Most episodes of this series are lost, due to wiping. Only the last two years were retained.
Most episodes of this series are lost, due to wiping of reel-to-reel videotape and videocassettes. Only during the last two years, 1982 to 1984, did Avco Broadcasting Corporation retain every single broadcast in its entirety. YouTube has very few, if any, snippets that are known to have been telecast in 1975 or prior. YouTube has numerous snippets that go back as far as 1976. The oldest documentation for a video clip is from that year. Braun is seen and heard singing or commenting on other singers such as in a February 1976 snippet of him interviewing Maria Picciano, a singer who was 17 at the time. Several snippets from later in the 1970s and the 1980s have singer Rob Reider, a series regular. During that period, Picciano worked behind the scenes on the show. Information about what is missing comes from Steve A. Womack, who began working on the show circa 1975 and eventually became the producer. Easy to contact via his Facebook page, he has made an interesting revelation. Told that no one has uploaded to YouTube any clips of Braun talking to politicians, Womack replies that if YouTube doesn't have them at this late date, and if a presidential library doesn't have video, audio or a transcript, the material is gone. Womack's information is relevant to the 2023 article 'The rise and fall of The Bob Braun Show' by Rick Robinson, though it doesn't mention Womack. The article says Braun's interviewees included Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, all of them visiting Cincinnati to be interviewed during or after their presidencies. Those who appeared as Braun's guests before voters nationwide could elect them were Hubert H. Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Ronald Reagan, who traveled to Cincinnati with Nancy Reagan during his first term as California governor for a National Governors Association gathering, Richard Nixon and George Bush. Video recordings of them and other non-musical guests are either lost or accessible only at presidential libraries or in research material for McCarthy and Humphrey, according to Steve A. Womack. (University of Minnesota has McCarthy. Minnesota Historical Society has Humphrey.) From 1968 until 1973, Braun discussed on-camera new movies, many of them off-limits to children and teens, some politically oriented, with Columbus, Ohio newspaper critic Ron Pataky. No recordings or transcripts of Pataky survive. In 2007, a high school student and writer named Sara Jordan Heintz identified Pataky in print as an important figure in the mystery that surrounds Dorothy Kilgallen. Pataky emailed Sara's father to say he had read her article in Midwest Today magazine and was delighted with it. Kilgallen died two years seven months before the premiere of Bob Braun's talk show, and Pataky's numerous appearances on it are lost.