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We don 't have cable or anything but "over the air" TV at home, but visiting in Denver for a month our daughter has gotten us into watching "Schitt's Creek" on Netflix... vulgar but pretty funny show from the CBC set in the present time. In the episode (Season 5?) where the townsfolk are prepping for putting on a production of "Cabaret" the character "Stevie" is shown in the small village's town hall sitting in front of a dark walnut MCM console that looks like mid-'60s vintage. Don't know what it is or how to grab the image but for those who watch keep an eye open!

If those producers "Up North" want to be spot on, they usually do or at least pretend to, the Console should be either a Clairtone or Electrohome

My friend Phil in Quebec told me about those brands, his Grandfather worked for Northern Electric. Oddly there was a pretty fancy '60s Electrohome console for sale only about 15 miles from home last summer, in nice shape and it appeared to be a tube model, cheap too, something like $40, but I was too late. Would have liked to have seen it close up, I've heard they were a quality maker.

I watched close encounters of the third kind last night and noticed a nice 1940's Philco floor radio sitting under the record player when the house is attacked ... nice black dial zenith on Grandma's boy next to the window as he lights up a joint .. 1939 Zenith on the three stooges episode where curly hides in the back pretending to be a announcer .....I always look out for that kind of stuff on the TV ... don't ever see much on consoles ...

I was surprised to see this '60s console in a show that's set in the present, perhaps to symbolize that the fictional town of Schitt's Creek is a podunk backwater, which is indeed what it's supposed to be, a place where the formerly super-rich Rose family gets stuck, sort of a modern Beverly Hillbillies in reverse! It's an interesting plot device, and is equally fun to see their travails in attempting to fit in.