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Do you remember the first....
television program you saw in color? Mine was "The Wonderful World of Disney" when it switched to color. I still remember the "NBC Peacock" was black and white - then all of a sudden - BOOM ! Color! I was one amazed kid....
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Vividly! It was The Gong Show. We had an old black and white tv, probably from the early 60's, and one day a truck came to deliver our beautiful color console tv! My dad promptly turned on The Gong Show, and we were amazed by, not only the color, but the size of the picture. It was like magic! I think my parents kept that tv long after I grew up and moved out. They've only had one other one since!
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02/25/07, 08:52 AM
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My grandma used to have one of those colored sheets that you attach to the front of your tv. It made the grass green and the sky blue, but it also made faces green and blue. lol
We were amazed by it because we still had a black and white tv.
Brings back memories! 
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02/25/07, 09:05 AM
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we were at my grandparents.
This was supposed to be incredibly special. I dont remember the program we were forced to sit and watch but I remember crying (very softly) because it hurt my eyes. It was probobly 10 years before they perfected the color enough for me to watch comfortably.
so generally, the extended family watched on the new TV and I and a cousin or 2 watched in a back bedroom on the old black and white.
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02/25/07, 09:08 AM
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02/25/07, 09:29 AM
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The first show I saw in color was at a friend's house and was The Wonderful World of Disney - remember the fireworks!
Later, we got a color TV, but not all shows were yet in color, so we had to "wait" for one to come on to watch on our TV. It was "Flipper".
BTW, I still love to watch the old "I Love Lucy" show in black and white.
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Gilligans Island in 1973! First time I'd seen any TV in 3 years (we had been living in bush in Africa) and I still remember how vivid Gilliagans red shirt seemed. Right after that was Hogan's Hero's. Still like both of those shows - very silly and totaly unbelieveable, but there is a strange appeal.
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02/25/07, 10:59 AM
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It was a horse race.. Really weird watching the colors moving over each other. That was in 1962 or 1963.
I also remember the fellow who installed it had a "degauzer" that was some sort of circular thing that he started near the TV and made counterclockwise circles away from the set.
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02/25/07, 11:06 AM
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I was babysitting on New Yrs Eve and it was The Wizard of Oz. We didn't get a color tv for several more yrs. Lots of folks were saying they would get one when they were sure it would last. Not too much color broadcasting right away anyhow.
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I remember as a kid those new "color TV's" seemed awfully weird to me. When my folks went to Sears for my mom's monthly shopping spree, I would go to the candy counter and get a paper bag of chocolate stars and go to the TV dept. and watch them - around 1962-3 so I was about 10 or 11. And NBC was the only network that had color anyways by the mid 60's. We didn't own a color TV until I was in high school - late '60s. Still took some getting used to so we usually turned the color way down so it still looked a little like black and white. Yep - Wonderful World of Disney and Bonanza were the first shows I remember watching in color. What's amazing - TV sets cost more then than they do now.
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A show I remember vivdly was FBI (In color).
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I knew my father was bringing home a new color tv. I went to the high school football game and came home. I think the Friday Night Movie was on. It was that movie (DIrty Dozen?) where the American GI's had a bunch of germans locked up in a bomb shelter. They poored diesel fuil down the vents and chucked in a hand grenade. The whole place lit up.
It was one of those big ole console tv's.
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We made a trip to a friends house to watch The Wizard of Oz in color.Pretty neat 
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Originally Posted by oldgaredneck
television program you saw in color? Mine was "The Wonderful World of Disney" when it switched to color. I still remember the "NBC Peacock" was black and white - then all of a sudden - BOOM ! Color! I was one amazed kid....
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I have never been much of a television person. When I left to join the army in 1974 my folks had a B & W Television and when I came home for the first time after being assigned to my permanent duty station in 1975 they had upgraded to a color console, but I don't remember ever watching it, let alone what shows I saw. It's just never been that important to me.
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I remember my mama saying peter pan was going to be in color after we just got our tv-we all coud nt wait . but it was in black and white cause that was what our tv was but we just thought it would be in color. We were all innocent back then,
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Originally Posted by cowgirlone
My grandma used to have one of those colored sheets that you attach to the front of your tv. It made the grass green and the sky blue, but it also made faces green and blue. lol
We were amazed by it because we still had a black and white tv.
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we had one of those pretty crappy we also had a clear one that let you color on the screen with the show winky ----
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We either didn't have tv, or briefly had an old black and white. I'd been to the movies and seen color, but I was 12 or so before I happened to be watching the Wizard of Oz at my grandmother's house and suddenly realized "oh, that's what's so different - it is all in color." I'd seen movies, and probably tv before, but not often. I was 12 in 1984, btw, so this wasn't exactly at the invention of color.
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