# With Prof. Bricker's Time Machine and a DVR, What Would You Record? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804 "2008-06-30T19:40:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/81 "2008-07-05T18:45:07Z")
[QUOTE=want2know] Sweet! Thanks, **Driver**! Note to self…get deposit back from Bricker for time machine plans… [/QUOTE] I don’t think it’s integrated into the film, IIRC it’s a stand-alone “extra,” so it might not carry the same effect as when you watched it originally. But, it’s better than never getting to see it again. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/82 "2008-07-05T18:47:05Z")
All _Tom and Jerry_ and _Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes_ cartoons in their unedited form. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineMcClarey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@CatherineMcClarey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineMcClarey)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/83 "2010-10-11T00:34:45Z")
> [@Linty\_Fresh](#): > > [QUOTE=Sampiro] > I’d also like to see episodes of [YOU ARE THERE](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045458/)!, which I’ve never seen an episode of and know only from references on other shows. It was a “news show” in which a modern television journalist covered historical events from ancient times to the pre-1950s with actors portraying characters being interviewed as if the even that was being reported (whether the Battle of Chaeronea or the Battle of Gettysburg) was happening. (I understand that there was a parody of this in England in the 1960s that Terry Jones wrote for and that featured such events as the locker room interviews after the Battle of Hastings.) I’ve always thought an update of it, if done well, could work on The History Channel or even perhaps CNN if done with the right combo (and this would be the hard part) of seriousness and tongue-in-cheek. I had a history teacher who showed us some of these episodes in class. They were pretty fun, and by the end of the second one, we were chanting along with the narrator’s exit lines, "And Remember: You. Are _there!_ I think the teacher was thrilled that she’d finally found something historical that held our attention. On edit: If you’re a history buff, I’d definitely recommend the DVD’s. [/QUOTE] I remember in the 1980s PBS had a TV series called “Timeframe” (I think), similar in nature to the old “You Are There” episodes. Each episode covered an event (like the Battle of Hastings or the fall of Jerusalem during the Crusades) as if it were a modern news event, with TV correspondents (in medieval dress, and medieval-sounding names like “Sipoletta of Zimbabwe” (for the black female correspondent)) in various locations, reporting on different aspects of the event, and “commercials” for inventions, books, or concepts of the period (like a travel guide for pilgrims to the Holy Land, during the “Fall of Jerusalem” episode). My spouse & I taped these on VHS when they were originally broadcast in the 1980s, but I’m sure we didn’t tape all the episodes, and the tapes are wearing out. Did these ever get released on DVD? (Or even commercially released on VHS? We still have 1 VCR in the house.) Or has anyone ever posted clips from them on YouTube? I’ve searched YouTube and tried Googling the series, but haven’t found anything yet. (Perhaps I’m misremembering the spellling of the series title or other keywords which would help me find at least references to it.) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/84 "2010-10-11T01:28:40Z")
I would record the original version of _Twice Upon A Time_, not the re-editted shitfest that is now the only thing available. I would also make a better recording of the WTTW Max Headroom incident from 1987. And I’d try and get the time Charles Rocket forgot he was on live TV. That’s all I can think of atm. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/85 "2010-10-11T03:20:11Z")
I’d like copies of the complete, unedited/unbowdlerized Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes/Warner Brothers cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/86 "2010-10-11T03:21:21Z")
And thanks to **Snowboarder Bob** , for reminding me that I’d ALSO like a copy of _The Wizard of Speed and Time_. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/87 "2010-10-11T03:58:05Z")
I’d like the “Heidi” football game, if only so I can prove to my daughter that the sun once shone on an America where priorities were _not_ screwed up. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/88 "2010-10-11T04:02:00Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > And thanks to **Snowboarder Bob** , for reminding me that I’d ALSO like a copy of _The Wizard of Speed and Time_. There’s another snowboarder on this board! Awesome! Your welcome, and me too! ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/89 "2010-10-11T04:29:34Z")
Hard to say. I’m 36 so most things I enjoyed in my youth are, if not available or soon to be available, at least not irrevocably lost. Just in the past year there were several releases of things from my youth. And many things that might not be released any time soon can be found as bootlegs online or at conventions. I’d love to have a copy of several Nickolodeon series such as The Third Eye, Cities of Gold, Bele and Sebastian. OTOH something to consider is all of those pre-DVD series which did get released, but were unable to secure the rights to the original music used in the episodes. It might be worth having a copy of those as they were originally broadcast. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/90 "2010-10-11T04:36:31Z")
