Programmes Recorded on Your First VCR

[Paulos]

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The Amazing Adventures of Morph on my parents Ferguson Videostar.

[Trickyvee]

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How was this a 'miss', Tricky? It reached no.2 in 1988. Hardly a 'miss'!

Did it? I reckon it's a hit then Only a miss for me as when I thought of this video I always thought I'd recorded 'The Only Way Is Up'. I was only enlightened when I found it again on Youtube.

[tony ingram]

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I still have the whole 1985 series of Doctor Who on the tapes I recorded them on back then, and they still play. The space left at the end of each tape seems to have been used to tape bits of Top of the Tops.

[Trickyvee]

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I must admit that the arrival of the VCR was something that I was very excited about. The ability to actually record the TV (even when you weren't there!) and to play it back as many times as you liked was quite something in the days when not being at home equated to missing that all important show and having to wait many months for a repeat if you were lucky.

Ours arrived in perfect time for the onset of my teeny bopper days when no interview with the latest pop star could be left unrecorded. I had whole tapes full of c**ppy interviews and pop videos that my friends and I would watch over and over again. How annoying it was when you went to pause it for a close up of your heart throb and all you got was a shaky image with three lines through it.

[moonvisage]

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I remember one of the first films we ever recorded,was a Robert Mitchum film,where he plays Philip Marlowe.It was called The Big Sleep.