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ABC color questions

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Rob Jason

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I guess it's been pretty well established that the first color shows shown by ABC were on film -- the Flintstones and The Jetsons, in 1962 (if anyone can dispute that, please do)...But what was ABC's first color live-action show (meaning done in front of TV, not film, cameras)? Would it have been The Hollywood Palace, in 1965 or '66? Anything earlier than that?
 
Ed Reitan's site says that the first live ABC color studio was online in 1965, and was initially used for three shows: Hollywood Palace, The Lawrence Welk Show, and The King Sisters. As to which show's color debut came first chronologically, schedules would tell, but as I believe the facility was named for Hollywood Palace, it's likely that show was the first.
 
Also, ABC's first color cameras were purchased in 1964, and were among the last production models of RCA's venerated TK-41 (which by then was in the TK-41C variation). These cameras were used for The Hollywood Palace in that initial first color season. I.I.N.M., THP switched to Norelco PC-60/70 cameras in the 1966-67 season.

It was as the 1965-66 season went along that ABC purchased Norelco PC-60's, just before that model was superseded by the PC-70 in early '66; not to mention the GE PE-250 for their 1313 N. Vine facilities (and, in 1968, GE PE-350's for their West 58th Street 'TV-15' studios in New York).
 
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