Oh i remember them big ass tv sets!!!!

I'm a baby boomer and currently teach middle school students. I have tried to explain to my 11-year old students the concept of a console television, but they don't understand it. This was fun to watch.

"I've done some supplemental reading on it....." yeah, right

Lovely

The Curtis Mathes was one of the finest televisions ever made. It was a solid American company until Jr., who was CEO at the time, boarded Air Canada Flight 797... Without his leadership, the firm went into a serious nosedive.

I recall the tv commercials for Curtis Mathes tvs..."the most expensive tv in the world... and worth it" or somesuch. I wanted one!

Looks like a Trinitron CRT

My father sold Curtis Mathes. All hand-wired chassis. Tune for no herringbone in the picture, adjust color for proper skin-tones. Another factoid, some sets had the filaments of the tubes wired in series. If one tube filament burned out, none of the tubes lit up. Some strange filament voltages resulted in tubes with 17 volt filaments to make the total voltage across the filaments work out. Some sets were converted into aquariums.

Darn well worth it. 😉

I am disturbed that I actually watched this video.

I’d run out of there so Quick!!!

Is that with,...or without the first TV 📺 remote?

1965 was a very different time. And I gotta tell ya the casting crew gets 👍👍for picking some of the most great shape & pretty girls

Remember my grandmother had a Curtis Mathew television. Can remember watching Match Game 197X on it.

I always wondered what happened to Curtis Mathes TVs. It seems the founder and other top execs were killed in a plane crash and that sealed the fate of the company.

Yeah, that's cool!

We still have one of those. It hasn't been turned on in like 10 years, but it's still there and on channel 3!

I had one of those. Must've weighed 250lbs

Personally I was very disturbed by the incident.

Very nice framing. The console tv is badass. Channel 3 is where it all begins

Curtis Mathes is less green than Quasar.

Although it makes no sense, and I have an old school box TV of my own and the eps on DVD, I like to watch your videos and imagine I'm a kid, laying on my tummy in front of your console set, watching Star Trek, even though I'm watching on a laptop. Weird, right?

420th view . Yups

great sound

There was something special in watching TV on a console. Sitting on Saturday morning or late night. With the lights off a soft glow from behind the TV set. Wonderful.thanks for the memories.😊

Amazingly good picture for such an old TV.

Love these old sets

Curtis Mathes...the last great American-made TV. The console was attractive and weighed less than 300 pounds..(I think). I was 14 when I watched this episode on our color TV . It was a Motorola...about the same style. Turn it on and wait about 30 seconds for the vacuum tubes to heat up. Ahh...memories.

Authentic 1960's Karate Chop by the good Captain! Love the vintage console tv.

For 30 years, I saw this episode again and again in Black & White, in which Barbara Bouchet would look as fetching as Moneypenny in any mode - colorized or restored - in any galaxy, far, far away!

Dude looks like Brian Cox.

Now that's color. Communication through color from the 23rd century to the visual reproduction device of 1985 Earth to the strange new world of the You Tube Empire.

What a kiss!

Thanks for great episode!

I love the TV this is recorded from! Fits the vibe perfectly. Those consoles were a bitch to move.

Thank you for this authentic memory ❤❤❤❤

Great memories. Now I want one.

Kirk would never destroy his ship! Never!

Why are all the female aliens so sexy? Do all the people in space do nothing but have sex??

Zenith TV we’re way better

When TV's were large heavy pieces of furniture.

1984-85 was when I first started watching Star Trek in syndication. So this definitely brings back some memories!

All we need is Leslie Nielson on the beach in Creepshow cutting in saying "look at the quality of that picture!" with his state of the art 80s TV & video equipment.

😂😂

The only time ever you'll ever see Kirk running his finger through a hot chick without an ample moisture content. Should have made her wet enough to reconstitute on her own. Even Spock was perplexed.

Two minorities in red shirts!!? Our future is doomed, I tell you.

“Immense” beings. Immense.

Wow! What a TIME MACHINE. I think I watched this original when I was about 12 years old, on this exact T.V. set! (Not the one shown here, that would be too bizarre but the same model.)

I love Curtis Mathes. "Chances are, though I wear a silly grin."

Those pesky Aliens, always thinking they are so superior. TV working nice, good job. I imagine this was a hybrid? Horizontal output using Tube, maybe tubes for the tuner, but solid state everything else?