[Jeffhs]

My grandmother bought a 25" Sears Silvertone color TV when she retired in 1969. The set worked very well, and kept working about a year or so (again, very well) with its original CRT after she died in the early 1980s, IIRC. The TV didn't see that much use, as my grandmother only watched the evening news and sports most of the time; however, she did watch reruns of the TV series MASH for several years before her death, but she didn't watch anything else (except one or two very early morning moon landings). This is probably, even likely, why the TV's CRT lasted as long as the set itself did. If her set had been in more or less constant use (it wasn't, as my grandmother lived alone and, as I mentioned, she did not watch much TV at all except the news and MASH) the tube probably would have died within perhaps a year or so.