Changes to Oxygen's Lineup!

[TVJunkie101]

Originally posted by Jenny
I've felt that way before. I was taping copies of Archie Bunker's Place before TVL drops it, but I stopped recording it a few weeks ago. Maybe it'll come back later on and I can record it later, but if it doesn't, well maybe it'll come out on dvd or something.

I feel kind of weird. It looks like everybody on here is recording so much and my recording level is going down. I record Buffy on FX, but this is the last week for recording on that channel. They are on season 6 on FX and don't show 7 on there. I won't make copies because I think Buffy is gonna be the one show that I'll get dvds to each season. I record the Tuesday season 7 Buffy ep on UPN and I tape the season 4 ep of Angel on the WB. That's it.

Jenny, lol, you're not weird for not taping a lot. You should see the hundreds of tapes I have. Sure, taping shows has it's plusses, but a ton of minuses.

Anyway, I just tape shows I like because I know they aren't going to be around forever. I've learned that the hard way. I remembe when I first got TV Land back in late 2000, I had it for several months, but never taped anything, and then I got it back in late 2001, and still never taped anything until February 2002. I kick myself for it now, but I'll live.

I had the chance to record all of Good Times before it left TBS; never did. Now, it's not on at all, I have the 1st season dvds...

Taping has sort of becom an obsession with me, lol. I just figure, well, now I have a chance to tape a lot of stuff with darn good picture quality (I have satellite) and I have the free time to do it... lol.

Don't feel weird. It's definately, at times, a huge hassle. I tend to tape things without commercials too (with the exceptions of Dynasty and Knots Landing) so that makes for an even bigger hassle, but in the long run, it turns out better. Less tapes, and the shows are available whenever I want to watch.

[Sitcomwriter]

Originally posted by tvje
Not one to compain but does A Different World really belong on Oxygen?

I agree.They should add a show like Grace Under Fire or Townies instead even though I've never seen the Lisa/Marissa episodes

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by TVJunkie101


Jenny, lol, you're not weird for not taping a lot. You should see the hundreds of tapes I have. Sure, taping shows has it's plusses, but a ton of minuses.

Anyway, I just tape shows I like because I know they aren't going to be around forever. I've learned that the hard way. I remembe when I first got TV Land back in late 2000, I had it for several months, but never taped anything, and then I got it back in late 2001, and still never taped anything until February 2002. I kick myself for it now, but I'll live.

I had the chance to record all of Good Times before it left TBS; never did. Now, it's not on at all, I have the 1st season dvds...

Taping has sort of becom an obsession with me, lol. I just figure, well, now I have a chance to tape a lot of stuff with darn good picture quality (I have satellite) and I have the free time to do it... lol.

Don't feel weird. It's definately, at times, a huge hassle. I tend to tape things without commercials too (with the exceptions of Dynasty and Knots Landing) so that makes for an even bigger hassle, but in the long run, it turns out better. Less tapes, and the shows are available whenever I want to watch.

I used to record a lot too. You should see all my tapes. It takes up half of the room. It still seems odd that I'm used to taping so much and now then it's just going down. It feels like I should be recording something, but I have almost nothing to tape. Yeah, I think I'm a little obsessed too. lol

You know, the only show I really screwed up with was FOL. I wanted to record it on Hallmark and thought I'd have the chance to record it during the next rotation, but you know how that worked out.

[TVJunkie101]

Well, for me, for Facts of Life, I missed it on Nick @ Nite, and whe it came to TV Land for the fandemonium, I figured that would be my last chance, so I taped the entire thing.

So then, it comes to Hallmark. I taped just about every episode they aired too. I think now I'm only missing 10 episodes.

I screwed up with Diff'rent Strokes though. I missed that on Nick @ Nite as well (I figured it would be there for a while, lol) and then when it came to TNN, I didn't even THINK to tape it. So, I finally decided to and got about 40 episodes (at best) before it was taken off. I had stopped midway through to tape Donna Reed off TVL. So, Donna was ending in Sept 02, so I figured, cool, I can get more DS on TNN. WRONG. It was dropped then too.

