I can only see pink fuzz when I connect my Macbook Pro to my TV.

Hello.  I am using a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) with a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 processor, on 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 and with 500GB of storage.  It's installed with OS Yosemite and I have it connected to my Philips 50/60 Hz, 74W TV via a VGA to component video cable and a thunderbolt adapter.  All I get on the screen in fuzzy magenta and black flickering.  Why is this, and is there anything I can do about it?
Cheers.

Thanks, Brenden.  I have looked at that page; the fist time it went over my head!  I've read it a second time and is it true that you can't attach an adapter (thunderbolt to VGA) to another (VGA to RCA)?
This is a picture from the internet of a TV just like ours.  It's a flat screen CRT television.

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