Today, according to my west coast brother, is "Underdog Day." This is how he spelled it, but I'm not sure if they mean an underdog like someone who is downtrodden or the amazing Under Dog of cartoon fame. Today is also "Cathode-Ray Tube Day" when we salute whoever invented these tubes and the role they played in the development of television. In one entry the invention was credited to Karl Ferdinand Braun, with a nod to Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton. For details look them up. I'm pretty sure that our first color television, which we purchased in 1969 (just in time for the first moon walk) had cathode-ray tubes, or CRTs if you prefer. It certainly wasn't flat and light weight. Which brings me back to Under Dog. My first spouse and I quickly discovered that there was a lot of fine tuning involved in getting the color right in dramas, news casts and other similar shows involving real live people. On the other hand cartoons showed their colors brilliantly. Since we both worked during the week, Saturday mornings became our favorite TV watching time. Such classics as George of the Jungle, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and, of course, Under Dog satisfied our Saturday morning thirst for fine TV watching. If you were also watching these cartoons way back when, I know you won't judge (they were very funny) and if you never watched them, I'm really sorry.
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