TV set on The Twilight Zone

[Glenz75]

Hi guys, while watching an episode of The Twilight Zone from 1963, I spotted this TV, you can tell its just a super imposed image on the screen. It looks like a Zenith or a Motorola... not sure? Just curious as to what it is.

Cheers Glen

[truetone36]

That's a late 50's Zenith.

[Charlie]

There were a lot of TZ episodes featuring cool old TV's. I recently saw one in which a husband threw his wife out the window... he watched himself do it earlier on the TV.

THere was also the episode where the grumpy rich guy couldn't make the appliances in his house cooperate... including his color roundie... which he had the TV repairman over taking a look at it. In the end, the old man's car ran over him.

[Glenz75]

Thanks Charlie, I'm slowly watching these episodes in order and on a vintage TV set of course! Will keep a look out for the episode where the appliances turn against the old man, sounds interesting! Cheers Glen.

[Eric H]

I think it's a Zenith too but the channel knob looks wrong.

If you look closely you can see they taped over the entire control door to hide the name.

With that level of detail I'm going to guess this is from the Bluray set?

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by Charlie

There were a lot of TZ episodes featuring cool old TV's. I recently saw one in which a husband threw his wife out the window... he watched himself do it earlier on the TV.

THere was also the episode where the grumpy rich guy couldn't make the appliances in his house cooperate... including his color roundie... which he had the TV repairman over taking a look at it. In the end, the old man's car ran over him.

YES What better show to play on our sets!

I wish that episode about the appliances was in my TZ DVD collection, but its NOT Why do they leave so many episodes out?????
you can get 6 freaking hours on on DVD. I must have that one!

[Charlie]

"A Thing About Machines" Season 2 #40 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thing_About_Machines

"What's in the Box" Season 5 #144 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_in_the_Box

I saw them late one night about 6 months ago... one of those all day SyFy Station Marathons.

[truetone36]

"What's In The Box?" is one of my favorite Twighlight Zone episodes. BTW, the husband and wife are played by William Demerest and Joan Blondell.

[kx250rider]

I'm going out on a limb and say Sears, with an Emerson channel knob...

Charles

[DavGoodlin]

Thanks Charlie. Based on the air date, I need to restore my 1960 GE with power tuning just to watch it.

I will check my TZ box set.

Update: 35 episodes in volume 1 , but neither "TV repairman" episodes above are included.

[Jeffhs]

I watch TZ every night at 11:00 on MeTV. One of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes is the one in which a man has his TV set repaired, only to see his wife's picture on the screen. She keeps yelling things like Yonkers? and other nonsense, until the man finally puts his fist through the screen. Near the end of the program, just before he leaves the house, the repairman tells the set owner "I hope you're satisfied with my service...You will recommend me to your friends, won't you?" I don't remember what episode that quote is from; it might be "A Thing About Machines."

Edit: Yup, that was it all right. I just read the Wikipedia article on that episode, but for some reason the TV going bonkers, and Finchley's wife's picture showing on the screen and her yelling "YONKERS", et al. was not mentioned. However, I do remember the man's typewriter printing out "GET OUT OF HERE FINCHLEY", the man's electric shaver following him all over the house like a puppy, and even Finchley's car trying to run him down -- without a driver, yet.

Second edit: Nope, I goofed. The episode, which I saw last night (06-19-12) on MeTV, was titled "Inside the Box" and was about a man who kept seeing things, such as an argument he had with his wife, Phyllis, that morning ("This tastes like corrugated plastic...", et al.), on a blank channel on his TV (due to, it turns out, the fact that the man was suffering from a mental illness that causes him to see things that aren't there). The episode ends with him staring at a TV screen with slanted lines (out of horizontal sync), static noise in the sound, and his wife taunting him: "What do you see, Joe? Lady wrestlers? Fan dancers from Yonkers?.....HAHAHA! It's all in your mind, Joe. . . ." The man finally smashes his fist through the TV screen, and his wife starts throwing things around their living room while yelling at the top of her voice. She finally jumps out the living room window with a loud scream, shortly after which the police show up in Joe's living room and arrest him for murder. The last scene shows the TV repairman asking Joe, "(Did I) fix your set okay, Mister? You will recommend my services, won't you?", which is where Rod Serling is shown ending the program with the words, "....If you are in need of a TV repairman, may I suggest this one. . . . He offers 24-hour service at reasonable rates, and his office is in...the Twilight Zone."

Rod Serling was one of a kind. His brand of science fiction will never be seen again, except in reruns of The Twilight Zone airing on MeTV and on DVD. That network is also trying to revive the horror movie on TV with its "Svengoolie" weekly horror films. I've never seen them, but MeTV must think rather highly of them to put them back on late-night TV. The FOX affiliate in Cleveland on channel 8 also runs, or used to, anyway, horror movies on Saturday nights. This was a common practice in the '60s-'70s across the country, with different cities having different titles for their stations' horror film nights, e.g. "TV2 Horror Theater," et al. The shows were often hosted by local TV celebrities; in Cleveland, the channel 8 horror films were hosted by Big Chuck and Lil' John, and still are to this day.

[Bill Cahill]

Did everybody forget "Twonky" with that neat Admiral, or,
"The day the earth stood still" with a Zenith at tv studio, a Zenith in the house, and, the tv shop window showing a bunch of tv's playing?
Or, how about "Green acres" with a color set at the Douglasses, and, a 16" RCA being watched by a pig, Arnold??
Or, "The Phil Silvers show". The one where Sgt. Bilko held an auction, and, was trying to sell a non-working 3" Pilot tv?
Bill Cahill

[Zenith26kc20]

Svengoolie on Saturday night on a Zenith roundie MC chassis! (remember, "Lost in Space is first, followed by "Star Trek" then Svengoolie) with a cold Heinekin and "Sweet Maui Onion potato chips!
Then it's Voyage to the Bottom of the sea!
What a way to end a day!

[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!

[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.