What a grand TV!
I guess it was a custom made to order cabinet?
On this Twilight Zone episode an earlier scene showed the repairman wiping off the back of a rectangular CRT so I guess it was another set on a different stage for the opposite camera view.
Were such ostentatious cabinet styles ever popular?

I believe that set was from episode 40, "A Thing About Machines". It's about an ill-tempered writer who reviles and constantly abuses machines, and starts to think machines are conspiring against him. Which they do.

Very doubtful it was a working set, empty cabinet with Rod Serling superimposed on the screen.


Chuck

Yeah-Until the Sony Trinitron came on the scene, you almost NEVER saw a shot of a TV being "on"...

Because of beat patterns from the vertical deflection of the TV with the film cameras used in TV shows or movie production, they'd never use a TV that was presenting a picture when filming a scene. They'd paste in the desired action on the TV set screen later in "post -production". This in turn allowed movie and TV show makers to use "fake" TV sets (ones never actually manufactured) in their productions. Or place color action on a B&W set. :D This TV in this thread is like such an animal.

That prop set must have made Serling very proud. And my sets are conspiring against me too.

Dave A

With all due respect to the folks here who might have liked it, I found that cabinet to be... ugly.

It reminds me of some of the "steam punk" projects, where people stick various junk-found or adapted bits together to create vaguely Victorian or Edwardian fantasy-world things. Wouldn't be too hard to create a custom case like that, if you wanted to.