DEATH VALLEY DAYS BETAMAX CLINT EASTWOOD RONALD REAGAN Start Price USD 24.99 Current Price USD 24.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, July 07, 2008 End Time Monday, July 14, 2008 Location Sunny Palm Springs, CA See more about 'DEATH VALLEY DAYS BETAMAX CLINT EASTWOOD RONALD REAGAN' Description Death Valley Days  Volume 1 Halo for a Badman, No Gun Behind His Badge, & The Last Letter RARE OUT OF PRINT BETAMAX Actors: Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, Robert Taylor, Marian Ross STUDIO RELEASE: USA Home Entertainment BETA STUDIO LABEL INTACT BETA TAPE MADE BY SCOTCH TV AIR DATES: 1956, 1965 & 1967 BETA RELEASE DATE: UNKNOWN BOX IS ORIGINAL CLAMSHELL WITH BETA LABEL ON THE SIDE.  ORIGINAL ART WORK HAS BEEN CUT AND PLACED UNDER CLAMSHELL SLEEVES.  FORMER RENTAL WITH STICKERS ON TAPE. 76 Minutes   NTSC Region 1 (USA, Canada, Japan, etc. See full list of countries using NTSC below.) Three episodes of the classic early television serial: 1) Halo for a Badman - Original Air Date: 2 March 1967 (Season 15, Episode 17) - Robert Taylor stars as a former gunslinger who apparently has decided to go straight thanks to the love of a good woman (Marian Ross, Mrs. C from "Happy Days"). He takes the job of town Marshall and tries to bring law and order to a town in chaos. Unfortunately his past catches up with him. 2) No Gun Behind His Badge - Original Air Date: 25 March 1965 (Season 13, Episode 22) - Ronald Reagan stars as a former New York cop turned western lawman who comes to town with a reputation of being pretty good with a gun. That's just what the folks in Abilene are expecting. They're disappointed when they discover their new lawman has given up guns and will only use his fists and his wits to keep law and order in their town. 3) The Last Letter - Original Air Date: 8 December 1956 (Season 5, Episode 7) William Pullen stars as Alex Todd, California's first postman, who is about to retire and move on and delivers a last letter to that changes a man's life costars a young Clint Eastwood. BECAUSE THIS IS A BETA TAPE AND I CANNOT PLAY IT, AS I HAVE NO BETA PLAYER, IT IS SOLD AS-IS.  IT APPEARS IT SHOULD PLAY, BUT IT IS 23 YEARS OLD.   I CONSIDER THESE TO BE MORE OF HISTORIC INTEREST, WITH SOMETIMES DIFFERENT ARTWORK, AS WELL AS FOR THEIR OBSCURITY, THAN AS SOMETHING TO SIMPLY VIEW.  BOX HAS SOME MINOR WEAR.     Death Valley Days was a long-running American radio and television anthology about true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. It was created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman and ran on radio until 1945. It ran from 1952 to 1975 as a syndicated television show. The 558 television stories, which had different actors, were introduced by a host. The longest-running was "The Old Ranger" from 1952-1965, played by Stanley Andrews when the series was produced by McGowan Productions, producer of the Sky King television series. Filmaster Productions Incorporated who produced the first several seasons of Gunsmoke for CBS Television took over production of the series in the mid 960s.  Following the departure of Andrews, Ronald Reagan became the host. When Reagan entered politics, the role went to Robert Taylor. Taylor became gravely ill in 1969 and was replaced by Dale Robertson. Production of new episodes ceased in 1970. Merle Haggard provided narration for some previously made episodes in 1975. Reagan and Taylor also frequently appeared in the program as actors. While original episodes were still being made, older episodes were in syndication under a different series title with other hosts; the series could ill be in competition with itself in syndication, and this also made it easier for viewers to distinguish the new episodes from the older ones. The hosting segment at the beginning and the end was easily reshot with another performer having no effect on the story. Alternate hosts and titles included Frontier Adventure (Dale Robertson), The Pioneers (Will Rogers, Jr.), Trails West (Ray Milland), Western Star Theatre (Rory Calhoun) and Call of the West (John Payne). The last title was also often applied to the series' memorable, haunting theme music.  Under the Death Valley Days title, the program was invariably sponsored by Pacific Coast Borax Company, which during the program's run changed its name to U.S. Borax Company following a merger. Advertisements for the company's best-known products, 20 Mule Team Borax, a laundry additive, Borateem, a laundry detergent, and Boraxo, a powdered hand soap, were often done by the program's host. Death Valley was the scene of much of the company's borax mining operations. The "20-Mule Team Borax" consumer products division of U.S. Borax was eventually bought out by the Dial Corporation, which as of 2006 still manufactures and markets them. U.S. Borax continued to mine and refine the borates and maintained Dial as one of its customers. In 2006, Rio Tinto, the parent company of U.S. Borax. Inc., decided to merge USB with two of its other holdings, Dampier Salt and Luzenac Talc, to form Rio Tinto Minerals and moved its corporate headquarters to Denver, Colorado.  Death Valley Days is, judging from sheer number of episodes broadcast, by far the most successful syndicated television Western, the most successful television Western ever in the half-hour format, and arguably the most successful syndication of any genre in the history of the U.S. television market (Baywatch had a larger international market among U.S.-produced syndicated programs.)  The stories used in the series were based on actual events. For example, the episode titled "Death Valley Scotty" was based on the record-breaking run of the 1905 Scott Special chartered by Walter E. Scott (aka "Death Valley Scotty").   Sony's Betamax is the 1/2 inch (12.7 millimeter) home videocassette tape recording format introduced on April 16, 1975 (in market on May 10) and derived from the earlier, professional 3/4 inch (19.05 millimeter) U-matic video cassette format. Like the video home recording system VHS introduced by JVC in 1976, it had no guard band, and used azimuth recording to reduce cross-talk. The "Betamax" name came from a double meaning: beta being the Japanese word used to describe the way signals were recorded onto the tape, and from the fact that when the tape ran through the transport it looked like the Greek letter "Beta" (β). The suffix -max came from "maximum" to suggest greatness.  Sanyo marketed a version as Betacord, but this was also referred to casually as "Beta." In addition to Sony and Sanyo, Beta format video recorders were also sold by Toshiba, Pioneer, Aiwa and NEC, and the Zenith Electronics Corporation and WEGA Corporations contracted with Sony to produce VCRs for their product lines. Department stores like Sears, in the US and Canada, and Quelle in Germany sold Beta format VCRs under their house brands as did the RadioShack chain of electronic stores.  Betamax and VHS competed in a fierce format war which saw VHS come out on top in most markets. The VHS format's defeat of the Betamax format became a classic marketing case study. Sony's attempt to dictate an industry standard backfired when JVC made the tactical decision to forgo Sony's offer of Betamax in favor of developing their own technology. They felt that it would end up like the U-Matic deal, with Sony dominating.  By 1980, JVC's VHS format controlled 70% of the North American market. The large economy of scale allowed VHS units to be introduced to the European market at a far lower cost than the rarer Betamax units. In the UK, Betamax held a 25% market share in 1981, but by 1986 it was down to 7.5% and continued to decline further. By 1984, forty companies utilized the VHS format in comparison with Beta's twelve. Sony finally conceded defeat in 1988 when it too began producing VHS recorders.  In Japan, Betamax had more success and eventually evolved into Enhanced Definition Betamax with 500+ lines resolution, but eventually both Betamax and VHS were supplanted by laser-based technology. 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