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Edith did have the vacuum she probably got as a wedding present. The Hamilton Beach upright,was from that era. One thing that I always remember was the position of her kitchen.Having lived in similar homes,the kitchens' were off of the dining room-to the side,where the Bunker's basement door was.Where the Bunkers'dining room door was, there was a door leading outside,usually with no stairs.It was to annex a room addition-an extra bedroom as ours had.To be built later,as the family grew. This layout,however wasn't practical for filming before a live audience. Years ago they ran an article in TV guide,as to what the interior of the actual house in Queens that was photographed on the show looked like.The layout was almost exactly as the set.It was much nicer though,with dark woodwork,& lots of antiques.I remember the lady who lived there was quoted as saying."None of the homes in that neighborhood were as beat-up looking as the Bunkers."That house today would sell for about $400,000.
 
Maybe not on TV, but I was just scrolling through my suggested videos on youtube, and the song "I want to break free" by Queen popped up, and in the beginning theres an old Hoover Junior.
Check it out!

Daniel :-)

 
lately Ive been watching several episodes of The Price is Right game show,on Youtube, dating from the mid to late 1970s.
In several of the "Showcase" part of the show, at the end, they have given so many yards of such and such carpet, and a brand new Filter Queen Cleaning System to go with it. I dont know the Filter Queen model numbers, but its always the dark brown and chrome model FQ. They show close ups of the machine, and it does have the PN socket, and 2 speed switch.
Whats interesting is that they show the vac with just the standard carpet nozzle,wands, and attachments. No Power Nozzle.
Since most of the carpet they are giving away is the thick shag, you would think they would have given the PN with the Filter Queen. Afterall it was THE Showcase!

I do remember a neighbor buying a new Filter Queen in around 1976, but it was the tan model, and without the PN or floor brush. But it did have the PN socket, and was a 2 speed.
It came with a a felt like pad that snapped onto the bottom of the rug nozzle.
Evidently in those days, the PN was an optional attachment that was also an extra charge.
This neighbor was a friend of my parents, and i remember them saying they had bought the machine at a home show, and paid a hefty price for it, and since they had mostly wood floors at the time, they didnt need or want the PN.
Only problem was they moved to a different house shortly thereafter, that had wall to wall thick carpet, so ended up buying a Hoover Upright for the carpet. I got to use that new FQ several times,,it really was an excellent machine. I'll bet they still have it!
 
Also on The Price is Right of the same era, they have given away a Central Vac system called Wal-Vac. It looks like the whole system is in the wall,,motor unit, inlet, and all. How strange. Has anyone heard of this? Must have had an extremely long hose with only ONE inlet for the whole house?
Whats stranger is that The hose they show with the unit on the show is short, like a regular 6 foot Eureka hose, and Eureka attachments that would have belonged to a mid 1970s Eureka cannister. Never heard of this before, or seen one.
Ive seen and used central vacs of that era, of course, but not ever heard of this Wal-Vac.
 
The Price is Right

I remember a Price is Right,or similar,with an AirWay and power nozzle at a time when I didn't know they were still made as we had almost NONE in my area after 66.--Also an episode of Let's Make a Deal when the 'guest star' was Milton Berle and when a ShopVac was shown(for contestant to guess prices)he said he knew how much they were as he got one for the garage.--Wal-Vac-I think these were fairly well known including for motor homes,etc.The short hose might have been for display only to avoid clutter of full length.--I found an Intervac(?) at a flea market that I have found nothing on.The motor & fan mounts between studs,then a long hose,then the hose handle unit contains the paper bag,then wand and atts.Anyone heard of??
 
There is a Barbara Streisand song/movie where she is pushing around a Red Kirby Classic 3.
I remember the Kirby isnt plugged in, and there isnt even a cord attached,but she pushes it around while she is singing.
Not exactly sure, but i think this movie/song is the one with Ryan O'Neal called "The Main Event,,made in 1979.
 
On MTV back in 1984 (when they actually played music videos) I saw the video for Barbara Streisand's "Emotion." Toward the beginning of the video, she is pushing a Hoover upright from the late 1920s/early 1930s, either the model 425 or 575.
 
