What to watch on your early color set!

[Indian Head]

This afternoon, Maryland Public Television ran that special on the Andy Williams Christmas programs. Very cool 1960's video! It should show up on other PBS stations, especially if they're doing fund drives.

As for the Peacock, there's an excellent 1960's version on the DVD, "Movin' With Nancy," the 1967 Nancy Sinatra special. It also has the NBC "snake" logo at the end with the chimes. BTW, it's a very cool show to watch on a roundie. It was the first thing was played on our CTC-f when we first got it.

[Steve Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Indian Head

This afternoon, Maryland Public Television ran that special on the Andy Williams Christmas programs. Very cool 1960's video! It should show up on other PBS stations, especially if they're doing fund drives.

As for the Peacock, there's an excellent 1960's version on the DVD, "Movin' With Nancy," the 1967 Nancy Sinatra special. It also has the NBC "snake" logo at the end with the chimes. BTW, it's a very cool show to watch on a roundie. It was the first thing was played on our CTC-f when we first got it.

When I worked at DCC Compact Classics we inked a deal with Andy Williams that we would reissue his NBC color shows on DVD, complete with all original commercials intact. That would have meant a brand new transfer of each of the selected master video tapes and they didn't want to bother to do it or to let us take a crack at it. Too bad, they look amazing for being so old; NBC Color at its best!

[Indian Head]

That would have been great to see the shows in their entirety! That's the only nit I have to pick with the special that was on yesterday. I'd much prefer to see an entire program from beginning to end with commercials intact. Makes for a much more authentic show on the roundie.

It's good to know that Andy Williams himself is/was for the idea. Hopefully, some day, another company will appreciate the value in releasing those on DVD.

BTW, that Nancy Sinatra program is totally intact with the original RC Cola commercials. It was shot on 16mm, and isn't quite like those great Christmas shows, but still makes for a nice time capsule.

[stromberg6]

DVD's of Technicolor movies look great on my CTC-4. You just have to watch them in a pitch black room.
Kevin

[Sandy G]

You guys are all wet-the one to watch on yer roundie is, of course, "Lost In Space" !!! Breathless music ! Exaggerated color ! Cheesy special efx ! Watchin' Penny's boobs grow ! (Yeah, THAT'S the ticket !) Wishin' ONE TIME John or Don would just haul off & knock hell outta Dr. Smith-or that Will would sass his dad-who sure as hell deserved gettin' sassed...<grin>

[compucat]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

You guys are all wet-the one to watch on yer roundie is, of course, "Lost In Space" !!! Breathless music ! Exaggerated color ! Cheesy special efx ! Watchin' Penny's boobs grow ! (Yeah, THAT'S the ticket !) Wishin' ONE TIME John or Don would just haul off & knock hell outta Dr. Smith-or that Will would sass his dad-who sure as hell deserved gettin' sassed...<grin>

There's only one space show for a roundie. Star Trek!

Scotty, I need more deflection voltage to the corners! Ah keep tellin' ya Captain, it's a round tube there are no corners. Twenty-five KV is as high as she'll go.

He's dead Jim.

[Sandy G]

Too bad "Twilight Zone" or "Outer Limits" didn't make it to the color era..But maybe its just as well, given the track record of long-established shows generally not fairing too well in the color era...

[Adam]

I had thought they made one single episode of the Twilight Zone in color, but I just searched around a bit looking for information to confirm that but I couldn't find any, so now I'm not so sure.

Lately, on my Philco roundie I mostly find myself watching Bewitched, it has alot of good shots of that Zenith, Darrin had some nice cars, and it's one of the few DVDs I have without the copy protection that causes those awful retrace lines to appear.
I got a year of Lost in Space a while back thinking it would look good on an early color set, and it really does, but those stupid retrace lines drive me nuts, so I only watched it all the way through once, same thing happened with my copies of Star Trek and The Time Tunnel.

For when I finally get around to fixing my ctc-10, what was in color when that set was new, that's available today? I've got plenty of mid-late 60s color shows on DVD sitting around here, but nothing from the early 60s, and when I fix that set I'd like to watch on it some of what it would have been showing in color when it was new.

[Pete Deksnis]

Originally Posted by Adam

For when I finally get around to fixing my ctc-10, what was in color when that set was new, that's available today? I've got plenty of mid-late 60s color shows on DVD sitting around here, but nothing from the early 60s, and when I fix that set I'd like to watch on it some of what it would have been showing in color when it was new.

First thing I thought of when warping back to 1960 was watching Bonanza on my new CTC10 and particularly the opening with its burning parchment and the end with the predominately red and blue stills of credits. I've bought three Bonanza DVDs so far but none matches the saturation I recall.

Also two years later there was The Joey Bishop Show , The Virginian, and Hazel, but none were particularly impressive. You watched whatever was on.

The best commercials in color, and there weren't that many, were hands-down the Kraft Foods commercials. Highly saturated color. Terrific natural-looking green vegetables. Ed Herlihy I believe did the voiceovers.

[oldtvman]

I bought the 1960 color video presentation of Peter Pan with Mary Martin.

The only bad thing is they cut off both the peacock into and the prolog stating this has been a color presentation of the NBC networks.

[Carmine]

I wish they would just let TPIR go away when Barker leaves. . .

Twilight Zone made it to color... It was called "Night Gallery", and I loved watching it at like 2 AM on our cheesy UHF station.

[Adam]

We get the Night Gallery here too, 11PM weeknights on ch 56, I'm usually working at my desk (where I have a b/w Zenith) at that time though, so I almost never see it in color.

[Adam]

I was reviewing this thread thinking what to get to watch on my CTC-10. I will add that if you like old cartoons, I've been watching this one called Tennessee Tuxedo (from 1963) on the CTC-10 and, it's a good one for looking at on the old color sets. That's the show in the pics of the set working I put in my ctc-10 thread.

[David Roper]

Anybody else see the irony in using a penguin to show off a color set?

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by David Roper

Anybody else see the irony in using a penguin to show off a color set?

But, a penguin could be great for checking convergence.