Do not adjust

[Tim Kettring]

Name this old TV show :


"Do not adjust your TV set , we control the vertical , we control the
horizontal "

 

[Wild Bill]

The Outer Limits.. and they're still producing & airing a new version of
that show

Cheers
WB
.....................

 

[Allodoxaphobia]

The Outer Limits.. and they're still producing & airing a new version of
that show

A relativley new TV show, indeed -- even the First Incarnation.
Name _this_ old TV show:
"When you go down in the woods today....."

Jonesy
I remember TV before B&W. It was just B.

 

[Ken Weitzel]

I sure hope they change the opening bit...

I can just hear todays young folks... "what's vertical?"
"what's horizontal?"

Ken

 

[Ken Weitzel]

A relativley new TV show, indeed -- even the First Incarnation.
Name _this_ old TV show:
"When you go down in the woods today....."

The teddy bears picnic....

Ken

 

[Art]

Hey Mate: the line was "We control the vertical, We control the horizontal"
then the raster would fade away to a white spot in the centre of a black
screen.
Personally I liked the TV version of Amos and Andy, or Davey Crocket "King
of the Wild Frontier". Duh dating myself again!!

 

[Tim Kettring]

The Outer Limits.. and they're still producing & airing a new version of
that show

Thanks . I didnt even know that about new ones . I will try to catch it on
my girlfriends cable

 

[Jeff Wiseman]

And what's that dot in the middle of the screen?

We have a little RCA 12 inch B&W set that we occasionally use.
One of the neighbor kids asked what was wrong with it...

- Jeff

 

[Allodoxaphobia]

The teddy bears picnic....

That was the name of the _song_ , yes.
What was the name of the TV show?
(I watched it on a 7 or 8 inch Dumont.)

Jonesy

 

[Tim Perry]

Hey Mate: the line was "We control the vertical, We control the horizontal"
then the raster would fade away to a white spot in the centre of a black
screen.
Personally I liked the TV version of Amos and Andy, or Davey Crocket "King
of the Wild Frontier". Duh dating myself again!!

now it would be "we control ALL your remotes" or "we can microwave your
popcorn on the coffie table" or maybe "we can make your Cuisinart play rap
music"

 

[Jerry Greenberg]

I can just see "The TV Tech From The Outer Limits!".

 

[Ken Weitzel]

That was the name of the _song_ , yes.
What was the name of the TV show?
(I watched it on a 7 or 8 inch Dumont.)

Hi...

Darn, now I'm gonna be awake all night trying to
remember

I remember listening to it (the song)on the radio
and singing along when I was a kid... I remember
playing it on a 45 and singing along with each
of my daughters... and playing it on a cassette
and singing along with each of my grand daughters...

Now they're too old, but the Good Lord willing
perhaps I'll yet get to play it on a CD and sing
along with great grandkids...

But for the life of me can't remember ever
hearing it on TV. Maybe a show not seen in
Canada?

If you like, feel free to send me an email and
I'll send you something back, provided you can
accept 3 or 4 meg attachments.

Take care.

Ken

 

[Ken Weitzel]

And what's that dot in the middle of the screen?

We have a little RCA 12 inch B&W set that we occasionally use.
One of the neighbor kids asked what was wrong with it...

- Jeff

Hurts, eh?

My grand daughter invited a few of her friends
to join us at the lake for a weekend. One of
them (a bit older, I'd guess perhaps 16) looked
at a turntable, and asked me "if that was what they
used to call a record player in the olden days"

Take care.

Ken

 

[Jim Adney]

Name this old TV show :

"Do not adjust your TV set , we control the vertical , we control the
horizontal "

The Outer Limits

-

 

[Jim Adney]

A relativley new TV show, indeed -- even the First Incarnation.
Name _this_ old TV show:
"When you go down in the woods today....."

Not sure if I'm making the right connection here, but was that,
"Klukla, Fran, & Ollie"?

-

 

[BaggySac]

My son had a party with his friends and my jukeboxes and they were all
talking about how these things played the black cd's! LOL.

 

[Allodoxaphobia]

Darn, now I'm gonna be awake all night trying to
remember

OK. Now the problem with remembering Very Olde Stuff is that one
has to rely on a Very Olde Rememory...

IIRC, it was called "Big John and Sparky."
circa. 1948, or 1949, or 1950 for me.
(I was in Germany 1951-1955...)

Jonesy

 

[Jeff Wiseman]

Yea, better remind him that they were actually 45's and they are
a little bigger than the CDs.

Actually it doesn't bother me too much since I'm an engineer and
love to explain things. The kids usually end up regretting that
they said anything

- Jeff

 

[Peter Twydell]

Hurts, eh?

My grand daughter invited a few of her friends
to join us at the lake for a weekend. One of
them (a bit older, I'd guess perhaps 16) looked
at a turntable, and asked me "if that was what they
used to call a record player in the olden days"

Take care.

Ken

A friend of mine showed his son (aged 7 or 8 or so) some coal:

"What's that, Dad?"
"A piece of coal"
"What's it for?"

 

[JURB6006]

On a similar note, what age were you when you learned how to tell time ? It's
getting older and older.

Thinking about it, when VCRs are out and it's all DVD, DVR, TIVO and DVD
burner, there will be generations that never heard of recording tape.

BTW, does anyone know what hapened to that online museum of video, the one that
shows the Ampex job and the English built thing on which the tape whizzed along
(did not have rotary heads) ? I thought it was pretty cool.

Anyway, another generation or two will have never seen a CRT.

In case you want to know my age, well I cut my teeth on a CTC25, I found the
bad grommet connection that went bad and caused loss of filament voltage to the
pair of 6GU7s that were the -Y amps and the blanker. This was before I ever had
a job, but after my grandfather couldn't find the problem. No we weren't TV
techs, but we never called one. The type of people who fix things for
themselves.

A far cry from today. Remember those Star Treks in which aliens had forgotten
how to fix the machine left by their ancestors ? Kinda prophetic in a way.I
swear I know people who do not know how to change a tire.

BTW-"There is nothjing wrong with your television set, do not adjust the
picture.

We will control the vertical, we will control the horizontal.

We can _____________ to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity.

We back and for the next hour we will control all that you see and hear.

____________ that reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits."

I also remember the original name of the street in Cleveland that they renamed
to Marti Luther King Jr Blvd.

Forget the two cents, I'm too old to enjoy it anyway.

JURB