Dean Martin and Jonathan Winters at The Bar – 1969 TV.

Dean Martin and Jonathan Winters at The Bar – 1969 TV.

 

One day Dr. Wetbrain blurted out to Harold about his amazement on the advancement of technology in the last 6 decades.

In the 60s and 70s technology was very limited. Cellphone!? What the hell is that?! For communication in those days, we only had one house rotary dial phone with a short cord and at least 5 other households on the same party line. If your neighbor was on their phone you had to wait until they were60s and 70s tv shows, done to use yours. It was a guessing game. Each time you pick up the receiver to see if the phone line is open, you mostly hear, “Line busy!”

Television viewing was great on the large 18-inch color TV. Since you don’t know any better that the

quality and size made TV viewing more advanced. You only had 3 channels from your antenna reception input. That was OK for your channel changing dial only went to 12. The 60s and 70s TV shows were the best though with their innocent charm and humor. Shows like The Dean Martin Show, Carrol Burnett Show, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, Jetsons and Gilligan’s Island to mention a few.

 

Check out this live 1969 Dean Martin Show with Jonathan Winters.

Harold replied with, “I miss those good old simple days”.

Old Dean Martin and Bob Newhart Comedy Skit.

I hate Harold’s old TV set! Dr. Wetbrain blurted out one day.

“Oh, sure the twenty-inch screen picture looks good. But it’s an old picture tube TV that weighs like 300 pounds. And, for some reason because of the sun angle we had to move this damn TV three times a day. Thank you, Harold.”

Moving this heavy TV did often remind me of classic TV shows from the 60’s for some reason. One of my favorite memory of shows was an old Dean Martin and Bob Newhart comedy skit. Remember the 60’s had a different attitude and humor compared to life now. So did the 1800’s for that matter.

You have to admit, the picture quality on old picture tube TVs had a special charm compared to the new high definition flat-screens.