Stopped taping: have I done the wrong thing?

[John Doe]

Effective with the final unaired episode of The Popeye Show, I've decided to suspend further taping of shorts on CN until some significant special or the next 13 Popeye shows.

In the last few years, I've taped quite a bit off Cartoon Network including the following significant programs/marathons:

Mil-Looney-Um
June Bugs 1999 and 2001
all episodes of The Bob Clampett Show and The Popeye Show
Toonheads: Tish Tash
Toonheads: World War 2 cartoons
Toonheads with those rare cartoons; I can't remember the subtitle but they included Lady Play Your Mandolin

While not on Cartoon Network, I also taped the entire Mickey Mouse It's Gotta Be The Shorts! 2 weekend marathon on Disney.

Plus I've taped Late Night Black & White faithfully every week it's aired from 1999 until the last episode Feb. 17 (as a result recently got such rare LT as Porky's Romance and Injun Trouble) + until a few months ago, Bugs & Daffy/Looney Tunes Show pretty much every weekend. Last fall, I finally started to take the shorts I like and don't have from stacks of videotape sitting around and copied them onto tapes with separate video categories: black & white Popeye, computer colorized LT, color LT and MM, etc. Lots were taped when WB shorts aired on Nickelodeon as well.

There's no doubt more, but it'd take the entire memory banks of this web site to list everything. :D

I check the show logs on this board most every day and haven't seen any wanted rare shorts aired recently. My question is this: with no more LNB&W and no new Popeye shows until the 2nd set of 13 airs later, are there any current program slots where CN could sneak in a rare WB short? I'm specifically interested in seeing B&W or CZ versions of Westward Whoa!, The Haunted Mouse, Porky's Bear Facts (B&W; I have CZ version), Porky's Midnight Matinee, Porky's Ant, Daffy's Southern Exposure (B&W; have CZ) and The Daffy Duckaroo (B&W; have CZ).

If the answer to my question is no, then I think my decision is a safe one for now. Thoughts/suggestions are welcome.

[dendawg]

IMHO, it's not necessarily bad that you've quit taping for the time being. I haven't taped since last years June Bugs marathon, primarily because it's exhausting to tape 18+ hours of shows per week, with only a couple hours on the weekend to go thru them. I'm pretty burned out on taping right now. Maybe if things improve, I might do it some more.

:D Dendawg :D

[Matthew Hunter]

I actually quit doing it for a while. But now that I have a dualdeck vcr copier and CN organizes their shows a bit better (one shots on Acme Hour and stars on Bugs and Daffy) I've started updating my copies of some shorts, and brother, some really needed it. I have been slowly but surely going through my collection in chronological order and taping them onto new casettes, picking the best copy I have of each (if not available on professional WB/PD/MGM copies. ) I've gotten the 1950's done, and from 1930-1937, and 1961-62. I mix it up a little bit, there are some that I acquired recently, (like "Its Hummer Time", for example) and I just stuck that on one of the 1930's tapes. Same with "A Street Cat Named Sylvester", which I ran accross at the end of a tape AFTER I had taped that decade with no room to spare. I have also found some missing titles that I know I had at one time, and so I keep taping CN to get those back. I nearly have all of the WB titles, thanks to trades with some of you guys I have the majority of rare and hard to find ones. Won't be long...
-Matthew

[Cartoon King]

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
I actually quit doing it for a while. But now that I have a dualdeck vcr copier and CN organizes their shows a bit better (one shots on Acme Hour and stars on Bugs and Daffy) I've started updating my copies of some shorts, and brother, some really needed it. I have been slowly but surely going through my collection in chronological order and taping them onto new casettes, picking the best copy I have of each (if not available on professional WB/PD/MGM copies. ) I've gotten the 1950's done, and from 1930-1937, and 1961-62. I mix it up a little bit, there are some that I acquired recently, (like "Its Hummer Time", for example) and I just stuck that on one of the 1930's tapes. Same with "A Street Cat Named Sylvester", which I ran accross at the end of a tape AFTER I had taped that decade with no room to spare. I have also found some missing titles that I know I had at one time, and so I keep taping CN to get those back. I nearly have all of the WB titles, thanks to trades with some of you guys I have the majority of rare and hard to find ones. Won't be long...
-Matthew


I had been taping Tom and Jerry religiously trying to get The Framed Cat (the only Mammy cartoon I have never traded for) and the Chuck Jones short Tom Thump (until I read in an earlier post that it doesn't exist). Basically now I just tape Boomerang every day. I am able to trade copies of some HB toons for other toons no longer aired like Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. In the past six months I have added hundreds of toons to my collection. Finding the time to catalog and organize them is next to impossible! Between taping for myself and the trades I do, I can't get caught up.

[Pilmedium]

Originally posted by rhapsodyrabbit
the Chuck Jones short Tom Thump (until I read in an earlier post that it doesn't exist)

What "earlier post" was that? There is a 1960s Tom and Jerry that doesn't exist!?! :confused:


I still tape Cartoon Network because there are still some MGM cartoons for me to get from them. I already learned my lesson not to stop. There were showings of rare WB cartoons I missed due to laziness (most of which I have gotten since then). I can't guarantee they would show up again, so I tape every showing. I rarely watch them, though.

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by Pilmedium
What "earlier post" was that? There is a 1960s Tom and Jerry that doesn't exist!?! :confused:


A few animation filmographies list "Tom Thump" among the Chuck Jones Tom & Jerry cartoons. However, no such cartoon was ever made. "Tom Thump" was actually just a working title for "The Year of the Mouse".

Hope that clears up the confusion,


-Jon

[Billy]

Originally posted by rhapsodyrabbit

I had been taping Tom and Jerry religiously trying to get The Framed Cat (the only Mammy cartoon I have never traded for)

Do you have The Framed Cat yet? It's the most overplayed T&J cartoon on Cartoon Network UK! :D

[Pilmedium]

Originally posted by BillyH
Do you have The Framed Cat yet? It's the most overplayed T&J cartoon on Cartoon Network UK!

It's far from overplayed in the US, but it did appear on a late night Tom and Jerry show on January 20, 2002.