Masquerade Party? Color TV was also on display on the Game Show Wheel and Deal. So i was wondering was it the NEW Technology in mid 70's?

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No way.............. Remember you're seeing the show in color in the 70's. Just about everyone had color TV's back then. :rofl:

Originally posted by Pitooey
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No way.............. Remember you're seeing the show in color in the 70's. Just about everyone had color TV's back then. :rofl:


That maybe true but maybe some couldn't afford it in 75. My mom still had a BLACK AND WHITE in 82

Then, as now, color tv's were expensive, and buying one back in the seventies was a major purchase($500.00 and up for a 21'' screen console back in the day was a LOT of money...a couple of month's pay!) Of course, with the improvements in tv technology, the price went down so that today you could get a 21'' screen for less than $150.00 today (depending on where you buy it!)

Originally posted by W.J. Griffin
Then, as now, color tv's were expensive, and buying one back in the seventies was a major purchase($500.00 and up for a 21'' screen console back in the day was a LOT of money...a couple of month's pay!) Of course, with the improvements in tv technology, the price went down so that today you could get a 21'' screen for less than $150.00 today (depending on where you buy it!)

Ok, so that's why the Color TV was a big deal in that episode because it expensive during that time. Probably how DVD recorders are today.

We had a color tv back then but it broke and we were stuck with a black and white tv for about 3 or 4 years.

And remember some of the color tv sets didn't alway come with a remote control, those were the really expensive ones. Oh my gosh just talking about this brings back so many memories of not having a color television and now we take them for granted.


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Originally posted by Jrnygrl
And remember some of the color tv sets didn't alway come with a remote control, those were the really expensive ones. Oh my gosh just talking about this brings back so many memories of not having a color television and now we take them for granted.


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We never had a remote control in the 70's. The first time I saw one we stayed at a motel.

Originally posted by Jrnygrl
And remember some of the color tv sets didn't alway come with a remote control, those were the really expensive ones. Oh my gosh just talking about this brings back so many memories of not having a color television and now we take them for granted.


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If you think THAT takes you back, dig this:

As a small boy, I can remember my father going to the drug store (that's right...the DRUG STORE!!) to buy tubes for our tv. What you would do is buy the tubes, then go to this weird-looking contraption called a 'tube tester' and put your just-purchased tube in the holder to see if it worked...if it did, fine, but if it didn't, you had to buy another tube (I don't recall this drug store having a "money-back" gaurantee), and you'd be out...two bucks, I think (which, back during the time this was occuring {1966-68} was a LOT of money!!)

And speaking of color...I can remember, before we got our first set (in 1966, when all the tv programs were made in color for the first time, and, I think, the prices went down low enough so even a Black family that had just moved from the projects could afford one) my father had bought a sheet of plastic with red, yellow, and green stripes on it, that you would place in front of your standard black-and-white console (ours was a "Zenith"), and the idea was that this would simulate "color" tv (it didn't...it just hurt your eyes). Needless to say, we bought our first color tv a few months later...(ahh, you young kids just don't realize how lucky you all are these days!!);)

Originally posted by W.J. Griffin
If you think THAT takes you back, dig this:

As a small boy, I can remember my father going to the drug store (that's right...the DRUG STORE!!) to buy tubes for our tv. What you would do is buy the tubes, then go to this weird-looking contraption called a 'tube tester' and put your just-purchased tube in the holder to see if it worked...if it did, fine, but if it didn't, you had to buy another tube (I don't recall this drug store having a "money-back" gaurantee), and you'd be out...two bucks, I think (which, back during the time this was occuring {1966-68} was a LOT of money!!)

And speaking of color...I can remember, before we got our first set (in 1966, when all the tv programs were made in color for the first time, and, I think, the prices went down low enough so even a Black family that had just moved from the projects could afford one) my father had bought a sheet of plastic with red, yellow, and green stripes on it, that you would place in front of your standard black-and-white console (ours was a "Zenith"), and the idea was that this would simulate "color" tv (it didn't...it just hurt your eyes). Needless to say, we bought our first color tv a few months later...(ahh, you young kids just don't realize how lucky you all are these days!!);)


So do you think DVD's should be a BIG THING to viewers who watched sAnford and son during it's original run and other shows since RECEPTION wasn't the best back then? And getting the DVD, all the viewers who watched Sanford and Son can say to their self-"this is the picture I was deprived of in the 70's."

