This shouldn't be possible to do, the real problem here is the travesty of design that is the american plug.
America, nay the world ought to adopt the UK plug....and learn our pain when we stand on them barefooted in the dark.
hard to believe it but the BBC never repeated it, only 3 channels at the time and no broadcasts through the night. The entire channel shutdown, although I think BBC 2 showed Open University things at night.
Lots of people here predate the video recorder, you had to be in front of a tv on time and you had one shot at watching it.
The episodes had to be good first time.