It depends for me on if I'm watching with someone or not. By myself I can deal with lower video quality stuff if it's the most accurate possible version of the episode. If I'm watching with people I'm going to look for the highest quality AND most accurate version out there. WKRP is a perfect example in that that newer DVD set is fantastic in that it's only missing like 10-15% or so of the music so watching that with friends I can deal with because if I'm watching something with friends I'm not going to be like "yo dude this is how we're going to watch this" as I force them to watch some third generation VHS rips in mono sound with a VHS whining noise in the background. It's such a interesting conundrum in that sometimes in some cases you're never going to get an uncut master set of some shows (The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, I'm looking at you) due to music licensing issues (can I just say what a fucking joke music rights laws are? that's another rant for another time but at what point is it about greed and stubbornness over whatever the fuck those laws were made for in the first place? does anyone in the industry even understand what they're about anymore? I'm not really interested in discussing this so don't reply to this part) so you gotta make due with what's out there. As MST3K used to say before kind of walking it back in recent years, Keep Circulating the Tapes.

Honestly my answer to the "what do you prefer" question is "why not both?" I am completely fine with owning original broadcast copies that are 100% complete and accurate AS WELL as a nice quality DVD/blu-ray/streaming/digital set that are at like, 90-95% complete accuracy with music and things of that nature. Your example of WKRP is solid but mine of The Wonder Years is most accurate to me in that the syndication edits were for a very long time the most "correct" way of watching that series in nice quality because the idea of getting the rights to the music to that show seemed impossible. It's one of my favorite shows of all-time and one that means a lot to me, you know?

Really, the deep dark secret correct answer that will likely never happen because of the amount of time and work that would have to be dedicated to it is having someone with proper editing skills go and take the music/deleted scenes from original broadcasts and just insert them into the nice streaming/blu-ray/DVD quality copies. There's someone who has been on and off doing this with old pro wrestling shows where they take the WWE Network copies and put the missing music/segments in them and it's been a godsend. You know, sort of similar of a concept to that Beavis and Butt-head King Turd Collection that's out there. But for stuff like Beavis and Butt-head and old WWF PPVs there's a market for people interested in that. You'll be hard pressed to find someone who'll want to do that for a niche show that doesn't even make it to say, MeTV or something anymore.

I actually can't find my specific version on YouTube but there's a station bumper for KNXT TV-2 in Los Angeles from the late 70s that has a "Here's 2 LA!!" cadence that I find myself just saying as a vocal tic to myself every now and then. Otherwise I really only have a very small amount of favorite bumpers/idents/logos that I like, which I know goes against the grain of most old TV nerds who seem to have an entire soliloquy about why the "V of Doom" scared them as a kid or whatever, but I just never cared as a kid so it was never anything that I thought about much. PBS's Funky Chimes kicks ass though. Though I guess that's not really an ident. The Hanna-Barbera swirling star one is though. That's pretty cool.

I've been watching Greed with some friends who are still kind of dipping their toe into getting into game shows and that's the one for sure. When it came out I was glued to the TV like I was with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? when it was airing that season as well. In fact there were some weeks where I think I preferred Greed to WWTBAM. It's a real shame that it ended when it did (and frankly insulting that FOX's big game show idea a few years later was fucking The Chamber, maybe the most intelligence insulting Dick Clark produced (Dick I love you but you should have known better) television show) because I felt like it had a lot of mileage left.

That being said, I completely understand why it fell off like it did. The highlight run of the show happens like two episodes into the entire series (Daniel Avilia's legendary crash and burn is maybe the most defining game show moment of my childhood in that I STILL remember where I was in my living room watching it happen), and then it becomes a holding pattern of mostly $200,000/$500,000 question flameouts for months and months and months to the point where the show had to create the Million Dollar Moment wrinkle of bringing back old contestants to do one question just to give out money again. I think The Terminator idea is interesting in theory (sacrificing one of your partners for the chance to earn more money but also you're trading in someone else to help you answer the questions is fascinating and I don't know if I'd do it myself but I love that it's an option that adds a dangerous wrinkle to winning the big money) but needs some execution reworks. The Freebie felt almost useless in that most questions had one very obvious wrong answer that was almost always the one that was removed from the list. I liked how a lot of the question material was based off of studies as opposed to general knowledge but I can see why that would annoy some people. If the show had more time I'm sure they'd rework a lot of these kinks, but at the same time nothing says Kiss of Death for a television game show like having the rules change multiple times throughout the run, so maybe at the end of the day the show was really just snakebitten from the getgo. Wasted potential is a good way of describing it actually.