Talk:Hi-Fi Gilligan/@comment-68.40.70.177-20191229201931/@comment-2605:6000:3F83:F100:4CA9:BE6:168B:2715-20200101155238

Although there are many types of old radios that used vacuum tubes, the particular model used on Gilligan's Island was a Packard Bell model AR-851. This model is a transistorized AM radio and did not use vacuum tubes.