Craig’s notes
This KWCH recording gave us Dr. Quinn and then one of those long commercial stretches that keeps changing the question of when and where you are. KFC offered four Crispy Strips for $2.99. There was an ad for The Little Rascals on VHS, an AIDS hotline message, a Frosted Mini-Wheats teacher, and Campbell's very excited Fiesta Soup. Then Breyers Viennetta appeared. I used to think that stuff was so classy.
The local material made the breaks more interesting: Carpet One advertised a sale in Pawnee, KWCH had its own news spots, and a Honda Accord ad talked about Ohio. I kept checking the episode and ad clues with chat to narrow the date. Even when the promos pointed us toward February 1995, that was a conclusion from the broadcast sequence, not a date written on the sleeve. I was waiting for the next commercial break and managed to miss one while moving through Dr. Quinn.
After the station news and more CBS promos, Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Groom began. I caught its opening but stopped before the rest of the special or the tape. The ads and station material here are what we actually got to examine; anything later on this recording still needs a viewing.
Content inventory
Shows and segments (playback order)
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Things My Father Never Taught Me
- Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Groom (beginning only)
- Viewing stopped at the beginning of Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Groom; the rest of the tape remains unseen
Commercial inventory
Dr. Quinn / KWCH commercial and continuity block
- Boys Town National Hotline
- KFC Colonel's Crispy Strips, $2.99
- Woolite
- 2000 Flushes; Al Eisen and coupon
- La-Z-Boy decorating guide
- L'Oréal Excellence Crème
- Color Tile and Carpet Presidential Sale
- The Little Rascals on VHS
- Walmart On the Road
- Nestlé Sweet Success
- Chewy Chips Ahoy! circus
- Kleenex water-balloon nose
- Procter & Gamble CBS car giveaway
- AIDS Facts for Life / National AIDS Hotline
- Tavist-D
- Frosted Mini-Wheats teacher
- Campbell's Fiesta Soup
- Breyers Viennetta
- Carpet One Centers Pawnee Presidents Day Sale
- KFC Crispy Strips repeat
- Honda Accord track and corn
- Skippy reduced-fat peanut butter, Eartha Kitt narration
- Visa Gold beach
- La-Z-Boy repeat
- Boys Town National Hotline repeat
Station and show promos
Dr. Quinn / KWCH commercial and continuity block
- Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Groom promo
- The Nanny promo
- Touched by an Angel: Miracles in Disguise promo
- The Nanny promo with Sony home-entertainment prize
- 37th Annual Grammys promo
- Children of the Dust promo
- KWCH news with Tracy West
- Channel 12 Eyewitness News: Believe It
- Dave's World promo
- Cybill promo
Tape details
- Archive ID
- VHS-2026-221
- Format
- Off-air TV recording on a Kodak-branded VHS in a Romance E-120 PAL/SECAM sleeve; sleeve is not content labeling.
- Recording
- February 18, 1995 is cataloged from the Dr. Quinn episode/special sequence; not a date printed on this tape and not independently established for every recorded block.
- Viewed
- Partially viewed August 4, 2026; remainder unseen.
- Station
- KWCH TV 12, Wichita, as identified during viewing.
On the label
- Romance E-120 PAL/SECAM sleeve; Kodak-branded tape without a content label
