Episode 847 - Sesame Street "Wicked Witch" Episode from '76

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Holy crap, was not expecting that today.
As with most lost media, the reality never quite matches up with the hype.
I was disappointed that they didn't do more with her and Oscar. They could have had some fun banter. The whole thing is really underwritten and almost seems ad-libbed.
 
This is surprisingly high quality for a taped lost episode from '76. Or maybe not and I'm just too zoomer to realize this was how shows and VHS tapes looked like back then
 
Serbian Peacekeepers said:
Maybe its a master tape or a copy sent to a another station? Seems way too clean to be a home recording.
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It's either a very high quality recording or the master tape itself/copy of master tape. A lot of my recorded media from the early to late 90s has a lot of fuzziness over it, I imagine with time something from 20 years prior to that even wouldn't come out looking this good from a home recording considering VHS was a new concept back then, possible with proper preservation? Maybe. It also raises the question of where this tape even came from.
 
I am vomit said:
It's either a very high quality recording or the master tape itself/copy of master tape. A lot of my recorded media from the early to late 90s has a lot of fuzziness over it, I imagine with time something from 20 years prior to that even wouldn't come out looking this good from a home recording considering VHS was a new concept back then, possible with proper preservation? Maybe. It also raises the question of where this tape even came from.
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Yeah, no way someone home recorded it. I dont know how stations back then were able to play shows, was it via vhs tape or something else?
 
"Give me back my broom you shuck-and-jive mooncricket jiggaboo nigger or I'll show your kid where his father's skedaddled off to!"


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Serbian Peacekeepers said:
Yeah, no way someone home recorded it. I dont know how stations back then were able to play shows, was it via vhs tape or something else?
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TL;DR different stations had different methods, and different countries sometimes used different methods based on what year it was, how much money the station had, and a few other factors. Usually it was VHS by the 70s but I am pretty sure Kinoscope was still a thing in the 70s for lower quality stations.
 
Somebody on the inside leaked this. This is obviously not from VHS, this is off the master tape. Other "lost" Sesame Street segments have also shown up this way in the past. I'm glad there's somebody on the inside that cares about preservation. If there's no legal way to get something out, then leak it.
 
finally watched this
that sure was a thing
obviously threatening the black kid to turn him into a basketball comes out weird, but when he's telling the gang about it the whole thing's more like he's complaining about a crazy old racist gal saying crazy shit than being concerned about being turned into a baketball

I liked the simple way they handled Oscar just lurking in the background smitten with her
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also Big Bird "on guard" outside duel-wielding a baseball bat and a hockey stick seems to strongly imply that his plan is to bash in her skull and beat her to death
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