20 years ago, I started taping episodes of Roseanne's talk show with the thought that, "someday this is gonna mean something to somebody." There was no YouTube and internet video was in its infancy, so I didn't know whom or what I was doing it for, and it soon became overwhelming (3 VHS tapes a week -on top of all of my other recordings - began adding up quickly). Among my bazillions of videotapes, episodes started getting lost, missed, left unmarked, and presumably recorded over. Before the end of the first season, I finally gave up.
I was in the thick of digitizing my video collection in 2018 when my house suddenly burned down. So what you see is what's survived. Copies of all of my Roseanne videos are on the Internet Archive (the larger mpg files often contain commercials that were cut from the MP4/MKV versions): archive.org/details/@desmondpfeiffer?and%5B%5D=Ros…