I couldn't wait to upgrade to a tv that sat on a table. Lol. Like that was something so modern & better. Wish I could go back to 4 channels, no remote, and a nice heavy wood console tv with dial that clicked when changing channels.
While in the Navy on Midway Island 1966-1968, I also had a part time job in the Navy Exchange (the local store) TV and radio repair shop. One fellow brought in a TV to be repaired and was extremely rude to us. We repaired the TV, but also swapped the left and right wires on the picture tubes yoke coil which reverses the picture right to left. There was only one TV station there and you watched whatever it had. It was about two weeks before the guy brought it back in. We were surprised it took that long. We played dumb and said we would look into it. Of course, we put it back to normal and didn't charge him for that.
@@steviebboy69Upside down would have been too obvious. And perhaps so obvious the guy would have known we pranked him. We figured that swapping left and right would be a bit more subtle, and it might take the guy at least a little while before realizing something wasn't quite right.
@@trainliker100 It does make sense for sure to do it the way you said, I mean it may take a while to pick up one the reverse pic till text come up on the screen and even then at first you may think it was a broadcast issue at the station.
It sounds like you might know some electronics. So you might appreciate the one and only other scam we did. Again, it was an exceedingly rude customer who had bought a little transistor radio at the next door Navy Exchange (basically a store) and it promptly stopped working. After he berated us, he left it to be repaired. I quickly found that an IF amplifier transistor (intermediate frequency) had failed. Instead of replacing it, I just jumpered across that stage. The only radio station you could normally get on Midway was its own radio station KMTH (whose transmitter, ironically, I maintained at the transmitter site). You could never get more than about a half mile away from the broadcasting antenna. So, the radio worked fine for that station. But down the road when he left the island and went back to the "real world", he was going to get terrible reception.
@@trainliker100 I know a bit of electronics, the IF stage thing sounds funny, what about if the RF stage failed the set would be pretty deaf as well I would imagine. How many kW was the radio station?
As a technician I fixed a tv once and then got a phone call 1 hour later from the customer complaining it was receiving Welsh tv programmes.. The writing on the screen was backwards because I'd inadvertently connected the line scan coils the wrong way round. It was a 5 minutes fix but boy did I feel stupid!! 🙂
@@sw6188 The picture wasn't upside down, it was just a case of it being inverted due to the line scan coils being reversed, whereas the field scan coils were normal. Would have been ok if the customer had a large mirror. 🙂 As for purity errors, the degaussing worked as normal. I don't know where you're situated but the tv was a Thorn TX9 back in the UK.
@@swingmanic I probably didn't phrase my question very well. When I asked if you noticed the purity errors, it was in relation to the video above. If you watch it again you'll see the colours change at the sides of the picture. I know the Thorn TX9 very well, worked on many of them in the 1980s and early 1990s. I'm in New Zealand.
@@swingmanic Yes, I would have bought it as well. I kinda miss the days of working on CRT sets. I got out of the TV repair game around 2002. There was too much chinese rubbish being imported and people didn't want to pay to have them repaired. I wasn't interested in learning how to fix the new flat screens so I bailed.
I'm willing to bet there was nothing wrong with TV sets, and it was just the video sent to the TV was inverted. I would buy the TVs too for $65. In 2001, we still had many years left of analog. :)
This is from 2001 and I can't believe how old fashioned things still were back then. Still selling those decorative wooden panel televisions at the time. I remember every t.v was huge and heavy. Back in the early 90's we bought a tv that looked just like that from a relative and the thing was so big my parents had to hire some guy with a van to transport it to our home. He charged like 200 dollars to deliver it. Today for 200 dollars you can get a light as a feather flat screen tv at Walmart. Things have changed.
i actually own both of those wood tvs, first one was a zenith 25 inch , the one that was bigger was a bigger version , made by zenith , i own both of them , i always thought they were smart looking, i think they should make them today.
Back then, made from quality material like glass and wood. Today, plastic Back then a TV was made to last. Today, breaks so easily. Back then 4 channel and you always found something to watch. Today hundreds of channels, but can't find nothing good to watch.
The purity goes out of alignment when the tube is rotated 180 degrees relative to the earth's magnetic field. That could be cured with a quick application of a degauss wand.
You know this bit is from the late 90s! They would NEVER be able to flip over one of those old-school console tanks from the 70s or 80s upside down that easily!
Probably not too hard to open the cabinet and remount the innards right side up if desperate for the discount. Something similar happened to me at my job years ago. I was the only employee and at a counter. I leaned over the keyboard and oops hit the exact combination of shortcuts with my 'balcony' to flip the image on the computer. Fortunately clued in that I could do a quick Google search on the problem and found the right keys to press to get it back! So funny though. No way was I going to call our Tech Support guys for help and to explain how I had done that!!!!
