"Texaco Star Theater" will not be seen tonight, so we can bring you the following...
05-10-13, 05:17 PM
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"Texaco Star Theater" will not be seen tonight, so we can bring you the following...
In the movie thread, the question was asked, what modern movie would you show a 1930's movie audience. I thought it might be interesting to hear what modern show you would show to a Sunday night audience in the golden age of television.
So, Uncle Milty will not be seen tonight, what are they going to watch? 24? Honey Booboo?
So, Uncle Milty will not be seen tonight, what are they going to watch? 24? Honey Booboo?
05-10-13, 05:30 PM
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Re: "Texaco Star Theater" will not be seen tonight, so we can bring you the following
I think most of a 1950s audience would kill themselves if they watched a Honey Boo-boo show.
05-10-13, 10:54 PM
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Re: "Texaco Star Theater" will not be seen tonight, so we can bring you the following
The Amazing Race - to give them a view of today's world
The Walking Dead - to scare the pants off them
The Walking Dead - to scare the pants off them
05-11-13, 12:05 AM
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Re: "Texaco Star Theater" will not be seen tonight, so we can bring you the following
Breaking Bad
05-11-13, 02:44 AM
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Re: "Texaco Star Theater" will not be seen tonight, so we can bring you the following
Would said 1950s audiences be told to subscribe to cable before they could see shows that are currently on cable?
I'm sure a lot more of them would complain about all the junk on the screen (logos and show promos) than current audiences do, despite having less sophisticated TVs.
I'm sure a lot more of them would complain about all the junk on the screen (logos and show promos) than current audiences do, despite having less sophisticated TVs.
05-11-13, 06:31 AM
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Re: "Texaco Star Theater" will not be seen tonight, so we can bring you the following
Would they be watching on the standard TVs of the time? 13" B&W?
I doubt they'd complain too much about the advertising, as it was even more prominent back in those days. Commercials were part of the show, with hosts shilling products directly quite often. Maybe they wouldn't quite understand why they'd have to see a bug, but really on those small TVs in B&W would they even notice?
That being said, I'd show them Mad Men, as a glimpse of their very near future.
I doubt they'd complain too much about the advertising, as it was even more prominent back in those days. Commercials were part of the show, with hosts shilling products directly quite often. Maybe they wouldn't quite understand why they'd have to see a bug, but really on those small TVs in B&W would they even notice?
That being said, I'd show them Mad Men, as a glimpse of their very near future.
05-12-13, 12:17 AM
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Re: "Texaco Star Theater" will not be seen tonight, so we can bring you the following
But Mad Men is on cable, not TV that can be picked up over the air, although now all broadcast TV is digital and still wouldn't come in on a TV of the past unless they had an external digital tuner.
I remember in the 90s, going into a thrift store and seeing a black-and-white console TV that looked to be from the 50s that was still working and tuned to a local station. The picture was shrunken a bit inside the screen (not sure what caused that or how it could've been fixed) but it was showing some Jerry Springer-like talk show with people yelling at each other. I sighed, thinking that stuff never would have been shown in that TV's first years of use.
I remember in the 90s, going into a thrift store and seeing a black-and-white console TV that looked to be from the 50s that was still working and tuned to a local station. The picture was shrunken a bit inside the screen (not sure what caused that or how it could've been fixed) but it was showing some Jerry Springer-like talk show with people yelling at each other. I sighed, thinking that stuff never would have been shown in that TV's first years of use.
05-12-13, 12:58 AM
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Re: "Texaco Star Theater" will not be seen tonight, so we can bring you the following
But Mad Men is on cable, not TV that can be picked up over the air, although now all broadcast TV is digital and still wouldn't come in on a TV of the past unless they had an external digital tuner.
I remember in the 90s, going into a thrift store and seeing a black-and-white console TV that looked to be from the 50s that was still working and tuned to a local station. The picture was shrunken a bit inside the screen (not sure what caused that or how it could've been fixed) but it was showing some Jerry Springer-like talk show with people yelling at each other. I sighed, thinking that stuff never would have been shown in that TV's first years of use.
I remember in the 90s, going into a thrift store and seeing a black-and-white console TV that looked to be from the 50s that was still working and tuned to a local station. The picture was shrunken a bit inside the screen (not sure what caused that or how it could've been fixed) but it was showing some Jerry Springer-like talk show with people yelling at each other. I sighed, thinking that stuff never would have been shown in that TV's first years of use.
I didn't think we had to show them something on their actual sets. I just assumed the playback gear would travel through time with the film or show.
05-12-13, 07:51 PM
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Re: "Texaco Star Theater" will not be seen tonight, so we can bring you the following
Beavis and Butt-head.
