You may have noticed that I have posted references to the original Twilight Zone series recently.

I watched them on an old Zenith TV that sparkled and crackled once in a while.
Tubes. I have one of the first Zenith color tube sets ever made.
They were kinda experimental in their day.
The set was actually in my place before WBAY started broadcasting color.

It might still work, if I could get the proper caps and tubes to replace those that have dried out.

I sold replacement color CRTs back in the day. And there are things I could tell you about the phosphors. Only certain tubes had the right mix of phosphors to properly render the colors broadcast.
They did replace CRTs rather than throw out the TVs back then.

We had racks of them in the back of the shop.
They would cut the necks off of them and actually replace the little cathode emitter that gave the tube it's life./

Yeah, that's how old I am.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I feel like 80 atm for some reason.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

And so, when I once in a while come to a crisis and crash on the ground around myself..........
I must ask your forgiveness. Though not entirely warranted at times, I know.

But I must ask.

I know a few of you might not grant me that.

But most of you will, I know.

I know you shall remember me one day.

We did talk of life, my friends, did not we?

I gave you what I had to give.
No regrets.
I danced with kitties like no other.


I shall do so for eternity.

And some of you shall be so blessed as to continue that dance with me forever.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Yep me too at times Mike, but I'm a lot closer to that than you are !

But you look really great for your age.
I wouldn`t worry to much if i were you.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

The very first TV program I ever remember seeing was "In Town Tonight" in about 1950. "Once more we stop the mighty roar of London's traffic and, from the great crowds, we bring you some of the interesting people who have come by land, sea and air to be In Town Tonight". That was on a 9" B&W TV that some posh friends of my grandparents had. Then I saw the funeral of King George V and the coronation on the next door neighbours TV. We didn't get our one until 1956.

In those days is was 405 line B&W then it went to 625 line in 1964, and then colour in 1967. They had some early tests on the OXO adverts using red and mauve.

Old, I feel positively ancient!

Here it was Batman, Lost in Space, StarTrek and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea... Not in any order of course, I think we had a color TV back then too.

Oh and as to noise a Saturn V launch was noisier than some would believe, as NASA said the 5 mighty F-1 engines could rattle or even shatter windows for miles around, now that's loud...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s we had a "kinda" band who called themselves Rigour Mortis and the Grave Diggers!

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

Here we have or had(not sure) the Grateful Dead...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

The earliest TV I can remember was "All Our Yesterdays" with Brian Inglis '62 I think.

Can't remember what day of the week it was on...

Mondays was "No Hiding Place"
Wednesdays was "Z-Cars" Followed by "The Fugitive"
Saturdays was "Dr Who" & "Dixon of Dock Green"
Sundays (Lunchtime) was "The Forest Rangers" followed by "Thunderbirds"
Sundays (evenings) "Sunday Night at the London Palladium"

We also had "Take your Pick", "Armchair Theatre" "Burke's Law" "Riveria Police" but can't remember what days they were broadcast.

Ah the good old days :) Sure beats the crap on tv these days.

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The first TV I remember was a b&w. I think of it as big, like 19", but I'm not sure it was even that. It had tubes. So did our first color set. I remember going to the drug store to use the tube tester machine.

I think I watched Romper Room, but I don't remember it. My parents seemed to enjoy Captain Kangaroo more than I did. I was a first generation Sesame Street kid, along with Mr. Rogers and The Electric Company ("HEY YOU GUYS!!!")

For a long time we had a really crummy VHF antenna and a separate and even crummier UHF in the attic. We finally got a new antenna on the roof, but even then we hardly ever even tried to get UHF channels. I considered myself lucky to catch a Star Trek rerun on UHF on Sunday afternoon.

We watched the classic sitcoms: All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore, The Brady Bunch, MASH (although I don't remember the Henry/Trapper era from first run; we may not have watched it then).

Nothing is more frustrating than when your 35" Sony's CRT fritzes out prematurely.

Now, curiously, I'm way behind on TV tech. I don't have a full 1080 screen in the house (unless you count the computer monitor in the basement), just 3 small 720s (2 in use) and a 32" tube which still looks great. And another large tube in the basement for when this one dies. I don't pay for full HD on my Uverse; no premium channels either. The living room and kitchen TVs both run off the same DVR via a long set of A/V cables; I bounce the remote signals off the front of the fridge to change the channel from the kitchen.

I don't have a blu ray player either. In fact, I'm not sure if I even have a functional DVD player.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Forgot to add: I discovered Dr. Who in high school. WTTW, Chicago's main PBS station, ran it Sunday night at 11 following either a Two Ronnies or a Dave Allen at Large ("Good night, and may your god go with you"). I came into the middle of Tom Baker (end of the Key to Time season; when I saw that again years later, I was surprised how cheesy it was, even by Who's own standards). They started Tom over again, moved into Peter Davison, skipped back to as much of the first three Doctors as was available, Tom and Peter again, Colin, and once through Sylvester before saying they couldn't afford to buy it from BBC any more. :(

Since Tom was my first Doctor, he'll always be my favorite, but I think Sylvester was actually better. Do I remember correctly that he only had the one companion through his whole run?

Since the revival, I have not seen an episode newer than the next to last with Rose. So I haven't seen the current Dr. at all.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I still wish Crusade had not been canceled, that's the spin off to Babylon 5, it could have tied up a lot of loose ends.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I agree with you Vic ...

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

Our first TV set was a 7" black and white. Dad bought it used, In I think 1956.
I remeber listening to Dragnet 1957 I say listen to as I was in bed by then. There was an episode of Twilight Zone that scared the crap out of me. It was when the girl fell out of bed against her wall and went into another dimension. Try being a kid being told to go to sleep and haveing to listen to that episode:)

TV shows on the networks stink to high heaven now. To many unreality shows for me.

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Old James

In the 70's I enjoyed Dr. Who with Tom Baker and his sidekick Leah. Monty Python, The Goodies and Benny Hill.

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Old James

I was a bit too young in the seventies but I sure do enjoy the music now!

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rOZZ
Music
Pictures

I was a bit too young in the seventies but I sure do enjoy the music now!

I was a bit too young in the 60's, otherwise the same here...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

The only shows we were allowed to watch in the 60th was Star Trek and Bonanza.

We were very impressed back then.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

The television shows I most remember from black-and-white days are Bewitched from America and Dr. Who from England. (I missed the first broadcast of the first episode of Dr. Who but it made such an impact it was repeated the next week before the second episode. The real memory for many of us though is the first appearance of the Daleks a few weeks later).

The BBC's first major colour production was Take Three Girls which I still think of as one of the best drama series ever.

My first encounter with black-and-white TV was watching the Coronation of our Queen in May (I think) 1953 ...

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

Not bad for an event 60 years ago. It was 2nd June 1953.

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