Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for December 13, 2023

Notice the Spanish printing on the repairman’s case.

As for Jeff’s problem, there’s one good remedy: Read a book.

Get done there, Give me your number!

Same problem is still here.

Buy a new set that gets thousands of channels, that all say “Buy Now!”

Anyone else remember the TV guy?

How about going to the drug store and using the tube tester?

The speech is in English, but the labels are in Spanish.

I think that’s true in any era. Some good ones and many not so good…

My father was a TV repairman. One guy called him to the house to “adjust the lights.” He complained that on some shows, the people in the back were in a dark part of the set, and he wanted to turn up the lights in the back. And of course the sets with all the tubes in the wrong sockets, owned by people who “hadn’t messed with anything inside.” He often had to take the set back to the shop. He believed in the law that the more floors up the person lived, the bigger the set they owned.

Survivor, Big Brother, and Bachelor are not improvements.

And good luck getting paid.

Compared to the garbage that is passed off as entertainment these days, early TV was actually high quality with the likes of Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke and The Honeymooners among many others. While there were duds such as Gilligan’s Island, they were the exceptions.

Would that a repairman could fix that.