Spending time with Fred and Barney

[oldtvman]

Originally Posted by Popester

Those pictures of the Flintstones made me realize that all my growing up years when Saturday morning cartoons were on all morning, I would of been watching those in B/W. Thinking about it now, your never really miss what you never had. At 60 years old I realize now that I went through an era where everyone grew up with B/W tv and transistioned into glorious color tv. Now these days with technology it seems like that's almost a daily event in today's world. Where one day some marvel of technology doesn't exist and then the next day it is for sale somewhere. Recently I was watching my all time favorite morning Hanna Barbera cartoon Johny Quest on DVD. Oh the places around the globe he visited because of his fathers job as a scientist. educational without letting us know that it was.

In the beginning if you had a color set your viewing habits were different than those with B & W. First thing is you got a copy of tv guide which showed the color programs for the next week. In our area we were especially lucky, we WMAQ the countries first local color station, then WGN jumped on the color bandwagon in the very early 60's. Funny thing was after 1966 when most shows went to color, the newness and novelty of color didn't have the same glimmer. Then once more and more people got color you found out most of them didn't have a clue as to how to set their tv's up for optimum viewing.