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classicradios · #1 03-17-2006, 12:02 PM

Thought this was interesting. Andy Griffith Show from 1965, Notice the sign in the window: Color TV. No color sets in sight but there is a '51 Zenith. Anyone recognize the other sets?
Jim

Sandy G · #2 03-17-2006, 12:56 PM

Didn't Andy & family have a Porthole back in the B&W days of the show ? I remember seeing a TV, but they rarely if ever watched it...-Sandy G.

kx250rider · #3 03-17-2006, 01:04 PM

I recognize the 16" Zenith of course, and the one facing off to the Right in the lower Rt photo looks like an Admiral 24" round. Not sure about the other rectangular one, Maybe a Sylvania, or it could be a prop/fake TV.

Slight diversion from the topic, but was there any episode where there was a scene INSIDE that TV shop??? They were in the barber shop in nearly every episode...

Charles

Adam · #4 03-17-2006, 03:10 PM

Could that rectangular one be an Emerson, like the one I put up here a few weeks ago. If it is it should have 1 dial each in the upper right and left corner, I can't make out the picture well enough to tell. http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=57324

I've never seen an episode inside the TV shop, and I've seen alot of them, although probably not all.

Now that I look at it again, I don't think it is the Emerson, I don't see those dials there

David Roper · #5 03-18-2006, 02:22 PM

The Desilu prop department was something less than diligent when it came to keeping sets dressed consistantly, at least where things like TV sets, refrigerators etc. are concerned. ISTR Andy having what apeared to be a 17" rectangular tube console in his living room for a long, long time. An unremarkable, two-knobs-below-screen type. Then, in the sixth season, there was an episode in which Aunt Bee appeared on a game show and won a bunch of goodies, including a color TV set--and a roundie at that! For some reason they didn't keep that set, but neither did their old set reappear. From that episode on, the TV in Andy's living room is easily recognizable as a c. 1950 Admiral with a round tube and knobs to the right of the screen. After that switch, the old rectangular tube console that used to be in the Taylor living room appears in the window of the TV shop in at least one subsequent episode. In the eigth season Andy has a contemporary-model rectangular color TV.

Celt · #6 03-18-2006, 02:32 PM

Annnndy! Supper's on the table, come hooommmme!

bgadow · #7 03-19-2006, 04:15 PM

I'm thinking maybe the color tv sign showed up about the time there were color episodes of the show, but I'm not sure. I recall a scene in a color episode where the gang were on the bench in front of the store and that sign was in the window. I'm thinking that store was Emmett's Fix-it shop? I also remember when Aunt Bea won that color roundie. I think she gave all or most of the prizes away because it bothered her having all those luxuries.

There is a piece of furniture near the front door of their house which looks like a typical late 40s side-by-side radio combo but I've never noticed it being used.

David Roper · #8 03-22-2006, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by bgadow

I recall a scene in a color episode where the gang were on the bench in front of the store and that sign was in the window. I'm thinking that store was Emmett's Fix-it shop?

Actually, Emmett's fix-it shop is what Floyd's barber shop was turned into in the last season. I believe the TV shop was the strorefront located just camera left of the barber shop.

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Originally Posted by bgadow

There is a piece of furniture near the front door of their house which looks like a typical late 40s side-by-side radio combo but I've never noticed it being used.

That thing intrigued me for a long time because it looked like the drawers were too shallow for one of them to accomodate a tuntable. I finally caught an episode in which Opie is playing records which revealed the truth: it is indeed a combo...with fake drawer pulls. The phono is concealed under an inconspicuous lid.

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How about Arnold Ziffel (the pig) on Green Acres watching western movies on a 10 inch RCA set ? Or was that a 12 inch ?

It wasn't a 16 inch?

In later seasons there's a continuity problem concerning the Ziffel TV set: the closeups were a stock shot of the round-tubed RCA set, but in the wide shots we see a rectangular GE TV set of perhaps a year or two later vintage.

pallophotophone · #9 03-21-2006, 06:53 PM

GAD !!!

Who remembers ( probably everyone does) the color roundie that The Beverly Hillbillies had in their vestibule that only seemed to be able to receive scenes of waterfalls?
Granny was always trying to figure out how to get her laundry into it !!

DARNED FUNNY if you ask me !! A genuine hoot !! Comedy that beats the pants off
what passes for comedy on television today !!

How about Arnold Ziffel (the pig) on Green Acres watching western movies on a 10 inch RCA set ? Or was that a 12 inch ?

I never saw an interior shot in Emmette's Fix it shp either which left me forever frustrated. - Well Almost, anyway.

There was also a fix it shop on SESAME STREET which had a 7 inch electrostatic set
sitting around on a shelf.

And an episode of LASSIE that had a small CRT'd set.

Pushing the envelope just a little- Howcome MGM was never able to get the high voltage regulation problem resolved in Margaret Hamilton's ( The Wicked Witch Of The West) tricolor crystal ball ?