That was really what got me starting to tape almost ANYTHING I liked watching.

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by TVJunkie101


I screwed up with Diff'rent Strokes though. I missed that on Nick @ Nite as well (I figured it would be there for a while, lol) and then when it came to TNN, I didn't even THINK to tape it. So, I finally decided to and got about 40 episodes (at best) before it was taken off. I had stopped midway through to tape Donna Reed off TVL. So, Donna was ending in Sept 02, so I figured, cool, I can get more DS on TNN. WRONG. It was dropped then too.

That was really what got me starting to tape almost ANYTHING I liked watching.

I can't really remember if I recorded DS on N @ N. I think I did, maybe I just recorded the special marathons or something? I didn't record it on TNN either. I guess the meat of my DS collection came from that TVL Fandemonium marathon.

[TVJunkie101]

And speaking of the DS fandemonium... I missed that too, LOL.

So, like I said, If I see a show I like, It comes on at a "free" time, I usually tape it.

I made sure to tape Batman during it's first rotation on TV Land. Ditto to Sanford and Son this year.

And certain shows I don't expect to be around for a while, I usually tape (Welcome Back Kotter, My Favorite Martian).

I will admit, I probably tape far too much, but, like they say: "No time like the present."

[TVLIFE]

I give you all credit for all the taping, it can be really cool to have all those episodes of shows you love and not be at the mercy of the networks. I just find it to hard to do. I fear I was miss it and I would get crazy about keeping up with it. I haven't taped a show like that since I got every episode of Moonlighting back when it was on ABC in the 1980s ( i still have the tapes).

Different World on OXygen:
I agree it does seem a little odd, this isn;t completly a female lead series but I think the people who watch it tend to be woman, so that must be why it is on.

Here are some shows I wish Oxygen would show (please let me know what you think):

Anything But Love
Roseanne
Tracy Ulman (the one from FOX in the 80's)
Duet
My Sister Sam


Thanks!

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by TVJunkie101
And speaking of the DS fandemonium... I missed that too, LOL.

So, like I said, If I see a show I like, It comes on at a "free" time, I usually tape it.

I made sure to tape Batman during it's first rotation on TV Land. Ditto to Sanford and Son this year.

And certain shows I don't expect to be around for a while, I usually tape (Welcome Back Kotter, My Favorite Martian).

I will admit, I probably tape far too much, but, like they say: "No time like the present."

I was pretty lucky with that DS marathon. I have two tv sets and two vcrs and that makes it easier to record those long marathons. Anyway, during the weekend of that DS marathon, one of the tv sets screwed up. Yep, that's just my luck. So I was down to one tv set and one vcr and I just had to stay and switch it out a bunch of times.

Oh yeah, I recorded Batman early too. When I started recording, I think it was on the Shame eps, the first Shame eps, and I started recording then. I made my copies and I think I stopped recording shortly after they moved Batman to 4 am.

[Sean Snow]

I know this is OT (Oh well lol) but I know what you guys mean about hectic tape schedules. Right now mine isn't nearly as bad as the ones you have, but werm it used to be. Right now I tape Dark Shadows at 8am, Dynasty at 10am, and Ryan's Hope at 3pm. The thing with all those is that they ran for a long long time. DS is like 350 or so episodes away from the finale and I have the first 60 episodes already, so I'll have like a month off from it later this year. *Shoo* Dynasty is going to take until like late this year at the earliest because I only started taping with #64. And Ryan's Hope lasted 3000+ episodes and they're only on around 1636. I don't plan on taping all those. ^-^

I'm running out of room now I have approx. 160 tapes from the last year and a half and now they're all over the place. Soon they'll take over my room *Screams in horror*

[Nanny Fine]

Here is just ONE shot of my tape room - it's my spare room, I don't go in except for tape stuff. I literally add tapes and tapes every single day. I need more cases but dont have the money to buy them.