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
So do you think DVD's should be a BIG THING to viewers who watched sAnford and son during it's original run and other shows since RECEPTION wasn't the best back then? And getting the DVD, all the viewers who watched Sanford and Son can say to their self-"this is the picture I was deprived of in the 70's."

Digital videos have been around for years, now (At least since the mid-eighties and the "video-disks"{remember them? They were the same size as 78rpm record albums!!}, and a lot of shows from the seventies were "digitally restored" on videotape...including "Sanford and Son"!), so, if anything, you probably got the best picture you were going to get back in the day. (remember, at the time, NBC was a subsidiary of RCA...which is now a subsidiary of Westinghouse...which I belive is NOW owned by GE {I give Radio Shack another couple of years....} :lol: ;) :cool: )

........that color TV was, in fact, an expensive luxury in the mid 1970s. Most middle and upper income households had one, but any other TVs around the house were likely black and white. True color portables were seldom seen, and many households had but one TV to begin with.

FredFan55

Originally posted by FredFan55
........that color TV was, in fact, an expensive luxury in the mid 1970s. Most middle and upper income households had one, but any other TVs around the house were likely black and white. True color portables were seldom seen, and many households had but one TV to begin with.

FredFan55



So like DVD recorders are today, i guess that's how color TV were in 1975.

Fred was a poor junkman! A color t.v was a luxury to him!! Color t.v's were a big thing in the mid 60's! That's when alot of t.v show starting filming in color. The only one who had one was my aunt. She had a big floor model and it had a remote. We didn't get one til around 1975!

It was around 1990, my dad and I were watching a baseball game on our color TV and (big ugly dish) satellite, when all of a sudden it started to storm and the electric came through and struck the TV. Then my dad got mad because he bought that television right before I was born, (14 at the time). He said I've had this tv for 14 years. So we went out and bought a new tv. It lasted all of about 2 years before it quit working. So I guess the point of my story my family got a color television in 1976. Plus things aren't mad the way they used to be made

Network television began shooting many programs in color in 1965. By 1966, most shows were filmed in color. Safe to say some folks may have bought color televisions in the mid to late 60's, especially the well to do. My parents bought a brand new 25 inch Motorola Quasar color console television set in 1969. It was a great set with vivid color and advanced picture resolution for it's time. I was 4 years old and remember when the deliveryman brought in the set and set it up in the living room. I watched most if not all the original episodes of Sanford and Son on that set & Fred Sanford was majestic on that televison screen. My parents were'nt well to do, my Dad just enjoyed watching TV and wanted the best. Ah Quasar, who needed Curtis Mathis? By the way, On an episode of Happy Days, Howie talked about buying a color TV when he could afford it! This was the late 50's and early 60's being portrayed! I'm not sure what percentage of network programs were shot in color before 1965?

I was born in 1955, which seems long, long ago, especially early in the morning. We were a family of 4 kids, stay at home mom, and a dad who worked 80 hours a week and didn't make enough to buy new cars or modern appliances or most anything which would have been considered cutting edge. We lived in a lower middle class neighborhood in Portsmouth, VA until I was 5 and then moved to Raleigh, NC. In 1960, I faintly recall hearing that a Portsmouth neighbor had gotten a color TV--color, just like at the movies! The only regular programming broadcast in color at that time was major league baseball, which was actually a pretty big deal at the time--a game or two Saturday and one Sunday afternoon.

We moved to Raleigh in 1960 and my grandparents lived here then, too, and were considered pretty well off--they bought new cars every three or four years and everything! Shortly before my grandfather died in 1966, he bought a color TV. It was long after that before we got one.

