A lot of us were around in those days, before 1958, Sonny. Not that we had color TV receivers. They were very up market. My family didn't get one until roughly 1970. I recall early tube-based color receivers didn't work very well. The color was off.
As a kid, my Mom was in the audience for a Howdy Doody broadcast back in the day so she at least saw that in color once. My Dad had a pretty well-to-do uncle and he told me they always visited his place to see the cool new stuff. This guy had a color tv very early on and also bought the new T-bird every year.
You would have to pound the TV when it went haywire, and then it would go back to color again, must have been a lose tube or something.