Colour television show excerpts from 1958 to 1966

YouTube ^ | June 23 2010

[OttawaFreeper]

This is a compilation of rare colour television show excerpts dating from 1958 to 1966 shot on the first colour camera the RCA TK-41. These excerpts come from various programs like Bell Telephone Hour, Fred Astaire specials from 1958-60, Peter Pan, and various NBC drama play specials shot in living colour. From a 1976 NBC anniversary special

[Nailbiter]

for later

[ml/nj]

You wonder though if local broadcasts of Rangers or Bruins games were done in colour that bit earlier.

I went away to college in Sept 1964. But I was home often enough and enough of Ranger fan that I probably watched more than a few games back then. (My first weekend home from college included attendance at a Giant game and at a Ranger game!) Ranger Games were mostly only on TV on Saturday nights and only on a local independent station (WOR-9). I don't recall these games being telecast in color though it is possible that at some point the Hockey Night in Canada feeds started telecasting in color and WOR might have used these. By the 1967-68 season, my parents had moved to Manhattan (from Long Island) and we had Cable including everything from MSG. I'm pretty sure all the games were telecast in color by then.

ML/NJ

[Dr. Sivana]

I was born in ‘68 but I vaguely remember the color knob.

TWO knobs. Color and Tint. Color was for intensity, tint was for color balance. Still needed brightness and contrast, of course. Don't forget horizontal hold and vertical hold for picture roll.

[dfwgator]

Anyone remember a spoof on the news program called THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS (1964)?

Wasn't that the David Frost show? Several Monty Python members got their start writing for that show.

[Exit148]

You had a shag carpet?????

[Pontiac]

Freaking 10 year old pervert that I was

When I was a teen living in Northern Ohio late at night one summer in my upstairs bedroom I discovered that that I could occasionally get a Canadian TV station using the rabbit ears antenna.

After a few nights watching just for the novelty and the challenge of getting the station to come in I found that they played movies with brief nudity.

After that I spent a lot of time at night fiddling with the antenna.

[libertylover]

They actually have a special police force that checks to see if you are watching TV with out the license.

Yeah, I know but I always paid up so I never got a visit.

[Pontiac]

It is the Contrast knob that I found useless.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The one I saw was a cartoon-reality show in the early 1960s, to compete with Disney.

It starts with the cartoon version of characters from the Wizard of Oz dancing down the road away from the viewer.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission.
If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter.

We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set.

You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.”

[Moonmad27]

I’m re-watching Dark Shadows right now on Tubi, and just got past the change from B&W to color. Interestingly there are some episodes after the change that are still in black-and-white or kinescope because those are the only prints they had of certain episodes. It’s amazing that someone had the foresight to keep DS for future showings, all 1225 episodes of it.

[SaxxonWoods]

Yes, I remember the title very well, and it seems like the show was pretty good, but that’s vague.

[dfwgator]

The entertainment choices were A LOT classier than than they might be today.

And then came "The Rural Purge".

[Moonmad27]

I remember going to an aunt’s house to watch Man from UNCLE in color. By the time Star Trek premiered, my family had a color set too.

[Pontiac]

TWO knobs. Color and Tint. Color was for intensity, tint was for color balance. Still needed brightness and contrast, of course. Don't forget horizontal hold and vertical hold for picture roll.

All of the Color controls (and more) still exist in modern digital TVs.

They are in the settings menu of your TV.

Many of the high-end TVs actually have software for down load to set the TV up.

If you buy a TV at a high-end TV/Stereo store they usually deliver the TV to your home and as part of the set up fine tune the color for you.

[dfwgator]

They actually have a special police force that checks to see if you are watching TV with out the license.

Even with the penguin?

[missthethunder]

There was no color TV
till we got a color TV.

Sorry, could not resist.

[Revel]

It was very fun to watch through. There is one missing episode though(#1219). They did a kind of recreation, but it was not very good.

You probably figured out that the Dark shadows episodes were divided up into two programs on Tubi I believe is were I watched it. I think that it was the first 6 seasons that were in there own group.

[Pontiac]

What was the Penguin?

[libertylover]

BTW, if you have a streaming system check out BritBox if you haven’t already.