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

[Randy Watts]

It was the Burns and Allen episode aired on October 4, 1954. Cheryl Blythe and Susan Sackett discuss it in their book "Say Goodnight, Gracie." Jack Benny's program aired by CBS on March 6, 1955 was also in color, according to both the New York Times of that date and page 42 of that evening's episode transcript at tobaccodocuments.org (link below).
 
Randy
 
http://tobaccodocuments.org/atc/1433122.html?zoom=750&ocr_position=above_foramatted&start_page=191
 
 


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 From: Randy Watts <rew1014 at yahoo.com>


> George Burns and Gracie Allen similarly did a color episode on CBS
> that was later syndicated in black and white. 


Do you know when this was done?  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.
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.