White colored pencil, paint marker on black paper.

Just found this sub — back in 2003 or so I recorded all Pete and Pete episodes plus some shorts like this:

Directv satellite feed from The N

via nice S-video cable to

Digital 8 camcorder

aka digital source and far closer to direct digitization than passing through a vhs stage

To put it another way the digitally broadcast source material was more directly digitized via a superior video transmission method (s-video) without an analog recording stage — only an analogue cable but the superior s-video type that i think is 480p standard

Obviously this is inferior to the dvd seasons 1 and 2 releases but may surpass what is available as far as season 3 goes

I would have to find and digitally extract the digital8 tapes but would do it if it was wanted enough

as far as i have seen there are ai enhanced season 3 vhs copies but i am pretty sure what i have is superior

any commentary?

Over the last year I’ve been working on a poem from Little Pete’s perspective—a kind of persona poem tribute to Artie that also doubles as a reflection on growing up and the ‘90s kid nostalgia a lot of us are probably steeped in these days.

It’s not done yet, but I’m nearing the finish line and was just curious if there’s anyone out there who would be interested in reading this excruciatingly-niche piece of writing when I do finally put a bow on it.

I theorize this because a character played by an actor named Mike happens to have an arch-nemesis with Mike as a character name.

But since Mike is a VERY COMMON first name, one could beg to different that it was TOTAL RANDOM COINCIDENCE.

Do you y’all think Big Pete and Ellen eventually dated? Maybe like in high school, college, post college? I’d like to think so and that they’re happily married to this day.

Little Pete for sure sold weed in high school and college lol

Just curious to what everyone thinks is a good kick-off to a kid who doesn’t know anything about this show.

Hi all, I remember watching Pete and Pete on UK TV in the early 90s. I distinctly remember that the intro featured Big Pete explaining things in the intro like their mother needing a plate because of an accident (over the X-ray image), I cannot remember if this was over the theme song or just before the theme song. I’ve watched the intros on YouTube but can’t seem to find anything? I saw the first special and believe that Pete says the accident line in the episode but I genuinely remember this voiceover happening in the intro every time I watched the show and don’t think I even watched the first special before now.

And found this absolute gem the other day!

It’s hard to see but it’s Artie jumping in the air over a building (to right).

(also he is jumped away from a ghost because I was legit terrified of ghosts). The Bowie reference fits well as well I think.

Would anyone who has the recent upscales be willing to re-up them somewhere? Most of the archive links are dead and I’d love to get my hands on them.

Hi there, so I wanted to make the best out of those new VHS rips of season 3, but I'm not a huge fan of AI up-scaling, in many cases it just leads to faces looking like plastic dolls and strange ARTIfacting (see what I did there).

I played around with Topaz Video AI for a while, the goal was to get rid of most of the visible noise, without losing detail and without changing the original resolution, frame rate or "analog feel" of the source material.

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Switching AI Models around, tweaking parameters and an older workstation heating the room for a few days, finally resulted in the following:

https://imgur.com/S05gUZu

https://imgur.com/EBLpSDR

https://imgur.com/IGgaiO8

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All denoised episodes are available here:

https://archive.org/details/the-adventures-of-pete-pete-s-03-e-11-o-christmas-pete-facebook.-nick.-vhs.-vhsr

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I think that even Inspector 34 wouldn't mind.

Video is encoded in H265 MAIN, audio tracks were left as they were.

Huge thanks to u/IanRises a.k.a. KrustyKrabFunFair (I guess), sourcing all those DVDs, VHS tapes, ripping them and uploading everything on the archive, also thanks to r/PeteandPete in general, this wouldn't have been possible without you.

(If, for whatever reason, a video doesn't play in your browser: Just download it and play it locally)

Now it's time for me to sit back, turn on the TV and... 🎶 Hey smilin' strange, you're lookin' happily deranged, can you settle to shoot me, or have you picked your target yet? ... 🎶

I just stumbled upon this.

To whoever did this: I can't thank you enough. This is just awesome.

https://archive.org/details/pete-and-pete-season3-vhs