Wow, new ones!

[Hazel Anyday]

I hope I'm not jinxing it, but for the past 2 days in a row Z Living channel has shown 4 never before shown episodes of O&H! I've been so used to seeing the same episodes over and over all I need now is about 30 seconds of the beginning of the show to tell whether it's another repeat of a repeat. I hope Z Living keeps up the good work they've done over the past 2 days. Z Living shows O&H at 11 am, 2 episodes in a row. Now the bizarro channel Mnet or whatever they call themselves today they show one O&H early every morning a 5 am. But they're still in the repeats of repeats of repeats rut. So, as of now they're a waste of time. Now every O&H I record is on a RW DVD or a RAM DVD, in other words a re-recordable and erasable disc. So the hundreds of repeats of repeats are no longer taking up valuable real DVD+R space. If it's a repeat I just erase it off the DVD RW, if it's a new show I copy it to a permanent DVD+R disc. Hope tomorrow's another repeat free day on Z Living at 11 am.

[OH Nuts!]

You lucky duck! Wished I got Z living. But between my DVD sets and YT, I probably have access to 75% of all the eps. A higher % would be great of course, but 75% - over 300 eps isn’t bad.

[Hazel Anyday]

I haven't done a count but I probably have about 150, more or less. Like you I'd like to have them all. I don't know how to download Ytube videos, I tried but it didn't work. Sounds like you're doing alright though. With me it's either feast or famine, one day I'm watching 2 Ozzies the next couple days nothing (due to all the repeats). Midnight on Friday night Z shows 3 hours in a row, but most of the time all will be repeats with maybe one or 2 exceptions sometimes that is. Well, hopefully Z is getting it's Ozzie act together.

[OH Nuts!]

Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

I haven't done a count but I probably have about 150, more or less. Like you I'd like to have them all. I don't know how to download Ytube videos, I tried but it didn't work. Sounds like you're doing alright though. With me it's either feast or famine, one day I'm watching 2 Ozzies the next couple days nothing (due to all the repeats). Midnight on Friday night Z shows 3 hours in a row, but most of the time all will be repeats with maybe one or 2 exceptions sometimes that is. Well, hopefully Z is getting it's Ozzie act together.

I don’t download them, I just watch them from YT. I know there are softwares you can probably buy to let you do this, but I’m not that savvy.

While I love my sets, I don’t love all the duplicates. Sheesh. I have six “The Tigers Go To A Dance”. My most treasured eps are the full cut ones- commercials and all. Most were on VHS. Those ones cost a pretty penny-most were bought 1999-2003 often at $13 for two eps or one where I got lucky 4 eps for $8. I could kick myself for spending so much back then, but DVDs were just coming out. I was happy that all my O&H were able to be burned to DVD. I probably have 25-30 FULL eps. But even a clipped ep is much better than nothing.

If there’s an ep you want to discuss, name it. I probably have it or can find it on YT.

[stevea]

Although I don't have one, there are lists of episodes which appear to be lost and haven't been shown anywhere--probably under 100 episodes. I'm wondering if these episodes that are cropping up on this channel are some of these rare episodes.

[OH Nuts!]

Originally Posted by stevea

Although I don't have one, there are lists of episodes which appear to be lost and haven't been shown anywhere--probably under 100 episodes. I'm wondering if these episodes that are cropping up on this channel are some of these rare episodes.

That would be wonderful. I hope some hard-core fans who have posted here in the past, still read posts to this forum and thread, and will chime in.

[Hazel Anyday]

Well, I guess I did jinx it a bit. Today they showed 2 repeats. But I watched because they were shows I've only seen them show once before. Most of the time when they show repeats they're repeats that have been shown 10 or more times already. As for what are some of the shows I've seen from them recently, you can judge whether these are rare ones or everyday ones, I don't know. Here's some from recent showings:
7.12 Helpful Neighbor
7.13 Runaways
7.36 Oz Plans A Surprise
8.14 David's Car Payments
8.16 Rick's English Lit Class
9.15 Girl Who Loses Things
9.21 2 Small Boys & A Dog
9.25 Rick's Broken Arm
10.11 Rick The Milkman
10.14 Special Cake
10.16 Lamp For Dave & June
10.18 Operation Barry
10.21 Lonesome Parents
11.11 Old Friend of June's
11.21 Decorating Dave's Office
11.23 Dave & The Fraternity Lease
12.9 Lawyer's Convention
12.11 June Is Always Late
13.24 Desk Photo
13.26 Painting From The Past

While I don't know how to download from YT I did buy several years back a little device I have wished existed since I first got a computer. That is a device that I could use to hook up my computer to my DVD recorder using RCA connections. I had always read and even was told by computer experts that it was impossible to do. Finally about 2012 or so I found my wish finally came true by searching on Amazon. They still sell this little miracle worker (though it's white now, the one I bought was black). It's made by Sewell called a PC to TV Converter. You don't even have to plug it in, it's a device you hook up to your computer and on the other end RCA connections hook to the DVD player OR to your TV if you don't use a DVD recorder. Here's the way it is now on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Sewell-Direct.../dp/B002PXFJ2O

[stevea]

So if I understand this correctly (and I hope i do!), I can connect this to the computer, play a Youtube video, and ACTUALLY RECORD it on the DVD recorder?

