VHS Ephemera

From a young age I was fascinated by television, watching lots of it, and later on wanting to learn all about it - its history, how it was made. The first magazine a read regularly was the Radio Times. Of course back in those days there were 3 channels and you watched a programme as it went out - no way to record it. But what if you could?

In the late 70's domestic video recorders started to come onto the market and grow in popularity - here was a way to record and keep favourite bits of TV or whole programmes, but they were very expensive. Our family eventually got a rented one in July 1982, so at last I had the opportunity to build up my own TV archive. But tapes were costly - the first Maxell E120 I bought was £8.99, so what I kept had to be selective.

Over the years costs came down and my income increased - the TV archive grew. What I present on this channel are a few clips and oddities that I kept/survived accidental over-records from the period - early to mid-80's.