1987 Mad Magazine's Mort Drucker, Dick Debartolo, Nick Meglin TV intvw

Mad Magazine's Mort Drucker, Dick Debartolo, and Nick Meglin talk with Robert "I can't stop my leg!" Klein in a TV interview broadcast in July 1987. The BetaGems channel also has "1991 VH1 Don Martin animated TV promo Mad Magazine," "Don Martin cartoon short 1991, Mad Magazine," "Robert Klein: Indy Jones & the Petting Zoo of Doom 1984 comedy short" and "Lost Comedy Channel 1990 ads Robert Klein Dead Comics Society" and "Robert Klein 11-15-87 musical television performance."

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded between from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads.

In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.