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What Vic was talking about mirrors the experience of many of us here. We grew up in the era of BW TV sets. Star Trek, which premiered in 1966, was fully color but many of us didn't have color TV sets and saw it only in BW. My house got a color set in 1968 and that BW set went into my room and...

Yes on both accounts. But I could test 'em at home. When I was a kid my dad was Chief Engineer for the local day-timer AM station and had a 2-way radio business on the side (he's 80, still has the business at his house, and works in it almost every day for "fun"). The smell of rosin core...

Absolutely! My experience was similar. My mother had a housebound friend who purchased a color TV in 1965. When she found out my love for Batman she invited me over to watch a episode in color! It was AMAZING! From that day on I asked for a color TV every week. We finally got one in 1969...

Because of the current semi-discussion of colorization in the "What's the last TV DVD you bought?" thread I'm bumping this one. There are many good arguments here against rampant colorization of product and some valid statements as to *why* certain product may have been produced in BW instead...