Color TV

[MickeyMac]

For some of you older TV fans, what was the first televsion show you remember seeing in color. This is for a project I am working on.

[tv star collector]

I bought my first color television set after I got my first job, back in 1968. We
only got one channel, which was an NBC affiliate. My fave shows then were
ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN, WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR
and BONANZA ... So the first show I watched in color was probably one of
them.

[Chocolate Moose]

we didn't get color until i was in high school and i graduated in 1983, so it might have been mork and mindy or bosom buddies.

[treky]

we didn't get our first color TV until 1973, when we moved into a new house, and the first show I saw in color was probably...let's see..."THE LUCY SHOW".

[comedyfreak]

I remember seeing Batman in color, my family got a color set with their income tax return, it was a 25 inch color console RCA. T.V. shows would have promos telling you what was in color.

[treky]

yea, back in the 60s, ABC used to show the shows title before it started, with the words "IN COLOR" below it. And sometimes they'd show the star, and he or she would say "Stay tuned for _____. In color". And NBC would show that animated peacock, and the music would play and an announcer would say "The following program is brought to you in living color...on NBC". And CBS would show the letters CBS with the "eye" logo on the left of it; and it'd be in black-and-white. Then the announcer would say "CBS brings you the following show (then the logo would move to the right of the letters and the whole thing would turn to color) then the announcer would say "in COLOR".

(somewhere on You Tube there's a clip of the opening of "HOGANS HEROES" with that)

[comedyfreak]

Originally Posted by treky

yea, back in the 60s, ABC used to show the shows title before it started, with the words "IN COLOR" below it. And sometimes they'd show the star, and he or she would say "Stay tuned for _____. In color". And NBC would show that animated peacock, and the music would play and an announcer would say "The following program is brought to you in living color...on NBC".

You're really bringing back memories now. I remember the peacock when it spread its wings. For ABC Elizabeth Montgomery would pop in and say....."Hi, This is Elizabeth Montgomery inviting you to stay tuned to Bewitched, next in color".

[KurtfromPitts]

I remember seeing "The Beverly Hillbillies" on my late grandmother's color set in 1969.

[bencasey]

The first show I ever saw was in a neighbor's apartement when I was about 3. It was Sing Along With Mitch. When we bought a color set in 1967, it was NBC Saturday Night at the Movies and the movie was No Man is An Island.

[Mr. Television]

I don't even remember. I know we had a color TV in the early 70's but it broke and we used a black and white tv through the mid 70's at least. I do remember watching Bonanza and Lassie in color though.

[Coffeecup]

Sing along with Mitch. That's a show I haven't heard about in years. I can see the bouncing ball now. My first show probably was something like the Monroes.Barbara Hersey I think played a part.
Getting back to the star announcing the show being shown in color, they ought have another ad campaign of now you see the show in Digital signals. Now the nation is going off of analog in Feb.

[treky]

Originally Posted by Clint Eastwood Fan

I don't even remember. I know we had a color TV in the early 70's but it broke and we used a black and white tv through the mid 70's at least. I do remember watching Bonanza and Lassie in color though.

you sound like our family. I remember, we got our first color set when we moved into a new house in 1973, it was a used one from a family we used to know who was also moving and wouldn't have room for it, but then it broke, so we got it fixed, but then it broke again, the guy looked at it, and said it wasn't worth getting repaired, so we went back to using a black-and-white set for the next few years until we could afford another color one.