December 30, 1963…’Let’s Make A Deal’ Debuts On NBC Here is the head of the pilot episode, complete with a TK41 in the foreground of the intro shot at NBC Burbank May 25, 1963. I think this is Studio 3. The original edition of the show was a daytime series that ran on NBC, but […]
Lawrence Welk…Television’s First “Stereo” Sound Show Twenty years before television was able to broadcast high quality stereo sound, ABC had broadcast ‘The Lawrence Welk Show’ in “stereo”…sort of. The year was 1958. Now, due to the fact that stereophonic television had not yet been invented you would think this was impossible, but if you have […]
TeleTales #8…Remember These? Back before everything became “disposable” (meaning there was no one to fix it if it broke), there were men that would come to your house to fix your TV set. These little cases were full of tools and tubes, and if you had a pro…he had a mirror too. Click Like if […]
‘The Dick Cavett Show’ That had been the title of several shows hosted by Cavett on several networks, but his longest run and best known version was the late night show that ran against Johnny Carson from December of ’69 till January ’75. That show was done in New York from ABC TV 15 which […]
“no prompting by the audience..”
Interesting that the muted colors of the set hardly exploited the potential for color broadcasting.
I suspect there were a couple of reasons for having low-profile colors on the set:
1) Makes sure that contestants were the main focus & not the color scheme;
2) You have to remember that a lot of college kids (and the colleges they attended) still by & large only had black & white sets, it was a real pain in the … in those days to make the color pallet colorful enough for color TV and graytone pleasing enough to be palatable without looking like their mommy dresses them funny