I can actually remember the first time I saw colour on a TV. My mum dragged me shopping to Woolwich one Saturday morning and on a tele in a shop window was Thunderbirds in glorious colour, funny how some things stick in your mind.
And my old nan, up till she died in her 90's in 2007, flatly refused to have a colour TV because they gave off radiation! When her old B&W set finally gave up and she had to get a new one, she would turn the colour down and only watch everything in B&W.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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And my old nan, up till she died in her 90's in 2007, flatly refused to have a colour TV because they gave off radiation! When her old B&W set finally gave up and she had to get a new one, she would turn the colour down and only watch everything in B&W.
"and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green."
I remember kids at school talking about the incredible hulk turning green and I was none the wiser.
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
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:-)
play football. I wasn’t impressed with colour tv.
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.