How many colectors have one of these?
 

How many us tv collectors have one of these?
this tv is actually tvtimeisfun's (no its not for sale ive tried :D)
this is a 1959 rca coffee table set
it works all the way...

I like it!

Is this the model that the screen part folds up & out of the way when its not being watched ?

It's got one of them new-fangled Visters in the frunt end!

Got one. Check out this old thread for photos. RCA Hillsborough TV

http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=245978

this one powers up, and works all the way, i saw a picture on it myself!

yes, it is the folding model

Here is mine.

I saw one of these in the house of a midcentury collector here in Sacramento and loved it!

What is the chassis# ? You can't have too many RCA Televisions!

TVTIME, you might need to re-do this in the classified ads.

A friend of mine had a set like this. One of the counterbalance springs broke, and when they went to lower the screen into the cabinet... WHAM! All I can recall was a loud WOOSH of air. I was around 14 years old at the time... a long long time ago...

What was that episode of the Outer Limits? Was that the one where the TV Station Guys had trapped an alien with their broadcast equipment?

I remember it scared the heck out of me...:smoke:

"The Galaxy Being"! A good episode!

I think that was the pilot episode?

That was indeed the very first episode.

LOVE that one.....It's the very one the whole "...we control the vertical!' dialogue sort of COMES from..and that sound and sine-wave :-)

It's a very "television set centric" episode...where the TV plays a very central role.

It's also SCARY AS HELL when you see it and you are like SIX :-P

I was an adult the first time I saw "The Galaxy Being" uncut, unedited, on 16mm film, and it scared the crap out of me.

I loved the idea of the on-air talent being able to control the power level from the studio like that. Good 1960's Television!

Very cool TVs. I'm also big fan of the original Outer Limits. My favorite episode was "The Zanti Misfits".

The Outer Limits was/is my favorite sci-fi show by a wide margin. You guys are correct, this was the pilot episode.

Cliff Robertson "modified" his radio transmitter at his radio station, KXKVI, to send signals to outer space. It kind of worked like a prehistoric Skype except that his equipment could decode the aliens voice and his to the alien also. He had to go to a business dinner while he was in communication with the alien. His fill in disc jockey, I believe it was Gene Buddy Maxwell (love the name), saw the transmitter was turned down (he didn't realize that most of the power was being used to keep the alien in communication) and cranked it back up. This ended up sucking the alien through space and into Cliff's lab. The alien then had a interesting walk through town, to make a long story, short.

There was always a message at the end of each episode. Usually on how mankind could/should be better.

There was ONE "O/L" episode I can just BARELY remember- I was 6,7, maybe 8 at the time...But there were these pancake-like thingies that apparently jumped on yer back, made this incredibly AWFUL "Gushing" noise, & then turned you into Their Slave...I remember one of 'em jumpin' on the Heroine, her SCREAMING, & the Hero yankin' it off...Don't remember anything more than that...Anybody know which one I'm tryin' to describe ? My NOW fave episodes would hafta be "Zanti Misfits" & "A Feasability Study",'cause they have Suicide-Door Lincolns in 'em...(grin)

The pilot debuted in September 1963. I researched it, then watched the pilot again, on Hulu.

I was seven at the time...:smoke:

I've known a few radio engineers, TV, too, and sometimes I was truly impressed with little electronic gagetry that they could just 'throw together.'

I think that's "The Invisibles" featureing Richard Dawson

http://cdn.static.ovimg.com/episode/56713.jpg http://www.homevideos.com/freezes-ou...isibles13.jpeg http://apemania.com/RESTORATIONS/INVISIBLES.jpg

The Zanti Misfits were creating using stop motion animation by the great Ray Harryhausen.

http://membracid.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/zanti3.png

That thing looks like the game COOTIE......gone BAD!!!!

