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The last regularly scheduled black and white network tv show

"Concentration" was NBC's last black and white show, making
the switch to color in November 1966. "Everybody's Talking,"
which I maintain was the last b&w show on a commercial network,
debuted on ABC February 6, 1967; Two other b&w shows came after
"Everybody's Talking" and left before it: "Dateline: Hollywood" (April
3-September 29) and "The Family Game" (Wesley Hyatt lists this as
airing from June 19-December 29, but it aired before "Everybody's
Talking" on ABC's daytime schedule). I have some doubts that "The
Family Game" lasted until December 29; I remember being at my
grandparents' on December 27 and seeing a rerun of "The Donna
Reed Show" at 10:30 AM, the show's timeslot until Dick Cavett took
over in March 1968.
 
I have the North Carolina edition of TV Guide for the week of
December 9-15, 1967 (Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard on the cover);
for Friday, December 15, it mentions that that day's episode of
"The Family Game" (10:30 AM) is its last; "The Donna Reed Show"
replaces it on Monday, December 18, and "Treasure Isle" replaces
Donna at 12:30. So that makes me believe even more that "Everybody's
Talking" was the last commercial network b&w show, since "Bewitched"
reruns replaced it on New Year's Day 1968.
 
bpatrick said:
I have the North Carolina edition of TV Guide for the week of
December 9-15, 1967 (Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard on the cover);
for Friday, December 15, it mentions that that day's episode of
"The Family Game" (10:30 AM) is its last; "The Donna Reed Show"
replaces it on Monday, December 18, and "Treasure Isle" replaces
Donna at 12:30. So that makes me believe even more that "Everybody's
Talking" was the last commercial network b&w show, since "Bewitched"
reruns replaced it on New Year's Day 1968.
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Though I read somewhere that at first, all daytime repeats of "Bewitched" was in black and white, even episodes that were produced in color.
 
I think this thread is about first-run shows; daytime sitcom
reruns in the late '60s had a mix of black-and-white and color
episodes as a rule (exceptions: "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was
all b&w; "That Girl" was all color, as was "Love, American Style"
in the early '70s).
 
bpatrick said:
I think this thread is about first-run shows; daytime sitcom
reruns in the late '60s had a mix of black-and-white and color
episodes as a rule (exceptions: "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was
all b&w; "That Girl" was all color, as was "Love, American Style"
in the early '70s).
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"Gomer Pyle" in CBS daytime reruns were only the color episodes, as were "Beverly Hillbillies" eps AFAIK. Once the B&W's were syndicated, I saw what I had missed!

cd
 
Likewise, CBS reran "My Three Sons" in daytime during the 1971-72
season; all of those episodes were the color ones. However, from old
TV Guides, I can safely assume that CBS mixed the color and b&w episodes
of "The Beverly Hillbillies."

However, I still don't think daytime reruns should be included, since many
episodes were made in the early '60s (or, in the case of "I Love Lucy," the
'50s). My conclusion is that "Everybody's Talking" was the last regularly-
scheduled b&w program on a commercial network ("Family Game" debuted
later but ended sooner), and that NET/PBS continued to carry b&w shows
like "What's New" beyond 1967 (I remember the Alabama public TV network
carrying that show in b&w as late as 1969) but had switched almost completely
to color (with the exception of a few homemade documentaries or maybe something
from Europe) by the early '70s.
 
Around 1970 NBC (the full color network) was the first network to run the The Beatles Hard Days Night. Because it was in B & W they started it was a picture of a Holstein cow instead of the peacock.
 
therealjm12 said:
Around 1970 NBC (the full color network) was the first network to run the The Beatles Hard Days Night. Because it was in B & W they started it was a picture of a Holstein cow instead of the peacock.
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I think they first shown that film back in 1967; also, they used a special intro featuring a penguin mobbed by Beatles fans, announcing that the film was in "Lively Black and White".
 
azumanga said:
therealjm12 said:
Around 1970 NBC (the full color network) was the first network to run the The Beatles Hard Days Night. Because it was in B & W they started it was a picture of a Holstein cow instead of the peacock.
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I think they first shown that film back in 1967; also, they used a special intro featuring a penguin mobbed by Beatles fans, announcing that the film was in "Lively Black and White".
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...when The Jack Paar Program went to London in 1964, the episode was introduced with an image of a zebra against a black background -- there were no colour facilities in the UK (neither ITV or the BBC had switched to colour yet) and Paar didn't pay to transport any of NBC's color equipment over the Atlantic. Ironically, the entire surviving catalogue of The Jack Paar Program exists only on black&white kinescopes...
 
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