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Originally Posted by b2kguga
Someone have episodes of the show to upload somewhere ?
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I wish. Never saw it, but it sounds interesting. I forget his name off-hand, but there's a 16mm print collector who dumped to VHS (then DVD), and I think he may have at least 4 episodes.
Do yourself a favor, and avoid scam sites claiming to have the complete series.
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Originally Posted by jpklcapp2
Has this group pretty much died since LS had the stroke?
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Somewhat. It's a mix of health...
...but also simply some progression of the hobby. When this site started back in 1999, we didn't really have DVD box sets, and the best VHS releases were from Columbia House. From about 1999 to 2003, too many hobbyists were creating terrible VCDs that were worse than the VHS tapes -- and that's the reason I got involved here, to raise the quality bar. And I succeeded -- better homebrew sets, locating rare/OOP, seeking shows from overseas. For at least a decade, we had an active community.
Now everybody has Netflix (or Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV, etc), and a bottomless pit of shows to watch. More shows than they can watch in their lifetime, watching 24/7/365. Rarely does anybody seek out rare shows anymore, they just watch whatever is on their Netflix playlist.
I have some ideas to align the site with the times -- as well as better align it with the name "TVPast" -- but I just lack the time and energy to do it. For now. I do want to at least touch base with all members on a more regular basis, something I got away from some time back.
It didn't help that both a co-admin, and a mod, disappeared some years ago.