Topic: Sunbury Collection
Martha Stewart, Millionaire, and a February 2000 label
The pink Post-it gives the lineup: Martha Stewart, The View, News, Whose Line, Millionaire, Downtown. February 24, 2000. Somebody put it all on a Maxell T-180. The Millionaire section is the one that took over. Regis Philbin, a contestant chat called Ed, three lifelines gone, and a wrong answer at $32,000. Chat played along for…
Gone with the Wind had a lot of company
The blue note says “Gone with the Wind” and “WJW January 1987.” That is what the tape has, a Cleveland broadcast of the film on WJW. But the movie keeps stopping for 1987. Domino’s sends out the NOID. Alex Trebek appears for ValueTV. Dan Rather tells America it can trust Dan Rather. Robin Swoboda interrupts…
Millionaire was only part of the day
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.
A Cleveland Tape from Late 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.
Game 7, then whatever was on Columbus TV
A TDK high-grade tape from the Sunbury Collection: 1987 World Series Game 7, Moonlighting, War and Remembrance, and Family Ties final episode — all with Columbus WSYX and WCMH commercial breaks and eight confirmed lost items.
A Friday on WEWS Cleveland
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.