All you have to do is flip your glasses up side down and you'll see it correctly. My glasses fit well up side down and every once in a while I accidentally flip them putting them on and everything is on it's head.
People often request to see the “reveal reactions” on these timeless videos. The ABSOLUTE BEST REVEAL in the history of Candid Camera is the last sequence of “Crazy Key Chain” where GMA’s Rachel co-hosts. PETER’s & Linda’s performances were perfect!!! Please watch it. You won’t be disappointed at all. I won’t spoil it.
😊 That's a great one, but it's not the best in my mind. I love the reaction of the lady with the walkie-talkie when the parachuter crashes through the roof. Before AND after, she is AMAZING. 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 😄
It wasn't an easy task for me to make a list of Top 31 Candid Camera Classic episodes that I loved. I will never get bored even if I watch these every single day 😂 Candid Camera Classic: - Kitchen Whiz - Close Parking - The Four Seasons - Stuck on Bank Line - Hydrant on your Lawn - Ticket for a Passenger - Very Heavy Meal - Too Many Cans - Crazy Key Chain - Disorder in the Court - Cleaned Out - Art Attack - Long House Numbers - Carwash Removes Paint - Parachute Fail - Trailer - Fake Soap Star - Menu Substitutions - Hotel Exit Security - Food by Fax - Parking Nightmare - Greedy Dentist - Fake Guest - Wonder Drug - Nothing but Duck - Spell for my Baby - Sideways Elevator - Character Witness - Counterfeit Sale - Gator in the Can - Disappearing Building Candid Camera Gold: - Phone Frustration - Betty White sells Movie Tickets - Gorgeous Teacher - First Female Pilot
@Peter Funt my personal list for Candid Camera is endless - that is for sure. I was just trying to assist "Karate Kid" and "Julie" here when I read their comments.
The tube would not have been rotated. To flip the picture you just change the polarity of the two wires going to the frame coil on the yoke (the copper coil arrangement on the neck of the tube).
"The pictures upside down"
"Yeh but look how GOOD it is!"
LOL!!! the guy cracked up at that big time
He said whys it upside down, " oh thats the minor flaw" 😂😅
I loved it when right after the woman said "I'd have to stand on my head," then the man with her broke out laughing 😅!!
That set is clearly made for the Southern Hemisphere market like upside-down land aka Australia. ehehehe.
@@steviebboy69 Lol. That's a good one.
~ Just flip it over when you get it home. $65 is still a bargain. ~
I wish I still had my TV like this
I couldn't wait to upgrade to a tv that sat on a table. Lol. Like that was something so modern & better. Wish I could go back to 4 channels, no remote, and a nice heavy wood console tv with dial that clicked when changing channels.
I was just thinking that. I had one in my room as a kid. Beautiful wood, got rid of it and have no memory of what happened to it.
Loved 😍 it... 🤣😅😂
And also enjoyed Peter's magical twist at the end - Lol 😆
CANDID CAMERA WAS A GOOD IDEA DONE VERY WELL. NOW 85 I STILL LAUGH HARD!!!
Haha! This really made me laugh! Thanks Peter!
While in the Navy on Midway Island 1966-1968, I also had a part time job in the Navy Exchange (the local store) TV and radio repair shop. One fellow brought in a TV to be repaired and was extremely rude to us. We repaired the TV, but also swapped the left and right wires on the picture tubes yoke coil which reverses the picture right to left. There was only one TV station there and you watched whatever it had. It was about two weeks before the guy brought it back in. We were surprised it took that long. We played dumb and said we would look into it. Of course, we put it back to normal and didn't charge him for that.
Should have turned the Yoke around 180 degrees to do the upside down thing as well, but what you said would have been quite funny.
@@steviebboy69Upside down would have been too obvious. And perhaps so obvious the guy would have known we pranked him. We figured that swapping left and right would be a bit more subtle, and it might take the guy at least a little while before realizing something wasn't quite right.
@@trainliker100 It does make sense for sure to do it the way you said, I mean it may take a while to pick up one the reverse pic till text come up on the screen and even then at first you may think it was a broadcast issue at the station.
