Did Muntz have a color roundie in 1971 ?

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by John Adams

I think they stayed around a few more years. I think Philco kept offering one. They could a prior year chassis going. Offer a low price in a black metal cabinet for under $300 to get people in the showroom.

I had a Sears Silvertone roundie, a trash find in the 1970s, which was in a black metal cabinet and which, to my amazement at the time, worked as soon as I got it home, the only problem being a broken push-pull on-off switch. These sets were, as you mentioned, probably priced as low as they were simply to lure potential buyers into the store.

I did not realize, however, until I read your post, that Philco was also offering the same type of TV, probably within the same price range. Like my Silvertone, this Philco may well have been a roundie in a black metal cabinet, VHF only, with no high-end features.