tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438559177675541367.post326561810231391225..comments2024-03-28T11:38:44.676-05:00Comments on Phil Are Go!: Zenith UHF Television - Let the cartoons begin.PhilAreGo@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05719815455502184849noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438559177675541367.post-17556795867483484732011-03-31T12:16:01.381-05:002011-03-31T12:16:01.381-05:00Yep nothing but good times on UHF. Back then, my u...Yep nothing but good times on UHF. Back then, my understanding of the "normal" channels, like 2,5, and 7 was "news and soap operas".<br /><br />The importance of the letters "UHF" was imprinted on my kid brain because the aforementioned TV set was old enough that the dial had the channel numbers 2 through 9 on it in little silver numbers, and then just "UHF", which had to be fine-tuned with another dial. Thus, I learned that all good things lived in the UHF zone.<br /><br />Thanks for commenting, Craig!PhilAreGo@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719815455502184849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438559177675541367.post-27679256433681708512011-03-31T11:29:32.274-05:002011-03-31T11:29:32.274-05:00I also like the exciting tagline "Expected Ch...I also like the exciting tagline "Expected Changes in Wavelengths will not Obsolete Zenith Television."<br /><br />That's nearly as good as "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" or "Good to the last drop."<br /><br />I've never heard "obsolete" used as a verb, either.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08394207145264377410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4438559177675541367.post-30992814497222766292011-03-31T08:42:44.380-05:002011-03-31T08:42:44.380-05:00We had Channel 38 and Channel 56 in Boston.
TV38 ...We had Channel 38 and Channel 56 in Boston.<br /><br />TV38 was awesome. In addition to all the Red Sox and Bruins games, they had the Three Stooges franchise. It also had a show called "The Movie Loft" with this local radio schlub named Dana Hersey. It was sort of a predecessor to Turner Classic Movies, where he'd introduce a movie every night, give some information about it, talk some trivia after the commercial breaks.<br /><br />It was my introduction to all the great movies of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. I watched snowy, half scrambled copies of Bullitt, Vanishing Point, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, In the Heat of the Night, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and the bizarre Alan Alda film The Mephisto Waltz on the Movie Loft.<br /><br />Over at 56, they had the Creature Double Feature anchor on Saturdays. Four hours of Japanese monster movies. Awesome. They also regularly ran Help! and Yellow Submarine, which was awesome.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08394207145264377410noreply@blogger.com