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Hi all,

Has anyone else noticed that the televisions and radios in the show 'Bewitched' are all Zenith products? I was watching some of the dvd's that I have and noticed that the television in the living room seems to be a vintage '65 set. There is also a portable set in the den on a cart about the same vintage. Check it out if you get a chance.

Frank

Product placement isn't new ;)

If you notice when they were in B/W the Stephens had a Zenith B/W when they switched to color they now had a Zenith color set and as I remember with remote.

Does anyone know if Zenith was a sponsor?

I remember one episode where the color set in the first half was round, and rectangular after midbreak.

I'll have to check that out. Sounds like someone didn't check for continuity.:nono:

On the Dick Vandyke show, all the TV's and radios were Magnavox.

I see a nice roundie pop up on kojak now and then.

Sponsors for Bewitched were Chevrolet and Quaker Oats, for just two. I had noticed for years the Bewitched products were all Zenith. And like Dieseljeep says, all the electronics on Dick Van Dyke were Magnavox. They were for years on Make Room For Daddy. Dean Martin movies used Magnavox too.

The last of the Nelson family episodes, the college frat house had a Magnavox chassis for their daily watcher. The guy with the funny voice won a round tube Magnavox combo and Mrs. Nelson talked him into donating it to the fraternity. Corny at best.

There's a saying in movie productions: "If they're watching that, we're really in trouble!" There are some nuts like us that pick these things out after the fact, but if the show is any good, no-one notices while they concentrate on the plot.

Isn't that the truth...;)

In the episode involving the boy that makes his own racer, they are watching him on TV at the end of the show. From across the room, it's a roundie Zenith, but when they zoom in on the TV screen, it somehow changed into a rectangular screen.

My favorite Bewitched TV moment is when the repairman takes the set all apart, and she twitches it back together while he's on the phone in the kitchen. She's there watching it, and he still has the horz output tube in his hand!

Are you thinking of the charactor named Wally?

Corny, yes, but many earlier Ozzie and Harriet shows are very funny without being sickly sweet.

The owner of the 35mm negatives, Sam Nelson, is trying to have them restored. I wish him well.

BACK TO TOPIC: Zenith advertised on Bewitched, too. I remember the commercials. I probably still have some old Bewitched shows on audio tape recorded in the 1960's somewhere around here. I'll see if I can find anything. Back then, I recorded things, and played them later, pretending that I was running a movie projector... Corn, at its best!!

On several episodes of The Patty Duke Show, the family is watching a Magnavox TV with tape covering the Magnavox logo. On many episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the monitor set in the newsroom is a portable Sony, also with the Sony logo covered in tape. In Mommie Dearest (1981) the actors look at (I think) JVC televisions in hospital rooms and apartments with the logo obscured.