Old photos of TV's

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Originally Posted by zenithfan1

I guess I was too, I always liked them too as a kid. Remember the Tex Avery cartoon about "Television of Tomorrow" and it showed all kinds of sets modeled after some of the real ones? It also showed very humorous exaggerations as Tex always did in his cartoons. I also loved the one he did about cars too. I would love to have those on DVD, I haven't seen them in years.
edit: I just found it on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYKFSVhT-3o
Regular aspect ratio:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUArC...eature=related

Like yourself, I wish some of these old cartoons (circa 1950s-'70s) were on DVD, as they were really funny.

One of my favorite old TV-repair-themed cartoons (maybe one of the only ones using television repair as the backbone) was a Huckleberry Hound one from the 1960s. Huck was a TV repairman in that one. One of his service calls was to repair a TV in a house with a very mischievious and vicious dog. There wasn't really that much wrong with the TV set; just one bad tube, a very rare type, with a type number a mile long. Huck had one and only one such tube in his tube caddy. Just as he was about to install it in the set, however, the dog somehow got hold of the tube, ran in the back yard with it, and buried it a few feet underground!

I don't remember if Huck ever found the tube and got the TV going again, as it has been a couple decades at least since I saw the cartoon, but I wish I could see it again so I could find out. Oh well, one of these days I may run across a DVD or a box set with these old classic cartoons that actually has this episode. They don't make TV cartoons like that anymore.

I wonder if there are DVD box sets of classic cartoons. I think there should be, somewhere, as many (if not most) old classic television series are now on DVD; classic cartoons, I think, would be the next logical step. I bet they would sell every bit as well as the classic-TV DVDs. Who knows? Someone may have uploaded some of the older cartoons to Youtube, including the one I just referenced. I'll have to look at Youtube later on; haven't been there in awhile. It always amazes me just how much unique content shows up on that site; seems like there is something new there all the time. Never a dull moment on YouTube.