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Abbott and Costello / Re: Abbott and Costello Show - Season 1 Ep. 10 The Charity Bazzar (1953)
« Last post by Tony Bensley on April 13, 2024, 12:06:14 PM »Well, he actually did live long enough, but I know what you mean. Without looking up the details, i know from "A Plumbing We Will Go" that people had TV sets as early as 1939, the year Fields made "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man." I'm not sure how many comedy/variety shows existed before the 50s, though.Around the mid 1960s is the earliest instance of anyone outside the entertainment industry owning some form of home TV video recorder I can recall reading about. I'm sure it was quite rare and ultra expensive!
I believe the first televised baseball game was in 1937.
Sorta like how the Internet existed long before the masses (The Hoi Polloi!) actually knew about it, and before it was actually commonly called the Internet. I was using email in the mid-80s.
How many people owned a VCR before the 80s, although I believe you could buy one as early as 1976 (Sony Betamax), and perhaps before that?
This Wikipedia page confirms the above:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocassette_recorder
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