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DS was done on videotape. The only reason almost all of it survives was a court battle between Dan Curtis Productions and ABC. ABC wanted to erase the tapes and Curtis raised hell. The question , if I remember, was, did the media or the content prevail? ABC owned the tape, but Curtis owned the content on the tapes.
Most surviving color daytime soap episodes from that era were black and white kinescope copies of the color aired episode. Show me an original black and white and BW copy of an AS THE WORLD TURNS episode (both using organ music) and I can tell you which is the BW copy of the original color episode. The clue is in the opening.
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