Reminded me of the Star Trek original series episode with the flying amoebas
http://www.theviewscreen.com/wp-cont...e1-300x227.jpg "Operation Annihilate"

"The Outer Limits" is fun to watch. I have the first season on my iPod, and plug it into the TV collection. Looks like they had sort of a stock company of actors, and used guest starts to play featured characters. Good show! :thmbsp:
Also, would love to be a steward for a while of one of those RCA "table" TVs.

The "Outer Limits" was, at once, AWFULLY Good & AWFULLY Bad. Dark, murky storylines, dark, murky photography, hysterical music, "Horror Show" cliches, $1.98 props...You can make a good case for sheer awfulness or sheer GREATNESS using any aspect of it. Guess that's why, nearly 50 years on, all us 55-year-old, "7 year old boys at heart" STILL love it..

Very well put.

Remember though, they had to put together everything for a show in one week. Then completely start over, every week. Every show, every location was different, although I think I've seen the same 1958 Plymouth drive by on a number of different shows. I think, given the time restrictions, no computer generation stuff, etc, that they did an amazing job. All this was thought up and built from scratch, in a very short period of time. Some of the monsters look pretty hokey in today's world but at the time, it worked. And it's still great TV today.

Yep...That's part & parcel of what I meant...The show just has this gritty, realistic, "Shirtsleeves" sort of feeling to it...The first season, when Leslie Stevens & Joe Stefano were running things has adifferent feel than when Ben Brady took over, but to say the Brady shows weren't as good as the Stevens/Stefano shows would be an injustice.. I never really bothered to try to catch the 1980s-90s versions...They, and virtually ALL the "Updated" shows miss the point of series like this...They try to bee TOO "Revelant", too "PC", too "Touchy-Feely" and all that other modern day sensibility garbage. The purpose of these shows is to CLEVERLY scare the living PHUCK outta little boys...Not show what a caring, wise & wonderful female Captain of a crashed spaceship can do for all the creatures around her..

I've got the entire set of three seasons on DVD. I remember watching the Outer Limits on my parent's old 23 inch blonde B&W set when I was 4-5 years old back in 62-63. It scared the Hell out of me, and I LOVED it. Actually, thinking back, I'm kind of amazed they let me watch. :scratch2:

The end credit theme song is, IMHO, the coolest one ever and takes me back 50 years whenever I hear it.

I watched Outer Limits on our Hoffman when I was a kid. I think Galaxy Being is my favorite episode.
I read where the network and the producers were often at odds about how scary to make the show. The network wanted the "guy in a rubber suit" type of monsters. They had to be scary, but not too scary; just scary enough. I guess a lot of the really good stuff was rejected because either it was too creepy, in poor taste for TV back then, or was too expensive.

I love the Control Voice intro in those early episodes

You mean, one of these?:smoke:

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Paint it red and RUN LIKE HELL!!! :D

SR

No! She's one of the Good Ones. And she's a real '58 Fury, not a clone.

And, she's just about perfect.:smoke:

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...scan0001-4.jpg

There was a '58 Fury that lived across the street from me when I was a kid. Don't remember it ever EATING/KILLING anybody..

I LOVED the MoPar's with fins... I had a '57 Dodge, and the fins started in the middle of the back seat doors! Beautiful concept!!

Before the movie, I never saw a '58 Plymouth eat anything, besides gasoline.

continuing off topic but I can't help it...someone said the M-word
I had a Red Fury II, about 15 years newer with the 440-4BBL "U" code engine, that killed MANY gallons of gas.:sigh: When the secondaries opened, you could hear the entire Persian Gulf give a cheer! I safely hauled consoles in the trunk.:D There was a white one in the movie "Prom Night"

Hehehehe...A couple guys here had one of the low-line 2 door sedans, painted it DAY-GLO orange, rigged it up where the steering wheel was in the back seat, & completely de-chromed it...They got away w/it until some little old lady tripped & broke her ankle while coming down the steps of the post office, trying to cypher it out...The cops told them to fix it back, which they did..

It don't get much better than this. And if I ever get to Worcester, Mass, I will beg for a ride :thmbsp:

Yeah, that's the real deal...