It sounds like you might know some electronics. So you might appreciate the one and only other scam we did. Again, it was an exceedingly rude customer who had bought a little transistor radio at the next door Navy Exchange (basically a store) and it promptly stopped working. After he berated us, he left it to be repaired. I quickly found that an IF amplifier transistor (intermediate frequency) had failed. Instead of replacing it, I just jumpered across that stage. The only radio station you could normally get on Midway was its own radio station KMTH (whose transmitter, ironically, I maintained at the transmitter site). You could never get more than about a half mile away from the broadcasting antenna. So, the radio worked fine for that station. But down the road when he left the island and went back to the "real world", he was going to get terrible reception.
@@trainliker100 I know a bit of electronics, the IF stage thing sounds funny, what about if the RF stage failed the set would be pretty deaf as well I would imagine. How many kW was the radio station?
In today’s upside down world, this TV is what we need!
As in cuz COVID-19 virus
Z😂😂😂😂😂😂
As a technician I fixed a tv once and then got a phone call 1 hour later from the customer complaining it was receiving Welsh tv programmes.. The writing on the screen was backwards because I'd inadvertently connected the line scan coils the wrong way round. It was a 5 minutes fix but boy did I feel stupid!! 🙂
I'm a TV tech from way back as well. Did you notice the purity errors when they physically turned the sets upside down?
@@sw6188 The picture wasn't upside down, it was just a case of it being inverted due to the line scan coils being reversed, whereas the field scan coils were normal. Would have been ok if the customer had a large mirror. 🙂 As for purity errors, the degaussing worked as normal. I don't know where you're situated but the tv was a Thorn TX9 back in the UK.
@@swingmanic I probably didn't phrase my question very well. When I asked if you noticed the purity errors, it was in relation to the video above. If you watch it again you'll see the colours change at the sides of the picture. I know the Thorn TX9 very well, worked on many of them in the 1980s and early 1990s. I'm in New Zealand.
@@sw6188 Now I see where you're going with this..The tv would have degaussed before being rotated through180°..I'd have bought the tv. 🙂
@@swingmanic Yes, I would have bought it as well. I kinda miss the days of working on CRT sets. I got out of the TV repair game around 2002. There was too much chinese rubbish being imported and people didn't want to pay to have them repaired. I wasn't interested in learning how to fix the new flat screens so I bailed.
Dick is a great actor. I don’t know how he can keep a straight face
I'm willing to bet there was nothing wrong with TV sets, and it was just the video sent to the TV was inverted. I would buy the TVs too for $65. In 2001, we still had many years left of analog. :)
This is hilarious!! Great reactions
This is from 2001 and I can't believe how old fashioned things still were back then. Still selling those decorative wooden panel televisions at the time. I remember every t.v was huge and heavy. Back in the early 90's we bought a tv that looked just like that from a relative and the thing was so big my parents had to hire some guy with a van to transport it to our home. He charged like 200 dollars to deliver it. Today for 200 dollars you can get a light as a feather flat screen tv at Walmart. Things have changed.
Even my 2012 TV was very heavy. When it broke a few months ago, I was enamoured with how light my new TV was (And it was much bigger too)
@Bill Levins. I bought a 3 in 1 set in 2000. It was a tv, vcr, and a DVD in one set. It weighed 400 pounds.
i actually own both of those wood tvs, first one was a zenith 25 inch , the one that was bigger was a bigger version , made by zenith , i own both of them , i always thought they were smart looking, i think they should make them today.
Those look like TV's from the 1970s though.
@@rayn1ful My dad had a gigantic RCA one. 😅
Dude was blushing 😅🤗
Smile! You on upside down Candid Camera 🤣🤣🤣
The guys who bought the TVs are legends!
Back then, made from quality material like glass and wood. Today, plastic
Back then a TV was made to last. Today, breaks so easily.
Back then 4 channel and you always found something to watch. Today hundreds of channels, but can't find nothing good to watch.
So true
@@sp2435 One reason why my poor TV has been unplugged for months
Back then, TV’s were shit. They constantly had faults and needed expensive repairs. The picture quality compared to today was also shit
@@Baltihunter well of course today its clearer. Still todays TV is rubbish. If I want to watch anything good, I watch stuff thats now years old
@@Greenpoloboy3 same here mate. If it hasn’t been cancelled
I would have bought it. All you have to do to fix it is reverse the positions of two of the four yoke wires.
If you look closely, you can see the colors on the CRT become distorted on the sides when they turn the set upside down.
The purity goes out of alignment when the tube is rotated 180 degrees relative to the earth's magnetic field. That could be cured with a quick application of a degauss wand.
It's easy today to flip TVs over. I miss my old 32" counsel tv...they were pieces of furniture. Now...not at all. 😃👍🏻👍🏻
Is that a TV used during your counselling sessions?
"Why would I wanna buy this?"
