minor nitpick

We were a very middle class family, we had a large 2 bedroom house in the burbs. Electronics were very expensive back then. We had one tv in the family room...a 1970 19" Zenith color tv. In the mid 70's we bought a 13" portable black and white tv for the kitchen. This way mom could catch the news while cooking dinner. VCR's were so expensive, we didn't get one until the 80's. Not one of my friends or neighbors had 2 color tv's. Back then, people very much lived within their means.

Back in the 70's televisions were pretty expensive. Having one in the bedroom as well as the living room was not very common.

Never thought of that. Makes sense. On Bewitched they had a den and there was a second TV in there.

On The Dick van Dyke Show, Rob WORKED in television and the Petries only had one set. It wasn't even one of those bigger floor consoles. It was a small one that they sometimes wheeled into the bedroom to watch at night.

My parents got a portable TV for their bedroom when I was about ten. My dad always called it his "nightlight". My parents would put it on and both of them would fall asleep!

Not everyone has a TV in the bedroom though. As much as he liked watching TV, my ex-husband would NEVER permit a television in the bedroom. There's no way I could have stayed up watching TV while he was trying to sleep. He was a very fussy, light sleeper. I actually preferred to read in bed, but I had to do that in the living room! Some people can't fall asleep with any lights or sound in the background.

Unless I'm misinterpreting pretty badly, the so-called "den" is the little alcove to the left of the kitchen. There doesn't seem to be a door on it, so it wouldn't be a particularly good spot for a second TV.