Watch a 1965 Zenith COLOR Television with original programming!

Zenith model 5219UD, 25MC33 chassis. Estate sale find on 9-7-03 in Lombard, IL. This is one of my favorite TV's in my collection. The program you are about to see is something that this TV probably received when it was brand new....

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Science & Technology

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• zenith
• color
• tv
• television
• 25mc33
• chassis
• vintage
• old
• mitch
• miller
• sing
• long
• milton
• berle

[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.

[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