[kerrsclyde]

UK TV comedian Bob Monkhouse was another obsessive VHS archivist. He amassed a collection of 35k tapes and saved some recordings of UK TV shows which were previously thought to have been lost by the BBC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Monkhouse#Film_and_televis...

[actionfromafar]

I was going to say that the cost of just the tapes would be up to a million of todays dollars. But then I read:

"going back to when Monkhouse first bought a home video recorder in 1966"

Wow... if he started that early, the costs must have been astronomical in the beginning.

[kerrsclyde]

There was a BBC Four documentary about his archive. I think in that it reported that he was one of the first people in the UK to own a VHS device with the facility to record.