For kids these days, watching television in colour is taken for granted because they don't know any different.
I must be old. wink
I distinctly remember my mum taking delivery of our first colour tv in the early 70s and what a huge surprise it was.
My brother and I were watching one of our favourite shows, Lost in Space, when the doorbell rang. Mum went to answer it and there was a guy standing there. Said he had a tv delivery for her. She told him that it was obviously a mistake; she hadn't purchased any colour tv. (Couldn't afford one, but she didn't tell him that) The guy insisted he had the correct address but my mum wouldn't have it. He turned to go when my Grandad, who lived next door to us, came running round and told my mum that he and Grandma had bought it for us! (it was mum's birthday)
So you can imagine the pure joy and excitment of it all. We watched the end of Lost in Space in colour!
It was such a huge deal for us that day and I will never forget the memory of my excitment at having joined that exclusive club of people who owned colour tvs! mrgreen
It seemed almost magical to see everything we'd be watching for years, suddenly appear in colour. Kind of sad that (my) children today probably won't have any memories of something so simple as the joy of watching tv in colour!
Any more colour tv memories?
Our family didn't get a colour TV until 1983. Until then I had gone to my friends for FA Cup Finals and other important events, and watched the rest in b&w, including snooker! It's amazing how well you can tell the brown from the blue in b&w when you get used to it.
Our first colour TV was left in the house we moved into. The first show we watched at our own home was Postman Pat! Then I was amazed to find out that the French Open was played on RED courts...
It's amazing how much we take colour anywhere for granted. Remember the newspapers were all b&w for a long time too!
Apart from watching my rich Aunts TV in 1938, I lived the first 20 years of my life without TV Black or White.
As kids we actually spent most of our free time outside playing. With a battery radio even that was limited to about an hour each day.
I grew up with colour TV but then when we moved house during the late 70's, the TV went back (rental) and we did not get a new one for about 2 years.
I'd have to watch stuff round friends' houses or just didn't bother at all.
My mum used to say that the Queen's Coronation in the 50's was the first colour TV broadcast she ever saw.
I hate colour tv . . . .how I met my first husband, he installed our first set in 1974, it was a rental, as my mum was widowed 3 years previously. It was her one and only enjoyment for the family.
But then if I hadn't had met him, I would mot be the person I am today. Happily married to an old school friend of his mrgreen
I also grew up with only a colour tv but then there were some older programmes and films that were in black and white. It didn't seem to matter much.
I couldn't have imagined life without tv then, as it basically brought me up.
My family didn't have a colour Tv until after I'd moved out in 1977.
I remember getting our first colour tv sometime in the early 70's.
It was wonderful to go from balck and white to colour.
I also think HD tv is amazing, not quite on the level of B&W to colour though.
can go back to when i was a kid and lived at home they got a small b/w tele with a contraption on hte front to make it larger but distortrd it if you viewed if from the side ,
Bought my first tv around the late 50s early 60s when my kids were growing up ,not sure when we got our first colour set but im sure it wasnt no1 on the priority list and it was definatly after purchasing the first house .
We didn't have a colour TV until 1976 and that was after we had been married a year.
I remember the first TV my parents bought. I was probably about 6 or 7 years old. Up until then we all listened to the radio. I was brought up on Listen with Mother and then mum would listen to Womans Hour. The Archers and Mrs Dales Diary were the popular "soaps" of the time.
Interesting how I coul never live without TV when I was younger, but after I moved to the states I would have no problem in adjusting neutral
How about green TV?
In the late 40's when TV started up again, there were a lot of people making their own TV's using RAF Radar sets and the tubes were green. They used a glass magnifier to enlarge the picture to about 12 inches.
We didn't get a colour telly until autumn 1985. My parents went off to work/live in Zimbabwe (well, just dad was working...mum was getting sloshed on pink gin!) leaving me in charge of the house and my nan, so I hot-footed it down to the TV rental shop and got the telly changed to colour and rented a VCR as well!
They went the day after Live Aid so thinking about it we must have watched that in B&W which doesn't seem at all thrilling now.
I never saw BBC2 until 1973 when we moved house as our previous reception area was so bad.
Debs x smile
Don't remember exactly when we got a colout TV, but we didn't own one in November 1973 - I remember going to a friend's house to watch Princess Anne's wedding in colour that month!
Don't remember exactly when we got a colout TV, but we didn't own one in November 1973 - I remember going to a friend's house to watch Princess Anne's wedding in colour that month!
Ah, that just reminded me. I was supposed to be at college that day but me and a friend missed the bus and were late so we wandered around town all day and watched some of that particular Royal wedding therough the window of a Currys Shop