How many people here remember watching Star Trek TOS in black and white?
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bosundave — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 06:28 AM)
We did not have a color TV until 1970 when my dad got a sweet Sony 20 something inch. Might have been a 24 inch. It lasted decades until the tube finally gave out.
Watching TOS in color finally was amazing to me. Watching TOS in Blu Ray was another level of enjoyment. -
ZolotoyRetriever — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 06:59 AM)
I do not remember that, as we had got our first color TV by 1965 or 1966, so I never saw Star Trek TOS in black and white. I do remember a few shows whose first season or two were filmed in black and white: Gilligan's Island, for example, had its entire first season filmed and aired in black and white, as did I Dream of Jeannie, and the first two seasons of Bewitched were in black and white. That all changed in the fall of 1966. The 1966-1967 primetime television lineup was the first season in which every show on primetime, across all three major networks, was broadcast entirely in color.
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bosundave — 7 months ago(September 01, 2025 03:00 AM)
Born 1957. So, age 68 in 2025. Still working 60 hours a week. Hit the gym hard recently. 6'3" at 205 lbs, 34 inch waist, 36" reach. I can bench my body weight and curl 135lbs. And I have "other" long honed skills. I could put you down son (or is "boi" they say these days?). HARD. And there would not be a single thing you could do about it. Best you never find out.
There is simply NOTHING better in life than being underestimated by idiots like you. -
Paul P. Powell — 7 months ago(September 01, 2025 04:14 AM)
I haven't owned a television since grad school but the last one I had was curved screen. 36".
And I still watched VHS in college as well as a few DVDs; because I had amassed a big collection of VHS as a poor undergrad with no money.
Anyway I prefer a curved screen; hate the entire look of flat screens. Especially hate large flat screens. They're grotesquely ugly.
In fact I prefer not only a curved screen; but a curved B&W analog screen, 'cuz I grew up watching Hollywood movie re-runs.
It started earlier than college because as a teen I was in so much trouble with the law, that the only TVs I ever experienced were dinky little B&W sets. Used sets, hand-me-downs, stolen, or discarded sets.
No dough! Rough neighborhoods, moved around a lot; everything I owned was second-hand or found via dumpster-diving.
But: Star Trek? No. Never had any interest in that BS. TV in general was considered sissy in my part of the state. It was something you did if you were home sick. Or rainy days.
Every kid in my burg would always rather be outside running wild.
I still abide by this. Sitting inert in front of a TV makes my flesh creep. It's for pond sludge, flatliners, mushrooms, garden-slugs…
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Paul P. Powell — 7 months ago(September 01, 2025 07:52 PM)
p.s. some TV shows –like many feature length films –actually look better in B&W.
Gestalt subconscious, the effect of chiaroscuro –and some other optical & psychological effects –support this.
Clint Eastwood in '
Rawhide
', or David Janssen in '
The Fugitive
'- –certainly is more exciting viewed in old-skool B&W.
my fave TV series of all time
Paul P. Powell, Pool Player
