[sickoflibs]

RE:”I remember it being on NBC because of the peacock with all the colors in it... we’d just gotten a Motorola Console Color TV, and I was frigging amazed at the fact that yes... there WAS color on TV...
Hard to imagine that in my lifetime, there was black and white TV. Kids now have no recollection of a time before laptops, cell phones, and Playstations...”

My parents were struggling with one parent working and a few kids and so they didn't get color till 1969 :(
I recall the magic of seeing TV in color in the department stores before then.

I was reading about CBS The Lucy Show in the early 1960s which was her first show after I Love Lucy. She started to record them in color before CBS would broadcast in color because she saw the rerun $$$$potential and owned the show, CBS held back on color because RCA owned by competitor Peacock NBC made the first color TVs. Lucille Ball Arnez was a brilliant business Woman.

Then mid 1960s almost all black and white TV shows were broadcast in color the new season.

I recall reading that the first one or two seasons of Lost in Space were in black and white but they filmed the spaceship Jupiter II flying scenes in them in color to be able to reuse them when the show went to color.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” I recall reading that the first one or two seasons of Lost in Space “

“Loused Up In Space”.

I was a little kid, and I couldn’t take it.

I told my dad I would have murdered Dr. Smith by the 4th episode : )