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Are DVD sets even possible?

posted 8 years ago by jonathan_k80
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A few posters here have expressed a desire for a DVD collection, which got me to thinking... I wonder how many episodes still exist.

In the early days of television it was common practice to reuse video tape since it was so expensive. A show would be recorded on tape, and once it was broadcast, the tape would be erased for future use. Even shows recorded on film were destroyed in order to retrieve the silver content from the film. Because of this, many "Golden Age" broadcasts have been lost forever.

This brings me back to my original question: how many complete Captain Kangaroo episodes are still in existence?

[–] HarlowMGM 7 years ago

Nobody knows how many episodes still exist or even how many were actually produced. There certainly should be thousands from the last decade as the shows were rerun on PBS for a few years after the CBS run ended. If some dvd company cared enough to look into it they undoubtably could come up with a decent "best of" collection if nothing else.

There are five early episodes on archive.org that one can watch or burn onto their own personal dvd.