I know that this isa year old now,but my 2 cents--I have from pp cent store (a neo-Woolworth's out here in Southern California and in Las Vegas and maybe else where) courtesy of Dollar DVD* with the Bea BEnadaret/Pat Woodell,etc. Black and Whitews, and I'd like to point out that I saw in reruns the color GILLIGANS before the B&W's...(they did take up two parts of the package,I've in many ways preferred the color ones, but NOT because they were in colore..some B&W ones I love and some color episodes are substandard of GILLIGAN)..
I also laboured under the MY THREE SONS-as 1965 series (thru 1970 not 1972**) misconception due to the selectivity due to pro-color bias. Obviously a then-growing fear of too many older veiwers versus younger ones (which still dogs the entertainment industry today,despite LUCY and some others ENTIRELY in B&W,or THREE STOOGES)..many senior-citizen (which in the time in question, the early 70s, referred to the "Roarin' Twenties" generation that supposedly made the bulk of say, Red Skelton or Lawrence Welk, audeience) folk -SPECIFICALLY, "unsophisticated" rural ones, are the major mainstay as felt of B&W, thsu expl,aining the less-seen presence of it vs color.
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*DOLLAR DVD: Other titles, beside PJ are what I thought was GILLIGANS ISALND but is the MOVIE of it, as well as JACK EBNNY and some movie classics.
**MY THREE SONS after 1970: Fred MacMurray's (Character actor) Alan Cailou-0voiced MacMurray-played Scots cousin Lord Bain Ferguson was in these last ones, thus (and maybe another reason bering the new marriage of Mr/.MacMurray onscren) keeping MTS later episodes from later eps.
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