Scoop, do you remember the pieces of colored plastic they put over the screen to get "color"?
I
do remember those. They were sort of bluish at the top and greenish on the bottom to give outdoor shots a sky-to-grass effect I guess. Didn't work very well and people got tired of them pretty fast. Made good Christmas presents for a year.
But, as a kid, what I liked was the clear plastic sheets you could put on the screen that you could use crayons on, then peel them off, clean, and re-use. Some kiddie shows would use them so you could finish up some "art" with your own coloring. Then at the end of the show they would show a screen that would have some random lines on it. The kids had to trace over the lines to decode a message later. Then at the end of the show another screen would come up with lines behind your traced ones to present an important "secret" message such as EAT WHEATIES EVERY MORNING.
They were
verboten in my home... never got crayons near the TV.
This was our first TV. It was a FADA with a 9 or 10 inch screen.
The knobs on the bottom adjusted channel [the big one], fine tuning, brightness, contrast, focus, vertical hold and volume.
I was the kid that kneeled next to the set with my hand on the Vert Hold knob to keep the weak stations from flopping up and down.
That was pretty easy compared to when my uncle got a big color TV in early '60s.
I would lay on the floor an adjust the Color, Tint, Hue, in addition to the Contrast and Brightness to maintain realistic flesh colors. Damn I got good at that! TV today just isn't that much fun... right?