1964 Motorola Television Resurrection Black And White Tube TV

It doesn't speak well of TV channels when it's more interesting to watch you watch TV, than watching it directly.

Ha! Great video, loved every minute of it. That's a Motorola 19P35, the set I grew up with all through the 60's into the early 80's when it finally got hit by lightning (dad bought it brand new it 1963). Can't believe you even plugged it in, but then the damn thing starts working - too much! That's the only tv set we had, but in the 60's all you needed were channels 2 - 13 because there was so much great stuff on to watch. Keeping that set running is what got me started in electronic repair, and even though it's been dead and gone for over 35 years I still have the Motorola factory service manual for it. What a trip to see the inner workings of one again!

The first TV I ever repaired was a 65 Motorola. I think it required one tube, tuner & pots cleaned. Adjustments. Friends passed it around until the 80s. Picture got a bit soft near the end.... love Motorolas.

Fantastic clear picture for this 52 year old TV. That TV would have never expected to see digital transmitted TV images to be displayed on its tube. The replacement HV tube works very well. The glowing of the bulbs is awesome !

One historic aspect about this TV is that 1964 was the last year that it was legal to sell VHF only TVs in the US. (I wonder what the manufacturers and dealers had to do with their remaining inventories of sets like this one at the end of the year.) Indeed, it is fascinating that all of these vacuum tubes, save for the shattered high voltage rectifier, survived these harsh conditions for so many years. I doubt that germanium transistors (or possibly even early silicon transistors and ICs) could have survived this kind of abuse.

This is Awsome man, Seeing these things which were abandoned for so long. a good chunk of our lives actually.. and here we are.. Running power through them once again..

Those earrings on the girl on Morey would make great fishing lures.

Simply amazing... I had "pre owned" B&W Motorola floor model back in the early 70's. That thing just kept on working, I left it with my ex house mates not sure what ever happened to it.

Brilliant video, amazing that the audio still worked, with the original speaker. The HV was present minus the broken output tube. You are the true master in TV repairs, and your video's are the best and most interesting in TV resurrection on YouTube. Keep up the excellent work mate.

I'm honesty shocked that it worked with such minimal effort required. I think I'd just clean it up, put a new speaker in it and use it.

Nice Video! I'm always amazed what these vintage TVs can go through and still work, yet a modern flat panel you can just look at it wrong and the screen cracks and in the trash it goes Lol.

It's hard to imagine that other than a broken tube no parts were required to make it work again. Very decent picture.

Despite the dead spiders that lived in the high voltage, weeds growing everywhere (proves weeds DO grow anywhere), it still came to life, unbelievable!

0:18 the dirt falling out of the bottom of the set completes it pretty well.

Amazing picture on a set that's been baking in the desert sun for many years! I've noticed that Motorola does use quite a few oddball European tubes in their sets.

Shango You ROCK man. I love all you're videos.

Sounds like a good name for a rock group, "deep desert resurrection"

I laughed out loud at the "weeds out of the chassis" comment. I watch tons of these videos; very entertaining. Well done

I am just absolutely stunned you got this thing going so easily! Just damn!!!

Quality tested to the extreme, buy me, switch me on 30 years later, I work, fill me full of sand and weeds, I work. Much Respect.