Wal-Vac

Wal-Vac was a short lived brand of built in system also sold under the Black & Decker name. They used a smaller diameter pipe and proprietary inlet valves. The valves are even an odd opening size. I have seem about half a dozen installed in southern Delaware. To my knowledge they used a 25 foot hose not a 30, and never offered an electric power head. I have seen a few that included the preco air nozzle. I believe these were sold mostly through electric supply houses and hardware store. NuTone most likely took their place rather quickly.
 
more sightings

In Malibus Most Wanted (movie from 10+ years ago) the housekeeper appears to be using a Filter Queen Princess III, the hose appears to be the 10 foot. Does anyone remember the commercial from a few years ago for clear duct tape. They showed an Electrolux 1205 with clear duct tape over the mid section of the hose. I also recall an episode of Home Improvement where Tim installed a central vac ( which all we saw was a very generic crushproof hose and metal wand), and he "souped up" the old Electrolux canister. A Diamond Jubilee I believe. How about the metal Eureka canister (roto matic style, green?) in the basement corner on That 70's Show. That one was not correct to the era, the model shown would have came out in the late 80's. My mother had one she got as a wedding gift, it lasted to the mid 90's when the motor finally gave out. Poor vacuum didn't know my family is a bunch of clean freaks.
 
british tv BBC

If you happen to watch "are you being served" I have seen a couple of hoover canister vacuums on there. And later onn the series "are you being served again" they use an old upright, and they keep refering to it as a "junior goblin" I still enjoy seeing that video of queen where freddie mercury would suddenly change into drag and go across the room with a small hoover upright.
 
Are you being served & Queen

As noted above, in one of the episodes of AYBS the cleaners are vacuuming the stairs down from the lift with Hoover Freedon cannisters - there were no US equivalents of these models.

In the Queen video Freddie Mercury is using a Hoover Junior 119 (US 115) although it does not have the original bag or flex. However, what may not be so well known is that in the scenes before his entrance there is what looks like a lamp with steam coming out of it. This is a "Teasmade" and an lamp/alarm/tea maker. This was manufactured by Goblin who would have been classed as No. 3 vacuum cleaner manufacturer in the UK, the Teasmade was a long running product line that ran alongside their vacuum cleaners.

Associated with this, at one time they also manufactured what might be the first clock/radio sold here

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Are You Being Served?

There is an episode of AYBS? early on - series 1 or 2, I think, where Captain Peacock is telling the cleaners to "get that vacuum cleaner out of here" and mentions something about the old bags, which Mr. Rumbold over-hears incorrectly and assumes Captain Peacock is referring to the cleaners as "old bags". The vacuum in question was a white and grey Hoover Senior 652E, I believe.
 
Here's an episode of Corrie from 1984 featuring the Rovers Return cleaner. Can't say that would've been the most practical vacuum to clean a pub with

 
As a big Kenmore fan, does anyone know of any Kenmore vacuums being used in TV shows or movies?

On Matlock there were several episodes that clearly show vacuums. It's been a while, but I think I remember a Regina Housekeeper used to clean Matlock's foyer. Another episode shows a Hoover Elite II with red soft bag and light gray onboard tools being used to clean a law office. Another episode shows Matlock in a garage investigating a case and there is a Dustbuster hanging over a workbench.

Finally that most prominent vacuum shown is a Rainbow D4 SE. A childhood friend of Matlock's who sells vacuums comes to visit and supposedly injures his back and has to reschedule his demos to take place in Matlock's living room, so he can lie on the couch. You can see the Rainbow with gas pump handle hose and PN set up on the floor, and in a chair is the wet pickup hose, on the coffee table are papers and on the far wall is leaning the Rainmate and there are shampoo bottles on the mantle. He tells the people to grind sawdust into the carpet and then he gets up to vacuum it up, when Matlock finds out his back is not injured.
 
