1980s bloopers Family Ties, Night Court, Cheers, news

1980s bloopers and outtakes from Family Ties, Night Court, Cheers, Small Wonder, Day By Day, TV news programs, and more. The BetaGems channel also has "Markie Post 1989 Hunt's Minute Gourmet television commercial," "1980s Bloopers: My Secret Identity, Baywatch, Arsenio Hall, more," "1988 bloopers from Hunter TV show Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer," "Compilation of bloopers, local TV spots: Suzanne Somers, Jim Varney, more," "Golden Girls Betty White bloopers & outtakes 1988," "TV news bloopers 70s-80s Reagan, Sam Donaldson, more," "Vintage Hollywood bloopers: Reagan, Cagney, Bogart, more," "6 year-old Thora Birch bloopers Day By Day 1988," "Adam 12 bloopers 8-18-71 Milner & McCord," and "Dark Shadows cast 1993 bloopers interviews."

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from the early 1980s into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online.

Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads. In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years.