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January 1 The 1962 Rose Bowl game on NBC is the first coast-to-coast color television broadcast of a college football game in the United States.; NBC introduces the Laramie Peacock before a midnight showing of Laramie.
Date Event Ref. January 1 The 1962 Rose Bowl game on NBC is the first coast-to-coast live color television broadcast of a college football game in the United States.: NBC introduces the Laramie Peacock before the midnight showing of the day's episode of Laramie
Other British color television programs made before the introduction of color television in the UK include Stingray (1964–1965), which was claimed to be the first British TV show to be filmed entirely in color, although when this claim was made in the 1960s it was protested by Francis Coudrill who said his series The Stoopendus Adventures of ...
Introduction of color television in countries by decade. This is a list of when the first color television broadcasts were transmitted to the general public. Non-public field tests, closed-circuit demonstrations and broadcasts available from other countries are not included, while including dates when the last black-and-white stations in the country switched to color or shutdown all black-and ...
Early Color Television, Early Television Museum 'The First Colour Television' by Richard Cavendish, History Today, July 7, 2008. Early BBC Colour Tests, www.meldrum.co.uk; Colour Television in Britain, by Iain Baird, Science + Media Museum, May 15, 2011; How colour TV crossed an ocean before it arrived in UK homes, by Chris Smith, BT, July 16 ...
Television historians Castleman and Podrazik (1982) believe the 1961–62 season marked a comeback for television, as the networks rearranged their schedules to accommodate the critics. They point out CBS 's high-quality legal drama The Defenders , NBC 's medical drama Dr. Kildare , CBS's The Dick Van Dyke Show , and ABC 's medical drama Ben ...
Television historians Harry Castleman and Walter Podrazik (1982) state, "Despite all the promises of programming reform made by television executives in May, 1961" (the month of Newton Minow's landmark speech "Television and the Public Interest"), "the 1962–63 schedule turned out to be business as usual".
The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 26, 1962, to March 23, 1971. Originally filmed in black and white for the first three seasons (1962–1965), the first color-filmed episode ("Admiral Jed Clampett") was aired on September 15, 1965, and all subsequent episodes from 1965 to 1971 were filmed in color.