How Many Of You , Watched Programs On A Black And White TV As A Kid

Boubou said:
Black and white, 4 chanels, having to get up to change the channels or the volume, play with the antennas. My uncle was a TV repairman in the tube days.
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My dad worked on TVs too. One “trick” he learned was the electron gun on the inside/back of the CRT would get tiny flakes of material that fell from the upper inner tube coating. These would really distort the picture. The solution - turn the tv set on it’s side and bang the heck out of it to get the flakes to fall off the gun and to the bottom of the tube.

And, being 1 of 7 kids, WE were the tv remote. :rolf:
 
smitty_p said:
Cool, I didn't know that. I've watched most of the classic horror films in black and white: Frankenstein, the Werewolf, Creature from the Black Lagoon...that sort of stuff. I'm not a fan of more modern horror movies so much. The old horror movies were more suspense movies than actual horror films, in my mind. I kind of prefer that.
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Came home from a date one night. Found my brother and Dad watching "Night of The Living Dead." I did not enjoy it and have never watched it since....that was 50 years ago. And yes. If you remember, it was B&W.
 
"Birds," also B&W and also have only watched once. Still don't trust crows..... also about 50 years ago.
 
Yup we did. Can't recall when we got a color one. 3 channels. I remember their first VCR (obviously had color well before that) was around 1979 or 1980. Panasonic top load huge boat anchor with a 1 day, 1 event timer using the standard click click click round tv channel knobs. It worked for decades,
I remember watching Starsky and Hutch and the Angels etc in color in mid 70s, I assume we went color in like 73 or 74.
 
Boubou said:
...having to get up to change the channels or the volume, play with the antennas.
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Yep, me and my little brother were the remote. I don't remember ever having a remote until I moved out in the late 80s and bought my own tv.
 
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