The Radio Room got so full of wires the televisions needed a room of their own. This one has a three-screen Sony console, a set that shows whatever Shaggy last watched, a LaserDisc shelf and an orange General Electric portable, with a velvet curtain at the back that opens onto the Screening Room. Captions come only from what’s printed on the sets. Click a photo to look closer.
Shaw Manor Cable · Channel Spooky
The manor finally got cable. It’s always on and pinned to the clock on the wall, so everyone who tunes in lands on the same scene. Every reel comes off the Internet Archive: cartoons, creature features, sleuths, snack-bar reels, old commercials, newsreels, Computer Chronicles, duck-and-cover films, spook-show radio and a music video block.
This channel doesn’t come in over the manor’s cable. It plays on YouTube.
Watch on YouTube →Channel Spooky · always on
or press any key
Press TUNE IN
The set is warm. Pick it up wherever the manor’s clock says it is.
CH ▲ ▼ or the arrow keys · type a channel number · G for the guide · M for sound
Every program streams straight from the Internet Archive (archive.org). Titles, years and running times come from each item’s Archive record. The cable box, static and test pattern are drawn by the page.
The Triple-Screen Console
Three screens, one wooden cabinet, and nothing on any channel but snow.
Three televisions sharing one wood-grain cabinet, with a speaker grille along the bottom and a single Sony badge marked STANDBY and POWER. It matches Sony’s TV-311R of 1972. The static on the screens is ours. Hover or tap to turn it up.
the full story Triple Feature: the Sony TV-311R →Now Showing
The set in the corner never really goes dark. Whatever Shaggy last watched comes in live off his Trakt log, and the TV Guide by the set keeps the rest of the week’s program. Dates only. The manor doesn’t keep the hour.
via Trakt · the full watch log →
The Set Shelf
Movies on platters the size of pizzas, a film with the family in it, and a portable set with a handle, for when the picture had to come with you.
Paused on a Halloween doorstep: a sea captain hands out candy to a little trick-or-treater with a pumpkin bucket. The captain is Shaggy, in costume. The family made a brief Halloween cameo in the film (per Shaggy).
Bluegrass Spirits (2023) was written and directed by Jonny Walls and stars Jake Busey. Most of it was filmed at Hartfield & Co. distillery in Paris, Ky., and it premiered at the Kentucky Theatre in Lexington in September 2023. The film on IMDb →
The broadcast on the screen was darkened.
Some nights the dark screen shows a test pattern no station has sent in decades.
The Screening Room
The TV Room shows what’s on. Through the velvet at the back, the Manor’s video store shows what’s left.
Shh · the show has startedThrough the curtain to the Screening Room →A basement video store, a staff-pick shelf and the 1997 movie Joey, saved off a moldy VHS tape.Overheard in the TV Room
- The triple-screen Sony gets three channels: static, more static, and something that waves back.
Pinned up by the night staff. None of it checks out, and that’s the point.
Elsewhere in the Manor
The rest of the gear that played, recorded and showed things is close by.