Lost TV Sanctuary: Greed The Series (FOX 1999 - 2000)

I have six full bins of VHS tapes.  They take up space & they’re heavy, so I’m ready to get rid of them.

Almost all of the tapes have TV recordings ranging from the 80’s to the 00’s.  The majority contain failed and short-lived sitcoms.  The rest are game shows, sci-fi series and some extremely strange Saturday morning live-action stuff.

Lost media is suddenly a big thing, so I went through and organized the tapes to determine which ones to transfer.  The main priorities are TV shows that have no easy way of being seen other than transferring these VHS tapes to digital.  Sure, the production companies probably have the episodes in a vault somewhere.  But they’re effectively lost to most of us if the show isn’t broadcast, streaming or currently available to buy.

This is a time consuming process, so not everything will get transferred.  Maybe whoever gets the tapes next will transfer some of the other stuff.  But for the next few months (before my job kicks in to high gear again), I’ll transfer what I can.

I’ll post here on the various shows that get transferred and uploaded to the Internet Archive (the ultimate library for archiving media).

While my collection leans heavily towards sitcoms / comedies, the first thing I decided to upload is lost episodes of Greed: The Series.  I checked the Lost Media Wiki and with the help of this Greed fan page, I found a bunch of episodes that are considered lost.

Greed: The Series originally aired on FOX from 1999 - 2000.  After that, it aired occasionally in reruns on the Game Show Network until about 2008.  There were 44 episodes total.  Out of the 44 eps, 9 are fully lost and 4 partially lost.

I had three tapes labeled “Greed / Winning Lines”.  Ended up finding 2 of the fully lost Greed episodes and 2 of the partially lost ones.  All are from the original FOX airings.  Here's what I found...

Episode 16:  2-4-00  (watchable quality)

Episode 20:  3-1-00  (good quality)

Episode 25:  3-17-00  (good quality)

Episode 31:  4-25-00  (ok quality) (missing 3 min from near the start of the episode)

All 4 are now uploaded to the Internet Archive here.

Here's one of the episodes...

DISCLAIMER:  I only upload episodes of TV series that are completely unavailable in any format (not currently broadcast, streaming or available to purchase in any way) for archival purposes.  If the show suddenly becomes available, all files will be deleted.