As a high schooler, one of my favorite television shows was Daria. I usually missed the original broadcasts on Monday night, but due to this being MTV, catching reruns wasn't at all difficult. When you include the numerous marathons throughout its five year run, and I had no excuse not to catch them.
After the show ended its run in the days before YouTube (and in the early days of file sharing), I decided to save the episodes that I had to VHS tapes and also maintained recording the episodes that I didn't have that were being broadcast on The N, a teen network that also aired Degrassi. Despite heavily (and sometimes cluelessly) editing the episodes of Daria for broadcast, I recorded these episodes in a higher quality than those I owned at the cost of edits. When it was said and done, I was only missing a handful of episodes from the first season that The N had decided not to rebroadcast.
Those three tapes in which the episodes are contained upon are such a favorite of my video collection. Fortunately, I won't have to live on these bootlegs much longer, as it has been announced that the series will be released on DVD later this year. Of course, much of (if not all) of the music will be lost if the handful of Daria releases are any indication but for a favorite show, that won't matter greatly.
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