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OK, so a little update: I took the back off the Bugeye TV and it seems to be a high hours set, because it doesn't have any of the original Zenith Branded tubes left in it, and it seems that it also has the typical Zenith "Crumbling Yoke" issue, and the zipwire that was coming out the bottom of the TV is actually an external speaker connection that someone added later on so that they could hook the TV up to a HI-FI System.
As for the 23" Zenith, it seems to be a low hours set because all of the original Zenith Branded Tubes are still inside the set including the original picture tube, it too unfortunately is suffering from the "Crumbling Yoke" issue, but not as bad as the Bugeye TV was, this TV also had the same zipwire dangling from the bottom of the set, which was also an external speaker hookup, just like in the Bugeye, but they unplugged the speaker connection from the output transformer on this TV which I'm hoping didn't ruin the Output Transformer by not having a speaker load attached to it.
The cool thing is that they used a 6BQ5 output tube on this TV which means it was a pretty loud set.
It is not a Remote set like I thought it was, it was just capable of being one (the opening for the switch that was for disabling and enabling the remote chassis was blank, but had an area behind it in the cabinet where one could of installed a remote receiver if one chose to have it equipped with one, which is what the switch opening was for.)
It does have motorized tuning but it doesn't appear to have any way to activate it (no buttons to activate the motorized tuner), there is a manual tuning knob on the back of the set, but I'm not sure what that is for.
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