[78-L] Dragnet Xmas Album (Was: Re: Rochester)

[J. E. Knox]

Greetings from FixitLand!

David Breneman wrote:

> ...When customers balked at buying
> CBS's spinning-filter-wheel color TVs, CBS used the outbreak of
> the Korean War to ask the government to declare color TV a war
> materiel product so they could exit the market and save face.

Hmmm. My understanding of this is that David Sarnoff of RCA was  
behind efforts to "declare color TV a war materiel product" -- in  
order to stymie the sequential system and stick it to CBS. Not sure  
where I read this though.

Here's a pretty complete timeline of the color TV "wars":
http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/CBS_Chronology_rev_h_edit.htm

> As far as I know, the next time CBS produced one-off episodes of
> its programs in color was (I believe) 1965 (or 64?), the year
> before they started broadcasting series in color.  They produced
> such a color episode of Perry Mason, but it was that series' last
> year, so Perry never made the switch to color.

That would be "The Case of the Twice-Told Twist" ('66). It still  
looks weird to me to see Perry Mason in color.

Take care,


Joe
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