TV on TV

[Charlie]

Saw this set on the Andy Griffith Show tonight. Not sure what it is, but certainly looks 50's.

One thing to note... early on in this episode, Andy was turning on the television, and had sound immediately after powering it up. I've seen this with other old shows. Even in those days, viewers must have caught on to that.

[Cory]

Sure reminds me of a Truetone-

Cory

[Tubejunke]

Imagine how different a TV show would be if they made the audience view the warmup. Pretty exciting. Especially if its a good old transformerless job. Nice and slow. Just kidding everyone. That set also resembles a Motorola from the early 50s....

[classicradios]

I'll bet that was a heavy TV set!

[Charlie]

That must be an EARLY version of the Dumont Royal Sovereign with the 30BP4!

[Charlie]

In case you haven't noticed, I watch Bewitched quite often!

Looks like Sam and Darrin have moved up to a color set here. Well, more like Darrin moved INTO a color set! Got zapped in there by some witch that Endora knew from "centuries" ago.

Hard to tell, but I think this one is a Zenith as well as the previous B&W set I posted. Dick York played Darrin till 1969, so I would guess this to be a 68 or 69 model Zenith.

[Charlie]

Here's a closer shot...

[captainmoody]

Looks like that 1968 SC600 I posted a few threads back.

[Chad Hauris]

The beverly Hillbillies set looks like a ctc-15 with the 4 small controls under the screen.

[Charlie]

Was just thumbin thru tv channels and came across a Predicta floor model on a Sci Fi show called Stargate Atlantis. Was kinda cool looking... they were in some kind of future console room... lots of computers and monitors... and apparently Predicta Pedestal was being used as one of the computer monitors. It certainly stood out in the crowd! I was not able to tell if it was a color or B&W version since I was watching it on a B&W set.

[David Roper]

This thread suffers probably more than any other on the forum by its loss of images.

[RetroHacker]

Originally Posted by Eric H

And if you look closely (using a modern set) you can see the CRT is a obviously a Cardboard cutout! Apparently they thought a real CRT was too dangerous to have on the set.

I've seen similar things done in other shows too, even modern ones. Often times when you see a TV in the room, the screen looks odd, it seems like it's either a piece of cardboard or it's been painted or coated with something. I remember seeing one TV show where the characters were in a kitchen and there was a small set there, and the screen looked like it had been painted gray! I think that they do this so that they don't get reflection of the lights and cameras off the shiny glass of a CRT. Otherwise it would be too easy to goof and have a reflection of a camera crew in the glass

-Ian

[rld-tv01]

Don't forget the Farnsworth TV on Adam's family that someone posted a picture of on AK last year.

Also there was a television in the 1928 movie Metropolis. It was used to spy on the workers on the plant floor. I always wandered if they used a movie film for the images on the TV since it was too high resolution for a mechanical TV?

[Adam]

I saw the same thing with the Predictas about a month ago, also in B&W, so I can't say if they were B&W or color either. Most of the time I watch TV I am either looking for old cars or TVs. I too have found alot of both in Bewitched, I've been watching the 2nd year of it in color on DVD on my Philco roundie the past few days.

[Sandy G]

Remember the 3 Stooges episode where the boys got a new TV & were going to put an antenna for it on the roof of their house? Of course, they make a melluva hess out of the whole deal, & I remember pulling tubes out of Shemp's mouth....-Sandy G.