@se7en
I should have said before 1977. Since VHS was released in 1977 I'm assuming the market adaption was small in 1977 and probably 0 in the Soviet block.
I know about the attempts to record on vinyl but as far as I know it was never viable.

@matrix Attempts at video on vinyl were not unsuccessful but just inconvenient. There are numerous television shows broadcast by the BBC on vinyl. What you are thinking of was an attempted revival of recording television to an LP record as a home format in the 1990's.

Further, other forms of phonographic video existed including RCA's CED Videodisc, and JVC's Video High-Density formats, which were rivals not with the growing VHS market but with Laserdisc.

@matrix All in all my point is it is entierly possible that there are recordings of the Chechen version of your TV show to still exist via home recording

@matrix Is this not what you are looking for?

https://invidio.us/watch?v=QZtr4VAAyz8

@se7en
Bruh. That's probably it. The name is indeed Navšteva z vesmíru.

@matrix I skipped through it and it seemed like a bizare children's show. What was the source material again?

@se7en
Roadside Picnic. I'm going to look at it once I get home.

@matrix Reading the plot and the concept, NONE OF THIS was in my linked video. Lmao. Watch it anyway, what I found is weird.

@se7en
Nope. It's not it.

@matrix This however is a series of the same name, and I apparently linked Episode 10.

@se7en
It's the same name, but different studio, writer etc.
Pretty interesting coincidence though.

@se7en
The crazy thing is that this adaptation was basically wiped from existence. The TV archives contain zero mentions of it.

@matrix You seem to have accidentally broken your thread. This was originally in reply to <https://freespeechextremist.com/notice/9m7HHVJZYVdNXpJVeS>

I personally believe that in 1977, in the Czech Republic, there is a chance that the show you are talking about was in-fact recorded. Of course, in 1977 it would have had to have been recorded by the upmost of hobbyist, such as the Ham Radio enthusiast (of which there were many in the former Soviet Union). Among formats of the time (though I have no data of sales to the Soviet Union) were the U-Matic, the Betamax, the VHS, the V-Cord, and invented in 1965 but having minimal adoption the CV-2000.

@Alex_Linder @matrix Betamax VCRs were first sold in the US in 1975, VHS in 1977. They were the video equivalant to high end high fidelity audio equipment. Only hardcore media fanatics and the rich owned them at first and almost no prerecorded material was available.