just thought someone would be interested: I remember seeing, in a book I used to have about old TV shows, a couple color pics. from one episode. They were from "My Blond-haired Brunette" from season 1. They're from the scene where Rob and Laura are in the kitchen, talking.
The walls are light blue, and the cabinets are red.

Interesting.

Lolac
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Very interesting. I am always so excited to find color pics from the show. Funny about the colors in the kitchen cuz they are different in this picture (can't remember which episode it's from):

Oooh, and here's a beautiful one with Laura in the living room:

Very interesting. I am always so excited to find color pics from the show. Funny about the colors in the kitchen cuz they are different in this picture (can't remember which episode it's from):

That is from "Too Many Stars." I love that outfit!

Lolac
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Oooh, and here's a beautiful one with Laura in the living room:

I love that outfit, too. That one is from "I Was a Teenage Headwriter."

Lolac
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Thanks for identifying the episodes. I was too lazy to do it myself.

Thanks for identifying the episodes. I was too lazy to do it myself.

You're welcome!
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Lolac

I wish I had an aqua blue refridgerator! :D

this brings up something I have wondererd why wasn't the 65-66 season in color?

I remember Carl saying something about it being too expensive to use and develope color film in those days, but that was early on. Surely, after the show became a huge success money was no longer a barrier. It's a good question, gilligan fanatic.

Steve

yes, that IS a good question; and it's something that I've been wondering for a while. Because other CBS shows went to color that season. The ones I know of are "The Lucy show", "The Andy Griffith Show", & "The Beverlly Hillbillies". And, the first 2, were filmed at the same studio as Dick (I like to call it "Dickey"!:lol: :lol: )

I remember Carl saying something about it being too expensive to use and develope color film in those days, but that was early on. Surely, after the show became a huge success money was no longer a barrier. It's a good question, gilligan fanatic.

Steve

Thanks,

In a way it would have been neat to have a season in color but I can't imagine what it would be like to see a whole one in color.

yes, that IS a good question; and it's something that I've been wondering for a while. Because other CBS shows went to color that season. The ones I know of are "The Lucy show", "The Andy Griffith Show", & "The Beverlly Hillbillies". And, the first 2, were filmed at the same studio as Dick (I like to call it "Dickey"! )

Gilligans second season was in color, Get Smart was in color, Green Acres was in color as well.

Thanks,
In a way it would have been neat to have a season in color but I can't imagine what it would be like to see a whole one in color.
I think so too, Gilligan Fanatic,
So much so that I've even raised the question here on this board, "Wouldn't it be nice to have the dvd's digitally colorized?" It was roundly shot down :lol: ! Even when I suggested a company like Pixar to do the work, no one wanted to see it done. Most people feel as if it would be some sort of sacrilige, I guess. I can sort of understand that. I guess it's just the artist in me that likes to look at things and say, "Hmmm. I wonder how it would look if..." ;)

Steve

It would be interesting to see what things look like in color. I think however it would be a disappointment. I think it is more fun to imagine what the colors would be in our mind. " That blouse was pink, I always thought it was blue, oh well.." I have to admit i did enjoy the color photos.

those that saw "The Dick Van Dyke show reviseted" on TV LAND saw the living room in color. For those that didn't, TV LAND will rerun it in a few weeks.

I remember coming across an article on the internet that talked about an interview with Morey Amsterdam: He said that the 66-67 season (sixth season) and the 67-68 season (seventh season) were going to be in color. At first, they were planning on signing for 2 more full-color DVDS seasons, but Carl Reiner and Dick Van Dyke suddenly decided to stop the show and move onto other projects. That's what I read anyway.

I've read that article too, Nate Richie. And it's been bugging me ever since. I'd love to have seen two more COLOR seasons of TDVDS, if they were written and acted as well as the previous five!

Steve

...was a black & white series because CBS did NOT telecast ANY color shows on its schedule until the fall of 1965. People just can't understand this every time I bring this insignificant but important fact up....Reiner COULD have filmed the final season in color, but he decided to keep shooting it in b&w
to make it compatible with the other episodes. If he HAD decided to film a sixth color season, he would have shot a special "test" episode, as "PERRY MASON" did in February 1966. But Carl knew when to quit (as did Dick), and said goodbye after season five.

However, if you're curious as to what a "Petrie" living room MIGHT have looked like in color, see "GOOD MORNING WORLD" (1967-'68), which features
a nice "re-creation" of the original "VAN DYKE" set.

"THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW REVISITED" also shows the living room in color.

Speaking of the Dick Van Dyke show living room in color: I recall a Dick Van Dyke Show Special hosted by Walter Cronkite - it must have been in the early to mid-90's, when The Dick Van Dyke Show was on Nick at Nite. I don't remember what this particular special was called, however I do clearly remember Walter Cronkite coming into a "re-creation" of the Petrie's living room. He was in color, but the set was in black and white (similar to how Ray Romano entered to host the Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited). But then Cronkite turned a light switch on to colorize the room (or something like that), then, he stepped down off the step and said, "Please excuse me if I don't trip over the ottoman" and he walked around it.
I was a teenager at the time but I still loved the Dick Van Dyke Show even back then. I remember thinking that the mock-up set of the Petrie's living room they had made for the Cronkite special was pretty shabby. Those long rectangle pictures that hung on the front wall between the closet and the brick fireplace on the original set were not there. In place of those - for whatever reason - there was that ugly Artanis Clown Painting that Rob, Buddy and Sally accidentally bid on. And, the end tables and lamps were all wrong. They had decorated the set with stereotypical lamps and tables from the 1960s that resembled the original Van Dyke set's props, but were not really right. The Revisited set was a lot closer than this one.
Cronkite hosted this show, but I don't think any of the original cast members were interviewed or anything....they just used footage from the old Dick Van Dyke show episodes while Walter Cronkite narrated. It wasn't a great special or anything, but I'm just wondering if anyone else saw it or remembers this program?....I do.

Are you thinking of Charles Kuralt? I do remember that one.. I think i taped that one

...and it was shown on CBS in 1994. Walter Cronkite wasn't available (even though he HAD been fronting the "CBS EVENING NEWS" during most of the original Van Dyke era).

Oh, yeah...you guys are right...I guess it was Charles Kuralt. I don't know why I thought it was Cronkite. I guess Kuralt must have reminded me of Walter Cronkite. Thanks for the correction.

Thats ok. I kind of blur in that area too..

The Charles Kuralt special is somewhere on the DVD extras...I don't recall right now which season or disk it is.