Most of my TV experiences until the early 70s were with black and white TVs. A real treat, early in the period of color broadcasts, was to go to someone's house who had color TV to see the annual broadcast of "The Wizard of Oz", as when it was filmed (in the late 1930s??) the early scenes were in black and white, and the later scenes were color. The changeover was right after the house fell on the wicked witch and the good witch first showed up, if I recall correctly. Pure magic for a 9-10 year old kid to see the switch on a color TV.

Sure is fun to remember those days. As to today's viewing, I think Springsteen got it right a few years back--57 channels and nothing on. Come to think of it, I've got over a hundred channels, and I watch Sanford and Son as often as I can, so at least I can't say "there's nothing on", but it's damn close.

FredFan55

Originally posted by FredFan55
I was born in 1955, which seems long, long ago, especially early in the morning. We were a family of 4 kids, stay at home mom, and a dad who worked 80 hours a week and didn't make enough to buy new cars or modern appliances or most anything which would have been considered cutting edge. We lived in a lower middle class neighborhood in Portsmouth, VA until I was 5 and then moved to Raleigh, NC. In 1960, I faintly recall hearing that a Portsmouth neighbor had gotten a color TV--color, just like at the movies! The only regular programming broadcast in color at that time was major league baseball, which was actually a pretty big deal at the time--a game or two Saturday and one Sunday afternoon.

We moved to Raleigh in 1960 and my grandparents lived here then, too, and were considered pretty well off--they bought new cars every three or four years and everything! Shortly before my grandfather died in 1966, he bought a color TV. It was long after that before we got one.

Most of my TV experiences until the early 70s were with black and white TVs. A real treat, early in the period of color broadcasts, was to go to someone's house who had color TV to see the annual broadcast of "The Wizard of Oz", as when it was filmed (in the late 1930s??) the early scenes were in black and white, and the later scenes were color. The changeover was right after the house fell on the wicked witch and the good witch first showed up, if I recall correctly. Pure magic for a 9-10 year old kid to see the switch on a color TV.

Sure is fun to remember those days. As to today's viewing, I think Springsteen got it right a few years back--57 channels and nothing on. Come to think of it, I've got over a hundred channels, and I watch Sanford and Son as often as I can, so at least I can't say "there's nothing on", but it's damn close.

FredFan55


During the Contract disputes, did the american public Feared that Redd foxx wasn't going to return in 1974?

You know, SA, I have no recollection of that whatsoever. I mean, I remember when the season started, "Fred was in St. Louis", but I don't remember knowing (or caring, at the time) what the reason was.

You see, in the Fall of '74 I was starting my second year of college, and on Friday nights, well, we didn't always hang around the house and catch Sanford and Son. I probably saw more of the first season or two when broadcast, and from Fall '73 to about '75, only in the syndication that started when the show went off the air, and fortunately continues to this day.

It's also true that there was not a couple of hours a night of "Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, etc., shows on cable TV, and you wouldn't hear one network mention anything, good or bad, about another network's shows or stars, and you sure as heck wouldn't hear of problems on the network which hosted the show. I suppose it was generally known that there were some issues or another, but I don't recall there being any angst about it among the viewing community I was in at the time.

FredFan55

Originally posted by FredFan55
You know, SA, I have no recollection of that whatsoever. I mean, I remember when the season started, "Fred was in St. Louis", but I don't remember knowing (or caring, at the time) what the reason was.

You see, in the Fall of '74 I was starting my second year of college, and on Friday nights, well, we didn't always hang around the house and catch Sanford and Son. I probably saw more of the first season or two when broadcast, and from Fall '73 to about '75, only in the syndication that started when the show went off the air, and fortunately continues to this day.

It's also true that there was not a couple of hours a night of "Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, etc., shows on cable TV, and you wouldn't hear one network mention anything, good or bad, about another network's shows or stars, and you sure as heck wouldn't hear of problems on the network which hosted the show. I suppose it was generally known that there were some issues or another, but I don't recall there being any angst about it among the viewing community I was in at the time.

FredFan55



I know what you mean-LOL I never watched TV on a Friday night my freshman year in college either.