I've recently had a renewed interest in hunting down obscure shows again and noticrd this forum has died off quite a bit, and a lot of the people who used to have a lot of these hard to find shows are not around no more on these forums. I'm wondering if there are any other sites out there where tape trading has started up and are more popular and active? please respond here or in a private message to me.

This is by far the best and most active trading forum on the net. What exactly is it you're looking for?

I'd have to sit down and get a list, but one I still have yet to find any copies of is What A Dummy (1990}.

I had to say I have written here so many people and never got and answer from them. They even don't react on messages. And also people who are looking for something and I wrote them I have their stuff theypromised me to write back and they have never done it.

I'm not really sure how that ties in to the subject matter. In any event, there are several possible explanations for what you wrote about: The trader could have retired from trading, already got what they asked for, or don't personally want to trade with you.

I often trade individual episodes the problem for me is I have no desire to trade for blanks. If I want blanks I will go to the store.

This site may not be as active as it once was, but it is still the most active site I know of.

Which trading sites do you frequent?


it has to do with your sentence "most active forum". and the Traders I'm talking about are very active here.

I had to say that no one wants to trade with me because I only have empty DVDs for trading. And I only want episodes and not the whole series.

Still gave up here...

it has to do with your sentence "most active forum". and the Traders I'm talking about are very active here.

I had to say that no one wants to trade with me because I only have empty DVDs for trading. And I only want episodes and not the whole series.

Still gave up here...

I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who wants to trade for blanks. The other person would be expending a lot of time and effort for little return. That's probably why you haven't gotten any replies. Suggesting the forum isn't good/active because nobody wants to trade for blanks is wholly ignorant.

I used to trade a lot a few years back and I would never trade for blanks, that's ridiculous. I will say when I first started trading people would trade for specific episodes but later I noticed most people only wanted to trade for the whole series or nothing. Guess as they become more satisfied with their collections they get less flexible in their trading "rules".

Personally, I pretty much stopped trading a few years back because the shows I would want are shows from the '50's and '60's and they seem to be shows nobody has. Example: the Philip Marlowe series st. Phil Carey, no one seems to have it. Example 2, ALL of the colorized episodes of Peter Gunn, no one out there has this either, or they're being mum about it. Well, you get the idea, the one's I want no one has, and there's nothing worse than a new comer trader who wants to trade with you and he's got nothing you want.

Another one that no one seems to have is Love That Bob a.k.a. Bob Cummings Show, where is the person that has the complete set of this? I only hear crickets.

I've recently had a renewed interest in hunting down obscure shows again and noticrd this forum has died off quite a bit, and a lot of the people who used to have a lot of these hard to find shows are not around no more on these forums. I'm wondering if there are any other sites out there where tape trading has started up and are more popular and active? please respond here or in a private message to me.


Trading has died period thanks to youtube

I used to trade a lot a few years back and I would never trade for blanks, that's ridiculous. I will say when I first started trading people would trade for specific episodes but later I noticed most people only wanted to trade for the whole series or nothing. Guess as they become more satisfied with their collections they get less flexible in their trading "rules".

Personally, I pretty much stopped trading a few years back because the shows I would want are shows from the '50's and '60's and they seem to be shows nobody has. Example: the Philip Marlowe series st. Phil Carey, no one seems to have it. Example 2, ALL of the colorized episodes of Peter Gunn, no one out there has this either, or they're being mum about it. Well, you get the idea, the one's I want no one has, and there's nothing worse than a new comer trader who wants to trade with you and he's got nothing you want.


I'm sure they are on youtube

Your You tube must be a different You tube than mine, no complete collection of colorized Peter Gunn, no complete collection of Philip Marlow, no complete Bob Cummings. Where is this You Tube you speak of? It's not the one we've heard of. Not even the Reunion Patty Duke show movie is there. Like I said, the stuff I want people don't have and You Tube sure as heck isn't the answer.

Your You tube must be a different You tube than mine, no complete collection of colorized Peter Gunn, no complete collection of Philip Marlow, no complete Bob Cummings. Where is this You Tube you speak of? It's not the one we've heard of. Not even the Reunion Patty Duke show movie is there. Like I said, the stuff I want people don't have and You Tube sure as heck isn't the answer.


I forgot traders in this group trade for entire series

I just created a group on Facebook called "Rare & Obscure TV Collectors". I hope to see fans join to trade, share episodes off Youtube, etc. More and more episodes, promos, etc of rare shows are showing up on there and people need to be saving these files so they don't disappear again. it can be a real pain to track down certain series from collectors who may not even be into trading or selling anymore.

I just created a group on Facebook called "Rare & Obscure TV Collectors". I hope to see fans join to trade, share episodes off Youtube, etc. More and more episodes, promos, etc of rare shows are showing up on there and people need to be saving these files so they don't disappear again. it can be a real pain to track down certain series from collectors who may not even be into trading or selling anymore.
I just went on Facebook and I can't find your group. Could you provide a link?

