WWII radio plays WWII broadcasts!

[Sandy G]

That was a "Twilight Zone" episode, "Static", IIRC, starring Dean Jagger, who always played an old curmudgeonly-type man. Another guy who was in it, I believe, was Robert Emhardt, who was seen frequently in early sixties TV, usually playing a mayor, or some sort of bigshot. His best remembered role was that of Mr Tucker, the harried executive who gets stranded in Mayberry on a Sunday afternoon when his Lincoln breaks down, in the episode "Man in a Hurry".

[Bill Cahill]

Thanks for the pleasant reminders.
Those were certainly the days.....
Speaking of that, does anyboty remember the old SF series Believe it, or not ?
How about the original Outer Limits?
"Do not attempt to adjust your television."

Bill Cahill

[Sandy G]

...An' the Outer Limits' "BEARS" that made any/all self-respecting 8 yr old pee his pants, they were so scary ?!? That's where all the modern version series' fall down, IMHO...They always have to give you a dose of New Age touchy-feely crapola, where the originals, all they wanted to do was scare the CRAP outta you...Story MUST take a backseat to PC sensibilities, nowadays...

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

...An' the Outer Limits' "BEARS" that made any/all self-respecting 8 yr old pee his pants, they were so scary ?!? That's where all the modern version series' fall down, IMHO...They always have to give you a dose of New Age touchy-feely crapola, where the originals, all they wanted to do was scare the CRAP outta you...Story MUST take a backseat to PC sensibilities, nowadays...

Some of the older episodes make you think too, I just saw "I, Robot" from "The Outer Limits" recently on THIS-TV where a robot was put in trial for murder. Somewhere down the road, we will have to answer questions to something like this on what is sentience and who is sentient and so on. Even another question popped into my mind, will there be a time where robots are granted equal rights? Then again, you have the movie, "Bicentennial Man" where the U.S. Congress finally recognized his humanity as the Robin Williams character passed on.

I know this is a bit OT, but a lot of those science fiction and speculation shows really makes one think.

[Einar72]

I just had to re-watch the Twilight Zone episode being discussed! The TV appears to be a 16" roundie hidden in a hastily-improvised shell to avoid any noticing of the manufacturer, which was common practice at the time. The radio was an RCA Radiola 62 in Static, also featuring the late Alice Pearce. She played the first, and best "Mrs. Kravitz" in Bewitched, where, conversely, there was a Zenith in almost every room!

[Bill Cahill]

That was a 10" set. I think it was a Bendix.
Bill Cahill