I remember my childhood television. Those cabinets were meant to be beutiful. I think ours was made of some sort of fine timber and mom kept it polished. It weighed as much as a mini-cooper so it stayed exactly where it was in that house for the entire time we lived there. I think when we moved to another city we just left it in the house.

I was the remote and the beast only had 12 channels unless you count those strange UHF ones. I don't remember if we had cable but thinking about how frugal my family was in those times, I seriously doubt it.