1967 Motorola Back to the living

[Tom S]

Just got my Grandparents 1967 Motorola 21" set back to running. Still some touch up but Not bad for 45 yrs old.

[David Roper]

Pictures or it didn't happen.



j/k, we want to see the fruits of your labor!

[Tom S]

Pics are uploaded Just check on my profile

[josephdaniel]

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didnt see youre post up there sorry.

[miniman82]

[bgadow]

Cool! I have a very similiar model, just a slight trim change I think. In a land of RCA's and Zeniths, these are a refreshing change.

[zenithfan1]

Looks good, Those are cool Motos. I wish my grandparents would have kept their old sets but it was too late by the time I had interest. They were thrown out....

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by bgadow

Cool! I have a very similiar model, just a slight trim change I think. In a land of RCA's and Zeniths, these are a refreshing change.

I totally agree! These were so cool to see instead. I had a TS-914 with the 23EGP22, lost now. Watching Star Trek on a Motorola was the final frontier.

[Jeffhs]

That Moto reminds me of a black-and-white portable TV my dad's second wife's folks had in West Virginia in the 1970s. The control panel on the b&w Moto was identical to that of the color Moto being discussed here -- minus the color controls, of course. I'm not sure if the b&w portable was a Motorola or not. Were there other brands of TVs that used the same control panels as Motos? I remember seeing this control panel on at least one model of Admiral b&w sets here on VK as well; also, the 23" color portable TV in Oscar Madison's apartment in "The Odd Couple" ABC television series of the '70s had the same control panel. Would that set have been an Admiral as well?

[zenithfan1]

I do believe the Odd Couple set was an Admiral but I'm not 100% sure

[old_tv_nut]

Congrats!

This looks the same as my first color set - 1966 Motorola vinyl-over-metal cabinet, hybrid chassis - replaced the horizontal section tubes once a year to bring the picture brightness back. The CRT, I believe, is one of the first with an internal magnetic shield, allowing the cabinet to be smaller.

[old_tv_nut]

Am I remembering right - convergence under the lower right front cover?

[Tom S]

Right behind the speaker. One release screw in the control door and there it is. I can remember seeing Martin Luther King's funeral on this set. Lots of memories.

[zenith2134]

Great Motorola!
the Odd Couple tv from the program was indeed an Admiral color.

[ctc17]

Thats a prize, i would say kinda rare these days. And motorolas are fairly hard to work on. They did everything a little different and parts are not as easy to get. Good job!