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Info Wanted: Trying to date a NBC off-air Empire Strikes Back VHS

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I recently found an off-the-air recording of “The Empire Strikes Back” from NBC on a VHS tape. I know they first aired it in 1987, but did they air the movie again after that date?

I want to know if I can date it but it does not have the commercials (they’re spliced out).

Is there anything I should look for as hints? Going to post screengrabs when it’s done transferring.

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I'd say look for the NBC logo, but from my quick 30 second Google image search, the NBC logo hasn't changed since 1986, so you're out of luck there. Maybe the basic look of the color or the panning and scanning? I know the older pan and scan versions didn't have the most natural panning, and they also compressed the crawl so it was readable. With that, at the very least you could tell it's earlier than 1995.

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The '87 tv debut had this introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Opvt9JS54