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Excellence on Whitewater by Appalachian Wildwaters

West Virginia handed me banjos and a river, and I had no complaints. VHS-2026-514 turned out to be…

The Standard Deviants: Creepy, Crawly World of Calculus Part 1

Calculus was scary. Cerebellum Corporation tried to fix that with sketch comedy and a VHS tape. The Standard…

Citizens Protecting America’s Parks by the NPCA

The National Parks and Conservation Association sent this tape to people who cared about national parks. Some of…

Jump-Start: The Road to Recovery with Lucinda Bassett

Lucinda Bassett had a system. Five steps. VHS format. Original retail packaging. This is Jump-Start: The Road to…

Atkins’ Answer: Why It Works Volume 1 with Dr. Robert Atkins

Dr. Robert Atkins sold a lot of tapes. This is one of them. Volume 1 of the Atkins’…

trueSpace 4.0 Character Modeling Tutorial with Gary Davis

Nobody saved this one. That is the whole story. trueSpace 4.0 was a 3D modeling and animation application…

Quit Smoking: Taking the First Step with Dr. C. Everett Koop

Dr. C. Everett Koop was the Surgeon General of the United States from 1982 to 1989. He wore…

Don Lapre: 11 Secrets to Success (1999)

If you watched late-night television in the late 90s, you know the voice before you see the face.…

First Knight (1995) Columbia TriStar VHS Release

Sean Connery as King Arthur. Richard Gere as Lancelot. Julia Ormond as Guinevere. Columbia TriStar, 1995. This one…

Kate / Westphal Multiple Recordings on Fuji T-120

The handwriting on the label is partially illegible. That's already more interesting than a clean label. Tape VHS-2025-023…

Mysterious Island Home Recording on Kodak T-120

Somewhere in the archive sits a tape labeled Mysterious Island. That label alone is enough to make you…

The Following Episodes 3-4 on Fox, February 2013

February 2013. Someone put a VHS tape in a VCR and hit record on a Fox primetime drama.…

Powerful Presentation Skills by CareerTrack (1993)

CareerTrack sold these through direct mail and corporate accounts in the early 1990s. They weren’t in stores. They…

The Prince of Egypt Home Taping from the Late 1990s

The tape has no label. Someone recorded The Prince of Egypt off a TV broadcast in the late…

2011 Kyra Weather and Election Coverage VHS Recording

The label says three words and a year: Kyra. Weather. Elections. 2011. No network. No channel. No further…

February 2000 TV: Martha Stewart, Whose Line, Millionaire

Someone taped nine hours of television on February 24, 2000. Martha Stewart in the morning. The View. A…

Stretching for Seniors with Ann Smith, Sealed Fitness VHS

Found at the Salvation Army in Lancaster, Ohio. Still sealed in the original shrink wrap. Tape VHS-2025-001 is…

All Sports Bloopers and Incredible Moments VHS Compilation

The tape itself says Sports Bloopermania. The cover says All Sports Bloopers and Incredible Moments. Someone reused a…

Unsolved Mysteries and Sci-Fi Channel Promo, Wichita 1992

Someone recorded over Kindergarten Cop to tape Unsolved Mysteries. That decision survived 34 years on this Polaroid T-120.…

Lite Beer Presents The Super Bowl Insider, NFL Films 1990

NFL Films. Miller Lite. Joe Montana almost passing out. They bleeped the swearing and still somehow made it…

Columbia Icefield Tourism Promo, Jasper National Park 1999

A glacier nobody thought to save on tape. Nella Schönefeld Productions made it. Nobody else kept a copy.…

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…

TBS 8 Great Hours of Andy Marathon, January 1993

TBS ran an 8 Great Hours of Andy marathon in January 1993. Someone recorded six hours of it…

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…