Get Smart clips on a 1965 Zenith Color TV

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@metalmanin

My 24MC32, which I just acquired, and looks a lot like this one, has the 6J10.

[12345678969707]

how can i buy

[haz939]

Nice quality picture.

[lazzer408]

h-lin adjust needed? :D

[8trackermike]

Hi I have this same Zenith Chassis. My was dead and I had it serviced. Currently it runs but many problems with convergence, plus the color Blue Gun is weak. How did you get your set to look this good? I would like to find some one who fixes these classic Zenith Hand Crafted Televisons.

[albertusj]

lovely picture. Did these sets have different phosphors/color range than modern sets? The colors just seem more natural somehow...What are they doing at 1:10?

[wurly1100]

@albertusj

I just enjoy collecting and watching these great old sets, No knowledge of the technical side.

[Johnnyboy792]

Awesome ! Thanks for this great post !!!

[fromthesidelines]

"Feel like a cigarette?", at 3:17, was for the original primary sponsor's benefit: R.J. Reynolds, the makers of Salem, sponsored the first three seasons of the program. Don Adams was required to "light up" at least once every episode [other cast members and "supporting players" were expected to do the same], and deliver an "integrated commercial" for Salem at the end of those episodes. Lever Brothers was the alternate sponsor, and the cast appeared in commercials for their products as well.

[friedie1jeff]

Thanks for posting this. It was wonderful.

[SenorZorrozzz]

We got a color TV in the late fall of 65. It was a Silvania. That TV has weak, pastel like color.

Note on the above clip- the closeups; the brightly lit film image. NBC wanted that because they knew that color TV (even their RCAs) needed to be shot like that in order to look good.

I can tell you, Zenith made the best TVs.

Thanks wurly for posting. Where are you located?

[GatorsNation]

Now that looks classic!!! I've searched all over Youtube for videos on the newer series Don Adams done with 99, but I can't find anything. Remember that? Remember when Don came back to reprise his role in the late eighties or early ninties on an all new series of Get Smart? I'd love to catch it somewhere, but it was so short lived. The show ran for 5 seasons, but the newer series only lasted a short short time of one season.

[bobbyles]

We had this same set that we bought second hand. I thought it was great because we could then get UHF and watch the Munsters that were by then in reruns. The fact that it was color meant little to me then. I was the only one in our family that knew how to tune in the UHF channels so my older sisters were really good to me. It took a special touch. Strange but true. Good memories.

[Batamon1997]

The heads look distorted.

[PinkSilverWolf]

Get Smart

i love that show

[starwars21]

I realize it's a DVD, but gee, I wish the picture came in THIS clear on our old Zenith back in the 60's!

[NYAdirondackHiker]

Is that an old "Rembrandt" antenna on top of the TV? I recently replaced uhf/vhf leads on one, and use it today on my set.

[wurly1100]

Yes, It's a Rembrandt, The signal is coming from a DVD player of course.

[AFNYOAQIS]

wow. no overscan

[ALLEN0955]

one of the great wonders of filming using a digital camera.

[anatainu]

what a great piece of history uve got there

[Klottelitsch]

You have done good to do this---one should fix any of those historic color sets :)

[guimbadriver]

i made a full upgrade in my zenith color tv set, i replaced all the resistors capacitors and tubes, 3 weeks of hard work, now the tv is very good conditions the picture and color quality is fantastic..

[keytapper88]

Nice old set....I worked on many of these. The only problem with zenith was that many of the tubes in them were Zenith only and sometimes hard to find. I notice the vertical linearity is off on this set. Notice the top of the picture is larger than the bottom half. Not to hard to fix. Possibly a bad cap in the vertical section.

[dbouffard25]

This is pretty cool; those old tv sets were murder though, always on the blink. I first saw GS on a '72 RCA 19" portable back in '84 or '85. The tv was almost identical to the RCAs which Don and Barbara advertised for in '68. My mother supposedly paid $500 for it in '73 (floor model!); the color went out; the remote broke; yes, those were the days! But it still "worked" broadly speaking, until I got rid of it in '06. I had previously thought I would never part with it...

[kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE]

Living Color meets Maxwell Smart, 99(Barbara Feldon) and the enemy KAOS...thanks Wurly!

[toresbe]

It'd be nice to have an old color TV set. Unfortunately here in Norway, which kinda' had some quasi-socialist tendencies in the 50s and 60s - the national broadcasting company NRK was actually banned from switching to colour - the Christian People's Party actually decried it as moral decay! This had the interesting effect that they weren't allowed to buy colour equipment at all. This lead to some funny artefacts when rebroadcasting colour programmes from abroad, especially the Eurovision!

[toresbe]

...my point is that vintage colour recievers are pretty rare, since there was no colour broadcasting in Norway until - I believe - 1971!

We got ad-funded broadcasters in, I believe, 1992. And they're rarely as good as stiff ol' NRK is. :)

[wurly1100]

This is Zenith's 25MC33 Chassis, It's a Tube set and Factory Hand Wired.

[bigman55434]

@wurly1100 hand wired...in the USA I might add. Too bad everything made today is junk that comes from every 3rd world country with a shipping port.

[metalmanin]

@wurly1100 did that tv use the 6J10 audio output and discriminator tube or did it use a 6BQ5 with a 6BN6

[wurly1100]

@metalmanin

Not sure, I never had the back off to change a tube. I sold the set last year.

[mtv70pn]

is it a tube set or solid state?

[dbouffard25]

I think it would definitely be a tube set in '65; I don't think the solid state stuff came out until the mid-70s. It is amazing how far we have come in technology since '65, and even these old tvs were such a huge technological accomplishment. The things which humans can accomplish with their minds is awe-inspiring, really.

[mtv70pn]

mmm are you sure? i ask this 'cause i have an old little radio fron phonola maade in the sixties and it's a solid state radio.

[dbouffard25]

Most radios were solid state from around the mid-fifties, I believe, but the tvs were much later. The early '70s tv I referred to in an above post wasn't solid state, that was for sure.

[skinnyblinddude]

Very nice! Excellent color! Few know how to properly adjust a color set. Glad to see you still have this specimen in working condition. Thanks for sharing.

[eumeb]

minimax is cool...almost today !