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Posted: 3/20/2019 7:13:36 AM EST

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I remember I was disappointed that it didn't make everything color!

Andy Griffith was still black and white on our COLOR TV

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OK then I was remembering it right. I remember it being a big deal that Star Trek TOS was in color. Voyage to the bottom of the sea was not until some point.

Posted: 3/20/2019 7:17:09 AM EST

[#2]

It was a Motorola with wireless remote.

Posted: 3/20/2019 7:24:02 AM EST

[#3]

Probably 66 or 67. We moved in 65 and I'm thinking it was a year or 2 after that.

Posted: 3/20/2019 7:33:15 AM EST

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I don't remember not having color TV. As early as I can remember which would be around 1966-67, the TV in the living room was color, but the TV in my parents room was B&W. To this day, I cannot picture Ghoulardi in color.

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Humble brag!

Posted: 3/20/2019 7:40:09 AM EST

[#5]

Dad bought ours sometime in 1971. I remember watching the 72 Olympics in color.

Posted: 3/20/2019 7:46:16 AM EST

[#6]

1968-ish.
13" GE I bought with the money I made grinding around the wheat fields at 5.75 MPH on a 1963 John Deere 5010. I was 13, and the only kid in My class w/His own color TV.

ETA: I think it cost $299.95

Posted: 3/20/2019 8:26:29 AM EST

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My dad paid probably around $250 for his RCA back in 1960 probably around $1200 today adjusting for inflation.

My grandparents had money and my granddad put up a very tall expensive tv antenna tower with a motor
connected to a controller that sat on top of his tv. He got 4 stations Eau Claire,Wausau,Greenbay,LaCrosse.

Posted: 3/20/2019 8:57:02 AM EST

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My father also built ours from a Heathkit using his GI Bill money. He built it into the wall of the basement that we had just finished out. It too had the push up or down channel changing buttons.

It must have been the early 70s since I remember watching the first moon landing on a black and white tv.

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I was the project Engineer for the Heathkit /Educational GI bill program for several Technical schools. I developed the different lesson kits.

Posted: 3/20/2019 8:57:43 AM EST

[#9]

Great big fucker with a small screen. Late 70's early eighties if I remember correctly.

Posted: 3/20/2019 9:03:43 AM EST

[#10]

Yes.
And I still own it (and it still works).
Sony Trinitron.

Posted: 3/20/2019 9:06:58 AM EST

[#11]

Fresh from the docks in Miami.

Posted: 3/20/2019 9:09:52 AM EST

[#12]

My father was in the TV repair business and I remember watching color TV around 1956, the Rose Bowl Parade, I think. There were only one or two shows a week that were in color. My widowed aunts would come over on Sunday evenings to watch Bonanza in the early 60's.

Posted: 3/20/2019 9:13:06 AM EST

[#13]

Yep, around 1965. Watched "Combat" in color and it was great!!!

Posted: 3/20/2019 9:17:18 AM EST

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My families first color TV was an RCA hybrid model (had both tubes and transistors) that a neighbor was throwing out back in 1978. I am an electronics guy and I was sixteen then. My father and I carried it home, I opened it up and fixed it. Required some new tubes and a coil for the horizontal oscillator. Had that TV for several years.

Posted: 3/20/2019 9:19:13 AM EST

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Humble brag!

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Hey, The Marrotta's had color TV in every room, but his dad did invent Mr. Coffee so I guess they were pretty well off.

Posted: 3/20/2019 9:23:02 AM EST

[#16]

Dec. 1967. We got it to watch USC beat our Indiana Hoosiers 14-3.

TC

Posted: 3/20/2019 9:26:42 AM EST

[#17]

I remember going to grandmas to watch the wizard of oz because the movie switched to color part way in. I’d say a year or two later i remember going to sears with dad and buying a color tv. Prob around 82-83

Posted: 3/20/2019 9:27:05 AM EST

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Yes. Can't recall the year. Early 70s. Big old console tv. It was an upgrade from the old black and white set we got one station on. My parents went to a rooftop antenna that helped us get three stations pulled in... two CBS and one NBC. We never got ABC, so I never watched any programs from that network until I went to college

Posted: 3/20/2019 9:29:27 AM EST

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Can't remember. As a kid all we had was black and white. Color didn't come along until I'd moved out and had my own place.