I thought youtube killed trading?:confused:

I thought youtube killed trading?:confused:

I want torrents and Youtube to kill off trading, because there's a hefty strain of holier-than-thou-ness from people who are, let's face it, breaking the law. We can dress it up and pretend, but unless it's in the public domain, there's no real defence for making unauthorised copies of other people's stuff.

I used to have upwards of 10,000 wrestling DVDs, and I found the sheer effort of maintaining the collection soured me on the whole enterprise - that, and the other traders who would insist you not copy "their" stuff for anyone else, etc.

Give me torrents and Youtube, where you don't have to go through some middleman who thinks he's amazing because he's collected more crap than anyone else.

I want torrents and Youtube to kill off trading, because there's a hefty strain of holier-than-thou-ness from people who are, let's face it, breaking the law. We can dress it up and pretend, but unless it's in the public domain, there's no real defence for making unauthorised copies of other people's stuff.

I used to have upwards of 10,000 wrestling DVDs, and I found the sheer effort of maintaining the collection soured me on the whole enterprise - that, and the other traders who would insist you not copy "their" stuff for anyone else, etc.

Give me torrents and Youtube, where you don't have to go through some middleman who thinks he's amazing because he's collected more crap than anyone else.


If all traders have the same collection what would be the point of trading? Wouldn't it get boring? I can understand not giving away true obscure shows

I want torrents and Youtube to kill off trading, because there's a hefty strain of holier-than-thou-ness from people who are, let's face it, breaking the law. We can dress it up and pretend, but unless it's in the public domain, there's no real defence for making unauthorised copies of other people's stuff.

I used to have upwards of 10,000 wrestling DVDs, and I found the sheer effort of maintaining the collection soured me on the whole enterprise - that, and the other traders who would insist you not copy "their" stuff for anyone else, etc.

Give me torrents and Youtube, where you don't have to go through some middleman who thinks he's amazing because he's collected more crap than anyone else.

Tremendous.

You think torrents and youtube are completely legal? (snickers)

Tremendous.

You think torrents and youtube are completely legal? (snickers)

Did I say they were legal? I said you didn't have to go through an often annoying middleman. If you're going to reply, you might as well read the post you're replying to.


If all traders have the same collection what would be the point of trading? Wouldn't it get boring? I can understand not giving away true obscure shows
Traders wouldn't have identical collections because traders wouldn't like the same shows - unless you're one of those people who will just collect anything at all. If I had a copy of something obscure that I liked, I'd want to get it out there!

Recently, I contacted a cast member of a fairly obscure comedy show in Britain. It had only been on regional TV 20 years ago, never repeated, and the production company went out of business a few years ago. The cast member dug round til they found a tape with three episodes of the show on it, which I converted to DVD for them. After asking permission, I uploaded them all to Vimeo, because I wasn't interested in being known as "that guy who has those three episodes of that show". I wanted as many people as possible to see it.

The attitude you describe is certainly one of the reasons I got out of the trading game, and I think it might be the cause for other people too. Those "obscure" shows don't actually belong to you, you know.

As far as trading getting "boring" - looks like the amount of traffic here indicates that it's already become very boring. When I first joined you couldn't keep a topic on the front page for more than a couple of hours without any new posts, and now there's stuff from over a month ago still there.

Did I say they were legal? I said you didn't have to go through an often annoying middleman. If you're going to reply, you might as well read the post you're replying to.

I did read the post. I, quite frankly, don't care for your attitude.

So you had some bad experiences with one or a few traders? Well haven't we all? That doesn't mean I got out of the hobby and wanted to end it for everyone else.

You accuse people of being "holier-than-thou". Well what do you call coming onto a trading post and implying we're all a bunch of illegal bootleggers?

I don't know who you were trading with, but of all the DOZENS of people I have traded with, I have never met anyone that didn't want me to trade something they sent me to somebody else. There is one show I am careful with for various reasons which I don't care to get into right now, but let me just simply say it's a case of me not wanting to see someone make a profit on other people's tragedies. I also have not met anyone that has bragged about their collections.

On the contrary, I have found most traders to be kind and generous. Not every trade gets documented on here. A lot of my trades are done strictly through PM's and e-mails with people I trade with regularly. Suggesting the forum isn't active because of that is somewhat ignorant.

Stop trolling here.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/354013344751012/ link to my group.

I personally agree going through middlemen is frustrating. I'm not in a good financial situation right now and have a busy schedule, I just don't have the means currently to sit down and try to make copies of things for other people to get the shows I want. It's 100% easier if it's available on youtube to just copy and save the video for later.

There are copies floating around of TONS of episodes of series I want to see but the people who have episodes refuse to share them with the public. I understand the whole idea that if it's available to the masses then it's not worth trading for usually but man it can be frustrating.

Thank you for the link. Maybe someone out there has the short Color Honeymooners sketches that haven't seen the light of day since '69 and '70.

Once the group gets more members hopefully you'll find them. :)

I just found out Me-Tv will be showing the complete season of Gilligan in color. I have no idea if these are widely available but thought it was kind of neat.

Thank you for the link. Maybe someone out there has the short Color Honeymooners sketches that haven't seen the light of day since '69 and '70.

Given how popular that show was, I'm surprised they're not out there already.