Spending time with Fred and Barney

[oldtvman]

Spending a little quality time with the Flintstones.

[etype2]

Nice! Is that a Zenith? Not RCA knobs?

[wkand]

Yabba dabba doooo!!!!!

[oldtvman]

Originally Posted by etype2

Nice! Is that a Zenith? Not RCA knobs?

Thanks,

I got that set from a guy up in lower Michigan, Had to change crt, crt socket assembly, rebuild the Chroma circuit.

I had a set just like this one back in 1965

[etype2]

Originally Posted by oldtvman

Thanks,

I got that set from a guy up in lower Michigan, Had to change crt, crt socket assembly, rebuild the Chroma circuit.

I had a set just like this one back in 1965

Your first? My future brother-in-law had one like yours in that time period.

This RCA was my first, one year out of high school, purchased new, August, 1966 after saving my nickels and dimes. I found one on EBay 6 years ago. Kinda neat to find your first color TV.

[oldtvman]

Originally Posted by etype2

Your first? My future brother-in-law had one like yours in that time period.

This RCA was my first, one year out of high school, purchased new, August, 1966 after saving my nickels and dimes. I found one on EBay 6 years ago. Kinda neat to find your first color TV.

When I got a job in high school I bought a used ctc 7 in 1962

[oldtvman]

I have a ctc 9 in a museum out near you, it's an automobile museum but he also has some period pieces on display.

[oldtvman]

Originally Posted by etype2

Nice! Is that a Zenith? Not RCA knobs?

IMO both Rca and Zenith produced their finest chassis in that year the ctc 16

and Zenith's 25mc33

[JohnCT]

[consoleguy67]

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DSCF0295.jpg This was on my 1967 Zenith

[ceebee23]

Interesting that the titles were not in the safe area for roundies given that at the time the show was originally created in color many if not most sets would have been roundies???

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by ceebee23

Interesting that the titles were not in the safe area for roundies given that at the time the show was originally created in color many if not most sets would have been roundies???

If the source is MeTV which broadcasts The Flintstones, they partially zoom in on a lot of the old 4:3 shows to help fill out a 16:9 screen without cutting off too much of the top and bottom, which may answer why it doesn't fit the roundie viewing area.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

If the source is MeTV which broadcasts The Flintstones, they partially zoom in on a lot of the old 4:3 shows to help fill out a 16:9 screen without cutting off too much of the top and bottom, which may answer why it doesn't fit the roundie viewing area.

This.

Looking at those images, it's obvious that the text extends beyond the safe title area even for a rectangular tube.

[WA3WLJ]

Barney Rubble is the secondary main character and Fred's best friend and next-door neighbor. His occupation is, for the most part of the series, unknown, though later episodes depict him working in the same quarry as Fred.

From Wikipedia

[Robert Grant]

Originally Posted by ceebee23

Interesting that the titles were not in the safe area for roundies given that at the time the show was originally created in color many if not most sets would have been roundies???

In 1966, most sets were rectangular - and the CRT type ended in a "4".