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You know, I had a feeling you might. It's almost a Friday tradition. :P
Did you watch it when it originally aired in the 60's? That was a few years before my time, but I do remember watching it in syndication as a little kid in the mid 70's.

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PaulLF wrote:
You know, I had a feeling you might. It's almost a Friday tradition. :P
Did you watch it when it originally aired in the 60's? That was a few years before my time, but I do remember watching it in syndication as a little kid in the mid 70's.


Sure I did. From fall of 1966, to spring 1969. I about went bizzurk when NBC cancelled it in 1969. I only saw them in black, and white. My folks didn't have a color TV. Color TV commercials were a big thing in the 60's, into the 70's. RCA, Sony, and Magnavox were three of the more popular ones I always remember seeing on TV. Coffee commercials were big time too!

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PaulLF wrote:
You know, I had a feeling you might. It's almost a Friday tradition. :P
Did you watch it when it originally aired in the 60's? That was a few years before my time, but I do remember watching it in syndication as a little kid in the mid 70's.


Sure I did. From fall of 1969, to spring 1969. I about went bizzurk when NBC cancelled it in 1969. I only saw them in black, and white. My folks didn't have a color TV. Color TV commercials were a big thing in the 60's, into the 70's. RCA, Sony, and Magnavox were three of the more popular ones I always remember seeing on TV. Coffee commercials were big time too!


I remember black and white TVs. I remember when my grandparents got a color TV that had a remote control. It was some sort of analog thing that had the channel numbers on a panel on the side, which had buttons you could push for each one.

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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 1:43 pm
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PaulLF wrote:
Mr. Nylon wrote:
PaulLF wrote:
You know, I had a feeling byou might. It's almost a Friday tradition. :P
Did you watch it when it originally aired in the 60's? That was a few years before my time, but I do remember watching it in syndication as a little kid in the mid 70's.


Sure I did. From fall of 1969, to spring 1969. I about went bizzurk when NBC cancelled it in 1969. I only saw them in black, and white. My folks didn't have a color TV. Color TV commercials were a big thing in the 60's, into the 70's. RCA, Sony, and Magnavox were three of the more popular ones I always remember seeing on TV. Coffee commercials were big time too!


I remember black and white TVs. I remember when my grandparents got a color TV that had a remote control. It was some sort of analog thing that had the channel numbers on a panel on the side, which had buttons you could push for each one.

Aw gee whiz youse guys. Now I feel ancient.

Colour TV is old hat, but: One of the hurdles was to get colour broadcasts to work in a B/W world, somewhat as they did with digital in an analog world. Aside from earlier developments and limited trial telecasts, December 30th 1953 brought the first colour TV to the public with NBC (RCA) broadcasting the first coast to coast North American telecast Tournament Of Roses in 1954. It was an Admiral set, but that and following RCAs and Westinghouse sets cost around $1000 or the price of a car! Today we still have $1000 TVs. Too bad you can’t buy a Chevy for that price anymore. :P Programs in colour were scarce at first: ‘55 World Series, ‘59 Bonanza, ‘61 Disney, ‘62 Flintstones and Jetsons, ‘65 Lawrence Welk and Ed Sullivan.

In 1966 NBC became the first in North America to convert to full colour programming. (In the beginning we here at home hated buying a colour tv that would have more B/W programs than colour after putting out the added expense of the times. Programming changed that, however).

In 1966 I began working with a Marconi IV B/W studio camera only to see a transition from RCA’s 1951 TK colour camera to our accepting TK 44As around 1970. This was after trials with IVC and EMI cameras, although Philips/Norelco had been pretty tough costly competition. Throughout this transition it was plain to see that 1966 to 1967 hit the world by storm as colour TV prices had dropped and colour broadcasting was the norm being held up by recording and supporting gear, and international format exchanges, all of which took it’s time into the mid 70s to settle down. Sports contracts also boosted sales and development of industrial equipment. Dropping local variety programming and switching entirely to news and chat shows helped independents refrain from spending money to update unless there was network demand. Once revenues were seen to show that news made little or no money, with colour now embraced, variety and promotional programming was cannabilized or adopted by NEWS, and here we are today.

I mentioned the RCA TK44A camera because it was an engineer in our CTV network from Toronto that tore one camera apart, Frankenstiened it to the 3 RGB tubes encased in a dumbdowned housing, making one of (if not the first) semi-portable colour cameras in 1972!
https://www.oldradio.com/archives/hardw ... a-hh44.jpg

In 1982, at my next TV station, we got the first ordered Sony Betacams with recorders that still exist, soon to be phased out, in a new form today.

Incidentally, early colour camera viewfinders were black and white to keep costs down and, when asked about that, an RCA engineer from Camden told me the legendary story that one of the first prototype colour viewfinders affected the user’s eyesight.

Throughout this development I enjoyed being part of it at 18 years of age; but, while I had colour at work, I had inherited a black and white Admiral for home until ‘73 when I swapped in a beautiful but troublesome Magnavox colour model which was returned for a better Curtis Mathes with a Channel Master wired channel changer. Flip a switch on the Curtis and you chose a red, green, or blue scan line on a black screen to set intensity. Flick again and if the three scan lines appeared white combined then you were good to go with a perfect setup (just like the pros). Early colour brought $5000 Conrac (Sony CRT) monitors throughout work.

At Spokane, Washington’s Expo ‘74 I saw a 3D live TV demo that required no glasses. The problem? It was in colour. Green with shades of grey.:shock: Full colour 3D without glasses will come IMHO. But, not in my lifetime. :cry:
With the lack of colour programming in the early sixties, music shows of the times became popular amongst musicians, broadcasters, and fans.

There ya go young ‘uns. :lol:
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Many countries did not switch to colour until the mid 70s (ie: Australia ‘75) or 80s, and some first switched totally from B/W to colour.

Perhaps , we could conclude that the development and expansion of cable helped to sell coloured tv in areas limited by antenna reception.

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No colour shows were made and CBS cancelled the idea of remaking the show in 2011. Who knows? Perhaps, arguments for and against present day gun culture had an affect. The original show could be colourized today at some expense though.
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I'm an old timer too, FSB and remember those days well. Seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan in B/W in '64. Our first color TV was an RCA and we had to fool around with the color/tint/fine tuning for just about every show. Crazy how fast things changed. How about Superman? That was one of the first color series, wasn't it?

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