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Oddity Archive Season 1, Episode 6: Conservative Folk Music
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On the night of Sunday, November 22nd, 1987, a mysterious figure in a Max Headroom mask hijacked two Chicago TV stations. Spoiler alert: The perpetrators were never found.
12 min
Emergency Broadcast Salute
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TV Sign-offs
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Local TV Special
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21 min
American EXXXtacy (and other C-band nastiness)
The Archive's most infamous episode--for some reason.
16 min
Conservative Folk Music
Meet the artists that made the likes of Joan Baez and Pete Seeger fear for their careers.
16 min
Format Wars
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21 min
1-900-ARCHIVE
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21 min
Halloween Special 2012 (Strange VHS Endings)
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37 min
Captain Midnight / Vrillon
An Archive double header: The two most famous occurrences of Broadcast Signal Hijacking (well, save for the Max Headroom Incident) are discussed here.
14 min
Pay TV (but not Cable or Satellite)
The Oddity Archive will now be switching to scrambled mode. Please turn on your (preferably, circa 1984) decoder box now.
14 min
Top (Thanksgiving) Turkeys of the (19)90's
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19 min
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32 min
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All Ben wanted for Christmas was a silent night...
23 min
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Ceefax and Keyfax, Nite-Owl and Cable Chuckles, oh my...
16 min
Intermission
It's movie day at the Archive! Unfortunately, due to copyright issues, you're not invited. But, at least you can join us for an intermission reel (conveniently containing all Public Domain footage!).
13 min
Prehistoric Television
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16 min
gniksaM sdrawkcaB (Backwards Masking)
?segassem lanimilbus tahW ?huH Everyone knows there are no subliminal messages in music...(!slatrom nwod wob ,woN)
24 min
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26 min
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20 min
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16 min
Duck & Cover
Because you can (apparently) never have enough nukes...
17 min
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What is it about end logos and FBI Warnings that scared so many children of the VHS era?
23 min
Hell's Bells (The Dangers of Rock and Roll)
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22 min
Employee Training Videos
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29 min
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