Your first memory of colour telly

Dirty Leeds on MOTD. My grandad used to let me stay up to watch it and nick his Callard and Bowser toffees.

Alf Garnett on just before it you silly moos.
 
First one I saw was in the lane ends pub living quarter’s as I was friends with the landlords daughter, when we were aged about 11 around 1970 & I think it cost £200 which was a huge amount back then, about £3000. I don’t think we got a colour one until about 1977, which was a bit late to the show. The biggest improvement I remember was the upgrade to 625 lines if your tv was compatible on the old b & w. That’s before colour took over.
 
Pink Panther was on at my Uncle’s empty Guest House on Hornby Road when we turned up for a Christmas Party, it was like going to the pictures in your own front room.

Spent weeks after standing on a Thornton suburbian wall looking through the front window of the only house in town on a Saturday Night hoping for a glimpse of “colour” - black and white are colours too don’t you know, but black is a consequence of no colour and white is too much colour!
 
1971 FA Cup Final - Arsenal v Liverpool, with Charlie George laid out on the Wembley turf after hitting in a screamer to win the Cup.
 
1973. Went to my Nana's to watch England v Poland. Had a proper 8 year olds tantrum when we failed to qualify.
We then got our own for the finals in 1974. Remember racing home from school to see Paul Breitner score an absolute screamer against Chile.
 
Using FA Cup finals as a marker I remember my dad watching the '69 final City vs Leicester in B&W but we watched the following year Leeds vs Chelsea in colour. Got vague memories of banana splits going from B&W to colour around 1970.
 
In tv shop windows. There would be several people watching at the same time . I think tennis at Wimbledon was the first sport broadcast in colour. Colour tv is coming to Preston next year for the first time ever so it will brighten up the Nobbers dull lives.😀
 
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Around 1968,would visit my auntie in Manchester. They were the first people we knew to get one. Remember watching The stories of Robin Hood in colour . Strange what you actually remember isn’t it. We then got colour in 1970 and can remember watching the World Cup in colour for first time. Coincided when I started watching the Pool.
 
!968 Grand National, watched it through Reeco's shop window in St Anne's. First colour telly I owned was in 1976 just in time for the cup final.
 
.....would be the first time I watched TV.
I did regress for a while and had a black and white portable for my bedroom when I was about 8 or so. But they were expensive back in the day and Father Christmas did me proud that year.
 
I was born in 69 and can only remember colour TV. I can remember early mid 79s my mum and dad smoking like chimneys and smoke just hanging in the living room and one of those tall walnut finished ashtrays
 
Princess Anne’s wedding, there was only 1colour telly in the street, over at the Pilkington’s and the whole street filled their front room with us kids sat on the floor in front of the new box ! Them were the days !
 
Trammo said:
In tv shop windows. There would be several people watching at the same time . I think tennis at Wimbledon was the first sport broadcast in colour. Colour tv is coming to Preston next year for the first time ever so it will brighten up the Nobbers dull lives.😀
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Wiseman’s on Dickson road.
 
td53 said:
You say that but we had a B+W telly till 1990. Got a new colour one for the world cup...
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Funny you should say that td, we got our first colour telly in 1978 when my dad decided to get one for the World Cup.

Obviously I was very young, I can't remember seeing much of England during the tournament but I was able to enjoy watching watching Archie Gemmill score the greatest goal in World Cup history in glorious technicolour.

I might be being slightly economic with the truth, I didn't get to see Archie's wonder goal as I was only 6 and not allowed to stay up to watch it but my dad woke me up when Scotland went 3-1 up and qualification was in sight.
 
SEASIDE2020 said:
Funny you should say that td, we got our first colour telly in 1978 when my dad decided to get one for the World Cup.

Obviously I was very young, I can't remember seeing much of England during the tournament but I was able to enjoy watching watching Archie Gemmill score the greatest goal in World Cup history in glorious technicolour.

