The almost Bewitched TV on eBay

[peverett]

I just recently read an article in the paper where the actress who played Tabatha was interviewed. It was concerning the new Bewitched movie. I have heard that the actor who played the warlock is also still alive.

These two are all that are left as far as I know.

[Eric H]

Dr Bombay is still alive and so is Louise Tate (according to the IMDB)

I'll admit a dirty little secret, I've been watching them "In Color" and on a modern TV to boot
I'm against colorizing in principle but they did such a nice job

[jroberts500]

I have seen the top model remote Zenith color at the end of the stairs around '68 or so. It seems like they put that B/W set there because it was cheaper to mess up as it looks like one of the speakers to that B/W on the floor by the repairman.
The last couple years of the show had a console by the stairs that I suspect is a GE I am not familiar with. Also, a unique console is in Larry Tate's office.
Has there ever been a funnier boss on TV or the big screen than Larry Tate?
I love that guy!

[devoid]

FRIGG!!! I put that one outside the other day and vented the tube this morning reading it for disposal. Any one need a chassis? Yours for shipping. Not something I'm pround of but this cluter is getting to me.

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[Charlie]

I bought season one on DVD as well, and was very impressed with the job they did adding color to it. The first thing I noticed was that B&W Zenith playing a color picture. Episode #1 also shows the same thing in the first few minutes where Samantha and Darrin are kissing with the TV playing in th background.

Now if only we were able to do such a quick repair job on our sets the way Samantha did on hers... and think of the money we would save!

[Adam]

I just saw another one of these Zenith b&w's like they had in the first two seasons of Bewitched for sale. I think these 60s Zenith b&w's are great sets, but he wants 150$ for it, seems high to me.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Early-60s-Zenith...ayphotohosting

[drh4683]

Very nice TV. You'll like to know that this particular model was zeniths last console tube type b/w TV. This very same design was introduced in 1965 and lasted throughout 1972! I have some zenith sales data, and was surprized to see such a set still available in 1972!

[holmesuser01]

Im geting the Bewitched series from Netflix these days. Just received disk 2 of the first season. I'm enjoying all of these shows allover again, as I didnt see the B/W shows when the TV station I worked at ran the series. They only ran the color shows. Im still against colorization. Especially old cartoons.

Anybody else noticing that the main titles on the B/W shows show a copyright date of 1966? These titles were used with the color shows. Old 16mm B/W prints say 1964 or 1965 Screen Gems, Inc. on them. Columbia used to do that alot. They'd make up generic main title segments for their syndicated shows.

A glaring example is the old HAZEL series with Shirley Booth. The syndicated title shows Hazel with some groceries, the Baxters yuckking it up at what they are seeing, and the Harold kid throwing confetti. The original titles would feature the FORD car that she drove. Plus, the music on the syndicated version is the dorky music used on the FINAL season episodes. The original music almost matched what played over the end titles.

Since they released this stuff on DVD, I think they should have made them as original looking as they could, unless they were plugging products, like Chevys on Bewitched, which they did everytime they drove a car!

Ever notice how much they drank on the show? My favorite line is: "Have another drink, Larry."

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Celt

Ah, okay! Ted Turner strikes again!
Being an old fart, I grew up with B&W. Color film for cameras was only used on special occasions. B&W was the norm and when I was little virtually everything was broadcast in B&W. So to me it's nothing unusual and I've always appreciated the wonderful use of contrast and lighting on B&W.

I am almost 50 years old and also grew up with b&w TV. Every TV my folks owned was monochrome, starting with a 1954 RCA Victor 21" console, then a 21" Crosley Super V in the early '60s, followed by a Sears Silvertone b&w portable in 1965. I eventually got my hands on a 1964 Sears Silvertone 21" roundie color set in 1970 (a trash day find that lived in the basement), but the first color set in our living room was my grandmother's Sears 25" console, when she moved into our house after my dad got married and moved into his second wife's house. The Silvertone remained until I moved out of the house I grew up in, in 1999, even though by now (29 years later) the set no longer worked. The Silvertone roundie followed me to my dad's second wife's home, but met its demise in 1973 when the video output tube socket cracked out of the video PC board. I wound up watching a 1961 Philco 19" portable, yes, black and white, the next two years. Didn't get my first new color set until 1979, a Zenith L1310 13" portable, followed by a Zenith 13" with electronic (varactor) tuning, followed in 1995 by a Zenith Sentry 2 19" which I still have. The small portables were gotten rid of when I moved to where I live now. I brought the Sentry with me and bought a new RCA 19" for the living room of my then-new apartment. The Sentry is in my bedroom and is used only to back up the living room set (it will replace the RCA when the latter eventually goes West).

BTW, regarding colorized TV programs, I don't think that was a good idea. Colorizing classic TV shows destroys their authenticity, IMHO. If these shows were meant to have been shown in color, they would have been filmed that way except, of course, for very old shows that were filmed in television's early days, before video tape and before the NTSC color standard was adopted in this country in the mid-'50s; even though color telecasting began then, NBC did not introduce its color peacock, with the announcement "The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC", until 1956 or so, and ABC was hesitant to announce that certain of its shows were being presented in color in the '60s because not all ABC affiliates were equipped for color telecasting at the time; ABC did not want to confuse viewers by announcing that a program was in color when the network knew full well the program would be telecast in b&w in many smaller markets.

[bgadow]

I have a 1970 Zenith bw console which belonged to my great aunt. Pretty well built for being a cheaper set. I'd like to find a home for it.

An oddity I ran into: my wife has some cheap DVDs of the Andy Griffith Show. On most of them the opening/closing theme is a cheap knockoff of the original-the whistling is pretty bad. All played over the original video. But some episodes have the original audio. Why didn't they use the originals for everything? A small thing but it bothers me every time we watch!