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To: OttawaFreeper

Sunday nights:

Bonanza
Wonderful World of Color
Wild Kingdom

Missed homework assignmentd

Jumping up and down to adjust the color knobs


2 posted on 11/22/2020 3:29:25 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

I was born in ‘68 but I vaguely remember the color knob.

The manual channel changer I definitely recall.

And trying to get the naughty movies that barely got reception to be watchable :)


4 posted on 11/22/2020 3:33:11 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: TexasGator

https://www.thoughtco.com/color-tv-invented-1779335

Has story of the battle of competing types of color TV sets. As always there is a betamax and vhs style fight. Darwin must have planned all that.

Saw an FBI dvd episode batch recently that resolutely intones “In Color”-—just as the funny opening of Leslie Neilsen Police Squad. They were so proud of that.


14 posted on 11/22/2020 3:46:48 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: TexasGator

Great memories huh?!


16 posted on 11/22/2020 3:47:32 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: TexasGator

“Make ‘em too much noise”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVPc4SuoJWE


26 posted on 11/22/2020 3:51:14 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: TexasGator

Ed sullivan show, commander cody, farmer grey, I had a port hole tv


28 posted on 11/22/2020 3:53:34 PM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: TexasGator

.... WOW .... Memories ...... I remember when the networks finally went full color .... It was a big deal .... Of course you had to have a Color TV to watch them LOL.


29 posted on 11/22/2020 3:55:35 PM PST by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: TexasGator

Fiddling with the rabbit ears.
Dad up on the roof jiggling the antenna and re-pointing it.
Smacking the side of the set.
Dad changing the picture tube by himself. He taught me how to discharge the big capacitors to avoid getting killed.


91 posted on 11/22/2020 5:39:44 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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