Black and white television were broadcast in this manner due to that fact that television sets could not display color versions. By the mid 1970s most television sets were color models and therefore black and white shows were discontinued.
Electronic Color television was invented in 1954. It was not until 1965 that some shows such as the CBS show "Gunsmoke" switched to color. By 1970, most shows were in color.
In the 1960's
I believe in 1965.
1972
Television shows were cheaper to produce in Black & White. Show producers did not really think into the future about there still being a market for a year decades later. Most network shows were being made in color by 1965 but Twilight Zone ended production in 1964. Another consideration was the availability of color televisions. When The Twilight Zone went on the air in 1959, most if not all televisions were Black & White, so it wouldn't have helped to make it in color.
About 13,000 households in the UK (year 2014) purchase a Black & White TV license and must therefore be watching Black and White TVs.
The first demonstration of color television was in 1928 by John Logie Baird, the inventor of the first black and white television. Although it was entirely successful, the technology of the time didn't make color television viable as a commercial product. The BBC in England began broadcasting black and white television the following year and Baird's color system never went into production.
Black, White, Orange, Gold, Yellow
A TV licence cost £145.50 per year for colour TV and £48 per year for a black and white TV
Black and white television was in homes at least by the mid 1950's--maybe earlier.
black and white, sometimes its green when its 2 year old.
From June 1946 until June 1954, £2.00 a year
Color television was the aim of all inventors and developers from the time that black and white was first introduced. It is hard to come up with a single year that color television was introduced. CBS began public broadcasts of color television in 1951 but the service was discontinued after only a few months. It was an inferior resolution to the existing black and white service and the two were incompatible NBC made its first color broadcast in 1953 although rather oddly, it could only be seen in color at their own headquarters. 1954 saw the first color broadcast across the US. This time, the color system was compatible with the existing black and white standard and allowed a progression from black and white to color. In Europe, the British took rather longer to define a color system and delayed the introduction of color broadcasts until 1967. The color encoding system in Britain was more stable than the American system but with more than ten years to examine the US methods, that should be little surprise. Both the American NTSC and the British PAL color encoding systems have remained in use to this day with all standard definition broadcasts. It is only the advent of HD that will eventually force the demise of both systems.
this year it was white with a little green star i think. last year it was black and white.
Some time around in the 1940's