1997/1998 "Beakman's World"/"CBS Storybreak" cassette tape - CBS via KOIN-TV audio channel - Бесплатная аудиокнига

One last one and they're through. This tape is from very late 1997 and early 1998.

KOIN (then channel 6, now channel 40) is the CBS affiliate for the Portland, Ore. area. Because of a major children's television overhaul that occurred as a result of the communications reform laws of 1996 (beginning of the "educational and informational" era) CBS had dropped "Garfield and Friends" and most of its cartoon programming by this point, and the promos had a definite "learning" theme. Thus there is no new Garfield audio in this recording. The internal code name for this "project", if it could be so considered, eventually became "Going to the Gorge" starting with the 1994 tape, I guess because I listened to it once on a road trip through the Columbia River Gorge that probably extended to Pendleton and it stuck. (Don't ask. The dumbass things that entertain you when you're 11.) The tape this time was a Sony HF120 ferric and is the longest in the trilogy. The second half of side 1 is dub-ins from the 1994 tape (probably so I could have at least *some* Garfield content), so there is very little new material other than a "CBS Storybreak" episode; side 2 is all new stuff.

Since NTSC-M channel 6's audio track (87.75 MHz) falls within the passband of most FM broadcast receivers, this meant that it was readily listenable and recordable albeit at a lower volume level and in mono due to modulation and subcarrier placement differences between TV and conventional FM stations. This ended, with few exceptions, in 2009 with the ATSC cutover. By this time I had graduated to a Philco bookshelf stereo ($60 at K-Mart in 1997) which was just as crappy as the Emerson but had a marginally less-noisy recording engine (still DC bias with permanent-magnet erase head) and more selective (meaning: narrow) FM front-end. Unfortunately the power supply in this unit was garbage, and there are DC "pulses" in this recording every so often where the power drops out for a second. This is the equipment side 1 was recorded on and it was in use for just over a year. By the time I did side 2 I had finally received a proper high-fidelity stereo system for Christmas consisting of my dad's old 1978 Pioneer tuner, Toshiba amplifier and power amp components, 1979 JVC KD-A1 cassette deck (AC bias, finally!!!), and new Rat $hack "Optimus" (formerly Realistic) speakers, and that's why the first half of side 2 is so clear compared with the rest. I have no explanation of why the audio in the "Mama Don't Allow" segment was so jacked up other than I must have gone back to using the Philco for some sick reason.

The crowd assembled, for the final time...

SIDE 1

Commercials

CBS STORYBREAK (1993 Malcolm Jamal Warner reboot)

The Roquefort Gang (Sandy Clifford)

Dub-in from the 1994 tape:

GARFIELD/ORSON'S FARM

"Fast Food" (ep. 64B)

CBS "In Your Eye" bumper

CBS "In Your Eye" promo

CBS "In Your Eye" bumper

"Cash and Carry" (ep. 64C)

Garfield quickies

"Flights of Fantasy" (ep. 65B) (fragment)

CBS "In Your Eye" bumper

"Castaway Cat" (ep. 65C)

DENNIS THE MENACE

end credits music

GARFIELD

"The Life and Times of the Lasagna Kid" (ep. 100C) (complete, but cuts off at end)

SIDE 2

Commercials

BEAKMAN'S WORLD

"Fingerprints and Flatulence" (1998 January 04) (last segment) (final episode of the series)

Commercials

IN THE NEWS (1997 Dan Raviv reboot)

Hillary Clinton and flying monkeys

CBS STORYBREAK

Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek (Evelyn Sibley Lampman)

CBS STORYBREAK

"Mama Don't Allow" (Thatcher Hurd) (first 20 minutes)

Further listening:

1994 recording (volume 1): [https://archive.org/details/1994GarfieldTape](https://archive.org/details/1994GarfieldTape)

1997 recording (volume 2): [https://archive.org/details/1997BeakmanWeirdAlShowTape](https://archive.org/details/1997BeakmanWeirdAlShowTape)

There were at least two more that followed this one in the early 2000s, mainly to document CBS' new "Nick Junior" EI programming block (since Viacom, which owned the pay-cable channel "Nickelodeon", had acquired CBS by that point) but in following years they were considered not worth saving and the tapes were wiped and reused. Thus this recording is the final (mostly original) one. There is also a "greatest hits" tape I compiled in 1999 which is entirely dubs of selections from the trilogy, with fades at the beginnings and endings. I have no plan to transfer and post it since all of its original material is already here.

Well, there you have it.

Cover photo: Wikipedia.

Notes

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