"So when you get sucked into the Upside-Down you can watch it normal"
"Throw in a flame thrower and you got a deal"
At the end, "Smile! You're on Candid Camera" should have popped up on the screen.
Great deal. Funny.
You know this bit is from the late 90s! They would NEVER be able to flip over one of those old-school console tanks from the 70s or 80s upside down that easily!
Cute guy in the leather jacket 😘
As soon as he said Dick was doing it, I knew it would be good. That guy plays it straight like Leslie Neilsen.
this was really funny !!!
That's so funny! LOL!
For some people, a bargain is too much to pass up. 😂
I'm always stand on my head and watch TV🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hi Peter, looking forward to your Father's Day marathon on Shout Factory online, it will be great!
I like they're watching Match Game on the upside down tv.
It'd be really funny if the TV picture turns upside down after they turned the TV upside down!
Probably not too hard to open the cabinet and remount the innards right side up if desperate for the discount. Something similar happened to me at my job years ago. I was the only employee and at a counter. I leaned over the keyboard and oops hit the exact combination of shortcuts with my 'balcony' to flip the image on the computer. Fortunately clued in that I could do a quick Google search on the problem and found the right keys to press to get it back! So funny though. No way was I going to call our Tech Support guys for help and to explain how I had done that!!!!
All you have to do is flip your glasses up side down and you'll see it correctly.
My glasses fit well up side down and every once in a while I accidentally flip them putting them on and everything is on it's head.
@darkwood777 Obviously I was joking, but you can fool some people.
I love it
People often request to see the “reveal reactions” on these timeless videos. The ABSOLUTE BEST REVEAL in the history of Candid Camera is the last sequence of “Crazy Key Chain” where GMA’s Rachel co-hosts. PETER’s & Linda’s performances were perfect!!! Please watch it. You won’t be disappointed at all. I won’t spoil it.
It starts at 2:10. You will love it.
😊
That's a great one, but it's not the best in my mind.
I love the reaction of the lady with the walkie-talkie when the parachuter crashes through the roof.
Before AND after, she is AMAZING.
👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 😄
@@Julie-kb3mo Thank you! I’m gonna check it out tonight 🪂
@@Julie-kb3mo she was almost calling 911 🤣
Link to this episode or it is not true!
At 3:07 , Hit the cog & play audio at 1.75 , It helps a lot!
i thought those wood console tvs were nice.
Just mount the TV on your wall upside down.
I'd buy it...but the wife would hate it and me😮
Just press the autorotate button, like on your smartphone 🙃
It wasn't an easy task for me to make a list of Top 31 Candid Camera Classic episodes that I loved.
I will never get bored even if I watch these every single day 😂
Candid Camera Classic:
- Kitchen Whiz
- Close Parking
- The Four Seasons
- Stuck on Bank Line
- Hydrant on your Lawn
- Ticket for a Passenger
- Very Heavy Meal
- Too Many Cans
- Crazy Key Chain
- Disorder in the Court
- Cleaned Out
- Art Attack
- Long House Numbers
- Carwash Removes Paint
- Parachute Fail
- Trailer
- Fake Soap Star
- Menu Substitutions
- Hotel Exit Security
- Food by Fax
- Parking Nightmare
- Greedy Dentist
- Fake Guest
- Wonder Drug
- Nothing but Duck
- Spell for my Baby
- Sideways Elevator
- Character Witness
- Counterfeit Sale
- Gator in the Can
- Disappearing Building
Candid Camera Gold:
- Phone Frustration
- Betty White sells Movie Tickets
- Gorgeous Teacher
- First Female Pilot
@Peter Funt my personal list for Candid Camera is endless - that is for sure. I was just trying to assist "Karate Kid" and "Julie" here when I read their comments.
I thought all people could look at an upside down picture and see it right side up? Or am I the only one? Weird if that is true.
Just turn the TV over duh
Some people are so , knit picky
I'm guessing all they really had to do is flip the tube inside the casing.
No, even simpler than that - reverse the polarity of the wires going to the frame coil on the yoke (the copper coils around the neck of the tube).
@@sw6188 I can imagine an exploding TV if I attempted that.
😂😂😂😂😂
Can't you just take it home take off the back cover rotate the picture tube stick back on the back and you have a good and cheap tv
The tube would not have been rotated. To flip the picture you just change the polarity of the two wires going to the frame coil on the yoke (the copper coil arrangement on the neck of the tube).
TV, Made in Australia,......
Aussie TV 🙄🙄🙄🙄..no bloody wonder they keep having Barbie's....
boomerlicious!
😂😂😂😂