Watch a 1978 Zenith Chromacolor II Color TV with Space Command Remote Control! 

His whole house is a time capsule. Look at that place!

Back then, any TV with a handle on the top was called "portable" even if it was very heavy and could only run on AC power. The same thing was true with early "portable" computers! :-)

Found a 1984 zenith that was sitting in a barn for 15 years. Cleaned out the insides and turned it on. Still worked.

That tidy packaging of the insides is jaw-dropping. This is astounding.

Now you know why some people call the remote control a "clicker."

I have the same set with all the paperwork and remote , like it was bought yesterday . i have good size collection myself , tv's from the late 40's to the 80's ,the color roundies are my favorites .

My grandparents had a TV like this in their spare bedroom when I was a kid. Little me thought it was the coolest thing!

Your Videos 📹 are the best 👌 👍, Zenith Radio TV 📺 and Stereo was the best you could get , we had good luck with them 😀 😊 !!!!!!

Nice trip down memory lane for me. I sold and serviced only Zenith TVs in the 70s and 80s. and cleaned a lot of those push on module connectors back then and it was one of the biggest problems with this chassis after a few years. The IF module (big silver one on left side) was prone to connection issues. It still was a good design for servicing and a giant advancement from the vacuum tube sets. The System 3 went to using edge snap on connectors like the two on the module plugged to the back of the picture tube and they were very reliable. Thank you for producing this video.

you gave me a nice nostalgia flashback to my childhood, i remember when the old tv remotes of the early days had a 20 foot cord that went all the way to the tv along with the old manual crank dials like an old school landline telephone, those were the good ol days. lol

😊Zenith Color TV 📺 Radio,& Stereo ' s were the very best 👌 👍 😊!!

1961 was the year Zenith debuted the tv remote with their patented Space Command

"The quality goes in before the name goes on" from memory.

That looks like a very nice television set. The picture quality that those chromacolors give off is amazing!

i love your house please show avideo on it thanks for all your work

i like your tv. my aunt use to have a tv just like yours. that was my favorite tv ever. nice 😊❤

As for channel 6 the radio station is now Me-TV 87.7 hence the Me-TV channel displayed on the TV.

It's 3 months younger than me. I want to find one of these old sets, preferably mostly solid state, to restore one of these days. Thanks for sharing!

It's amazing how you're able to find these sets, especially in such mint condition with all its original paperwork.

LONG TIME NO SEE!!! nice set.

Awesome! I want a 1970s portable TV for my room!

Thank you for making these videos. I loved my Zenith TV.

Yay!! It finally posted after getting 2 tease emails from RU-vid. I love the Chromacolor IIs. My all-time favorite sets. Surprised to see you with one Doug! Congrats!

House is very clean 😊

My grandparents had one very much like this for a long time. It was good. Gee. Mash. Where I grew up it was played right before the evening news. The inside of that TV looks like new. I like the modular boards design. Ease of repair is good.

Cool tv. Your home is very clean and uncluttered too. Also looks like it was built to be durable along with the furniture. This video can be from 1978 if you filmed it in super8 and recorded the sound on an 8track

Like a previous comment, the years pass by rather quickly, I used one of these on my barge on the English canals, 1971 DRH, my pleasure my man...Les... good watching, keep them coming.

Another fine vintage TV set shown for our viewing pleasure.

Wow, I love this! You have all the original printed materials, too. Wish I had a set like this one. Perfect for any room, especially the bedroom. My grandparent's had a 25" Zenith from around 1973 with the same kind of remote.

I get motion sickness watching this video due to the shaking of the camera. Great set!

This tv will forever hold a place with me. I absolutely love it

Nice set Doug. Always enjoy your videos.

My grandmother has a nice upright chassis Chromacolor II console from 1974 (you can see it in my old tech at grandma's video). She wants to get rid of it, but so far no takers. Works fine aside from needing some contact cleaner on the tuner and Colormatic switch.

Nice and solid Tv! I like the motorized channel search system.

Really cool video. I hope you do more.

The insides of this set are gorgeous. A clear back panel would make this one a beauty.

Glad to see your making video's again! This TV looks like it has a great picture and looks like it is in mint condition! Thanks for taking the time to show us :)

Incredible to see with all the paperwork! It looks like you just brought it home from the store.

I had one of those, by 1978 the name was definitely going on without the quality going in. The end of American-made electronics was clearly in sight by 1978.

This is really good for 78

Glad your back!!!!

I live in Rolla MO which is a couple hours east of Springfield MO. I remember the Zenith plant in Springfield and also remember the news coverage of it closing around 1985. I have a friend Jim McShane who lives in Orland Park IL who used to repair my tube audio equipment. Thanks for all your videos. I respect a time when US manufacturing was the norm and we could be proud of purchasing an American designed and made product.

Really cool. Thanks for sharing.

Great video!

I like that the first thing you see when switching on your several decade old TV is advertisements for new television services.

Una maravilla en esa época este televisor Zenith. Y eran muy caros. Pocos tenían el privilegio de contar con uno y disfrutar de la imagen a color.😊

Another great video Doug! With your interest and knowledge of electronics I am surprised you are not an amateur radio operator.

nice video!

I love your period dinette set, too!

what a classic we had one

I would like to find a 13" Zenith, like you have, very nice!!

beautiful TV!