[Hazel Anyday]

Absolutely. I've been doing this ever since I got it in 2012 or maybe it was 2013. You can record on your DVD recorder anything you can play on your computer. So, yes I could record all those O&H's on YTube if I wanted, I just need to work myself into the mood to do a lot of recording. But I have recorded missing Lassie episodes and missing Amos & Andy episodes and many movies right from the computer. You're recording in real time, so if a TV show is a 1/2 hour long it takes a 1/2 hour to record it. It's just the same as if you were recording a show off of your TV signal or cable signal. Though I see the new version of this device (it's really just a converter) requires you to power it with a USB connection from your computer. My old one doesn't need any power at all, it's like hooking one end of a wire to another end, no power necessary to run the old converter. But I see from Amazon today that it does need a USB line from computer to power it. That's still no problem, it even comes with the wire to connect it to power it. But just noticed this difference. Other than that it's the same converter. Look at it from that Amazon site I gave above, you can see how it looks.

And yes, I saw the claim that as long as you have YouTube all your DVD's are unnecessary. Uh huh, right. There's a whole whole lot of stuff that you won't find on YouTube or elsewhere on the net that only a DVD collection would provide you with. So that claim is pie in the sky or for people trying to convince themselves that anything they want is on youtube, it's not. I wish it were true, but no.

[1960'sTVfan]

I've sometimes wondered if there's a way to record/download videos off of You Tube but I don't think I'd actually want to do it. I'll watch videos on You Tube occasionally, I've found some interesting stuff on there.

[OH Nuts!]

Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

Absolutely. I've been doing this ever since I got it in 2012 or maybe it was 2013. You can record on your DVD recorder anything you can play on your computer. So, yes I could record all those O&H's on YTube if I wanted, I just need to work myself into the mood to do a lot of recording. But I have recorded missing Lassie episodes and missing Amos & Andy episodes and many movies right from the computer. You're recording in real time, so if a TV show is a 1/2 hour long it takes a 1/2 hour to record it. It's just the same as if you were recording a show off of your TV signal or cable signal. Though I see the new version of this device (it's really just a converter) requires you to power it with a USB connection from your computer. My old one doesn't need any power at all, it's like hooking one end of a wire to another end, no power necessary to run the converter as I see from Amazon today that it does need a USB from computer to power. That's still no problem, it even comes with the wire to connect it to power it. But just noticed this difference. Other than that it's the same converter. Look at it from that Amazon site I gave above, you can see how it looks.

And yes, I saw the claim that as long as you have YouTube all your DVD's are unnecessary. Uh huh, right. There's a whole whole lot of stuff that you won't find on YouTube or elsewhere on the net that only a DVD collection would provide you with. So that claim is pie in the sky or for people trying to convince themselves that anything they want is on youtube, it's not. I wish it were true, but no.

Of course NOT EVERYTHING is on YT but a good amount is. YT is a quick and dirty way to get to a lot of viewing—but there are certainly more sources.

[Hazel Anyday]

There is a way to download YouTube videos too, I just have never figured it out. You have to download a free thingamabob to your computer then you supposedly go to the video you want to download and copy the address of the site that has the video you want to the box that will now appear on your computer and supposedly it will download. Well, it never worked for me. So recording with my converter is the only way I know how to record video from the computer. I do know how to download audio stuff, but not video.

[stevea]

And Youtube can take down any video, anytime. Copyright claim, that's it. Removed. That's what CBS does all the time whenever anyone posts a full episode of My Three Sons.

What a device--thanks for the tip! Also I probably have that list of missing O&H episodes someplace in email. One I know for sure is "The Hong Kong Suit" from season 14. Everything else from season 14 is available, some in color, some not.

[OH Nuts!]

Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

Well, I guess I did jinx it a bit. Today they showed 2 repeats. But I watched because they were shows I've only seen them show once before. Most of the time when they show repeats they're repeats that have been shown 10 or more times already. As for what are some of the shows I've seen from them recently, you can judge whether these are rare ones or everyday ones, I don't know. Here's some from recent showings:
7.12 Helpful Neighbor
7.13 Runaways
7.36 Oz Plans A Surprise
8.14 David's Car Payments
8.16 Rick's English Lit Class
9.15 Girl Who Loses Things
9.21 2 Small Boys & A Dog
9.25 Rick's Broken Arm
10.11 Rick The Milkman
10.14 Special Cake
10.16 Lamp For Dave & June
10.18 Operation Barry
10.21 Lonesome Parents
11.11 Old Friend of June's
11.21 Decorating Dave's Office
11.23 Dave & The Fraternity Lease
12.9 Lawyer's Convention
12.11 June Is Always Late
13.24 Desk Photo
13.26 Painting From The Past

While I don't know how to download from YT I did buy several years back a little device I have wished existed since I first got a computer. That is a device that I could use to hook up my computer to my DVD recorder using RCA connections. I had always read and even was told by computer experts that it was impossible to do. Finally about 2012 or so I found my wish finally came true by searching on Amazon. They still sell this little miracle worker (though it's white now, the one I bought was black). It's made by Sewell called a PC to TV Converter. You don't even have to plug it in, it's a device you hook up to your computer and on the other end RCA connections hook to the DVD player OR to your TV if you don't use a DVD recorder. Here's the way it is now on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Sewell-Direct.../dp/B002PXFJ2O

Wow what a great list! Thanks for posting it. There 8 on here I’ve never seen. Gonna see what luck I have finding them on YT.

[Hazel Anyday]

I could list lots of different stuff I'd like to have but it's not on YouTube. One tiny example, the one Bachelor Father episode I'm missing Ep. 5-10 "Star Light, Star Not So Bright". So much not on YouTube I don't have time to go thru it all.