Your Oldest VCR Tape..

[MegoMark71]

Not very old for me. Royal Rumble 94 i think. The main event was Bret Hart vs Razor Ramon.

[weatherwizard-Corey]

Mid 80s...

Have some Miami Vice episodes which go back to 84ish...

[Apositive]

I cleared out all my VHS tapes a couple of years ago along with my VCR. I recently found a few Sandahl Bergman workout tapes in my storage room that I bought as collector's items. Yes, I collect Sandahl Bergman items.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

I think the oldest tapes I have that were recorded from television are-

1. My betamax tape from 1979 that has an episode of Sha-Na-Na (with Dusty Springfield as guest), then it has a documentary called "Black Holes, monsters that eat space and time" with scientist Durk Pearson, and a special primetime rerun of "Star Trek - Menagerie" that aired on WGN Channel 9 Chicago. I think it's from December 1979. All of the commercial breaks are included.

2. A betamax tape of "Brian's Song" that was recorded from ABC Channel 7 Chicago sometime in either 1978 or 1979, I forget which. It also has some commercial breaks included.

I have a bunch of various other beta tapes from the early 1980s and on, though sadly alot of the ones I used to have were either lost or erased.

Some of the commercial breaks from my aforementioned tapes are actually found on YouTube, uploaded by Fuzzy Memories, to whom I donated some copies of my old tapes.

[Funkyterrance]

I've got a couple of 80's big box VHS, Westworld and Forbidden Planet. I got them at a yard sale ages ago (the 90s) and love the box art/glamour of them. Westworld is one of my favorites so an added bonus. Also, and this is the best, no previews or ads before the movie, it just STARTS!!!

[MIB41]

I have KISS' last interview in makeup in late '82/early '83 and their unmasking on MTV later that same year. Much better than what you get on the KISStory boxsets too!

[Werewolf]

I don't think I have any VHS videos left of stuff I recorded off of TV. But I do have a couple of old VHS store bought vids of MOTU, Jem and Tigersharks cartoons I haven't been able to part with.

[AJ Collector]

Porn.....ok I said it. Like none of you have any!

I was going to throw it away since i don't have a VCR any more but I herd you can go blind. Or was that....never mind.

[VintageMike]

A tape simply marked "Wrestling #1" containing various WWF wrestling from 1985.
I wasn't handy with the remote when I started so every ad is intact for those shows which is crazy watching them now.

[boynightwing]

I have somewhere in my house the making of Empire Strikes Back. It was recorded off of TV. Probably...1980? What struck me as funny the last time I watched it, which was like 15 years ago, was the commercial for National Fur Week.

[mazinz]

I can say the oldest tapes (betamax) I have that I definitely know the date of the recording would be from the 1981 WOR chan 9 (NY-NJ) Thanksgiving holiday special (they showed 3 Godzilla films and the day before that they showed 3 kong related films which I also recorded). In fact if any of you saw on youtube or got a vhs/dvd dupe of the 81 Godzilla film special, chances are it came from my tape originally

Now I have a few tapes that I know were all recorded before that but I could not give exact time or year- assuming 1979-1980, would be a showtime airing of Pete's Dragon, the Muppet show and some other odd stuff (like the Krofft super star show that aired on wpix)

Likewise I can also swear my father possibly recorded on our first betadeck the Star wars holiday special because I can recall watching it more than once back then. Whatever became of that tape is beyond me

[babycyclops]

I used to have about 15 hours of Warner Bros. cartoons that I'd taped on 'long play', on 3 VHS tapes. I'm kicking myself that I taped over them eventually.
I believe I have 'Phase IV' on a tape someplace that I taped during the mid 80's sometime.

[Bruce Banner]

Have a couple of VHS tapes containing the original TV broadcast of Star Wars (with the alternate mono sound mix), and the extended TV version of Superman III.

[tllgn]

interesting ,i still have my old 2 speed beta machine stored away,my oldest tape seems to be planet of the apes tv movies ,that were edited from the series ,the date was 1980 and recorded off kptv here in portland ,another is a dick clarke special from 1980,or was repeared in 1980 .wow time flies.

[HardyGirl]

When I got divorced, I got all the video tapes including the ones my ex recorded and I know there's a bunch from the 80s in there, but I don't know which one is the oldest.