Doug, you are THE MAN when it comes to Zenith. I have a bunch of Zeniths myself, but your collection makes me look like a beginner. CCII is my preference also. Thanks for showing this set, also I was wondering where you were, its been a while!

Very very nice find!! You are entirely correct in your preference's of the best era at zenith. Later Zenth's well yah know the rest is history....:)

Man I would hate to work on this set... Great video!

I remember as a kid when we had the subsonic sound or mechanical remote control, I could take some pocket change and keep dropping in into a toy metal wagon I had and the channels on the TV would change. I used to prank my dad with that trick.

We had a mid-70's woodgrain Quasar TV and the remote also had the old aluminum tuning rods. The Quasar remotes were a bit louder than the Zenith when pressed. We also had a late-70's Sharp and Sony Trinitron. Both of those had battery powered sonic remotes which you could hear when you put your ear up to the remote speaker.

nice remote! The built-in bunny ears are a nice feature as well.

I may be getting a Chromacolor II from someone for $15. I can't wait to get it!!

Back when TVs were TVs, and not flat panels.

This is so cool

You have a very nice house and furnishings. I recently scored a 1985 Zenith that looks gently used. Its one keypad sets with remote control that uses the type J battery. The remote looks and works great but the TV is a bit tired. I suspect it was a set that was turned on with the remote and mostly left on the same channel all day. I'm with you. I'd like to get a CC 2 or earlier someday. Older TV's are hard to come by here in WV.

The Amazing things is the Remot control, that oparate with the sound off click, no battery 😮

I'm surprised they were still using the mechanical remote and motorized tuner when electronic tuners were becoming more and more common and cheaper to make. The tuner looks quite intimidating when you first peek behind the panel -- but I guess this was still back in the day when your TV salesman would set up the TV for you upon purchase. Also, FM radio uses 75 kHz audio deviation while TV audio is 25 kHz deviation, so a ch.6 station transmitting FM audio will sound louder than other TV stations.

Had this been in Dallas Ft. Worth he would’ve gotten CBS.

Where do you find all this cool stuff? I collect 50's furniture and stuff, but hardly ever see old TV's and stereos.

I had this tv as a kid and I learned how to fix it from a cousins husband mine didn’t have a remote

Sometimes people refer to TV remote as a clicker! And now we know why :)

It seems like they switched to digital before this was made. You would need a converter box now

That's cool how they still use 87.7 FM

Control panel was similar to the later early 1980's models. Mine was a 1982 without the remote control.

The "bonger" type remotes were in its last days in 1978. Shake your keys near your TV and it changes channels.

MOST OF THESE TV'S COULD GIVE YOU A HERNIA TOTING THEM AROUND...AND THAT COMPLICATED TUNING WAS FOR THE BIRDS...I LOVE OUR SETS TODAY....

John Cazale on MASH. Your house is spectacular.

Love it

looks brand new

This television may have sold in my country chile in 1978, when the color came to the television

thats a fine television made by zenth .

get a load of that remote system. flipping dope and the way the chanel selector spins isis a so pure dope like an old 70s hotpot washing machine from the UK. nice jam packed tv

if you're talking about DTV and a converter box, then yes, with an adapter to convert the 75 ohm coaxial "F" type "TV out" on the back of the average converter box to the 300 ohm twin lead connections on the back of the set (the four screws just to the left of the antennae) a TV like this can be retrofitted to receive DTV stations.

Is the entire house like a period piece I'm looking at the kitchen appliances!?

Regarding Channel 6 audio.....TV audio deviation is 25 Khz while FM broadcast deviation is 75 Khz which is why TV audio on 87.75 was lower on an FM radio compared to the rest of the band. Unlike full power TV signals, LPTV doesn't have a rule on audio deviation. Several enterprising individuals realized this and applied for a Channel 6 allocation for a LPTV and utilized 75 Khz audio deviation so the audio at 87.75 would have competitive audio with the FM band but louder on a TV.

Looks mint condition

I bought a TV like that from a warehouse that sells old hotel TVs. It had glass over it just like that one, but it tinted dark so I took it off.

I need to figure out that digital converter transmitter.

That TV is sweet! Great overview Doug. Where did you happen to find this set?

Back in the day we used to call those Space Command style remotes 'clickers', for obvious reasons!

Cool clicker!

I would take it that this was a pretty high end little TV for the time.

Period correct table, chairs, and more.

12:10 reminds me of the new Mac Air computer, which is quite packed inside. I sure that TV weighed in at 30 lbs.

The kids on lave eye crying 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

Bullt better than today's televisions. Most are crap quality now

COOL

Once I picked up a spanish music channel here in Pittsburgh. It was at one point coming in color with sound, then faded away almost immediately after.

Wow that's museum quality, you should donate it should you ever have to part with it. Also, how do mechanical controls work?

Why didn’t you say “rabbit ears”? Almost made me cry bruh.

where idd you find this one at

What kind of transmitter are you using? This would be a good gaming set.

Doug: Nice video and TV. I'm interested in you transmitter also. I use a "BLONDER TONGUE AM60-550 AGILE AUDIO VIDEO MODULATOR". I transmits channels 2-99 but only one at a time. Did I get this right, yours transmits on multiple channels at the same time? I'd like to know myself a little more on this. Would be great if you could do a short video on this or even tell us here in a little more detail about your modulator. Nice work! Tom