[Carmine]

Oddly enough, I was going to start a similar thread, but I might as well get this in before someone beats me to it...

The all time best use of a round-tube color set in a movie has to be "Nightmare on Elm Street, part 3 (?) Freddie's Dead 3-D". I'm not sure which number in the series, but it WAS in 3-D. Must have come out around 1992-ish. I know this, because it was my first date with a girl I dated for four miserable years.

Here I am, 20-years-old, on a date, and as soon as they show the set in the screen I say (out loud) "Cool! I've got one of those!"

The set was a Zenith console, the really weird looking design that uses a diagonally styled VHF/UHF tuner. The TV actually plays a role in the movie... The movie opens in the living room of an abandoned house. Against the wall is the Zenith, complete with smashed CRT. Suddenly things begin to spin, and the TV "repairs" itself, and starts displaying wild colors (ala deguasing coil) while the song "Innagoddadavi" begins to blare. I think the idea was to bring you back in time to the 60s when Freddie started killing li'l kids.

If anybody could do a screen capture, I'd love to see it again!


BTW, he reason you see so many old TVs in "Grumpy Old Men" was because Walter Mathau was supposed to be a retired TV repairman. I think all the sets are Zeniths, including one round color. Lots of Space Command remotes shown too.