Anyone here have memories of these?
Sunday nights:
Bonanza
Wonderful World of Color
Wild Kingdom
Missed homework assignmentd
Jumping up and down to adjust the color knobs
Biden heard they invented color tv. Not sure he wants one until the quality is perfected, though.
Anyone remember the Matinee Theatre TV version of Dracula (1956)which may have been in color and starred John Carradine as Dracula? I was nine and saw it on TV. My first introduction to Dracula.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0643501/
I didn’t know most of the “Wizard Of Oz” was in color until our family got a color TV in the very early 70s.
We were the first family on our block to have a color TV. It was gigantic. Lots of neighbors came over to see it. This would have been about 57-58. We would look for shows on TV Guide that had a “C” for color. Otherwise you watched in black and white anyway.
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Anyone remember a spoof on the news program called THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS (1964)? Broadcast in color it was quite popular with those owning color TVs. We did not have a color TV till the 1970s.
The closing song was...”That was the week that was-it’s over let it go...”
Similar to “Not Necessarily The News” on HBO in the 1980s.
One of the great struggles of my youth was to convince my dad to buy a color tv. It was a total failure. His first color set was the one I gave him when I upgraded.
Yup, I’m 75 and remember when our neighbor got the first color tv in the hood. Would have us over for color specials which were Disney productions as I recall. Then, the first weekly show in color was Bonanza. Was a big deal....
Papa Lurkin declined to purchase a color TV until our B&W ceased to function.
That was after 1966.
I think that last one in the vid may be a rarity - the one w/Richard Burton in Camelot on 1966 TV. Wonder if there the whole musical of that and if it’s available.
I remember some cartoon show from the early 1960s, either Follow the Yellow Red Road or ...Brick Road. It was made to compete with Disney, yet I can find nothing on it. Anyone remember it?
Wow! I do.
The entertainment choices were A LOT classier than than they might be today.
ML/NJ
If you watch the “Dark Shadows” series then you can see the switch over to color. In the beginning of color then it appeared that the camera spent a lot of time broken as there were often picture quality problems and episodes that had to be done in black and white.
My Dad bought one of the early color sets.
I remember having to adjust the color on the set when we switched from one “c” show to another. Otherwise you’d be watching green faces.
The Flintstones and the Jetsons were best because the colors were pure.
How cool was it when you first saw this.
The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIxGyrQz_e8
I noticed the spelling as “colour” instead of “color” implies a British commentator even though these shows are from NBC.
I was stationed in England from 1973-1976 and I can tell you that the quality of the British video system was far superior to that of the American system. If I recall correctly, the American system used 526 lines per screen while the British used over 600. The quality was noticeable as the picture was much more crisp.
However, in England we had to have a license to watch television. Really.
Our TV had a remote control...my little sister!
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