Doc's TV set in "Back to the Future"

[wa2ise]

Looks like an Admiral, except the CRT looks too small. As if they removed the chassis and stuck in a smaller set in it... They wouldn't have done such a thing...

[Celt]

Looks like a 13" BPC in a gutted cabinet. Sheesh!

[Eric H]

Could be a Muntz.

I was rather appalled at how badly the conversion was on that set, and the fact that you could see color in the picture when Doc's watching the tape.

I've seen this movie probably 14 or 15 times.

[Jon A.]

Yes, I noticed the color as well. I thought it very odd for a rectangular screen set in 1955.

[dtvmcdonald]

Yes, but what is the oscilloscope?

[jr_tech]

Eico 425, perhaps?

jr

[Captain Video]

In the beginning of "Back to the Future 3" there's another Doc Brown set, inside his house, it is a small console set. Anyone knows what TV is that?

[heykey4]

I know that the prop guys in the first BTTF just put modern TV inside the vintage cabinet. They mention it if you watch the movie with commentary on.


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[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by heykey4

I know that the prop guys in the first BTTF just put modern TV inside the vintage cabinet. They mention it if you watch the movie with commentary on.

So destroying old TVs in that way is nothing new.

In a deleted scene, Marty asks Doc Brown for a 75-300 ohm matching transformer to connect the camera to that TV. Doc doesn't know what Marty is talking about, then Marty realizes they hadn't been invented yet.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Jon A.

So destroying old TVs in that way is nothing new.

In a deleted scene, Marty asks Doc Brown for a 75-300 ohm matching transformer ... then Marty realizes they hadn't been invented yet.

They existed back then, but vary rare. I have one made with dark red plastic from Blonder Tongue, that looks like it dates back to the 50's. Few people used coax for antenna feeds back then.

[Tom Albrecht]

The early Dumont sets had 75 ohm input, sometimes with an RCA jack, and sometimes with two terminals that looks like it is intended for 300 ohm twinlead, but isn't. I believe one Dumont I came across had a 1950s balun on the antenna input.