Holiday specials were made for color

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There was a magic to those Christmas specials. Well, I'm too young to remember the early days but even in the late 70s (my early memories) it was a big deal to see Bob Hope or shows like that. For one thing, you only had one chance. Nowadays things get repeated again and again. Certainly in the 1950s if you had the chance to turn from the drab gray images of everyday television and instead sit down to a beautiful Christmas spectacular...sure, you'd watch that show even if it didn't have the funniest jokes or the best singers.