Best Era for CRT tvs?

[zeno]

N2IXK is spot on.

This is near & dear to my heart. I was at the bench from abt
1970 til the end.
The first few generations of SS sets were the best. The late 70's
through 80's were highly improved as far as reliability & pix
quality but lost much of the indestructible chassis & CRT's.
Any day I would take a flat chassis Zenith over anything,
scan lines & all. ( scan lines were GOOD ! none BAD !)
Those pre late 70's sets were built balls out. Nothing held back.
The engineers got there way for a change. Bean counters lost
that battle.

73 Zeno