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Early Color Television

Later Color Sets (1955-65)

1955 Sets

Gilfillan C295 Prototype	Hoffman Colorcaster M4021A	Philco 22D5100 (TV-123 chassis)
Packard Bell	Philco 22D5102 (TV-123 chassis)	RCA CTC-2B model 21-CT-55,  based on the CT-100 chassis

RCA TM-21 Monitor Courtesy of John Folsom

RCA TLS50

 

1956/57 Sets

Picture Catalog of 1956 Color TV Sets

Admiral Patrician	1957 Admiral	Admiral Ambassador C322C17 Courtesy of John Folsom
Admiral Ambassador C22C27	Admiral Ambassador C322C16	Airline GSE-6000A
Capehart 31T216,  36C216M-5	CBS-Columbia 22 inch	Col-R-Tel converter
Colordaptor converter	1957 DuMont	Emerson C-502
1956-57 General Electric 21C700 Courtesy of Sean Duffy	1956 Hallicrafters 21CK801M	Hoffman M4021 Colorcaster Courtesy of Charles Sanders
1956 Magnavox	1957 Magnavox	1957 Motorola 21CT2M Courtesy of John Folsom
Muntz Chromatron Set	Muntz 721 CV. Built around an RCA CTC-5N chassis. This is the Deluxe Series, which  used X and Z wide-band demodulation producing a superior color picture. Courtesy of John Folsom	Packard Bell 21CC1
Raytheon C-21C1M	RCA CTC-4	RCA CTC-5
Sentinel IU-816	Stromberg Carlson 102CM Courtesy of John Folsom	Sylvania 21C609
Silvertone 7140	Sylvania 31T304 "The Granada" Courtesy of John Horvath	Sylvania 31C606 "The Saratoga"

Transvision Kit

Westinghouse H22T155

1958-59 Sets

RCA's first automated production line for color CRTs

RCA CTC-7 (1958)

RCA CTC-9 (1959)

1960 - 1971 Sets

Uniray

Setchell Carlson brochures

Add-On Converter Turns Your B&W TV into a Color Set

General Electric Porta Color (1966)

Spectrac converter

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