The pilot episode of W*A*L*T*E*R is on youtube. I watched the first few minutes the other day.

Was that all the time you had to watch or all you could stand to watch ? :confused:

Was that all the time you had to watch or all you could stand to watch ? :confused:

It wasn't holding my interest.

What year did it air?

1986. Info. about it is on finest-kind.net

Per IMDB it aired in 1984.

A little something to disappoint everybody. As a fan of vintage TV sets as well as shows, I can tell you they didn't do a very good job making the sets look authentic...in fact only one of the three shown being watched had ever been a real TV set: the one in Radar's (oops, Walter's :rolleyes: ) apartment. I *think* it was a 17" Motorola but the knobs they stuck on it look like they were swiped from an Admiral. In the brief shot from behind the guys' backs that shows the whole set, it looks like a 13" or so monitor was shoved inside the case, but the closeup shows a larger, round CRT in what was definitely a rectangular mask originally. Odd.

The set shown in the station house is a figment of the prop department's imagination and the least authentic looking of the three. The fancy bezel is from a real Hallicrafters brand set--but the knobs aren't--and the inclined angle of the controls would be impossible...unless the rather large chassis (sets using that bezel were actually TV-radio combos) was allowed to protrude through the bottom of the cabinet and down into the table top.

The color TV in the store window gets an A for effort. That TV has the look of a manufactured prop, but it could be the remnants of an RCA CTC-5 cabinet dressed up. Nipper in the window is a nice touch and suggests that somebody did at least a LITTLE research. While the crowd around an appliance store window watching color TV is a real (if VERY rare) 1954 phenomenon, The CTC-5 came out in 1956. In 1954 the only RCA model available (at around a grand, yes) was the CT-100.

So here is what you should have seen...

I don't think the set in Radar's [sic] apartment was a Muntz but it would have been infinitely appropriate if it was (they were CHEAP in EVERY sense) and this one does very closely resemble the set shown in the pilot...

http://www.earlytelevision.org/images/Muntz_17A3A.jpg


Then at the station house a Hallicrafters TV for special occasions which could also pick up AM radio broadcasts... http://tvhistory.tv/1950-Hallicrafters-811.JPG



Finally, color TV in 1954? Yes, but color TV shows to watch were even rarer than color TV sets to watch them on. At any rate this is THE set that the crowds would have gathered at the window to watch...
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1954-RCA-CT100-color.JPG










Man,:lol: I'm a geek.