[78-L] The Peacock Network

[David Lennick]

My wife does..her uncle bought one of those things in the early 50s! Color TV! 
You betcha. I also remember a station in Red Deer, Alberta which showed black 
and white movies in varying shades of green. I also remember them running "On 
the Town" and the film catching fire.

dl

Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> Remember those multi-colored plastic sheets you could put over your 
> picture tube thus turning that boring, old black and white unit into a 
> vibrant, new color model?
> Hah!
> Mal
> 
> *******
> 
> martha wrote:
>>    Nostalgic feelings caused by being bought by a cable entity, maybe ?
>>
>>  Your message brought a memory to me;  of being taken to our grandparents' 
>> house when there were color kiddie specials!  We had only B&W  - color 
>> didn't arrive at our house until Apollo 11 arrived on the moon  (just in 
>> time to see the B&W images from space)
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
>> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:22 PM
>> Subject: [78-L] The Peacock Network
>>
>>
>>   
>>> Anyone noticed a lot of feathers on NBC lately? Tonight's Law & Order (a 
>>> rerun,
>>> no less) began with "The following program is brought to you in Living 
>>> Color on
>>> NBC", a phrase we haven't heard since .. what, about 40 years ago? And 
>>> feathers
>>> floating during a network break where someone in Buffalo didn't insert a
>>> commercial.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>     
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