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Charlie · #1 03-19-2004, 04:16 PM

Was watching Bewitched this afternoon, and was noticing their Zenith console. The TV man came by to do some work on it, and then was put under a spell by Endora. Anyway, they gave a couple of good shots of the set.

Anyone else ever catch any TV shots on TV while watching older shows? Seems I recall someone mentioning before about a color set on the Beverly Hillbillies in which Granny thought there was water in it because it was on and was showing pictures of the ocean.

Here are the vintage shots of Sam & Darrin's Zenith...

Charlie · #2 03-19-2004, 04:17 PM

TV man working on it. Geeze... it couldn't have been very old yet!

Big Dave · #3 03-19-2004, 08:50 PM

On Archie Bunker, the TV died when we was to be on the Cronkite News. They didn't have a front shot of the set, but Archie did insult the repairman. When they went to Kelsey's, there was an Emerson color set there. After Archie bribed the bar patrons with a round, Kelsey changed the channel just in time for Archie's interview to be preempted by CBS for a Nixon speech.

Later in the series, during the Beverly LaSalle story, Edith dropped her sweeper attachment under the TV and Beverly picked it up. It had the elements of a 60's era Zenith BW set.

I remember seeing a Bewitched episode where Sam and Darrin had a roundie in the first half of the episode and a rectangular in the second half.

Charlie · #4 03-19-2004, 09:00 PM

As I recall, seems Darrin & Samantha had a new set almost every season.

I recently saw an episode of All in the Family in which Edith was trying to buy a new color TV for their anniversary. She went to archie to borrow the money, but wouldn't tell him what it was for. Of course, you know he didn't like the idea of not knowing what his money was being used for.

Steve D. · #5 03-19-2004, 10:48 PM

I remember a "Mr Ed" b&w episode titled "Ed's Color TV." I think it was a Magnavox set.
Also in the early 60's the NBC show "Hazel" switched to color and the episode had Hazel shopping for a color set (RCA of course) for her room.
Also the "Andy Griffith Show" where Aunt Bea wins a color tv in a contest.

#6 03-19-2004, 11:02 PM

Mr. Ed was sponsered by Studebaker! To put a finer point on it, the dealers actually sponsered it as the corporation put the touch on all of them to chip in!!!!!!! Next time you watch it look for Wilbur's station wagon.

I recently heard that they may be re-making this show, don't know who'll be in it...........the original Mr. Ed has long gone to the big glue factory in the sky.

Anthony

Steve D. · #7 03-19-2004, 11:20 PM

Anthony and other Mr Ed fans...FOX Television has made a pilot of the "Mr Ed" show with Sherman Hemsley as the voice of Ed. Like all pilots, the show may or may not be picked up for the fall season.

Carmine · #8 03-20-2004, 08:50 AM

Glad to know I'm not the only one who watches shows and tries to figure out what type of set is being shown. I also remember Sam & Durwood having a roundie, but didn't catch the mid-episode switch. I guess if they can switch a main character without explaining it, they can do the same for a TV set!

It's sort of interesting to think, and perhaps I've been seeing too many black helicopters

, but did you ever notice that every sit-com is filmed from the Television's point of view in the room?

Is anyone else annoyed when the back of a console set is shown, yet it has no vent holes, crt neck or wires?

BTW, I was the person who mentioned the Beverly Hillbillies episode where everybody thought the new TV that Mr. Drysdale gave them for Christmas was a clothes washer. As I recall, this was an early B&W episode.

Sandy G · #9 03-20-2004, 09:32 AM

Anybody else watch "Crime Story" ? I remember one of the main characters had a blonde roundie that they usually showed being on. Kinda unusual, because it looked like the tv really was functioning, not the usual "cut 'n' paste" fake image job. Looked like it was probly a late '50s RCA-the show was set in 1963. -Sandy G.

Steve D. · #10 03-20-2004, 10:56 AM

Good call Sandy. I remember it was in some Mafia kingpin's living room. Of course there's always "American Dreams" which was trashed to death on this forum some time back. The show is into 1965 now and the father character/TV store owner is still selling new 50's era radios and tv's. Where's that store now?

classicradios · #11 03-20-2004, 05:41 PM

Here's the Beverly Hillbillies show Carmine and Charlie mentioned. I grabbed these images from an MPEG downloaded from liketelevision.com

I also remember a few "Honeymooners" episodes with vintage TV sets in the plot. In the Lost Episodes series "Kramden vs. Norton" they fight over a TV set won at a movie theater, circa 1955 I think.
Jim

bgadow · #12 03-20-2004, 10:26 PM

That Hillbillies set looks a lot like the RCA roundie I have out back, the one I havn't identified yet.

It would make since that an ad man like Darrin would get a new tv every year, right? Probably had a tv company as a customer

I had been trying to i.d. their set before but never had quite a good enough shot. Other sets I can think of: on Happy Days they have a portable set brought in to the diner for some special event on tv. For some reason my memory from watching this as a kid says the set was color (which would be wrong, of course) but it seems that I've seen it again in recent years & it was bw. The album cover of Huey Lewis & the News "Sports" has a CTC31 (I think). Of course, there was the I Love Lucy episode where she pulls the guts out of the tv.

***Eric H*** · #13 03-20-2004, 11:50 PM

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.

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Originally posted by bgadow
there was the I Love Lucy episode where she pulls the guts out of the tv.

wa2ise · #14 03-21-2004, 08:38 PM

There was anotehr _All in the Family_ ep where Edith had the TV set 's chassis and CRT sent out for repairs. All that there was left was the cabinet and 4 speakers on both sides of where the CRT would go. Archie gets home and attempts to turn the TV on with the remote. "Where's the guts to my TV set?" he asks Edith. "Out for repairs" she says. Archie decides it's time for a new TV set. Also it seems a ring or such jewerly Edith had was stolen, but under the household insurance. Archie wants to use the insurance payment towards the new TV. Eventually the ring is recovered and the insurance payment is denied, and Mike offers to make up the difference so Archie's check Archie paid for the TV doesn't bounce.

Must have been a reasonably high end TV with 4 speakers in the cabinet.

Another ep two black burglers are inside the place and they comment that the wallpaper is peeling and the place is a dump except for the fancy new color TV here....

Charlie · #15 03-21-2004, 08:43 PM

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Originally posted by wa2ise
There was anotehr _All in the Family_ ep where Edith had the TV set 's chassis and CRT sent out for repairs.

i saw this episode a couple of months ago. I recall seeing all of those speakers, and was thinking the same thing... being a nicer model. Too bad we only see it from the rear.