[The people have spoken]

My folks had little disposable income, certainly not enough for air conditioning or a color television set.

That's just as well. TV shows weren't broadcast in color until 1967, the final season of "The Fugitive."

[beenaround]

"TV shows weren't broadcast in color until 1967, the final season of "The Fugitive."

Not where I lived. I was married in 1965 and we got a color TV (RCA $500 17") and there were all sorts of color shows on, all of them prefced with the announcement "The following show is brought to you in living color"

In fact color TV was available in 1959 and the brother of a friend of mine bought one for $1000 (inflation adjusted that would be $7885 today)and the color sucked.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***That’s just as well. TV shows weren’t broadcast in color until 1967,***

Some shows were broadcast in color on NBC before that time. We used to see the NBC peacock come on with the announcer said...”The following program is brought to you in LIVING COLOR!”
I remember one show, ‘THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS”, a spoof on the weekly news in color.

We saw it on our black and white TV.