Color episodes: Green, green, green!

[Will Dockery]

Originally Posted by rusty spike

Was green paint used for interiors of civic buildings?

Several of the color episodes I've seen recently have the inside of the Courthouse a light brown, similar to Andy's uniform.

[hifijohn]

Originally Posted by galileo2002

Does anyone know why everything in sight seems to be painted green in the color episodes?

It's like the set designer got a really good deal on a thousand gallons of green paint or something.

Anyone have any insight on such a predominate use of one color in these episodes?

The story I have always heard is they picked colors hat looked good on a b/w tv set.

[vitoscotti]

Watching early Mayberry RFD. Sam Jones' (Ken Berry) living room color? Yep...a nasty green.

[vitoscotti]

Watching S6 E29 "The Battle of Mayberry."

Holy cow the green!

Taylor's kitchen, Taylor's dining and living rooms, courthouse front door, interior of courthouse, front of the Grand theater, most storefronts trim main Street in downtown.

[Duster76]

Originally Posted by vitoscotti

Watching S6 E29 "The Battle of Mayberry."

Holy cow the green!

Taylor's kitchen, Taylor's dining and living rooms, courthouse front door, interior of courthouse, front of the Grand theater, most storefronts trim main Street in downtown.

The explanation for this is covered earlier in the thread:

"On a black and white set it appeared to be a shade of gray which made for good contrast. Just to be clear the overwhelming majority of homes in 1965 were watching in black and white. In 1965 there were 57.5 million households in the United States, only 2.8 million had color TV's. Color was growing in leaps and bounds make no mistake about it, the 2.8 figure was January 65, by October the figure would reach 4.6 million".

[vitoscotti]

Originally Posted by Duster76

The explanation for this is covered earlier in the thread:

"On a black and white set it appeared to be a shade of gray which made for good contrast. Just to be clear the overwhelming majority of homes in 1965 were watching in black and white. In 1965 there were 57.5 million households in the United States, only 2.8 million had color TV's. Color was growing in leaps and bounds make no mistake about it, the 2.8 figure was January 65, by October the figure would reach 4.6 million".

I had seen that before I posted. My post was more of an observation of the scope of the green. I never noticed before but even Floyd's hand towels in the barbershop were green.