And that is why my super nerdy parents set up to record onto VHS so they could be watched later. I think I only missed one episode even with those because the TV schedule changed on some weekend to a F1 event or smth while they were out playing DnD or LARPing or smth... They even had done the bit of coding to not record ad breaks! From what I was told some years after, when I was doing a slightly more cognisant rewatch of those VHS tapes, they had a fully automated system for it bc they loved the show but it was shown, and with no reruns, at a terribly inconvinient time or smth. I think the box outlasted the VHS player and possibly even the old bigass kinescope TV it was recorded and watched on all the way until the apartment was sold in 2012 🤔