> [@Sassy](#): > > Max Headroom! Is there something wrong with the DVD edition they’re selling on Amazon? They say it’s the complete series. Or did you want the original British version? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/91 "2010-10-11T04:41:00Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I would record the original version of _Twice Upon A Time_, not the re-editted shitfest that is now the only thing available… > > And I’d try and get the time Charles Rocket forgot he was on live TV. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’d like the “Heidi” football game… I don’t know any of these. Please elucidate. I found several things on IMDB called “Twice upon a time” none of them were obvious candidates. And I’ve no idea what a Heidi football game is. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/92 "2010-10-11T04:59:35Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > I don’t know any of these. Please elucidate. Rocket was a performer on Saturday Night Live. He was ad-libbing at the close of a show and said “fuck”. The Heidi game was a NFL playoff game. The network had heavily promoted a broadcast of the movie Heidi. The game was playing earlier in the afternoon and would normally have been over before the time Heidi was supposed to start. But the game was running long and was not going to be done in time. One team was leading so the network decided to cut off the end of the game and start Heidi on schedule. Then the team that was behind had a comeback and ended up winning the game in a big finish. The next day there were numerous sports fans who complained about having missed the final minutes of the game. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/93 "2010-10-11T05:01:59Z")
> [@MacSpon](#): > > > [@Sassy](#): > > > > Max Headroom! > > Is there something wrong with the DVD edition they’re selling on Amazon? They say it’s the complete series. Or did you want the original British version? Or maybe the DVD wasn’t available in 2008. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/94 "2010-10-11T05:07:12Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Or maybe the DVD wasn’t available in 2008. Hoo! Good point. (Who looks at posing dates, anyway? Er, obviously not me.) ---
**Author:** ![Silent\_Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Silent\_Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silent_Kal)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/95 "2010-10-11T05:25:24Z")
I’d get all the old, locally produced children’s programs from my youth- [Ramblin’ Rod](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin%27_Rod) (Portland, Oregon) and The Ranger Charlie and Rosco Show (Seattle). Might go back before my time and record other shows like Brakeman Bill and [J.P. Patches](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Patches). Kids today don’t have anything like that! ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/96 "2010-10-11T09:29:27Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’d like the “Heidi” football game, if only so I can prove to my daughter that the sun once shone on an America where priorities were _not_ screwed up. And those priorities would be that live entertainment should take a back seat to a crappy prerecorded made-for-tv movie? That can’t be it. You must be talking about the fan outrage over such a clearly fucked up set of priorities to cut away from a live event right before it ended. Agreed completely; those were some laughably out out of touch priorites back then. Thankfully, tv has matured well past such idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineMcClarey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@CatherineMcClarey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineMcClarey)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/97 "2010-10-11T12:46:53Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I’d like copies of the complete, unedited/unbowdlerized Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes/Warner Brothers cartoons. I believe a lot of those have been released on DVD. We bought a couple of volumes of “Looney Tunes Gold Collection” DVD boxed sets when the kids were younger, and Disney released a series of “Classic Collection” DVD box sets in metal tins (we own & still watch the World War II tinned set from that series). I also remember from back in our VHS-only days (when the kids were _very_ small), we purchased a VHS tape which had 6 hours’ worth of old cartoons, including a bunch of the old Mel-O-Toons; the kids called it the “number cartoons” tape (don’t remember exactly how it got that name – maybe the number 6 on the label?), and watched it many, many times. I’ve since seen similar “shovelware” DVD collections with even more cartoons – which hopefully would be more easily searchable than our old VHS tape of them. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/98 "2010-10-11T13:42:03Z")
I second \*\*Spoons \*\*about _WKRP_. It’d be great to have the episodes as they originally aired. The KTMA season of _MST3K_ would be good from a completeness point of view. But I’ve heard that that season was not really worth viewing. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/99 "2010-10-11T13:58:05Z")
The 1964 TV showing of [Once Upon a Mattress](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424325/), which had most of the original Broadway cast. I’d even settle for the 1972 version. The 2005 TV version is okay, but I had seen the 1972 version when it was aired and I’d like to see Carol Burnett play Princess Winnifred again. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/100 "2010-10-12T04:02:50Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > > > I would record the original version of _Twice Upon A Time_, not the re-editted shitfest that is now the only thing available… > > > > And I’d try and get the time Charles Rocket forgot he was on live TV. > > > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > > I’d like the “Heidi” football game… > > I don’t know any of these. Please elucidate. > I found several things on IMDB called “Twice upon a time” none of them were obvious candidates. And I’ve no idea what a Heidi football game is. This [Twice Upon A Time](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086489/). Well, not that one, but the first, original version (also known as the Couturié version) You can read more about it at [wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_Upon_a_Time_(1983_film)). Suffice to say that the original version is stupendous entertainment, filled with laughs and irony non-sequitors and wit and intelligence. The Korty version still has the same story, but without all the hilarity. ETA: Cool! [This guy wrote a blog article about it years ago, and he still has the blog](http://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2007/09/twice-upon-time-movie-that-time-forgot.html)! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804.md?page=6)