TV set on The Twilight Zone

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by Charlie

I watched a lot of Green Acres.... I don't recall a color TV. Not sure that I remember a TV at all now that I think about it. I do, however, remember Mrs. Douglas' pancakes!

Yes, I too watched Green Acres. On a 19" Motorola from KENS-TV 5 in San Antonio when living there as a kid. The TV was in Oliver and Lisa's bedroom (not twin beds like other shows as I recall). It resembled a blond mid-50s model (speaker panel below) but I could not tell if it WAS color but it showed a color picture. The channel Arnold the pig watched was KPIXL in Pixley. I have the box set of this also, I will go over it carefully based on the recent knowledge I get here.

[DavGoodlin]

Wow, simulpost from Magnasonic. It DID look like a Mag BW IIRC!

[DaveWM]

TZ piglet tv repair episode was on last night, love uncle joe giving piglett the business. Joan, yonkers yonkers yonkers made me LOL.

[Bill Cahill]

Heh.. The set looked like a color set to me. Oh, well.
Bill Cahill

[Einar72]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

Yes, I too watched Green Acres. On a 19" Motorola from KENS-TV 5 in San Antonio when living there as a kid. The TV was in Oliver and Lisa's bedroom (not twin beds like other shows as I recall). It resembled a blond mid-50s model (speaker panel below) but I could not tell if it WAS color but it showed a color picture. The channel Arnold the pig watched was KPIXL in Pixley. I have the box set of this also, I will go over it carefully based on the recent knowledge I get here.

I remember seeing (first run) the episode with the Pixley TV test pattern. I distinctly recall it being WPIXL, though.
Anxiously waiting to hear what you find, I don't have that many box sets...

UPDATE: Found this on the internets:

http://www.tv.com/shows/green-acres/...-trying-12138/

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by magnasonic66

I think the Douglases' Green Acres set was actually a black and white Magnavox from the early '60s with the color superimposed on it, like they all did in the movies and television.

I always wondered how it was possible on those old TV shows for 1950s-era black-and-white consoles/portables to show color pictures. One commercial that really baffled me until now, however, was the one on MeTV promoting "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in which a clip of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" appeared on Mary's color Sony portable TV ("Do you mean to say that Alan Brady is REALLY BALD?!). Seems out of place for a 1960s TV show to appear on a TV of much later vintage (Mary Richards's Sony was probably a very early '70s portable) -- unless of course we're talking about watching vintage shows on restored sets, as many of us here at VK do as a hobby. Again, I don't know how MeTV did it, unless they edited the Dick Van Dyke clip into the promo, and showed it on the Sony TV over a closed circuit connection.

[David Roper]

The Douglas set was a 1960 Zenith with a white finish.


There were occasional shots of the back and the Zenith tube cup was unmistakable. Arnold watching TV in color makes much more sense...



because clearly the Ziffels had an RCA color prototype!

[DavGoodlin]

Well thanks for that, Einar!

The Douglass' TV resembles a Mag but may be a Zenith, due to the controls under the picture..
Not sure of Arnold the pig's TV, but Sam Drucker's Emerson Portable and Zenith cathedral have supporting roles.

Post started before I saw the previous one. A strange-looking Zenith anyway

[Charlie]

Never gave this any thought till just now, but wouldn't it be cool if we discovered a TV show or movie with a CT100 or other 15" color set from '54?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by David Roper

The Douglas set was a 1960 Zenith with a white finish.


There were occasional shots of the back and the Zenith tube cup was unmistakable. Arnold watching TV in color makes much more sense...



because clearly the Ziffels had an RCA color prototype!

My 1959 Zenith full line poster lists the top one as model B2254 the Dover.

[David Roper]

The Joseph Bologna one-season wonder Rags To Riches featured a CT-100, although I'm not sure how prominently/frequently as the adventures of orphan girls who randomly break into song isn't my cuppa.

[M3-SRT8]

What was the brand name of the Douglass's Tractor on "Green Acres?"

[Charlie]

Hoyt-Clagwell

[wa2ise]

THere were a few TV episodes of "All in the Family" reaturing TV sets. One is where Edith had the TV set in for repairs, and we see Archie, after getting home from work, trying to control a TV with the missing chassis and CRT, only the speakers (4 of them IIRC) still in the cabinet.

Another episode, Archie was interviewed by a local TV channel, something about gun control and Archie rushes home that afternoon to watch the taped piece of him on TV. But the TV breaks down, Edith grabs a TV repairman just leaving a neighbor's house, but as it's Friday, and the repairman is Jewish and needs to be home before sunset, so he has no time to fix Archie's set.

[Glenz75]

Gee I didn't think that this thread would get so many responses! If I see anymore sets on the TZ I'll add them here Cheers