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Were these shows more in black and white… or color?
Some shows made the switch toward the end while others only aired the first season in black and white.
If there was a show that started in the early sixties and continued airing past 1965, there’s a good chance it switched from black and white to color. Of course, some early shows were ahead of the curve (shout out to Bonanza) and some never made the switch. But for most shows, color was too good an advancement to pass up.
Try to guess if these shows aired more seasons in black and white or color. Be careful, some might have the exact same number of each!
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The Beverly Hillbillies
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Gilligan’s Island
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Wagon Train
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Lost in Space
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
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Petticoat Junction
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Gunsmoke
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My Three Sons
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F Troop
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The Wild Wild West
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Were these shows more in black and white… or color?
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I Like Gunsmoke In Black & White More Than The Color Ones.
10/12
Excellent, makes me think back to the good old days of tv,good job MeTV👍
You got 11 out of 12
Did this quiz color you confused? Not really, it was kind of easy.
Did this quiz color you confused? Not really, it was kind of easy.
I'm thinking Gunsmoke had more color episodes. After all, IT WENT FOR TWENTY YEARS!
I answered ‘both’ on all and only got F Troop correct. Lol
I got 11 out of 12
7 of 12 fail
When I first saw those shows they were ALL in black and white. I don't think we got our first color set until around 1970!
I need to get a color TV.
Interesting thought. Are B&W tvs even made anymore? Or have they gone the way of the slide rule - found only in yard sales, pawn shops, flea markets, antique stores and Etsy?
B&W TVs are living with 8 track players and buggy whips.
Let's not forget butter churns, manual typewriter, rotary phones and ice boxes.
9/12; missed #4, #8 and #10 - I never watched any of them so had to guess.
Got nine out of 12, good but not great.
8/12 that wasnt too bad, but I got the important ones right lol ;)
8/12
A middling effort at best.
A middling effort at best.
9/12
9 out of 12 :/
I missed that F-Troop had the same number of seasons in b/w as color. Only one I missed! MeTV should put that in their line up. So funny!
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10 out of 12. Missed one with both and My Three Sons.
6/12
GOOD quiz! Unique too!
For whatever it's worth, MFU (on MeTV & H&I in 2015-16) had more shows transmitted in color than black 'n white, (because all shows are filmed in color). But the first season transmitted in B&W was spectacular! Some shows DO come across better in black 'n white. Some of it has to do with the era of their origin too.
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For whatever it's worth, MFU (on MeTV & H&I in 2015-16) had more shows transmitted in color than black 'n white, (because all shows are filmed in color). But the first season transmitted in B&W was spectacular! Some shows DO come across better in black 'n white. Some of it has to do with the era of their origin too.
Technically, they didn't make Green Hornet movies! I'm assuming you mean that when Bruce Lee became a martial superstar, the Kato fights were edited together into a feature!
Dagnabit! I must have shifted Earths again. I could have *sworn* there were a couple of feature length movies edited out of GH episodes for TV or DVD distribution. But IMDB doesn't bear that out - at least not in this reality. (I gotta get this Dimensional Stabilizer fixed!)
Green Hornet was only on one season and it was in color. Unless you are referring to the B/W serials from the 30s and beyond? The idea here, though was to have them be just one series.
I think context might have been lost here. (MeTV collapsed a lot of the thread to a "click here" link.)
I mentioned "The Green Hornet" in reference to shows edited into movies, not the b&w/color issue. (And of course I was wrong about it...)
I mentioned "The Green Hornet" in reference to shows edited into movies, not the b&w/color issue. (And of course I was wrong about it...)