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

[Randy Watts]

A couple of pages from "Broadcasting" that mention the "Dragnet" color episode (and other out-of-the-starting-gate "compatible color" telecasts.
 
Randy
 
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/53-OCR/1953-12-21-BC-0030.pdf
 http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/53-OCR/1953-12-28-BC-0035.pdf

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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.