Old Shows Colorized

[Mr11WXIA]

Just wondered some things about the world of colorized shows.

1) With Sony colorizing the first two seasons of Bewitched, are those episodes airing in syndication?
2) I know the first season of Gilligan's Island were colorized years ago but the technology wasn't what it is now. Will those get redone and then released on DVD?
3) With Sony colorizing the first season of I Dream of Jeannie, are those episodes airing in syndication?
4) With Universal colorizing the Munsters first Season episode, "Family Portrait", will Universal want to colorize the rest of them and season 2?
5) With I Love Lucy's "Lucy Goes to Scotland" episode getting colorized will all of the other episodes get colorized? I read that Lucy was an experiment and since it went so well that it might open up a new demand for old shows if they are in color when selling shows in syndication.

 

[cowboybud]

I thought Ted Turner's folly of colorization died in the 80s.

 

[mleach]

5) With I Love Lucy's "Lucy Goes to Scotland" episode getting colorized will all of the other episodes get colorized? I read that Lucy was an experiment and since it went so well that it might open up a new demand for old shows if they are in color when selling shows in syndication.

Had Lucie Arnaz got her hands on the rights to I Love Lucy chances are she would have had the entire series colorized. That was her game plan. Getting the show colorized and having the "cigarette" scenes edited out ( that right there would had killed the William Holden episode ).

That was then ( 2004?) when Lucie was a BIG part of the Lucille Ball Museum in Jamestown, New York. On the Board of Directors I believe. Since then Lucie Arnaz has left that post ( I believe she was forced out ) and I haven't heard of either her or Desi Arnaz Jr. for that matter trying to get the rights to I Love Lucy ever since.

 

[anotherguyTN]

The one area where I've always thought colorization made sense is to add color back to shows that were originally in color but had faded over time. This was done with MASH in the 90's, and possibly other shows as well. And with the digital remastering available now that should be easier than ever.

 

[Prais]

WGN AMERICA shows both Bewitched and Jeannie 2pm EST every afternoon.

 

[Mr11WXIA]

Is WGN America airing the newer colorized episodes from the first season of I Dream of Jeanne and the first two of Bewitched?

 

[Markieo]

The Hallmark Channel used to show the colorized versions of "Jeannie" and "Bewitched".

 

[biggguy]

Is WGN America airing the newer colorized episodes from the first season of I Dream of Jeanne and the first two of Bewitched?

Have been watching this duo quite a bit for the last couple of months....have not seen Bewitched in anything but color (and because it's all 1966 and newer, so it's originallv color).

However, have seen a few B&W "Jeannies, and love them to death.

 

[ajc_trw]

The one area where I've always thought colorization made sense is to add color back to shows that were originally in color but had faded over time. This was done with MASH in the 90's, and possibly other shows as well. And with the digital remastering available now that should be easier than ever.

I would say the same about shows shot in NTSC (Videotape) transferred to HD. Shows like Soap, Barney Miller, WKRP and others can have the color enhanced to look better than NTSC could even hope for (and fully decoded on a pro-NTSC system to look even better). The same for PAL shows like MPFS, Faulty Towers and The Young Ones.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

I brought this up in another thread, but how about re-colorizing shows that originally aired in color but now exist only as B/W kinnies? "The Tonight Show" from 60-65, "Hullaballoo", and the final seasons of "What's My Line?" and "I've Got A Secret" would all be good candidates.