Billy Blastoff's Jack Plug Telly

Can there be anything cooler than Billy Blastoff's little TV?

With it's neat jack plug seen on radio headphones and that fabulous rocket scene on the screen, Billy was the first kid I knew with his own colour telly.

I don't think Eldon called it a TV though. Something to do with the radar.

Did you have a Blastoff Television?

jack plug vintage

There were small jack plugs everywhere in the Sixties.

The most common was the radio ear plugs jack that came with transistor radios. They were the USB's of their day.

The only toy I can think of that used them though was the Billy Blastoff spaceman by Eldon.

There was a small neat jack plug attached to both the TV and the ray gun, which I adored as a kid especially the satisfying click that the jack made as at went in the hole.

Can you think of any more Jack plug toys?