Free 24/7 retro cable
Spelunkr TV: Your Grandma’s Cable, Back On the Air.
Thirty-four channels of synchronized, round-the-clock television pulled from the Internet Archive — Saturday-morning cartoons, drive-in creature features, 1980s computer shows, and the commercials that came with them. Pick a channel. It’s always already playing.
- 34channels
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Click the screen to tune in — sound comes on with the programme.
Television idle.
The Spelunkr TV channel guide
What’s On Right Now
All 34 channels, four hours ahead. Read the dial like a TV Guide, then click any programme to tune the set to that station — every channel is already mid-broadcast.
Building the four-hour guide…
Swipe or drag sideways for the full four-hour window tap a programme or channel name to tune that station live.
Schedule positions are calculated live in your browser from each station’s reel — how this guide is made.
About the network
What Is Spelunkr TV?
Instead of a library you scroll through, Spelunkr TV behaves like cable: every channel is a continuous broadcast locked to the clock, so when you tune in you land wherever the programme happens to be. No signup, no app store, no remote control to lose — just a dial and a screen.
The Spelunkr TV dial carries 34 public channels. This site is an independent guide and player for retro-TV fans: every channel is wired into the live schedule above and streamed at its original Internet Archive address. Everything is legal to stream from the archive, and every channel is already playing something.
Rewind: Saturday mornings, preserved
Saturday Morning (channel 2) is a VHS trail of cartoons, cereal commercials and network bumpers recorded straight off the air in the 1980s and ’90s. Primetime (channel 8) pieces together the same era’s evening schedules, while Happy Trees (channel 12) is a slow, soothing loop of painting shows. Radio-Active TV, Latchkey-TV, Toonertia and Late Nite Swimclub fill out the rest of the rewind shelf.
Film: drive-ins, creature features and gumshoes
It Came From (channel 200) is the late-night creature feature your local UHF station would run after the news: rubber monsters, moody lighting and a host-shaped hole where the commercials used to be. Dusty Trails (channel 100) covers the westerns, Gumshoe (channel 101) handles the detective pictures, and Daily Dread, Graveyard Shift and Rubber Hose fill out the rest of the film shelf.
Archive: public access, computer shows and oddities
Computer Chronicles (channel 13) is a time capsule of 1980s and ’90s technology hype. Unpaid Programming (channel 28) collects public-access television and infomercial curiosities, Mandatory Viewing (channel 96) is a workplace-training fever dream, and Warp Zone (channel 55) is the gaming and animation cupboard. Signpost, OVATV, Meddling Kids, Waku Waku, Suplex and Vacation Slides round out the archive.
Educational: the classroom never ended
Homeroom (channel 95) and Fallout Shelter (channel 97) keep the film-strip projectors warm, while Nature Preserve (channel 25) runs the wildlife documentaries that used to fill a rainy school afternoon. These are the channels that make the dial feel like it came out of a 1978 classroom closet: earnest, grainy and completely sincere.
The full Spelunkr TV channel list
2 Saturday Morning · 8 Primetime · 9 Syndicate · 11 Late Nite Local · 12 Happy Trees · 13 Computer Chronicles · 14 Open Mic · 15 Library Card · 25 Nature Preserve · 28 Unpaid Programming · 30 Radio-Active TV · 35 Latchkey-TV · 36 Kersplat · 50 Final Frontier · 51 Rocket Punch · 52 OVATV · 53 Toonertia · 54 Late Nite Swimclub · 55 Warp Zone · 95 Homeroom · 96 Mandatory Viewing · 97 Fallout Shelter · 100 Dusty Trails · 101 Gumshoe · 200 It Came From · 201 Daily Dread · 202 Graveyard Shift · 203 Ray Gun · 204 Signpost · 300 Waku Waku · 400 Rubber Hose · 401 Meddling Kids · 500 Suplex · 600 Vacation Slides.
How this guide is made
Channel names, dial positions and programme reels are read from Spelunkr TV’s public broadcast data. The next four hours are calculated in your browser from those reels and re-rendered as the clock advances; the video itself is streamed directly from the Internet Archive, where every programme is public. This is an unofficial fan-made guide, reviewed on , and not affiliated with the original Spelunkr TV project.
Three easy steps
How to Watch Spelunkr TV Live
No download, no login, no remote to lose down the sofa. Works in any modern browser.
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Tune in
Hit the big TUNE IN button, or click the television screen. The set warms up and picks the next programme from the current channel.
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Read the dial
Use the guide above to see the next four hours across all 34 channels. Click any programme — or use the ◀ ▶ knobs on the set — to tune that station live.
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Fill the room
Tap the fullscreen button for the whole picture, or cast the tab to your television. Sound comes on with the programme; mute any time.
Why we keep the set on
Why Old Television Still Feels Like Home
American television used to be a room, not a feed. You sat down with whatever was on, and the ads, station IDs and local haircuts came along with it. Spelunkr TV brings that feeling back: the gentle mess of a schedule, the half-hour you catch of a film you never chose, the commercial you remember better than the show it interrupted.
The Internet Archive preserved millions of hours of that television — Saturday cartoons taped by kids, public-access broadcasts from tiny towns, training tapes from offices that no longer exist. Thirty-four channels of it are wired up above. Tune in for five minutes or leave it on all evening; the dial keeps turning either way.
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“Same channel. Same moment. Everyone.”
— the cable box, probably
Questions from the couch
Spelunkr TV FAQ
Short answers before the next commercial break.
Is Spelunkr TV free to watch?
Yes. Spelunkr TV streams free around the clock. There is no account, no app download, no subscription and no paywall on this site — open the guide, pick a channel and watch.
What is Spelunkr TV?
Spelunkr TV is an always-on retro cable network built from the Internet Archive’s collection of forgotten television. It runs 34 synchronized channels 24/7, so every channel is already partway through a broadcast when you tune in.
How many channels does Spelunkr TV have?
Spelunkr TV broadcasts 34 public channels, numbered 2 through 600. The live guide on this page lists every one of them, and new stations can appear on the dial as the network adds them.
What channels can I watch on this site?
All 34 public channels, grouped into five families: Rewind (Saturday Morning, Primetime, Radio-Active TV), Movies (It Came From, Dusty Trails, Gumshoe), TV series (Computer Chronicles, Happy Trees), Archive (Unpaid Programming, Warp Zone, Signpost) and Educational (Homeroom, Fallout Shelter, Nature Preserve).
Do I need an account or an app to watch Spelunkr TV?
No. The player runs in any modern desktop or mobile browser. There is nothing to install, no login and no email required — click TUNE IN and the broadcast starts.
Where do the Spelunkr TV videos come from?
Programmes are archival television recordings hosted publicly by the Internet Archive. Spelunkr TV arranges them into 24/7 channel reels, and this site streams the underlying Internet Archive files directly to your browser.
Can I watch Spelunkr TV on my phone or TV?
Yes. The site is built for phones, tablets and desktops, and the screen has a fullscreen button for comfortable viewing. You can also mirror or cast the browser tab to a smart TV; no native app is required.