When my Uncle comes to visit for Christmas he mentioned that he remembered an old game show called Queen For a Day. The show was like a reality/game show where women would tell their sad story and whoever got the most applause from the audience would win the show. I later went on the internet to check this show out, only to find out that most of the episodes were wiped. When old TV shows were wiped, the shows were erased on the tapes so they used again to tape a new show. This was one of the dumbest things to ever happen in the history of civilization.
History had its great mishaps but this one unintentionally harmed future generations to come. I mean today's generation who hear stories and memories of old TV shows from their relatives, would like to see what the show was like to get a better grip on it. Seeing is believing as they say. Your imagination can only give a gist of what your relative remembers. Seeing the old TV show would help you understand the era and attitudes of the people of the past.
I can understand why they wiped the old episodes. They were trying to be thrifty and help save on new tapes. If only they knew that the consequences would never be the same when they did wipe the old episodes. I have a theory that not all of the episodes that were ordered to be wiped have been wiped. In other words some TV Stations kept a complete library of the episodes of everything that they aired. NOTE THAT IS MY THEORY!
In Retrospect wiping was the worst thing in the history of TV. Nowadays we learned from our mistakes and don't wipe things since there is a demand for TV shows on DVD and Blu-Ray now
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