Bewitched.

[holmesuser01]

In the '70's, alot of TV stations used the Sony color sets. They looked far superior to the small color sets made by the other companies at the time.

[mstaton]

Mary's TV at home was also a Sony.

[DavGoodlin]

The Odd Couple had a 1969 Admiral 19" color set on a roll-about stand.
A later episode showed a newer Admiral 19".
Not sure, but they were probably a sponsor. Admiral made refrigerators also.

Watching re-runs of Mr. Ed, I am having trouble ID-ing his 19" BW set in the barn.

[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.

[bgadow]

One that always got me was Saturday Night Live. Watching episodes from the early 80s they will often use Sony monitors. Here they are, broadcasting from the headquarters for RCA, which I guess was still the world's largest electronics concern, and they can't come up with an RCA monitor that's good enough?

[Einar72]

If you look in Margaret's tent on M*A*S*H, she has a white plastic RCA Victor radio from the '60's in the later episodes.

[mstaton]

On M*A*S*H Shelly Long(guest star) had a 1970's portable radio with her.

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by mstaton

Mary's TV at home was also a Sony.

So was Rhoda's.

On one episode of Star Trek Enterprise you can clearly see NEC on the back of the monitor, guess they have a lot of faith in NEC's future.

They used a lot of off the shelf props in that show though, with stick on buttons and paint to disguise them.

All the monitors are just flat screen 16:9 TV's or PC monitors, though those would have been a fairly new thing when that show started in 2002.

[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.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by bgadow

One that always got me was Saturday Night Live. Watching episodes from the early 80s they will often use Sony monitors. Here they are, broadcasting from the headquarters for RCA, which I guess was still the world's largest electronics concern, and they can't come up with an RCA monitor that's good enough?

I don't believe any RCA monitor (especially a small screen) was produced any more at that time. Even Tektronix monitors used a Sony Trinitron tube.

[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.

[Dave A]

As a certain team I work for entered playoffs in a recent year, I found all my LG flat-screens in our conference rooms had their names covered up by black velcro strips. Seems our sets were not the official sponsors of the event who were using the rooms.

And the same year, Fox taped a look at the umpires replay box in a stairwell for replay if a call had to be made. Sure enough, a play came into question and Fox ran the tape prominently showing a set that was not the sponsor set. Heads exploded.

The lack of specific names is deliberate.

[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.

[magnasonic66]

There was a Gilligan's Island clip on a TV Land or Nick at Nite commercial, which had a couple of the characters in a room with some new Magnavox portables behind them. Someone on another site suggested that may have been the episode where they ended up on another island somehow, in a house with a mad scientist.

UPDATE: I find out that the mad scientist episode of G's I is not the Magnavox portables one. May be "The Invasion" which has a James Bond type plot.

[KentTeffeteller]

FYI, by the early 1980's RCA Broadcast was all but out of making TV broadcast equipment so RCA Broadcast may not have had a color monitor available at the time. So, a reason why the Sony was used.