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50 Years ago today

clive
clive Posts: 19,454
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15th  November 1969  BBC1 & ITV started broadcasting in colour.
https://home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/november-15-1969-television-colour-television-comes-to-bbc-one-11364016319167
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  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    In the immortal words of Ted Lowe:

    "and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green."
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Gone downhill ever since
  • Plumstead_Micky
    Plumstead_Micky Posts: 932
    And I think it was about 1983 that we got our first colour TV!
    I remember kids at school talking about the incredible hulk turning green and I was none the wiser.
  • snowinberlin
    snowinberlin Posts: 807
    can the older ones among us confirm if you have black and white dreams?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    My parents didn't get a colour TV until 1978 and even then the b&W TV was kept as a second set for several years so I would have been watching in b&w well into the 80s
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,208
    My first view and programme was in my neighbour’s flat and it was Alias Smith and Jones. 
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    If I remember correctly the first UK colour transmission was on BBC2 and pre-dated the BBC1/ITV date.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    Solidgone said:h
    My first view and programme was in my neighbour’s flat and it was Alias Smith and Jones. 
    Sadly not as good as Alas Smith & Jones.
  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    snowinberlin said:
    can the older ones among us confirm if you have black and white dreams?
      Only with electric sheep.
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  • sunbury-addick
    sunbury-addick Posts: 1,929
    My first colour tv viewing was in a neighbours flat, Liverpool Arse Cup Final, Charlie George '71 ? Loved it
  • snowinberlin
    snowinberlin Posts: 807
    Glorious Technicolour  :)
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,454
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    If I remember correctly the first UK colour transmission was on BBC2 and pre-dated the BBC1/ITV date.

    BBC2 broadcast its first colour pictures from Wimbledon in 1967. By mid 1968, nearly every BBC2 programme was in colour. Six months later, colour came to BBC1.

    By 1969, BBC1 and ITV were regularly broadcasting in colour.

    The number of households owning a colour TV licence shot up from 275,000 to 12 million by the early 70s

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/3/newsid_2514000/2514719.stm

  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    I remember my first one. It was around April 1970, I persuaded my wife that it would be good to have a colour TV and she agreed, just in time for the cup final, poor game between Chelsea and Leeds, but being in colour, I did not care
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825

    I used to look at headings like '50 years ago today' as some form of war-torn, rationing, faces covered in tar and grease struggle.

    Now i realise it was just 7 years before i was born :-(


    (Apologies to all you decrepid, aged 50+ Lifers who this offends:-)

  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    sunbury-addick said:
    My first colour tv viewing was in a neighbours flat, Liverpool Arse Cup Final, Charlie George '71 ? Loved it
    Me too. Went to a relatives house to watch on their new colour TV. It would be years before we got one. I think I’d already left home. 
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,619
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    If I remember correctly the first UK colour transmission was on BBC2 and pre-dated the BBC1/ITV date.
    Wasn’t that why it went from 405 lines to 625 lines ? And of course somebody then worked out you could run data over the lines at the top and bottom and not impact the tv picture  (correct me if I’ve got that wrong), which opened the way for teletext and ceefax and basically gave the uk email and a forerunner of the World Wide Web’s accessible information capability decades ahead of its time.
  • Mosscat
    Mosscat Posts: 197
    My dad got a new colour TV in time for the 1970 world cup, he rented it from Radio Rentals.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    We had a colour tv as soon as it was available. My dad was a tv engineer funnily enough for Radio Rentals.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,208
    golfaddick said:
    Solidgone said:h
    My first view and programme was in my neighbour’s flat and it was Alias Smith and Jones. 
    Sadly not as good as Alas Smith & Jones.
    I would have preferred Alas S&J as I’ve never liked Wild West films cowboys and injuns and couldn’t wait til it finished so I could go out and 
    play football. I wasn’t impressed with colour tv. 
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  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,208
    Interesting though about dreaming in B&w. I will always remember the onslaught of colour when I went to my first gig as a kid to Lewisham odeon. Hermits, Freddie and the dreamers Tom Jones cliff Richard etc. 
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,420
    My dad was a burglar, we had one the same time as Radio Rentals started stocking them. 😂
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    ross1 said:
    I remember my first one. It was around April 1970, I persuaded my wife that it would be good to have a colour TV and she agreed, just in time for the cup final, poor game between Chelsea and Leeds, but being in colour, I did not care
    Our first colour set appeared for the 1970 Chelsea v Leeds replay. It went back a week later.
  • charltonnick
    charltonnick Posts: 3,063
    I remember the day radio rentals delivered our first colour tv , England were playing France at Twickenham and won 16-0. Unforgettable day
  • charltonnick
    charltonnick Posts: 3,063
    Just checked we won 14-6 , 1973  :)
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    charltonnick said:
    Just checked we won 14-6 , 1973  :)
    That set must have had shocking resolution for you to miss two French penalties Nick :-)
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,680
    Our old black and white telly was a bit temperamental. 

    My Dad would try to eke out a better picture every night by moving the aerial around and tweaking the little buttons for contrast, brightness, horizontal hold and vertical hold.  We all used to shout at him 'Just leave it alone, the picture's better than watching the back of your head!' 

    The colour telly put a stop to all that thankfully, and we could call a real engineer if it went wrong.  
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,014
    First colour set in 1982 - I was 17. We still had a portable black and white to watch in the back room. Got a video recorder the same time as the colour tv. It all felt like a big deal. All in time for the number of channels to go up to 4 - Channel 4 began broadcasting in November 1982.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    It's amazing how many people used to rent a set. I suppose the prices were relatively high back then. Also they were were more prone to breaking down & as you rented one the company would repair it for free or replace it.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Nostalgia,
    I just remember the Montreal Olympics being an event around tv and colour.

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