The almost Bewitched TV on eBay

[Eric H]

Very similar to Darwin and Samanthas Zenith

http://cgi.ebay.com/ZENITH-BLACK-AND...QQcmdZViewItem

These screen shots are from an episode where an unscrupulous TV repairman is trying to sell Sam some unneeded repairs. Of course Sam is wise to him and zaps the set back together while the repairmans in the kitchen making a phone call. She tells him she fixed it with a nail file :rofl:

Note the color picture on this B&W set this is a colorized episode but chances are they would have inserted a color pic on the set in any case.

[gonzothegreat]

Originally Posted by Eric H

These screen shots are from an episode where an unscrupulous TV repairman is trying to sell Sam some unneeded repairs. Of course Sam is wise to him and zaps the set back together while the repairmans in the kitchen making a phone call. She tells him she fixed it with a nail file :rofl:

Too bad it was only a TV show as anybody who could wiggle their nose and zap a Zenith to life would be *very* popular around here. No need for cap checkers or tube testers. Just a nail file ROTFL.

[Big Dave]

I seem to remember an episode (actual color instead of colorized BW) where they had a roundie in the first half and a rectangular in the second half. It would been during the Dick York era.

[andy]

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[Celt]

I think only the first two seasons were broadcast in B&W. It's my understanding that they were actually all filmed (taped?) in color!

[3Guncolor]

Bewitched was filmed. Chances are the B/W seasons were filmed in B/W otherwise they would not be B/W now. There was no point to film in color and broadcast in B/W.
The produces at that time in TV history did not think much about rerun $$$$. When they switched to color Zenith changed the TV on the set to a color model. As I remember they switched in 1966 or the fall of 65

[polaraman]

Season one of Bewitched was just released on DVD. I am hot on the trail of that release. I loved the show and I had hopes that it would be released.


polaraman

[Celt]

Season One is available in your choice of B&W OR COLOR! Many shows were still B&W in the mid-sixties. I know...I was there planted in front of the tee-vee set!

[Eric H]

Season one was filmed in B&W, you can get the Seson one DVD box set in either original B&W or Colorized, I opted for Colorized since you can have it both ways by turning off the color.
They did a very nice job of it as you can see from the screen captures!

[Celt]

Originally Posted by Eric H

Season one was filmed in B&W, you can get the Seson one DVD box set in either original B&W or Colorized, I opted for Colorized since you can have it both ways by turning off the color. They did a very nice job of it as you can see from the screen captures!

Ah, okay! Ted Turner strikes again!
Being an old fart, I grew up with B&W. Color film for cameras was only used on special occasions. B&W was the norm and when I was little virtually everything was broadcast in B&W. So to me it's nothing unusual and I've always appreciated the wonderful use of contrast and lighting on B&W. However, I've noticed that my niece and others her age (20's) refuse to watch anything in B&W!

[polaraman]

Eric,


Did they reformat the way it plays on the screen? I would really hate to have it not fill out a roundie.


polaraman

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by polaraman

Eric,


Did they reformat the way it plays on the screen? I would really hate to have it not fill out a roundie.


polaraman

Nope, it's still the standard 4:3 ratio.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Celt

Ah, okay! Ted Turner strikes again!
Being an old fart, I grew up with B&W. Color film for cameras was only used on special occasions. B&W was the norm and when I was little virtually everything was broadcast in B&W. So to me it's nothing unusual and I've always appreciated the wonderful use of contrast and lighting on B&W.

I am almost 50 years old and also grew up with b&w TV. Every TV my folks owned was monochrome, starting with a 1954 RCA Victor 21" console, then a 21" Crosley Super V in the early '60s, followed by a Sears Silvertone b&w portable in 1965. I eventually got my hands on a 1964 Sears Silvertone 21" roundie color set in 1970 (a trash day find that lived in the basement), but the first color set in our living room was my grandmother's Sears 25" console, when she moved into our house after my dad got married and moved into his second wife's house. The Silvertone remained until I moved out of the house I grew up in, in 1999, even though by now (29 years later) the set no longer worked. The Silvertone roundie followed me to my dad's second wife's home, but met its demise in 1973 when the video output tube socket cracked out of the video PC board. I wound up watching a 1961 Philco 19" portable, yes, black and white, the next two years. Didn't get my first new color set until 1979, a Zenith L1310 13" portable, followed by a Zenith 13" with electronic (varactor) tuning, followed in 1995 by a Zenith Sentry 2 19" which I still have. The small portables were gotten rid of when I moved to where I live now. I brought the Sentry with me and bought a new RCA 19" for the living room of my then-new apartment. The Sentry is in my bedroom and is used only to back up the living room set (it will replace the RCA when the latter eventually goes West).

BTW, regarding colorized TV programs, I don't think that was a good idea. Colorizing classic TV shows destroys their authenticity, IMHO. If these shows were meant to have been shown in color, they would have been filmed that way except, of course, for very old shows that were filmed in television's early days, before video tape and before the NTSC color standard was adopted in this country in the mid-'50s; even though color telecasting began then, NBC did not introduce its color peacock, with the announcement "The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC", until 1956 or so, and ABC was hesitant to announce that certain of its shows were being presented in color in the '60s because not all ABC affiliates were equipped for color telecasting at the time; ABC did not want to confuse viewers by announcing that a program was in color when the network knew full well the program would be telecast in b&w in many smaller markets.

[TVtommy]

That set looks almost identical to the first color set i remember as a kid. My "rich" Uncle Reggie bought a 23" Rect. Zenith in 1966. He kept the local tv repairman in business just coming to his house to manually work the fine tuning slugs back in place on the turrets. I took him quite a while to realize that no matter how much you turned the fine tuning ring you could not get the Munsters or Route 66 to come in in "Living Color".

[polaraman]

I am in the middle of a Bewitched marathon. Target had one copy left on the shelf. It was the color version. Like Eric said that you can always turn off the color. Come on Sabrina!!!! GGGRRRRRRRR! I always had a thing for her dark hair sister. Elizabeth Montgomery was a beautiful woman!


polaraman