Yeah, but there weren’t any used ones.
Actually, I forgot to mention that we got the complete Amos and Andy on ebay. I know that it is about as politically incorrect as having kiddie porn, but they are wonderful. Each story has a moral and all the characters except Kingfish are well-developed people. It was also a good employer for African-American actors for whom there was little demand at the time. All the people in leadership roles—police, doctors, lawyers, businessmen, judges—were black and were very visible role models. It would take years before black actors appeared on tv again and blacks in Sanford and Son and Good Times were less inspirational than successful characters in Amos and Andy. The black middle class that was on Amos and Andy was invisible on tv until The Cosby Show.