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Post by benb620 on Aug 17, 2023 10:40:55 GMT -5
Does anyone have a summary ways to find old Wheel of Fortune episodes?
I am working on a piece on the show. Please feel free to reach out ben.blatt @ nytimes . com.
I see episodes on Pluto TV, some DailyMotion links, and Youtube but was wondering if anyone had more helpful advice. For instance, if I wanted to see every episode from season 1.
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Post by WarioSajak on Aug 17, 2023 18:48:20 GMT -5
Hi, Ben.  Unfortunately, what you see around the internet is pretty much what anyone publicly has access to for the foreseeable future. That 1980s-90s episodes are even officially available was thought to be a fun "yeah we can dream" sort of thing until PlutoTV pulled it off just recently. (And if you're talking about "season 1" as in 1975, you're gonna need a VTR and time machine. From what I've read, thanks to tape wiping the vast majority of pre-1985 daytime Wheel no longer exists at all, and little of what's left is in broadcast quality.) My only suggestion, aside from working with what's publicly available, is to contact Sony about possibly letting you visit their archive - and given you're from the New York Times, I think you'd have a better chance of getting access than the vast majority of the rest of the users here would. Regardless, best of luck on the article. |
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Post by thatvhstapeguy on Aug 17, 2023 19:54:58 GMT -5
The Paley Center in New York, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the Library of Congress all possess additional material that is not publicly available.
The nighttime series is fully intact, all the way back to its debut in the fall of 1983.
NBC is thought to still be in possession of our holy grail - the original 2" videotape of the 1975 daytime premiere, but Sony owns the rights, so it may never see the light of day.
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