Watch a 1965 Zenith COLOR Television with original programming!

[MegaRadio90]

Television! back when people cared about entertaining gosh how refreshing. :)

[thompsonmarkjohn]

I met Mitch Miller in a restaurant 15 years ago when I was having dinner with band leader Doc Severinsen. He came over to say HI to Doc and still looked a lot like this except with a gray goatee.

[TundraWalk3r]

Hi Doug.

From what are you transmitting this program? I would like to broadcast original programming to my vintage TV's, so I was wondering how you did this.

Thanks,

Matt

[bestrickie2]

Very intersting, I like the round screen. Was this 1 of the first world wide colour TVS? I've seen inside old TVs, parts such as the colour gun. Can U remind me the colours that make up all colours seen via the screen? I know these old TVs & others up until recent years had a large tube with part of the rear filled with a vacume/gas that would implode if damaged. Do you still restore old TVs? These will be worth a lot in years to come, be very useful in a museums. Cheers

[whiskeyify]

Our first color set was a 1968 RCA...I'll never forget that night I got to watch the Wild Wild West in color. I remember watching the tv repair guy come to home and seeing the inside of the set and wondering how it worked. Later on in life I got to manage a TV repair shop here in Los Angeles.

[kg4yhr]

you need a cheater cord

[Atari907]

Amazing.. Screw hd tvs I want that insted



[Boeing744andRCAquad]

I'd love to see a video of a set like this, showing something like "Laugh-In" or "Hullabaloo". I'm glad that I had two uncles that had their own TV sales and repair shop, I grew up around these sets and their workings!

[BasterdGaming]

i still prefer my razor thin ultra high resolution tv

[frankp3]

What did this cost brand new (in 1965 dollars)?

[frankp3]

I FOUND IT! This is the SAME TV we had in our house up until about 1980. Although it never really worked right, (We took turns jumping on the wood floor to straighten out the "pulling" picture) I can remember watching The Ed Sullivan Show, Batman, Bewitched, and many historical moments on that TV...I really miss it..thanks for posting!

[MustangIVU]

Bonjour, where did you get those originals programs.

Regards.

[78recordrepair]

Those were the days.  Like a time machine.

[geogodley]

does it have internet access? haha museum piece or hollywood prop

[dmine45]

This sort of reminds me of my parents' GTE-Sylvania 25 inch TV. Built in a very similar way. Vacuum tube for the picture, but transistorized for the audio. It was a workhorse for 18 years. Still wish we had it repaired instead of taken to the dump.

[crazystufff1]

I believe my Zenith Round Tube is either a 65 or 66. Mine has the same lighted tuning knob and color logo on the volume knob. Mine is a little different style but I believe it uses the same chassis. Mine needs to be fully restored in order to make it work. Also not in as good as shape as yours is. I need a new tube cap and to refinish the cabinet.

[AI4QT]

Another great video. As I was watching this segment of the Mitch Miller "Sing Along" I thought, wow! His show was one of the earliest examples of "interactive" television! BTW, Mitch is still living and is 99 years old!!!!

[ThisGuyFrritz]

Our first color TV had a round tube just like that. Although it was not a Zenith but a Philco. One of my earliest memories (even before I was in Nursery School) in watching TV was "Felix the Cat" (when it was in re-runs in the '70s). Probably even older than that Mitch Miller show. Well, it became a piece of junk and stopped working. So, one of us destroyed the CRT tube. :-] By then, we've been using transistor or IC type TVs.

[123demaio]

the set have the original crt?? Some of the rebuilt tubes where hard to do convergance on..

[AMStationEngineer]

Most CRT's rebuilt in the '60s and '70s had only their guns replaced as the "so called re-build". The jigging was not that great and the alignment suffered. Most TV supply stores sold additional "purity magnet kits" for application behind the discolored or shifted area. Zenith factory rebuilds were OK, as was RCA , however, a company from Philadelphia "Silver Beam" manufacturing was well below par. I once had a 25AP22 that had the CRT neck 7% off of 90%.

[68lincoln]

Beautiful '65 Zenith color console and Sing Along With Mitch also brings back nice memories. Great set from the greatest era in the USA. It was a simpler time and yet we still had so much. I miss those days.

[123demaio]

grayscale a little off but the purity looks good

[drh4683]

Its the camera. It makes the screen look too blue. But yes, the purity is perfect.

[bctvguy]

@drh4683 - actually the color temperature of a TV picture tube is on a par with outdoor light or "cooler" much cooler than incandescent lamps.

Try shooting the screen with your camera filter set for outdoor and if the set is working properly, the color on the screen will be appear normal and much less blueish.

[dfpolitowski2]

How did you get original programing? And with the NBC peacock?

[ProgMetalLover]

@dfpolitowski2

My guess he bought a video off of the Internet? Shokus Video is a good resource of old TV shows.

[dfpolitowski2]

I see

[ProgMetalLover]

@dfpolitowski2

Also, I think some of those have aired on PBS at one point in recent history.

[lawnking168]

wow!! that was great!!! plays great!!! of course, it's a zenith!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have several zenith products and my newest is a 1990 floor model that only broke down 1 time for a sound card!! i bought it new in 90 and i have grown up with zenith since i was a kid!! [1962]. i have a console from 1938 and several trans-oceanics incl. the last one in 1982. it is so sad to see comp. like this fall into history books!! you are a doing a great service keeping quality before the name goes on!!!!!!!!

[aldiakaroofus]

$5?!? Wow! Of course, it takes lots of skills to restore vintage equipment! I wish I knew how to fix things!

[HardKnocks60]

That NBC Peacock before the beginning of the show sure brings back a lot of memories of being a youngster back in the late 1960s!! I do remember that the color from those roundies was very vivid. My parents owned a 1964 Sylvania that looked similar to your Zenith. They do tend to fall out of adjustment sometimes, though.

[danawadd]

wow... the Zenith is two years older than me... my parents bought Zenith sets before and during my childhood. You must've been a TV repairman in a previous life ;-)

[jasonlava]

Awesome and sing along with Mitch.

[TheTarrMan]

nice

[chompo7]

wonderful as usual

more and more lately i have been thinking about

getting a vintage set like this.about how much should

a restored color set like this cost?and would it be

safe to use every day for a few hours?

happy new year

joe