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Early Color Television

Later Color Sets (1955-65)

1955 Sets

 

Hoffman Colorcaster M4021A

 

 

Philco TV-123

 

 

RCA CTC-2B model 21CT55,  based on the CT-100 chassis

 

RCA TM-21 Monitor

Courtesy of John Folsom

 

TLS50. Based around the CTC-2B chassis (21CT-55), with no modifications to the basic chassis, except to leave off the convergence yoke assembly. All the circuitry associated with the fantastic control panel is passive components, used to adjust the bias on the 3 CRTs, and set up the vertical and horizontal sweep and focus. The projection optics are 3 Norelco Protelgram boxes, with special versions of the 3NP4 CRTs, with blue, green and yellow phosphors, and a red Wratten filter.

Courtesy of John Folsom

 

1956/57 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

 

 

 

1957 DuMont

 

1957 Emerson

 

 

1956-57 General Electric 21C700

Courtesy of Sean Duffy

 

 

1956 Hallicrafters 21CK801M

 

Hoffman Colorcaster

Courtesy of Charles Sanders

 

 

1956 Magnavox

 

 

1957 Magnavox

 

 

1957 Motorola 21CT2M

Courtesy of John Folsom

 

 

 

Muntz 721 CV. Built around an RCA CTC5-N 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

 

 

 

Sylvania 31T304 "The Granada"

 

Courtesy of John Horvath

 

   

Sylvania 31C606 "The Saratoga"

 

 

Westinghouse 22 inch

 
 

 

 

Muntz Chromatron Set

 

1958-59 Sets

RCA's first automated production line for color CRTs

 

 

RCA CTC-7 (1958)

 

 

 

RCA CTC-9 (1959)

 

1960 - 1970 Sets

 

Courtesy of Ed Reitan

 

Courtesy of George Lemaster

Sears-Toshiba 16 inch. The first rectangular screen set from Japan (1965)

 

Mitsubishi Triniscope

 

 

General Electric Porta Color (1966)

 

Sony Chromatron (1966)

 

 

 

Uniray (1960s)