I'm like TVJunkie - I tape anything I have interest in watching, or may at some time, because by the time I'd want to start taping/watching it they'll take it off. I could KICK myself over so many things that I did not tape, or taped and taped over.

And for the person who suggested Roseanne be on the Oxygen Channel - it airs on 43 different channels now That's quite enough

[Czas na Zywiec]

Originally posted by Will and Grace Rox
Here is just ONE shot of my tape room - it's my spare room, I don't go in except for tape stuff. I literally add tapes and tapes every single day. I need more cases but dont have the money to buy them.

I'm like TVJunkie - I tape anything I have interest in watching, or may at some time, because by the time I'd want to start taping/watching it they'll take it off. I could KICK myself over so many things that I did not tape, or taped and taped over.

And for the person who suggested Roseanne be on the Oxygen Channel - it airs on 43 different channels now That's quite enough

Wow...... Compared to you all, I have nothing. lol I have about 13 tapes full of 150 episodes of 'Facts.' Uh....one tape with 2 episodes of 'ALF'. Damn Hallmark..... And starting today, I'm going to be recording Futurama from Adult Swim on CN.

[Impressions]

I don't even have nearly that many tapes. I don't have too many tapes, atlest not that many to fill a room.

At the moment, I'm recording a couple different shows daily, and my taping schedule, is a hassle. I have to keep track of the episodes I have, the episodes that I'm missing, the episode in which are airing in the future, etc. Usually when I tape, they are shows that rarely come on TV, or just shows that I like myself, so I try to tape them while I can. I too, think taping has became a hobby, LOL.

[dawsongirl]

Originally posted by Jenny
I feel kind of weird. It looks like everybody on here is recording so much and my recording level is going down.

So's mine. Hallmark moved Hogan's to Saturday only and they haven't caught up to where they were, so nothing there. GSN dropped the nighttime Feud, so nothing there. Richard leaves the nighttime Match Game in like a week, I stop taping. I'll start MG 74, but that's it.

And Friday night's McCloud episode on Hallmark!!!! Yeah, finally!!!!!

[dawsongirl]

Originally posted by Sean Snow
I know this is OT (Oh well lol) but I know what you guys mean about hectic tape schedules. Right now mine isn't nearly as bad as the ones you have, but werm it used to be. Right now I tape Dark Shadows at 8am, Dynasty at 10am, and Ryan's Hope at 3pm. The thing with all those is that they ran for a long long time. DS is like 350 or so episodes away from the finale and I have the first 60 episodes already, so I'll have like a month off from it later this year. *Shoo* Dynasty is going to take until like late this year at the earliest because I only started taping with #64. And Ryan's Hope lasted 3000+ episodes and they're only on around 1636. I don't plan on taping all those. ^-^

I feel that pain. Match Game (the ones I want anyway) was on 5 days a week from mid 73 to mid 78. Plus the once a week nighttime from 75-78. 121 eps of that I think.

Then there's Family Feud. 5 days a week from July 1976 to September 1985. Over 2000. Ugh.

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by Will and Grace Rox
Here is just ONE shot of my tape room - it's my spare room, I don't go in except for tape stuff. I literally add tapes and tapes every single day. I need more cases but dont have the money to buy them.

I'm like TVJunkie - I tape anything I have interest in watching, or may at some time, because by the time I'd want to start taping/watching it they'll take it off. I could KICK myself over so many things that I did not tape, or taped and taped over.

And for the person who suggested Roseanne be on the Oxygen Channel - it airs on 43 different channels now That's quite enough

Seeing that picture of your spare room just made a question pop into my head. Okay, this question is dedicated to each and every person that records a lot on a daily basis. Where do all the boxes go? I always have more tapes than I do boxes. I know the little boxes can't stand up and walk off by itself, so where do they go?