First color program you ever saw?

[Steve D.]

Quote from Pete Deksnis: "As noted before on AK, the first NTSC color I saw was in 1957. I was 17 delivering a load of groceries to a bar in West Conshohocken PA after school on a Wednesday in the spring of that year. There it was. That live hour-long play from LA that ran for a few years (Steve D will recall the name for me :-). I hung out as long as an underage kid in a bar could in 1957. The color and hue -- unlike many in those days -- were set well."

Hey Pete,

Think I can refresh your memory. That one hour 1957 color telecast you recall was "Matinee Theater." The show, produced in Los Angeles, aired each afternoon here in L.A. at 12:00. It ran form Oct. 1955 to June 1958. Quite a feat back in the day.

-Steve D.