It's funny about June Cleaver

I used to always call my mother June Cleaver, because she never would come out of her bedroom in the morning without her makeup on and her dress and high heel pumps, and she always wore them when she was cleaning.(Talk about uncomfortable) and now that I think about it she always had on pearls or some kind of necklace and matching earrings.... But in her later years when I moved back home from California I used to think she was Judge Judy to a tee....She is probably up there shaking her finger at me now.. LOL.... Dan
 
The Donna Reed show early episodes, Donna is seen using a GE roll along. Actually Jeff was using more than Donna.. Now in the later episodes she is using a Hoover upright,, again though Jeff is using it more than Donna.. Love that show anyway. It is my new guilty pleasure. I
 
Donna was using a Hoover 64 at the end of the episode where Shelley Fabares sings "Johnny Angel." Shelley was using a Kirby 150-I think on an episode later in the week. Love that show, one of my favorites! June Cleaver was vacuuming with a Compact yesterday morning.In the episode where Eddie Haskell,tricks Beaver into telling a little boy who doesn't speak english,that he has the face of a pig.
 
Kenmore vacs on tv

Maxwell Smart had an early duo-power upright. The Munsters, had a Commander cannister,the hose was always on the blower-end,& rigged so the dust would fly out. On the last season of "Hazel",when she went to work for Mr.Baxters' brother,they had an old Kenmore-Birtman made upright,from the late 1940's.On the 1st episode,Mrs.Baxter is carrying it down the stairs.Naomi on" Mama's Family" had a 1980's Kenmore upright.Fred Sanford had a coffee can Kenmore upright in the living room.
 
In Everybody Loves Raymond...

...I forget which episode, but in Frank and Marie's basement was what appeared to be a Hoover model 29 behind a table.
 
vacuum sightings on tv

Donna Reed was using her GE Rolleasy,on an episode last week. She was offended by someone who said she was"just a housewife'.The vacuum was making a noise that seemed to call her a housewife,some good shots of her turning the switch on,& off with her foot.Two recent sightings of Samantha Stevens DAM.One episode she was carrying it by the handle,into the living room,while Mrs. Kravitz#2-Sandra Gould was talking on the phone.Another had Serena sitting on the couch while the vacuum moved by itself.The hose from the cleaner to the bag was plugged into the tool opening.Probably rigged to give the extra parts,that moved the vacuum,more room.Another episode of Donna Reed,coming up has her using a Premier upright,when Esther Williams comes to visit.Donna must have been very hard on equipment.During the show's eight year run she had a total of 6 vacuums.A Roll-easy,& the Premier,in seasons 1&2.Seasons 3&4,she had a Hoover Citation,64 & a Kirby/w a shampooer.Season 5,a Hoover 66 Convertible,followed by a Singer twin fan in the later seasons,when the show was sponsored by Singer.
 
tv vacs

in 1976 there was a kids tv series called Kizzy about a little gipsy girl...in episode 1 "the wagon" the butler at the Admirals house is seen vacuuming the stairs with a lux z55 hes using 1 extension tube and the floor brush ..check it out on youtube im not sure how to give the link.... the vacuum is actually working and he switches it off....
 
In Everybody Loves Raymond...

 


...Season 8, Episode 10, "Jazz Records" (2003). A 1950's Hoover vacuum (Model 63 maybe) behind a table in the basement, near the stairs.
 
many to note

Many you may already know, from shows and movies
- Golden Girls had a hoover dial-a-matic- Electrolux 1521- and regina brush -n-beat
- A.L.F had a hoover convertible, and the original dirt devil broom vac
- The Leave it to Beaver movie from the late 1990's had a maroon colored Panasonic upright (can't remember the model)
- Edward Scissorhands had a hoover convertible
- The X files had a weird rebaged hoover consellation called the "electrovac"
- Mr. Mom had a weird rebaged Kirby classic omega ( I can't recall what they called it)
- I Carly had a dyson dc07, a dc24, and a bagless eureka upright
- Good luck Charlie ( I just happened to gaze at it as my brothers watched it), they had a white Kenmore quick clean, not the one with the cord reel.
- Mrs. Doubtfire had a red hoover elite
- Dennis the menace had a shop vac ( I think it was a shop vac), and another old upright, but you could only see the top part
- Prancer had a very old hoover (couldn't tell what it was), and a Kirby tradition
- The 2005 version of The Amityvile horror movie had a hoover constellation
- Super Suckers had koblenzes, and modified fantom cyclone xt's
- The Borrowers had and old upright ( can't remember what it was) ,and one of those Kenmore tank type vacuums
- Jumanji had a red sanitaire commercial
- some random Disney show had a dyson dc40, but I can't remember which show it was
- some 80's movie with tom hanks in it had a Kenmore canister I believe.
 

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