Good Ole Days

GearHead_1

GearHead_1

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Stumbled across this and it made me smile. Some of us are old enough to remember this on a Saturday night:

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your televisoin. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits
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Here's the competition, it had several incarnations:

You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: The Twilight Zone!
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You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... The Twilight Zone!
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There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call... The Twilight Zone!
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The part that made me smile is that I remember watching a black and white TV, rolling screens and black outs were not uncommon. Mom would have to call the TV repairman to come and adjust the vertical hold. There were no external adjustments on the TV.

Man, I'm older than dirt?

Okay, here's the question, which one of these programs did you folks like better, The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone?
 
Outer Limits seem to have more a science fiction but sure liked some of the surprise endings in Twilight Zone.
 
I liked the Twilight Zone episode where the guys crashed on a planet, fought over water, and then we find out they were on earth....
 
Mr. Clean said:
While I enjoyed Outer Limits, it had no answer for the genius of Rod Serling! Then came Night Gallery. Oh and talk about surprise endings...how about this classic episode Elegy (The Twilight Zone) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (coincidentaly not a Serling story)
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I remember that episode. My daughter just gave me a DVD that was 3 of the earlier episodes. The show became more refined as it's life went on.
 
I just found the episodes that I received on the list you provided. They weren't as early as I had imagined. They were released in 1960. Man they made a lot of shows.
 
Yes, there are a number of episodes. That second episode with Ed Wynn is another very fine episode! Wait, The Twilight Zone is coming on now on one of the local channels...From season 4, episode 4...He's Alive with a young Dennis Hopper.
 
Saw one the other night with a young Robert Redford: Nothing in the Dark. It's amazing how many people I think I recognize but am unsure because of their young age.
 
I liked The Twilight Zone best. But then, we lived in the mountains and only received one station. Twilight Zone not Twilight. We don't need no stinkin' Vampires!

TV repair? My Dad was an expert. He only used two tools... a right hook or a left jab. (BAM! There, that's better.)
 
Those were good shows, I liked Twilight Zone best. Still feel like I'm there some days, LOL.

Remember taking your TV set tubes down to a local store and using their tube tester? They sold tubes in the cabinet beneath the tester.

When you turned on your car radio it took a couple of minutes for the tubes to warm up before you got any sound. Plus you had to adjust the antenna trimmer on a station around 1400 to get the best sound. Then your reverb unit would go louder.
 
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