Was there even a consumer device in 1977 that would allow you to record TV broadcasts?

@matrix There were numerous. In fact, the earliest TV broadcasts were recorded in the 1930's to vinyl disks (by simply recording the transmission frequency, to be disassembled later-on by an interpreting machine. In the 1970's there were numerous options for recording television broadcast, many of them having been killed in the Video Wars and now forgotten. Betamax was new, and so was VHS but they did exist in 1977. Before the widespread adoption of VCRs, people also would record tv to compact cassette (but only the audio).

@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.

@se7en
Nope. It's not it.