I'm willing to loan the tape to someone than can do a proper job of capturing it if this tape is deemed worthy of the effort.

As Video Collector mentioned, I have a PAL SVHS player that I have been using for captures. I have already done some of the Droids VHS captures with it and they have look pretty good (check out my Droids preservation thread).

I am all the way in the US, so not sure if that causes a problem, but I would be willing to give a crack at it if you have no other options.

My deck is a Philips branded SVHS player, but I am almost positive that it is a re-branded JVC (which are still considered some of the best consumer/prosumer decks). When it sits next to my JVC 9600 SVHS deck it has the exact same chassis down to the screw holes and vents. Just a different front plate and menu GUI. http://i.imgur.com/sndiL.png

Your tape looks great! If I am not able to assist, I hope somebody else can so we can maybe get a different glimpse at this.

On a side note, does anyone know if the special was filmed on video or film? If it was video there may be some odd frame timing and possibly blended frames. If it was film, I would assume a speed up was applied.