Chad & Jeremy final show for 16 years, October 1987 daytime TV

English duo Chad & Jeremy perform together in an October 1987 daytime TV broadcast that turned out to be their last public appearance for the next 16 years. They had disbanded from around 1968 through a 1982 reunion and were just coming off a successful British Invasion oldies tour with Freddie and the Dreamers, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers, and the Mindbenders. After doing a two-week residency at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, they made this October 1987 TV appearance and then split up again. They didn't reunite for more recordings and concerts until the early 2000s.

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded between from 1983 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. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.