep it so long? Was someone you knew on it, or did you just like the questions that night?
---
### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/8 "2011-01-03T06:48:49Z")
The really oldest programs are a whole bunch of ‘world’s most extreme homes’, and ‘offbeat America’ which I’ve been meaning to transfer to DVD-R from a few years back (at least three but the DVR only shows month and day so I don’t know the year) but I never get around to.
After that, a bunch of Spartacus episodes I haven’t gotten around to watching yet from last February.
---
### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/9 "2011-01-03T08:49:37Z")
I believe it’s the second episode of ‘Happy Town’, from May of 2010. (There was some older stuff until recently, when I had to clear out room for November sweeps shows.)
I still plan to watch the rest of the series, especially because I love Amy Acker so - but I haven’t gotten around to it because the pilot actually did give me a nightmare. ☹ Yes, I’m a TV wimp.
---
### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/10 "2011-01-03T10:04:23Z")
I’m second after **needscoffee**. The first Robot Chicken Star Wars special recorded on July 1, 2007. My DVR is older than that, but RCSW is the oldest program I still have on it.
---
### Author:  [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/11 "2011-01-03T15:58:11Z")
Man, I thought I was going to win for having just started to knock off _Boardwalk Empire_ episodes over the past weekend. (September 2010)
---
### Author:  [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/12 "2011-01-03T16:09:18Z")
On the big hard drive attached to our DVR, we have the opening ceremonies to the Beijing Olympics. Maybe something older, but that’s from Aug 8, 2008.
---
### Author:  [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/13 "2011-01-03T19:11:31Z")
My oldest is the Disney channel movie “Phantom of the Megaplex”, only because my dinosaur art is on display. I’m shallow.
---
### Author:  [@ChordedZither](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChordedZither)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/14 "2011-01-05T06:11:45Z")
I’ve been playing old VHS camcorder recordings into my DVR as the first step in burning them onto DVD, so right now I have a 16 year old recording of one of my daughters, just a few minutes after her birth, on there.
---
### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/15 "2011-01-05T06:42:50Z")
We have a bunch of episodes of a yoga program that \*\*Rhiannon8404 \*\*recorded between March and May of 2010, but she watches them and does the routines over and over. Other than that, the oldest thing is Game 5 of the World Series from 11/1/10.
---
### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/16 "2011-01-05T07:18:06Z")
Well, I’ve moved the Twilight Zones off the Tivo and over to the computer, so now the oldest show is a Comedy Central Presents: Frank Caliendo which we recorded 9/21/07. (The Tivo box doesn’t give the year it was recorded, just the day and month, but when you transfer a show to the computer via Tivo Desktop, it date-stamps it with the correct information - at least it used to.)
---
### Author:  [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/17 "2011-01-05T07:43:38Z")
The episode of Late,Late Show with Craig Ferguson and crew lip-synching ‘It’s a Wonderful Night’. My wife and I play it back every now and then and just laugh our heads off. One of the funniest things ever.
---
### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/18 "2011-01-05T10:08:01Z")
> [@needscoffee](#):
>
> Well, I’ve moved the Twilight Zones off the Tivo and over to the computer,
I wish I knew how to do that with my IO cable DVR box! That would solve a lot of my running out of space issues…
---
### Author:  [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2011, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/19 "2011-01-05T10:23:17Z")
“Parallel Universe”, a Science Channel documentary about M-Theory, has been on my DVR for more than two years.
---
### Author:  [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167/20 "2011-01-07T04:58:48Z")
HD broadcast of _Empire Strikes Back_ from new years eve 2010. It`s staying until the bluray comes out
[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-oldest-show-you-still-have-on-your-dvr/566167.md?page=2)