well, through the 70s I was watching the color version of 60's TV in B/W. Watched "Dallas" at grandparents in color.
Thanks for the heads-up!
Corlorizing old classics.
Maybe they should color in the Mona Lisa with Crayola crayons at the Louvre. Obviously, DaVinci didn’t know what he was doing.
Colorized? Isn’t that racissss?
Amazing that Lucy is still ‘the IT girl’ 50 something years later. I always got the feeling, Lucy could be just as cranky and fussy as Milton Berle when off stage. They were only human, and you have to balance out all that ‘hilarity’
in some manner. Jerry Lewis is the same way, one tough customer unless he is in total control.
I catch a few episodes weekly of the old half hour Gunsmoke on the Western Channel in black and white. Color would ruin it for me.
If they keep the original lengths of about 28 minutes, rather than cutting content to make them fit the current timespan of about 21 minutes, they might be worth watching.
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I recall watching one episode broadcast on one of the channels about a decade ago.
Before the middle break, Lucy and Fred had an exchange. I had seen those episodes so many times that I knew them by heart. I wondered why that scene was cut out — because, at the end of the program, Lucy and Fred had a related scene. The related scene was based on the previous scene (now missing) that made the end scene funny. It was like a belated punchline, except that the original joke was not there.
I wondered how many viewers new to the Lucy comedies wondered what the heck that last scene was all about.
Young viewers have probably missed a lot of the content/comedy due to stations cutting the content.
When we finally got a color TV, I remember watching shows and thinking “Wow, that was in color all that time?” Har, nowadays watching shows online without commercials is the BIG treat!
My question is is why aren’t early colour videotape programs like the Dinah Shore Chevy Show or the Pontiac Star Parade or the Evenings with Fred Astaire not shown either on NBC as a special occasion or on the PBS stations. You can see them on YouTube, of course, but these programs should also be showcased. Hope I am not getting off topic here but any thoughts or memories on early colour television?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1fIhPW9hns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp8eT8mFDlo
George Reeves delivers one of the funniest lines EVER in the ‘Lucy and Superman’ episode...
Countdown to the remake where they’re all outed as LGBT.
I can still laugh at the scenes with William Holden and Lucy even though I’ve seen it dozens of times.
It doesn’t seem natural or right watching them in color. Maybe I am used to seeing it in black and white.
From the era when TV was good clean entertainment - I still watch old I Love Lucy reruns from time to time and they are still good.
Why? I mean why colorize them?