Surely Plumbicon cameras.
The video has been through so many stages, including a generous amount of NTSC decoding and digital coding artifacts from YouTube, that it's impossible to tell what (possibly multiple different) tape machines were used.
This was likely originally captured off of network satellite distribution, for syndication across the country on each broadcast station's own individual schedule; thus the built in commercial breaks.
Not sure about "Take #1", but it could refer to taping multiple episodes in succession on the same day.
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