Posted: 3/20/2019 9:37:22 AM EST

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"Island in the Sky"...which is black & white.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0045919/

(Might have been colorized at some point, but that didn't start until the 1980s, I believe.)

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Interesting, because we were all talking about how white the photography was and thought is was because of the snow or some such. I guess because it was a “Color” TV we thought is should have been in color.

Posted: 3/20/2019 10:04:01 AM EST

[#21]

Around 1969.

Posted: 3/20/2019 10:31:19 AM EST

[#22]

I always remember there being one color TV. But it was a 27", which was as big as they came back then, it was housed in a huge piece of wooden furniture that sat in the den.

If you're feeling nostalgic you can still buy one on Overstock for $19 Link to TV

Posted: 3/20/2019 10:32:29 AM EST

[#23]

1969- lived in Northern California. Even had cable.

Posted: 3/20/2019 10:33:03 AM EST

[#24]

1980. Dad won a TV at a casino in Henderson NV.

Posted: 3/20/2019 10:36:53 AM EST

[#25]

No, I was born in 74 so we always had a color TV BUT B&W TVs were still extremely common as was B&W programming. I think our Family TV was a giant 19 inches back then.

I remember my GF in Highschool had a B&W TV in her bedroom with rabbit ears and that was early 90s.

Funny story, in the 70's my Dad bought my Mom a color TV when they were dating

Posted: 3/20/2019 10:41:07 AM EST

[#26]

Yes.
My folks did an addition and remodel of our home around '66.
I was at home alone when the furniture store deliverd our new Zenith console. Huge wood cabinet unit with a phonograph on the left and an AM/FM stereo on the right.
I christened it with afternoon cartoons.

The McCaw family had recently ran cable down the street, so it was time to upgrade.

Posted: 3/20/2019 11:22:59 AM EST

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Yes would have been late 60s. Funny story my oldest back in the day asked me one time when they world got color.

He thought that because all the old shows were in black and white there was no color in real life!

Good times.

Posted: 3/20/2019 11:38:41 AM EST

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1968-ish.
13" GE I bought with the money I made grinding around the wheat fields at 5.75 MPH on a 1963 John Deere 5010. I was 13, and the only kid in My class w/His own color TV.

ETA: I think it cost $299.95

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If you had invested that money in the stock market you'd have about $50,000 today!

Posted: 3/20/2019 11:41:44 AM EST

[#29]

Sure do and probably the same time frame as op

Posted: 3/20/2019 4:29:45 PM EST

[#30]

We got our first around 1970, a 25" Motorola Quasar table model with the "works in a drawer". I inherited that set around 1980 and used it until 1985 and then it moved into my sister's basement, where they used it for another ten years as their TV for the BIL's full bar he had there.

similar to this but not a floor model

Posted: 3/20/2019 4:34:54 PM EST

[#31]

Remember testing tubes at the store for replacement

Posted: 3/20/2019 4:37:19 PM EST

[#32]

It was 1983 and I was 12 when we got our first colored TV.

Posted: 3/20/2019 4:43:23 PM EST

[#33]

Late '60s, roommate had a SIL that worked for RCA. He got a refurbished warranty-return set in a metal cabinet for about half of MSRP.

The first color set I saw in operation was a monitor at the WRAL studios in Raleigh, NC.

Hell, I remember when a neighbor got one of the first B&W sets in my hometown.

For several months the neighbors would have pot-luck suppers at his house and watch the fights. We kids would go over Saturday Mornings a watch Howdy Doody. Then the novelty wore off. We were ~150 miles from the nearest station (WBT-TV) and his antenna looked like something from a NASA tracking station. Except NASA didn't exist back then, it was formerly the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

Posted: 3/20/2019 5:21:20 PM EST

[#34]

My grandfather had the first color tv in our area in the early 60's. It was a thrill to watch everything in shades of green.

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