50 years ago this past week, the first color TV sets rolled off the assembly line at RCA. They were $1,000 a pop, which was big money for 1954.
But what was the first game show to be seen in color? Well, earlier posts at ATGS had us going back to the Bill Cullen TPIR. The NBC run may have been colorcast, but the last few years on ABC weren't.
Also, Password did 13 weeks of shows at Television City in 1966 while its New York studios were making the switch to color. "To Tell The Truth", "What's My Line", and "I've Got A Secret" were the next G-T shows to go to color when they went to syndication thereafter. And even though the pilot episode was in black and white, the original "Hollywood Squares" were always done in color.
Here, KFAR-TV (now KATN) was the first station to broadcast in color in 1967; KTVF would follow suit in '68 a few months after the flood knocked them off the air temporarily. They broadcasted from the basement of the Northward Building and later moved to the second floor where they remained until 1990 when they moved to their current digs off Van Horn Road.
Jonathan Allen