Bewitched.

[holmesuser01]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

The last of the Nelson family episodes, the college frat house had a Magnavox chassis for their daily watcher. The guy with the funny voice won a round tube Magnavox combo and Mrs. Nelson talked him into donating it to the fraternity. Corny at best.

Are you thinking of the charactor named Wally?

Corny, yes, but many earlier Ozzie and Harriet shows are very funny without being sickly sweet.

The owner of the 35mm negatives, Sam Nelson, is trying to have them restored. I wish him well.

BACK TO TOPIC: Zenith advertised on Bewitched, too. I remember the commercials. I probably still have some old Bewitched shows on audio tape recorded in the 1960's somewhere around here. I'll see if I can find anything. Back then, I recorded things, and played them later, pretending that I was running a movie projector... Corn, at its best!!

[Leslie]

On several episodes of The Patty Duke Show, the family is watching a Magnavox TV with tape covering the Magnavox logo. On many episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the monitor set in the newsroom is a portable Sony, also with the Sony logo covered in tape. In Mommie Dearest (1981) the actors look at (I think) JVC televisions in hospital rooms and apartments with the logo obscured.

[Tom S]

On the Hillbillies I seen more than one time RCA roundies on the show. Odd Couple had Admiral's. Laverne & Shirley, Packard Bell B&W Portable. Hazel was RCA Also.

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by Tom S

On the Hillbillies I seen more than one time RCA roundies on the show. Odd Couple had Admiral's. Laverne & Shirley, Packard Bell B&W Portable. Hazel was RCA Also.

That Packard bell was the wrong era, they had a 58 RCA 14" in earlier episodes.

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by Eric H

That Packard bell was the wrong era, they had a 58 RCA 14" in earlier episodes.

Eric, You read my mind before I read your post. I noticed the prop change to a 70s 12" BW, back then even!

Now a real stretch is what TV did the Cunningham's have on Happy Days?
It looked like a 17" Motorola to me...then.

[David Roper]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

Eric, You read my mind before I read your post. I noticed the prop change to a 70s 12" BW, back then even!

Now a real stretch is what TV did the Cunningham's have on Happy Days?
It looked like a 17" Motorola to me...then.

Not sure if I can come up with screen caps; if anybody else can to confirm or rebut that's great.

In early episodes, ISTR the Cunningham TV was a circa 1954 Admiral, 21" I think. Later episodes featured an early split-chassis Philco, a 16" round set with dome top. Both were table sets.

In the pilot (the Love, American Style segment) the Cunninghams were the first family on the block to get a TV set, specifically a Philco 48-1001. In 1956?! It had to have been set in at least 1953 as the visuals at the beginning established the action taking place in the Eisenhower era. The model fits plot device, but both are out of step with the chosen era by a good number of years.