cbs presents this program in color. they didn t have color television until i was 16 years old. yes. i lived like an animal. the following program is being brought to you in living color on nbc. getting the color tv was huge. suddenly we could watch walt disney s wonderful world of color sunday nights which was like an acid trip of a show. we just could not believe it. tinker bell going, bing, bing, bing. it was like special effects par excellence. the world is a carousel of color color, color it also happened just coincidentally at the time when what we think of as the maude 60s came in, colors, all over the place just as tv could start to take advantage of them. hi. well, glad you could make it.
i remember saying, stay tuned for giget next in color. wednesday nights september 16 in color on abc. it was a big marketing thing. color tv was a huge step forward as far as the technology went. and yet i think of lost in space, lost in space started off as a black and white show and went to coral. it depth get any better when it went to color. dr. smith, you re alive. of course, i m alive. do i look like a corpse? the period has a reputation of tv being a kind of candy. sometimes it felt like there was an aggressive innocence to it. you only blow that in an emergency. this is an emergency. you re standing on my foot. gil i beganligan s island ma sense. how is the professor able to build this stuff but not the raft? the stick of dynamite i made.
generation, yet the hosts were in tuxedos smoking cigarettes. they were still your parents. but the other people let loose on the show were this kind of young vaudeville. it s sock it to me time. hey, she socked it to herself. we knew that sock it to me didn t mean sock it to me. right? so we thought, oh. sock it to me. sock it to me. sock it to me? it wasn t as subversive as it sounds. yes, it was. it was fun. sock it to me? was the first time presidential candidate had ever appeared on a comedy show. and that may have got him elected, and i ve had to live with that. anyway. the family that watches laugh-in together really needs to pray together. just seemed like it s
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there was desire on the part of writers and producers to push the envelope and stretch the medium. you certainly saw that with the twilight zone. it was a very cinematic show. this is not a new world. it has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the rippling imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. rod serling who created the twilight zone came to the realization that through a lens of fantasy or science fiction he could tell stories about racism, he could tell stories about fascism. tonight, i shall talk to you about glorious conformity. it was a way to deal with a lot of the issues that america was starting to go through at that time but in a fantastic setting so that there s some divide between you and the show. they sent four people, a mother and a father and two kids who look just like humans, but they weren t. the twilight zone had these little o. henry-like twists on it. it was allowed to have unhappy