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Originally Posted by magnasonic66
I think the Douglases' Green Acres set was actually a black and white Magnavox from the early '60s with the color superimposed on it, like they all did in the movies and television.
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I always wondered how it was possible on those old TV shows for 1950s-era black-and-white consoles/portables to show color pictures. One commercial that really baffled me until now, however, was the one on MeTV promoting "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in which a clip of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" appeared on Mary's color Sony portable TV ("Do you mean to say that
Alan Brady is REALLY BALD?!). Seems out of place for a 1960s TV show to appear on a TV of much later vintage (Mary Richards's Sony was probably a very early '70s portable) -- unless of course we're talking about watching vintage shows on restored sets, as many of us here at VK do as a hobby. Again, I don't know how MeTV did it, unless they edited the Dick Van Dyke clip into the promo, and showed it on the Sony TV over a closed circuit connection.