Soap series/shows in the '50's

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by Big Dave

I do recall seeing (in reruns) some CBS primetime shows in color prior to 1967. Sources I have seen put CBS daytime all color at the end of 1967. Since so few daytime episodes survive from that period, and the fact that some sources may not be accurate, it's hard to determine exactly when CBS daytime went all color. I do know that Concentration was the last NBC show to go into color. ABC daytime started colorcasts in 1968. As I understand, many ABC affiliates couldn't broadcast color until the early 70's. Unfortunately, most early CBS color daytime programs only survive as BW kinescopes.

I know we had two PBS stations here in Pittsburgh, Channel 13 and Channel 16. Channel 16 used to broadcast the more obscure programs like Dr. Who and similar stuff while 13 was more mainstream. Channel 16 came only I guess sometime in the early 1960's as a black and white only station and continued in blakc and white untill about 1985/87 or so until something happened, I can't remember exactly, but the transmitter died and they were off the air for a while and then came back in color.