Family Vision

Family Vision were a collection of monthly Betamax tapes released to Showbiz Pizza Place stores starting in 1984.⁽¹⁾ The tapes would provide video entertainment to guests during the downtime between showtape segments. ⁽²⁾ The videos would be projected onto a screen that would automatically come down once a show ended. The tapes themselves were charged at $55 a month once a store agreed to be in the program.

History

The tapes were produced mainly by Sight & Sound Entertainment Corporation, under their Video Pool⁽¹⁾ line. Video Pool had been around on Betamax tapes since March of 1984, published to other vendors, with Sight & Sound being an intermediary for handling the mass tape production and acquisition of copyrighted video material. Each tape would be around 30 minutes long, and were produced until Cyberstar fully took over all Showbiz locations in late 1989. Some of the early tapes seemed to have Dallas Tapes on their label, but it is unclear their involvement in the project.

Tapes

Family Vision	Month	Year
Family Vision (Feb 1985)	February	1985
Family Vision 503	???	1986
Family Vision 504	September(?)	1986
Family Vision 505	October	1986
Family Vision (TV Westerns)	March	1987
Family Vision (Nov 1987)	November	1987
Family Vision 601	???	198?
Family Vision 60(?)	???	198?
Family Vision 612	???	198?
Family Vision 621	April	1989

Videos

Title	Subtitle	Length	Month	Year	Link
Muppet Babies	'I'm Always Gonna Love You'	3:49	May	1985	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5o98D4f0no
Tina Turner	'What's Love Got to Do with It'	3:47	???	1985	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpFcHTxjZs
Dire Straits	'Walk Of Life'	4:09	???	198?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppPOCUs2jEA
Howard Jones	'Like To Get To Know You Well'	4:12	???	198?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep2-5w4UpDo
Dionne Warwick & Friends	'That's What Friends Are For'	4:45	???	198?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyTpu6BmE88
Geneva Police Department	'Safetytip Shuffle'	5:34	September	1986	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH-gXByhmlk
Mel McDaniel	'Let It Roll'	2:19	September(?)	1986	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJqHs6LVWEs
Tweety & Sylvester	'Dog Pounded'	6:38	April(?)	1987	Copyrighted
Foghorn Leghorn	'The Egg-Cited Rooster'	7:02	May/June(?)	1987	Copyrighted
Family Vision	'Dot Derby #2'	rowspan='2' |5:56	rowspan='2' |???	1987	???
Furrever Friends	'You're a Sensation'	1987	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnbqiv6iwW0
Suzanne Ciani	'The Eighth Wave'	5:16	???	1987	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdHzUohnnA
Family Vision	'Rock-A-Fire Ski Vacation #1'	2:26	???	198?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMbYRLv-k84
Family Vision	'Rock-A-Fire Ski Vacation #2'	1:21(?)	???	198?	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK3HZ3V-688
Speedy Gonzalles	'Cannery Woe'	6:00	March(?)	1988	Copyrighted
Bugs Bunny	'Barbary-Coast Bunny'	6:49	March(?)	1988	Copyrighted
Bugs Bunny	'A-Lad-In His Lamp'	7:00	June	1988	Copyrighted
Foghorn Leghorn	'Pop Goes the Weasel'	7:00	June	1988	Copyrighted
Yosemite Sam	'Honey's Money'	6:17	December	1988	Copyrighted
Tweety & Sylvester	'All a Bir-r-r-d'	7:22	???	1989	Copyrighted

Locations

Locations	Installed	Year	Removed	Link	Timestamp
Unknown Store	1984 to February 1985	February 1985	Unknown	https://archive.org/details/family-vision-1985
Baton Rouge, LA (11324 Boardwalk Dr)	1984 to May 1985	May 18, 1985	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABSeuGtUjPc	2:47 - 3:08
Austin, TX (502 W Ben White Blvd)	1985/1986	1986	Unknown	https://www.showbizpizza.com/photos/spp/tx_austin/index.
Houston, TX (14637 Memorial Dr)	1985/1986	1986	Unknown	https://www.showbizpizza.com/photos/spp/tx_houston/index.
San Antonio, TX (6874 Ingram Rd)	Unknown	September 15, 1986	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEnpmYOWNEQ	23:00 - 23:47
Fort Collins, CO (105 W Prospect Rd)	Unknown	October 21, 1986	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyyf25jJNcQ	15:50 - 17:00
Laurel, MD (936 Fairlawn Ave)	Unknown	March 1987	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlwu_T6Rzvk	0:00 - 1:16
Dallas, TX (7110 S Westmoreland Rd)	Unknown	March 26, 1987	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av-U7T7sth4	11:42 - 13:31
Saginaw, MI (5105 Bay Rd)	Unknown	Spring of 1987	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSm-euij8Y	20:31 - 21:21
Colorado Springs, CO (3143 Colorado Ave)	Unknown	Summer of 1987	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykvf8q87Ojw	1:03 - 1:56
Unknown Store	Unknown	November 8, 1987	Unknown
Unknown Store	Unknown	November 1987	Unknown
Unknown Mexico City Store?	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	https://www.showbizpizza.com/photos/spp/int_fiesta/index
Dallas, TX (13125 Montfort Dr)	1984/1985	Early 1988	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1a-okR19Fw
Peoria, IL (2601 W Lake Ave)	Unknown	Spring 1988	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-IkJbZ_Q5g	3:18 - 3:32
Unknown Store	Unknown	June 17, 1988	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlO9qIPY7Wg
Unknown Store	Unknown	June 26, 1988	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZw8K_WM1V8	11:02 - 12:08
Unknown Store	Unknown	October 23, 1988	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS0FyrM4QJo	4:00 - 4:11
Unknown Store	Unknown	December 1988	Unknown	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUJjgt0XiH0
Altamonte Springs, FL (541 W Hwy 436)	Unknown	July 15, 1989	Fall 1989	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v69Dqk-R8fM
Arvada, CO (9301 Ralston Rd)	Unknown	Unknown	TV Projector: