Location: Cleveland
Gone with the Wind on WJW Cleveland, January 1987
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh on a Cleveland living room TV in January 1987. Between them and the credits: 90 minutes of commercials that turned out to be the real show. Tape VHS-2026-081 is a T-120 RCA Hi-Fi Stereo recording of the Gone with the Wind broadcast on WJW TV8 — Cleveland’s CBS affiliate —…
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Premiere Week, August 1999
August 16, 1999. ABC aired the first episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. This Polaroid T-120 caught all four premiere week episodes before anyone understood what they were watching. Six hours of Cleveland television, Regis Philbin, and a MONSTER TAPE stream.
UPN 43 WUAB Cleveland: Star Trek Voyager, February 1997
Someone in Cleveland recorded six hours of UPN 43 on a Wednesday night in February 1997. Three Star Trek Voyager episodes, The Burning Zone, The Bodyguard, and a full load of Northeast Ohio local commercials from businesses that no longer exist.
Amy Mihaljevic News Coverage and Lost ABC Soaps, Cleveland 1989
A 1989 Cleveland time capsule on Polaroid T-120: confirmed lost ABC daytime soaps, an active Amy Mihaljevic missing person broadcast from November 26 1989, early Regis and Kathie Lee, and 130+ commercials from WEWS and WJW.
Atlanta Olympics Week and Cleveland TV, August 1996
Six hours of WEWS ABC 5 Cleveland from August 2, 1996 — a full-day Sunbury Collection recording captured during Olympic coverage week and mid-summer local news.
1998 ALCS Game 5 Yankees vs Indians at Jacobs Field
October 11 1998. Jacobs Field. Clevelands last chance against the greatest Yankees team in decades. The sleeve says NFL Official Videotape. This is baseball. Nobody noticed.