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Carl Reiner had decided to end The Dick Van Dyke Show after 5 seasons and Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke were interested in migrating to movies. Because 60% of prime time was still black and white in the 1965-66 season, it was still the norm. The Munsters was knocked off by Batman in color...

While most CBS sitcoms went color in the autumn of 1965 (except The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Munsters, and The Smothers Brothers Show), CBS dramas and hour series all remained in black and white. Daktari was the first hour color series on CBS (in January, 1966) as a mid season replacement for...

Zorro (abc 1957-59) was colorized in 1992, but is in b&w on the Disney DVDs. The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coco, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris comedy Your Show Of Shows (NBC 1950-54) was colorcast in 1954, according to the book, The Box: An Oral History Of Television 1920-1961.

The John Larkin/Nick Adams NBC series Saints And Sinners (1962-63) had a color episode; the pilot of Robert Lansing series 87th Precinct (1961-62), was reputed to have been filmed in color.

The 3rd season Dragnet episode The Big Little Jesus was filmed in color and colorcast by NBC on 12/24/53. The episode was redone in the late '60s with most of the original cast on the revived Dragnet. Episodes #25 and #26 of The Gene Autry Show were filmed in color and colorcast over the FCC...