[Jeffhs]

A mid-'60s Silvertone b&w all-channel portable we had was also hurled down a flight of stairs in the early '70s by my then-stepmother, in a fit of anger. (The set had been in the master bedroom.) I found the TV at the foot of the stairs to the second floor of her house when I got home from school that afternoon. The CRT, to my surprise, was still intact. Even more surprising was that the TV itself still worked, and well. The set finally quit about six months later, but while it was working, it made a picture every bit as good as before the mishap.