# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/101 "2010-10-12T05:05:05Z")
There’s a few things I’m curious about seeing/hearing: Do we have the original recording of that War of the Worlds broadcast that drove people crazy? That would be interesting to listen to I also want to see the footage of Steve Irwin getting killed by that stingray. Just morbid curiosity I guess There were these cartoons on during the 90’s that were, in my mind, excellent. Shame they got canceled. One was called Exo-Squad and the other was Battletech. I would love to own these on DVD but I think Exo-Squad only came out on VHS ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/103 "2010-10-12T09:11:43Z")
A few overpriced VHS (!?!) episodes of this are available- PTUI! I want reasonably priced DVDs of the Paulist Productions INSIGHT- the syndicated (late Sunday night in my area) well-written, well-acted “Catholic Twilight Zone”. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/104 "2010-10-12T20:52:18Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > There were these cartoons on during the 90’s that were, in my mind, excellent. Shame they got canceled. One was called Exo-Squad and the other was Battletech. I would love to own these on DVD but I think Exo-Squad only came out on VHS The first season of Exosquad _is_ out on DVD, now, so that leaves only about…forty episodes to go. Better ‘an nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/105 "2010-10-12T22:16:07Z")
Several things that I’d like to see again, but aren’t on DVD, nor are they likely to come out on DVD: - Marc Summers Mystery Magical special - **Pasadena** , staring Alison Lohman, Dana Delany & Balthazar Getty - **The Random Years** , staring Will Friedle - **All Souls** , a short-lived haunted hospital drama - **24/seven** - **Being Eve** - **Hardcore TV** , which was a collection of dirty spoofs of various shows & commericals like This Old House, Masterpiece Theater, and David Attenborough’s documentaries. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/106 "2010-10-12T22:43:11Z")
A cartoon from my youth **Skyhawks**. I was really into aviation as a kid and this gem was an entire show about nothing but airplanes, heaven on earth. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wlOF1CG6vsk/hqdefault.jpg "skyhawks-intro") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlOF1CG6vsk) ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/107 "2010-10-13T08:51:13Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > There’s a few things I’m curious about seeing/hearing: > > Do we have the original recording of that War of the Worlds broadcast that drove people crazy? That would be interesting to listen to Yes. You can find it at [www.mercurytheatre.info](http://www.mercurytheatre.info/). ---
**Author:** ![CatherineMcClarey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@CatherineMcClarey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineMcClarey)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/108 "2010-10-13T10:36:45Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > > [@YogSosoth](#): > > > > There were these cartoons on during the 90’s that were, in my mind, excellent. Shame they got canceled. One was called Exo-Squad and the other was Battletech. I would love to own these on DVD but I think Exo-Squad only came out on VHS > > The first season of Exosquad _is_ out on DVD, now, so that leaves only about…forty episodes to go. Better ‘an nothin’. My kids had a CD-ROM interactive storybook about Exo-Squad, which included a couple of episodes’s worth of the cartoon, plus a “design your own exo-suit” activity (which may have been set up so that you earned pieces of exo-suit by correctly answering comprehension questions in the storybook sections). ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/109 "2010-10-13T15:06:21Z")
I’m going to scour the interwebz for my Exo-Squad DVD! And threaten the studios until they put the rest of it on DVD! 😃 I’m sure these next shows exist on tape somewhere, but apparently they were so bad no one has ever heard about them except me. Kelsey Grammar had a sketch show, called “Sketch Show by Kelsey Grammar” or something, that ran for, I think, 3 or 4 episodes. It had Chloe from 24 in it. From what I saw, it was hilarious, but I’m sure everyone involved has disavowed that they were ever part of it to begin with. I want that show, I want to force them to make 5 seasons of it Also, back to the later 80’s/early 90’s there was a couple of shows that I think I’m the only person who has ever watched it. One was a weird SNL-type sketch show called Haywire. One of the recurring characters was this crazy asian martial artist called Billy Kwan who would fly off into a rage and drop kick people. I loved that show The other was called something like Danger Man, or Danger Joe, or Joe Danger, and it was a half hour comedy show, not a sitcom, just a 30 min show about a crazy guy that gets into dangerous situations. It had potential!! But it was sadly also canceled ☹ ---
**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 13, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/110 "2010-10-13T16:23:19Z")
> [@CatherineMcClarey](#): > > > [@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. A lot of the cartoons that are no longer politically correct haven’t been released on these collections. I suspect I would find a lot of those distasteful, but I know of at least one I really, really want. Ergo, the wish for complete. Not sure if the collections edit the violence or not; I know the broadcast versions have. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/111 "2010-10-13T16:40:44Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > A lot of the cartoons that are no longer politically correct haven’t been released on these collections. I suspect I would find a lot of those distasteful, but I know of at least one I really, really want. Ergo, the wish for complete. Not sure if the collections edit the violence or not; I know the broadcast versions have. If you’re talking about the Disney ones, they have been released and are complete. Not sure about the Warners ones, though ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/112 "2010-10-13T16:46:19Z")
Well, there was this one time at band camp … ---
**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 13, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/113 "2010-10-13T17:06:27Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > > [@Morgyn](#): > > > > A lot of the cartoons that are no longer politically correct haven’t been released on these collections. I suspect I would find a lot of those distasteful, but I know of at least one I really, really want. Ergo, the wish for complete. Not sure if the collections edit the violence or not; I know the broadcast versions have. > > If you’re talking about the Disney ones, they have been released and are complete. Not sure about the Warners ones, though Warners. I’m thinking in particular of a cartoon with a little Native American oil millionaire who wants to hunt a moose, and his ever so correct English butler. ---
**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804/114 "2010-10-13T21:53:14Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > You ain’t got no time machine. You just want me to follow you into the basement. > > I’m not falling for that again. Props on the UCB reference. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-prof-brickers-time-machine-and-a-dvr-what-would-you-record/454804.md?page=5)