HAZEL - What'll We Watch Tonight

TV show from the 1960's HAZEL

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Entertainment

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• HAZEL
• TV
• show
• What'll
• We
• Watch
• Tonight

[Zoolert]

Im 20 years old and i just love this show!

[kerryincolumbus]

@TheSandbar136 ....... AMEN to your posting about rotary phones!! that's why for Christmas, my sister bought me a REAL OLD-FASHIONED AT & T red rotary telephone for my kitchen!!

[kerryincolumbus]

@TheSandbar136 .... she found it at "Things Remembered" for $50

[TheSandbar136]

@fromthesidelines I know they were, yep, true. But also I heard on TV that a lot of shows thought it was cheaper to use B & W film as opposed to color, because it was cheaper and a lot of people couldn't afford color TV's so they thought why bother with the color film.

[TheSandbar136]

@kerryincolumbus Sweeeet! :) I need one myself. 

[fromthesidelines]

Note that Perry Como is heard singing his theme song on Hazel's unseen color set at 21:55...that meant it was Wednesday night [9:00pm Eastern], and time for his "KRAFT MUSIC HALL"! Frank Gallop [22:52] was indeed Perry's announcer {he was often heard offstage in his droll booming voice}...but you don't get to hear Ed Herlihy's taste-tempting recipe suggestions about the swell dishes you could make with Kraft cheeses and their other fine food products!

[fromthesidelines]

Besides, NBC, the ONLY network scheduling color shows in 1961, was offering just a "handful" of prime-time shows in color [besides "HAZEL"]: "BONANZA", "WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR" (co-sponsored by, appropriately, RCA), "PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL", "THE PRICE IS RIGHT" (with Bill Cullen as emcee), "THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR", "MEET THE PRESS" (early Sunday evenings)...and, in late night, "THE JACK PAAR SHOW"....

[fromthesidelines]

The reason "a lot of people" didn't have color TV sets in their homes in 1961, 'Sandbar', was primarily due to the price- the "cheapest" RCA Victor model was about $495, and "consoles" were in the $1500-2000 price range. Color sets didn't really "sell" until the mid-'60s, when more manufacturers produced them [and the prices more reasonable], and all three TV networks began "colorcasting" more shows {prime-time finally became "all-color" in the fall of '66}.

[TheSandbar136]

Oh, I remember those rotary dial phones. I'll take those phones any day over these cordless phones today. I keep hanging up on people when my face hits the buttons, or it needs to be charged and dies, or cells with no reception. You could talk for hours on those land phones. And .10 cents in a phone booth and talk forever. Now .25 -.50 cents and you only have 3 minutes.

[TheSandbar136]

Look at that roast, it's black as hell. (Chuckle)