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06-09-2016, 11:15 AM
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Was there ever a show centered around a tv repairman?
That would have been a great show but maybe the storylines would become to "racy" as i remember my friend would take me as a child to protect him from certain lonely ladies
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06-09-2016, 03:32 PM
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Uh, OK.
The Tortellis is the only show that comes to mind. It was a spinoff of Cheers barmaid Carla's ex-husband into a Las Vegas setting. Only one episode really centered around TV repair though. Nick Tortelli must have been a lousy repairman, considering he was unable to get a workhorse 1948 Admiral working inside of 24 hours--to save himself from having to eat a bug.
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06-12-2016, 12:07 AM
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Some episodes of Tv shows had Tv repairmen. Honeymooners lost episodes Christmas and bill Crosby show sesame street rumble and mister peepers guest star Gerald s laughlin and others that aren't coming to mind.
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06-12-2016, 10:31 AM
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06-12-2016, 04:38 PM
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Jerry Lewis plays a small-town TV repairman in the 1958 movie Rock-a-Bye Baby. He drives a '58 Olds Super 88 Fiesta hardtop wagon as the delivery vehicle. I haven't seen the movie in a long time, but I remember one part about him trying to install an antenna in a rich lady's mansion and another part where he helped his landlady who had to sample all the products advertised on the programs she watched while the commercials were on. It makes a lot of fun of TV, which was typical of movies of the 1950s.
The movie has a lot of slapstick and it's directed by Frank Tashlin, who came from doing Looney Tunes at Warner Brothers, so it's a cartoonish quality that comes across. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-A-Bye_Baby_(film)
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06-12-2016, 04:55 PM
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A twilight zone episode had a theme around a tv that would show events on it before they happened. The tv man character is called in to fix the set before a boxing match or fight. It had William Demerest and Sterling Holloway as the repairman. Also the movie Pleasantville had Don Knotts as a tv repairman in that film. One episode of the Andy Griffith show had actor Howard Morris as a tv repairman. Howard Morris was character Ernest T Bass frequently on that show too.
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07-12-2016, 06:06 PM
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"Andy and Helen Have Their Day" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcMiNnIB8GI "Yeah, well, your linear control is completely shot. That's why your picture is all wiggly". .
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07-10-2016, 08:44 PM
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I seem to remember another Jerry Lewis movie in which he plays a TV repairman and there's something in the storyline about a plot to kidnap Philo T. Farnsworth. Does anyone else remember this?
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07-12-2016, 12:13 PM
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I think I saw The Tortellis episode where he had to repair one of those cheap Citizen LCD TVs to prove that he could do the job (and he was successful!). For whatever reason I recalled that as a spinoff of Family Ties.
Last edited by rpm1200; 07-12-2016 at 12:22 PM.
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12-28-2016, 10:05 AM
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I think Larry was on the roof with a single bay conical antenna, trying to use a pipe cleat at the bottom of the mast to mount it. It was a Joe Besser episode, near the end.
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08-04-2016, 08:11 PM
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A movie that comes to mind is Pleasentville. A couple of teens are zapped back into the 50s type TV shows by a TV repairman (Don Knotts) with a special remote.
Pleasantville 1998 Movie - Tobey Maguire & Jeff Daniels You tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eh4sHACgHE
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