Long ago, I was able to find a business that archived all TV shows, and they would sell* you a video tape or DVD or provide you with a downloadable link so long as you provided them with the date and time and channel of the airing. But my Google-fu has clearly deteriorated since then because I haven’t had any luck finding them or a similar business so far. Is anyone familiar with such an outlet?
If you’re curious, I’m trying to find this past weekend’s airing of “America’s Most Wanted.”
*Yes, I’m aware that there are sometimes “other” ways to get such things, but even if I were the type to use those methods, they likely would not have been successful in this case.
I don’t understand how such a business could even be legal. How could one company own the rights to sell any show on TV?
That’s a good question. I hadn’t really thought of that aspect of it before. Although the point seems to be moot since I can’t find any such thing anymore.
I wish I knew of a site like that. I would love to be able to we-watch the shows from my youth that are not on DVD. Like Mr. Bellvedier, seasons 2-5 of St. Elsewhere, old episodes of Conan, Leno, and Letterman. That would be so cool.
Well, I found it originally about three or four years ago. I had gone to Opening Day of the baseball season and wound up being interviewed by a local TV station. I never got to see the broadcast of the interview, so I called the station about buying a tape of it. The station said they couldn’t do that for me, but here’s the name of a company who can.
Perhaps it’s a company authorized by the major networks to capture, archive and distribute on their behalves. I don’t know. I never bought from them because it turned out that the cost of the news broadcast I wanted started about about $80 and went up from there, depending on the format I wanted. I didn’t want to see myself on TV that badly.