what was the first all color t.v. show?

Answer 1

The very first all-colour television program was called simply "Premiere" and was broadcast June 25, 1951 by CBS... it was a sort of musical variety show of the type that was popular at the time.

In the same week, two regular CBS TV shows began regular full-colour broadcasts. They were "The World Is Yours" (starting from June 26) and "Modern Homemakers" (from June 27). "The World is Yours" was a day-time show hosted by a naturalist author and was shown for at least three months before the first mass-produced colour television sets. Despite the limited audience, it was technically the first regular colour TV show.

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Answer 2

The first commercial color television program – a one-hour special – was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC, even though no color TVs had been sold to the public yet. Because the system used by CBS was not compatible on black-and-white sets, it was not widely accepted, and in 1953, RCA developed a different color system that became the industry standard. Bonanza, which made its debut on NBC in 1959, was the first regularly broadcast TV program to be filmed in color.

Answer 3

Hello,Kukla, Fran and Ollie Show, on October 10,1949 was the first color TV Show to use RCA DOT Sequential Color Systems Cameras from NBC Washington, D.C. I have enclosed two HTMLs for you to explore for more information.


http://www.high-techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.htm

http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/rca-nbc_firsts.html

Answer 4

As The World Turns or Dark Shadows maybe one of the radio serials

Answer 5

Wonderful World of Disney

Answer 6

Bonanza

Answer 7

I Love Lucy, a CBS television sitcom that aired in the 1950s, was the most popular American sitcom of its generation and is still considered by viewers and experts alike to be one of the greatest television series of all time. It starred comedian Lucille Ball, her husband Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The series ran from October 15, 1951 to May 6, 1957 on CBS (180 episodes, including the "lost" Christmas episode). This show was ranked #2 on TV Guide's top 50 greatest shows of all time in 2002, behind Seinfeld and ahead of The Honeymooners. Episodes of "I Love Lucy" are still syndicated on television in dozens of languages across the world. The show was heavily based on a radio show from a few years before, My Favorite Husband about Liz and George Cooper (George is a banker) and many of the scripts were rewritten for "I Love Lucy" show.

The programme was originally sponsored by Philip Morris (who make cigarettes) and Lucy and Ricky (as well as Ethel) dutifully puffed away in the early episodes. The start of the programme was originally animated match-stick figures of Lucy and Ricky climbing down a packet of Philip Morris cigarettes. It was only when the series went into reruns that the familiar "heart on satin" with "I Love Lucy" on it appeared.

The program was filmed at Desilu, a production studio jointly owned by Ball and Arnaz. Studio heads were worried that American audiences would not find such a "mixed marriage" to be believable, and were concerned about Arnaz's heavy Cuban accent.[1] But Ball was adamant, and they were eager to have her in the part. To help sway their decision, Ball and Arnaz put together a vaudeville act featuring his music and her comedy, which was well received in several cities. In the end, CBS agreed (with the then-President of CBS silencing critics by distributing an internal memo that simply read, "Don't f*** around with the Cuban."[citation needed]), but refused to let Desi Arnaz's role be part of the show's title (as in "Lucy and Ricky"). After lengthy negotiations, Arnaz relented and agreed to "I Love Lucy", reasoning that the "I" would be his part. Lucille Ball was reluctant to accept Vivian Vance because she considered her too attractive for the role so Vance was required to wear clothes that were too small for her in order to make her appear overweight. In addition, Vance was given a series husband, William Frawley, who was 20 years her senior. Frawley, a baseball fan, only agreed on the series provided they let him go to any main game he wanted to. Despite her scatty appearance on the show, Ball was a perfectionist and would spend an hour practicising a simple stunt. Later when big stars started appearing on the show, she even complained to some of them about their delivery, and that if they had done it such and such a way, they would have got 30% more laughs.

Arnaz persuaded Karl Freund, cinematographer of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (film) (1927) and Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) as well as director of The Mummy (1932), to be the series' cinematographer, which many critics believe accounts for the show's lustrous black and white cinematography.

I Love Lucy is the first of only three shows to end its run as the #1 TV show in America (the other two being The Andy Griffith Show in 1968 and Seinfeld in 1998), and it has since had a significant impact on popular culture. Most of the cast have since died; Ball was the last main cast member still living when she died on April 26, 1989. The only living cast member is Keith Thibodeaux (credited as "Richard Keith") who played Lucy and Ricky's young son "Little Ricky" in the last two seasons

Answer 8

I THINK Howdy Doody was.

But don't trust me. I don't know for sure.

I'd do a search but I gotta go. Good luck.

Answer 9

I love lucy