Our family got a color console TV when I was in high school (mid 1970s). In those days I remember the Wizard of OZ came on onece a year. I had seen it several times so never watched it in high school. When I got to college they showed it at a free flick night. A bunch of us from the dorm went to see it. I had always thought it was all in black and white, which is how I’d always seen it. I was SHOCKED (audibly) when, out of nowhere, Dorothy stepped out of her house in the land of OZ to full color. For some reason I will never forget that.
-—I was SHOCKED (audibly) when, out of nowhere, Dorothy stepped out of her house in the land of OZ to full color. For some reason I will never forget that.-—
I can believe that. I distinctly remember the first show I saw at home on our color TV, The McLaughlin Group! LOL. I was amazed by the blue background.
That was around 1980. My dad’s friends used to kid him about his “thriftiness” in not buying a color TV. But he was a depression era kid, so it’s understandable, and becoming more understandable every day.