Some was 16mm but probably mostly shot straight to vhs:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096657/technical/?ref_=tt_spec_sm
And the bbc was notoriously bad at not losing archival footage of tv shows
It may have stopped working though https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader/issues/1157
Not apple or Spotify, but kinda does what you’re after but with tidal: https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader
Yeah I’m not saying they didn’t edit it, but rather the master footage they were editing was on vhs or similar. I guess it’s probably quite likely they would’ve had some sort of better quality magnetic tape rather than vhs come to think of it though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