I like film noir. TV shows like "the Outer Limits"and "Twilight Zone"were much better in B&W!
Summer of 1965 after seeing it in the RCA Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. It was an RCA 21 inch round crt, rectangular was much more expensive.
I was 16 and was given the job of installing an antenna and rotator on the chimney. Toughest part was using a star drill to get wires through a brick wall.
I became the expert in tuning and adjusting tint and color. Essentially, I was the remote control… Only about half the primetime shows were in color.
That would fellate with great alacrity.
Did you go through the mortar between bricks?
ABC’s instrumental version always sounded to me like its speed was screwed up at the start. It still does.
CBS’s blurb.
*TV Guide *used to have a marking system to denote which programs were in color and which in B&W. I think the “TV” channel numbers/logos were white on black for one and black on white for the other.
CBS and NBC, IIRC, both tied for first in having all prime-time shows in color, with ABC lagging behind. That might have been at the start of the 1966 season. So F Troop was B&W in 65 and color in 66.
I’m too young to remember anything but color sets – I was born in 1981. I’m not sure I’ve ever even seen a B&W TV, outside of the monitors on CCTV systems. I don’t think we ever had a set that involved vacuum tubes, but that may have been because my parents are nerds through and through, and would have jumped at the chance to buy the fancy new solid-state things. I do remember owning a TV with an actual dial on it and without a remote control, even an ultrasonic one.
I distinctly remember when portable TVs had actual tubes in them. My parents had one with about a 5" diagonal screen, but backed by a CRT about a foot long. When they suddenly went from that to LCD screens, all I could think was that this must have been what it was like when transistor radios first came out.
One thing I’ve always wondered about early color TV is whether the 1960s really were full of all those bright pop-art pastels, or if the sets were designed and lit like that because it showed up better on early color cameras/receivers. I know early lighting did cause some interesting problems from time to time; Captain Kirk’s “yellow” and “green” uniform tunics were roughly the same pale apple green, but some combination of lighting and the color response of the film Paramount was using made the velour one come out looking mustard yellow.