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FuzzyCanadian, aka RetroNewfoundland 🇨🇦📺
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Vintage TV recordings, I have channels at YouTube and Archive dot org - both as RetroNewfoundland
@mainepublic.org Hello and Merry Christmas!

I have a question and image to include with it, hoping anyone in the state might have any answers.

I found this test pattern at the tail end of a videotape that had other stuff on it, including some WVII snippets. Was this pattern of bars ever used?
December 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
#Wayback A few brief excerpts of American Bandstand from December 22, 1984, likely recorded off WVII Bangor via cable, featuring Donna Summer, Dick Clark, and a snippet of Step Into Christmas by Elton John...
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Tried an AI cleanup on a very short video. I don't know if I could do anything better in any scenario...

From March 24, 1985, it starts with a Let's Make a Deal bumper promo then quickly cuts to a card of the WVII Bangor station ID... This aired at 11 pm ET in Bangor, Maine...
December 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Happy 100th Birthday, #DickVanDyke! One of the all-time great entertainers, from his 1960s self-titled sitcom to the 1990s crime drama "Diagnosis: Murder", and everything else he's done, he is a treasure enjoyed by all.

Here's the intro from Episode #1 of his 1960s sitcom...
December 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
#Bluesky Exclusive: The final minutes of an unsold pilot called "Twisters" hosted by Jim Perry, produced by Bob Stewart, recorded at NBC Burbank on October 23, 1982...
December 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A #Bluesky Exclusive: The closing segment to the fourth episode of "Hot Potato" from January 26, 1984, with everything intact as it was if originally broadcast, minus network promotional voiceovers (the Barry & Enright logo would be plastered by Columbia-Tristar soon after)...
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
#Wayback The almost-complete closing credits to the January 28, 1980 episode of "Love of Life"...
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
#Bluesky Exclusive: #Wayback The closing segment to the May 9, 1988 edition of Entertainment Tonight...

Video Credit: Trevor Warren for finding this recording.
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
A #Bluesky Exclusive: On Pass the Buck, we have a tricky memory game, from June 21, 1978, near the end of the series. Enjoy! Also note the money counting graphic (that usually tells us how much it sits at) used in-game is broken.
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
@rewindium.bsky.social It's too bad this is all I got for oldest off-air NTV anything on my end (one good frame). They carried CTV's NHL broadcasts in the mid '80s.
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Posting as a tribute: Todd Snider passed away at the age of 59. Here is a promo for "Austin City Limits" featuring him and another singer no longer with us, John Prine, aired between programs on WTVS Channel 56 Detroit on January 17, 1996...

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November 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A #Bluesky Exclusive: Bill Cullen has the contestants on Pass the Buck ask him personal questions, to which he must answer a certain way for them to keep playing.

Originally aired June 6, 1978...
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
#Wayback An NTV Lucky Number Contest horizontal scroll from December 23, 1988 during an airing of The GLO Friends Save Christmas (broadcast date from a Bangor Daily News that included the CTV station in Moncton)...
November 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Another #Bluesky Exclusive!

The incomplete credits to "The Young and the Restless" from February 1, 1995 and intro to "Days of our Lives" from January 31, 1995, both aired on NTV, and reception is questionable (poor antenna or poor cable)...
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Another #Bluesky exclusive: How about a record-setting run of the end game on "Chain Reaction", originally aired March 24, 1980 on NBC?
October 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
@rewindium.bsky.social Snapshots of the end of "The A-Team" episode "Sheriffs of Rivertown", as recorded briefly off WLBZ Bangor on November 27, 1984...
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Watch as Debralee Scott and Robert Walden have a very bad time trying to form questions one word a time on Chain Reaction, originally aired March 6, 1980...
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
#Wayback The open and close to an early episode (February 4, 1972) of “Sanford and Son”, simply because you want to see a bit of Redd Foxx...
September 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#Wayback A bumper and end credits to the October 27, 1989 episode of “Baywatch”, with original theme, as aired on NBC in its first overall (and only one on NBC) season...
September 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Chain Reaction with Bill Cullen: Are Peggy Cass and Shelley Smith's minds on the same track? Find out here...

Originally aired February 14, 1980 on NBC, seen on Game TV on September 25, 2025...
September 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
#Wayback A snippet of "Jackpot" end credits from the late '80s...
September 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
#Wayback The open and close to the December 8, 1969 episode of “Love, American Style”, recorded in (I think) 2017 off CFTV Leamington via satellite dish...
September 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
What happens when Lucy and Vivian dump a whole lot of newspapers out of their truck? Tap or click to find out as you'll find yourself laughing so hard! From "The Lucy Show" Season 1.
September 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
#Wayback From the April 4, 1978 episode of "Pass the Buck", the contestants try to name states ending with the letter "A". How hard can it be?
September 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
#Wayback A ticket plug for and the closing to the January 15, 1980 episode of “Chain Reaction” with Bill Cullen...
September 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM