black & white television

when i was young, late 80s, early to mid 90s, can't even remember exactly, my family had an extra little black & white tv. control over it was hotly contested.

somehow i managed to secure it for myself, to watch in my room.

i miss that sense of private, personal tv watching. worse, but acceptable. the tradeoff.

i wonder if there are YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPERS out there who came too late for black & white tv in daily use?

needs to be something between "regularly" and "what now" to accommodate the black and white portable TV the size of a toolbox with like a 6 inch screen with a mysterious "UHF/VHF" switch that was mostly just floating around in the kitchen most of the time but I think as late as middle school summers (i.e. the early 2000s) I used to watch, like, Leno and Conan in my bedroom for some reason on a few occasions.

But it was not our "real" TV, all of those were color. Only another decade or so till we have to start asking whippersnappers if they had cathode ray tube TVs still.

We didn't have a color TV until I was about 4 years old, we just had a little portable B&W with a beige plastic casing. Later, in junior high, I was allowed to put that TV (still working!) in my room.

When I was born in 1954 I'm not sure color televisions were publically available yet. In any case, my parents could not yet afford any variety of television until around 1958 or so, when our family got a B&W television. My parents didn't own a color tv until after I left home for college. During college I had no television of any sort, although a few years later I did own (you guessed it) a B&W. I didn't own a color television until 1987.

Yes, I am that old.

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Didn't get a colour tv in my house until '88 and that was 2nd hand. Me and my bro used to refer to that dot as the ghost train. Even the b+w tv's we had were hand me downs from other paddy immigrants with valves and transistors and awkward knobbly buttons, really old useless shit!

had a color tv when i was a kid, but i was a regular watcher of a few black & white programs on nick at nite etc.

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First TV I had was the toolbox one that silby mentioned above. Also had also had a little 7 inch black-and-white TV that I took to my first solo apartment in 1993. Kind of a surprise to come home that Christmas and see that David Letterman's new stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater was red, not blue like I pictured it.

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Lately, I've been watching 50s/very early 60s b&w series on antenna-friendly digital channels (on 23-year old pre-digital color set: images are bit narrow/tall, but sharp, and you get used to it). Partial to Naked City; also Alfred Hitchcock Presents (under 30" eps) and/or The Alfred Hitchcock Hour when can stay awake. Ditto Peter Gunn, the jazzbo detective; Mancini's theme etc for this show is about the earliest music I can remember digging. Also: Mr. Ed (John Hustonish horse-voice makes everything sound droll, wry, often anxious too). And Rin Tin Tin!

So yeah, "I have regularly."

My parents didn't get a color tv until 1978-79 or so. Before that, I didn't know Kermit was green.

he said so right in the song!!!

http://www.manbitesdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/kermit1.jpg

I've always known people who refuse to watch color eps of The Andy Griffith Show. Just that one series.

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Ever seen this crazy shit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pChZOmCoU

My parents got color TV somewhere late 60s. I remember NBC regularly airing this, because color was a BIG DEAL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHeFv-g9kCE

btw Aimless, I often feel like one of the older ilxors here, so... cheers.

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That NBC peacock intro inadvertently turned into their logo. The peacock thing with the orchestral bit was only used to promote shows that were in color. But it proved much more memorable than any of their their "real" logos were (two of them shown below) so after a few decades it finally became their actual network logo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xa8U_4OIVY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psbrLdDiqDY

my parents only had a black and white tv when I was very young (up until I was about 6 or 7, so 1983 or 1984). I remember that I would make drawings of characters from various cartoons I watched and only realised I got the colours completely wrong when we finally got a colour tv.