What was the 1st Christmas special broadcast in color?

[bozey45]

yes, thanks, interesting info can be found on this early color telecasting. There is no telling how much was done behind the scenes off the air or even done in color closed circuit but shown to the public in glorious b&w. As a 9 year old in 1954 I remember hearing a color announcement made orally before some specials and seeing before some programs the 'color lady' as I called her then. My dad was an installer for Motorola from 1953-56 and they had the early Motorola color sets in the store in Montgomery Al when we lived there. I remember seeing a George Gobel Christmas special in color during that time, also some of those Color Spectaculars by Max Liebman. That first Motorola set looked really great as I remember. We loved seeing Howdy Doody in color when tint was added in 1955. We went to my dad's boss's house one night and saw "Heidi" in color I remember, a Max Liebman production I think in 1955. My interest in this goes back to that age. I got to where I could tell when a program was in color by the quality of the b&w video on a live program. Those TK-40'S AND 41's to me had a certain 'look', hard to describe but it was there.