How Many Of You , Watched Programs On A Black And White TV As A Kid

Session 5

Session 5

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I certainly did, watched Hockey Night In Canada, Ed Sullivan Show, then in 1967 my Dad bought our first colour television. And it wasn't all that good at that time. But like anything it was the new thing on the block , I have witnessed the progression of colour tv over the years.
It wasn’t until the mid-1960s that color television truly gained popularity, fueled by lower prices, improved reliability, and a surge in color programming. This transition marked a significant turning point in the history of broadcasting and home entertainment.
 
I can remember the Tv repair guy coming to the house with a black bag like a Doctor bag, he would pull both sides of the bag open and wahlah boxes of tubes of different sizes in the bag. He would just take out his tester, replace the tube and away he would go.
 
My dad, an engineer, always had some of the cool electronic stuff back then. He had a really good stereo with 2 separate tube power amps, one for each channel. We were one of the first on the block with a color TV. I still remember the first time we (the family) watched the Wizard of Oz on the color tv and I was blown away when the filming switched to color after the house landed on the witch! I had seen WOO each year it was on in B&W and had no idea there was color content until that first color tv.

B&W:

The Beatles on Ed Sullivan
I Love Lucy
Mayberry (The Andy Griffith show)
Gun smoke
Wild, Wild, West first season
Combat first 4 season, last season in color
My Favorite Martian
Early Flintstones
Cuban missile crisis
JFK funeral
The Beverly Hillbillies
F Troop
Twilight Zone
Adam’s Family
Perry Mason
Dick Van Dyke (he just turned 100)
Munsters
Mr. Ed

And many others…
 
Sure. We had a black and white TV before a color TV. I watched lots of stuff in B&W as a kid.

Sometimes, I watch black and white movies online, yet today. A while back, I purchased "Dracula" with Bela Lugosi on Prime Video. It's in B&W and watch it from time to time. Recently, I watched "Casa Blanca" with Humphrey Bogart in B&W. I also recently watched the silent movie, "Nosferatu," from 1922, obviously in black and white. Just think, that movie is over 100 years old!

I love watching old TV and movies in black and white.

Just think, more time has elapsed from the first motion picture to today than elapsed from the Civil War to the first motion picture.
 
smitty_p said:
Sure. We had a black and white TV before a color TV. I watched lots of stuff in B&W as a kid.

Sometimes, I watch black and white movies online, yet today. A while back, I purchased "Dracula" with Bela Lugosi on Prime Video. It's in B&W and watch it from time to time. Recently, I watched "Casa Blanca" with Humphrey Bogart in B&W. I also recently watched the silent movie, "Nosferatu," from 1922, obviously in black and white. Just think, that movie is over 100 years old!

I love watching old TV and movies in black and white.

Just think, more time has elapsed from the first motion picture to today than elapsed from the Civil War to the first motion picture.
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Nosferatu is one of the first movies you watch in any kind of film classes when learning about production, especially lighting and the use of shadows. I love how the brain sees things from the tricks of lighting. It’s still the creepiest and best vampire movie ever made.
 
I recall Lunch With Soupy, starring Soupy Sales with White Fang and Black Claw, “the two sweetest dogs in the world,” and an ongoing cavalcade of wacky guests. Also I remember seeing Fireball XL5 in monochrome… Howdy Doody, the early episodes of Captain Kangaroo… and both Rocky and Bullwinkle and Fractured Flickers, both prime time shows.
 
Yep, only B&W until we got a color console TV, probably around '65. It had a primitive mechanical/acoustic remote control; pressing the buttons made little springloaded hammers hit metal rods inside, making a 'doink' that the TV responded to. You could change channels, mute the sound, or turn the set on or off. But to adjust the volume you had to walk over to the TV.

My Grand-Dad called the Mute button 'the Blab-Off,' a term he continued to use for the rest of his life.
 
Funny how the ball bounces I could watch TV at my grandfathers one hour a week
most of the time Violin practice and lessons two hours three times a week
fast foreword my first wife not allowed wast of time same with my second wife and third and forth wife
we went to shows and movies they are all horsewomen it cost a lot to maintain those hay burners
my hot wife #4 HannaHanna.jpga
 
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SG John said:
Nosferatu is one of the first movies you watch in any kind of film classes when learning about production, especially lighting and the use of shadows. I love how the brain sees things from the tricks of lighting. It’s still the creepiest and best vampire movie ever made.
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Cool, I didn't know that. I've watched most of the classic horror films in black and white: Frankenstein, the Werewolf, Creature from the Black Lagoon...that sort of stuff. I'm not a fan of more modern horror movies so much. The old horror movies were more suspense movies than actual horror films, in my mind. I kind of prefer that.
 
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