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The UK introduced colour for the 1967 Wimbledon as I understand it. Of course there had been test broadcasts in the 50s of 405 line NTSC but for a variety of reasons it was never adopted as standard and the UK waited for the new 625 line service and adopted PAL (over SECAM and NTSC). The early VHS/Beta video recorders in the UK have 405 line and 625 line recording capabilty and many collectors use them to for their 405 line sets. Here is OZ we adopted 625 line from day one (1956) and adopted PAL in 1975.

It should remembered that the UK began broadcasting 405 line in August 1936, years before the US sorted out its NTSC b/w standard. And several years before much of Europe adopted a 443 line standard that the Germans used throughout WWII. Broadcasting in Berlin continued right up until the end of the war ..when the TV transmission tower was destroyed in a bombing raid.