There's no need to rummage in the dirt on all fours to dig up the past. Instead, you can exhume dusty old videotapes from the comfort of your sofa. It's one of my favourite past times, but the constraints of time and life have meant it's been on the backburner for a while - hence this is the first Archive Tape Digging article in some time. Fortunately, I recently found time to go through some ancient Betamax tapes, so let's take a look at what I discovered.08/11/1983 - BBC1 - Continuity and Playschool (Partial)Given my age, videotapes are the perfect way for me to reconnect with my earliest days. Children's programmes, in particular, offer a wonderful blast of nostalgia, alongside a creeping realisation that my youth is fading into the distant past. Sadly, I haven't had much luck digging up children's television in the past. But I recently found something. It's very small, but it's something.Following on from an airing of the Bette Davis film Deception, this clip starts with a couple…
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