I might be being slightly economic with the truth, I didn't get to see Archie's wonder goal as I was only 6 and not allowed to stay up to watch it but my dad woke me up when Scotland went 3-1 up and qualification was in sight.
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'Qualification Was in Sight' is a great name for the book of Scotland's tournament history.
 
'And for those watching in black and white the brown ball is behind the blue' - Classic Pot Black commentary.

Think my parents got their first one mid to late seventies. We had a TV in early seventies that only picked up BBC1 and 2 for a few years. Had to go around to a friend's house to watch Scooby Doo.
 
Went next door to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing on their new colour telly.......it was filmed in black and white 😆
 
SEASIDE2020 said:
Funny you should say that td, we got our first colour telly in 1978 when my dad decided to get one for the World Cup.

Obviously I was very young, I can't remember seeing much of England during the tournament but I was able to enjoy watching watching Archie Gemmill score the greatest goal in World Cup history in glorious technicolour.

I might be being slightly economic with the truth, I didn't get to see Archie's wonder goal as I was only 6 and not allowed to stay up to watch it but my dad woke me up when Scotland went 3-1 up and qualification was in sight.
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England didn't qualify in 78. Decent WC I recall the ticker tape at the beginning of the Argentina games but they were allegedly drugged to the gills and after one match stayed out playing
 
Willie Mcgrotty said:
Funny how different footage I've seen since switches between B&W then colour.
I remember watching the game at home as a family & think it was in colour?
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I was at a friend's house and they had a colour TV. It was a massive piece of furniture and the colour on the tangerine shorts bled everywhere. I do remember that it was cut off at 90 minutes. I now have a DVD of the whole game...in bleedin' b&w!
 
Fatboy said:
Princess Anne’s wedding, there was only 1colour telly in the street, over at the Pilkington’s and the whole street filled their front room with us kids sat on the floor in front of the new box ! Them were the days !
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Same, my parents got it specifically for that.

As a poor student and then lab assistant with a Black and White donated telly, got a colour portable when Star Wars was first shown on telly ( I think it was Star Wars, around 83/84, anyone know?)
 
1966_and_all_that said:
I was at a friend's house and they had a colour TV. It was a massive piece of furniture and the colour on the tangerine shorts bled everywhere. I do remember that it was cut off at 90 minutes. I now have a DVD of the whole game...in bleedin' b&w!
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I know its been done on here before 66 but how they could disappear after 90 mins 🥺. Obviously back then everyone was left in disarray not knowing Mickey Burns had scored that beauty in technicolor 🤣
 
Shandypants said:
England didn't qualify in 78. Decent WC I recall the ticker tape at the beginning of the Argentina games but they were allegedly drugged to the gills and after one match stayed out playing
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"England didn't qualify in 78"


Apologies Shandy.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit and the highest form of vulgarity.
 
SEASIDE2020 said:
"England didn't qualify in 78"


Apologies Shandy.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit and the highest form of vulgarity.
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Sarcasm? After saying you were young and didn't remember England I was stating a fact. I wasn't trying to be remotely sarcastic.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
I don't remember black and white TV, I'm not an old man.
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Even today, you can still adjust your modern TV set to black and white simply by turning the colour right down.

Rather unhelpfully, the commentators have stopped saying which team are playing in the dark shorts so it pays to put the colour back up every now and then
 
1970 World Cup it was stunning to Watch that mesmerising Brazil side in all their colourful glory! Shame about us though, bloody Müller!
 
There was little problem differentiating teams on a b&w telly, even when both wore white shorts. This modern thing for compulsory away kits is just commercialism running everything.
 
Yeah it was the 1970 Mexican world cup..so remember when Mam and dad went to bed I'd sneak downstairs for the late matches with volume on +1 or 2...ahh! Brazil in that kit..what exotic colours..had to get the kit from Latus's in Fleetwood :)
 
Don't think we got one until around 1977, but I do remember the set before B & W but 625 lines & Star Trek seemed amazing. For the life of me I can't remember the colour set that replaced it, probably because I'd discovered beer & women. Never been a massive TV fan & still get told off for turning it off when there's nothing on or nobody's actually watching it. 🙄
 
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