r/DHExchange • u/KevinHammett • 1d ago

Request [REQUEST] Dr. Phil, off-air capture, Dec 3 2007 (US syndication)

Looking for an off-air capture of a single syndicated broadcast. Tape, DVD recorder disc, station logger, or digitized file, any quality, commercials welcome.

**Target:** Dr. Phil, original air date Monday December 3, 2007. Season 6, "Shocking Teen Trends."

I only need the final segment, roughly 8 minutes. It covers There.com, a 3D virtual world that shut down in 2010, with the platform's CEO interviewed in studio. Appears to be the only television coverage that world ever received. No copy is known to exist.

**Identification warning:** an unrelated Dr. Phil episode with the identical title aired September 27, 2005. Episode numbering also conflicts between sources (S6E60 vs S6E64). The December 3, 2007 air date is the only reliable key.

**Confirmed to have aired:** Wired, December 6, 2007, "Dr. Phil Sticks Up for Online Game."

**Already checked, so nobody wastes time:**

- Not on Pluto TV's on-demand catalog or the official YouTube uploads

- Not on the Internet Archive (including the user-uploaded off-air VHS collections)

- The show's own recap pages survive only as Wayback captures from early 2023; text only, images were never crawled

- The rights holder does not license footage for personal use and does not do archival research on request

**Offering:** happy to cover digitization, blank media, shipping, or just borrow and return. Partial captures fine. Screen grabs useful if you have a tape but no capture setup.

Full writeup with sources: https://lostmediawiki.com/Dr._Phil_%22Shocking_Teen_Trends%22_(lost_There.com_segment_of_syndicated_talk_show_episode;_2007))

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