VCR Favour Request [Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος]

Yesterday I came home to discover that my remaining VCR no longer plays or records. So I missed a bunch of shows, some of which I care about more than others, and some of which I'll catch up to in reruns.

Tonight I was going to try to drive out to Bowie and Crofton, which'll mean missing Charmed. (There's a movie instead of Alias tonight, and I can always catch Law and Order in a rerun). Monday I can stay home to see CSI: Miami and Everwood, but Tuesday I'll miss 24 and Gilmore Girls while I'm at rehearsal.

Tuesday night I'm supposed to get hand-me-down VCRs that kindasorta almost work. One plays but doesn't rewind. I can deal with that for a while, having one that rewinds but doesn't play. I was wondering whether someone reading this might be willing to tape any of these shows for me, local to Baltimore or distant and willing to deal with mailing VHS or DVD to me. I would be grateful.

The most important is 24. I missed one episode last season, so I held on to the tapes of the rest of the episodes unwatched so I could catch the missing episode in reruns and not see the show out of sequence, and they never reran any of last season. So I still haven't seen the missing episode, and I watched the rest in a rush just before this season started.

(And John, this does mean I still have not seen that episode of Angel you want to talk about.)

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I feel your pain about Angel.

Not having cable, we have to download them from the internet. Unfortunately we didn't get up in time to download episode 10.

So now I need to either watch 11 and 12, or try to track it down.

TV is a cruel monkey to have riding your back.

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I don't have cable either -- there are all shows I usually get off an antenna.

Downloading episodes off the Internet? I've got a 56K modem ... when I missed that episode of Alias a few weeks ago somebody suggested I get it using BitTorrent if I had "a fast enough pipe" -- 56K might be fast enough for a "start it when I go to sleep and hope it's finished when I wake up" download, but it's probably not fast enough to properly participate in something like BT.

Until then, I'd never even thought of downloading TV shows I'd missed via the net.

"TV is a cruel monkey to have riding your back.

Aye, indeed. Especially since The West Wing is on at the same time as Angel (and that's during Homespun Ceilidh Band (http://www.homespunceilidh.com) rehearsal, so I can't just tape one while watching the other).

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sorry to hear about your VCR doom. if only i hadn't mailed my spare to Montreal a while back, to someone who wasn't nearly as deserving (although i only found that out later)...

*hug* I thought it was doom-y enough when the first one died, because of a) shows I like that are scheduled opposite each other and b) being away for enough days in a row that a single 8-hour tape isn't enough. I was completely unprepared for the death of the second one.

I appreciate the thought about the already-gone VCR. Here's hoping I can coax enough life out of the half-broken one I'll be getting Tuesday night, to keep it working until an intact one lands in my lap or I actually put together enough spare cash to buy a working one. (Buying isn't likely. I haven't been able to put together enough extra dough to buy the glasses that were prescribed in 2002 (specifically for working at the computer).

Law & Order:CI was a repeat at 9PM, The one about the Irish nomad tribe and the anthropologist who is trying to study them and the ex-nomad who is the probation officer who gets killed...
I tend to crash around 10 so I don't know about the second episode tonight.

Had to think about it a while to remember enough, but yes, I've seen that one. Okay, one less show to feel like I've missed. Thanks.

I have a couple VCRs that won't be doing anything until Wednesday. I have minimal cable, so I have the usual networks but not the special channels like SciFi and Comedy. I think everything you listed is a network show, so if you send me networks, dates, and times I'll set it up and mail you a tape when it's done.

I don't have cable at all; your thought that they're all broadcast shows is correct.

Gilmore Girls is 8:00 PM on WB.
24 is 9:00 PM on FOX.

Thanks. Someone else said they'd put 24 on DVD-R in case my DVD player handles that format but suggested I still ask someone to get that for me on VHS just in case.

Ok, will do. Email me a postal address so I know where to send the tape?

I have Charmed recorded, if you're looking for it... and do plan to re-watch it, since it was a very good episode. (Therefore, I can tape it assuming I locate a good VCR tape. :D) Drop me a line at work if you want me to make you a copy.

I currently have Charmed taped, but since I've watched it already and I don't archive it, please let me know if you want me to hang on to it. (I generally tape both Charmed and Alias, and I usually watch them later that night, so I'd usually need to know before Monday night if they need to be hung on to).

I believe have back-episodes of this season of 24 from about 10pm on, and will likely continue having them for a while. (I missed 9pm, so am not likely to watch the rest until I find it).

All things that I still have can, I suppose, be made copies of.

Speaking of Angel, I'm in search of the most recent episode (100th, with Cordelia appearance).

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