Recently I watched a number of "Twilight Zone" eps, caught some great performances by a lot of TAGS alumni. Most notably George Lindsey played a small town deputy...and a really mean one at that!
But then I saw the episode "What's in the Box," with William Demarest as a man who sees disturbing images from his life on Channel 10 on his TV. What's unique is, his TV has its controls on the top. (it looks like a realistic TV to me, but after all, this is the "Twilight Zone" we're talking about.) Here are some pics: http://imageshack.us/a/img849/9770/knobontop5.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img32/9018/knobontop7.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img820/6415/knobontop8.jpg This brought to mind the debate over the TAGS episode "Gomer the Houseguest," where Gomer and the Taylors are watching an adventure show on TV and Andy turns the TV off by twisting a knob on top. This took so many people by surprise that a few argued there was no such thing as a TV with controls on top and this must be a goof. http://imageshack.us/a/img842/250/knobontop12.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img59/1358/knobontop13.jpg So I did some research. Turns out a number of TVs did, indeed, have knobs on top of the set. http://imageshack.us/a/img5/165/knobontop10.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img703/7831/knobontop2.jpg ...and this looks like the one Andy might even be turning off... http://imageshack.us/a/img818/5840/knobontop9.jpg Now, it's entirely possible they were listening to a radio show (although I doubt it) and it's entirely possible the set decorator couldn't locate the Taylor's normal set... http://imageshack.us/a/img198/5658/knobontop14.jpg ..so maybe the director passed off the Taylor's hifi as a TV set. Nonetheless, I think I've presented enough evidence, once and for all, to show that there were, indeed, TVs that had channel knobs and controls on top of the set, and the idea of such a TV is not unheard of and certainly not a goof. Dixon _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
