[Vella Gonzaga]

Coloured TV​

Who here remembers the arrival of coloured television in Australia? It was a game-changer on 1st March 1975 when all the TV stations officially made the switch. Some advertisers were sceptical, thinking most people were still watching in black and white. Boy, were they wrong! Aussies embraced coloured TV faster than anyone anticipated. By 1978, most households in Sydney and Melbourne had jumped on the coloured TV bandwagon. What was the very first thing you watched on your shiny new colour TV?

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[Shedguy]

I remember seeing my first colour tv in a shop window in Yeovil Somerset in probably 1967, I was amazed. I was an apprentice then living at home and there was no way we could have afforded to buy one.
It wasn’t until we emigrated in 1972 that we had our first colour tv.

 

[Thecheesequeen]

But, Shedguy, colour tv wasn’t available in Australia until 1975 (see article). We arrived here in June 1974, by ship. On the journey we met two couples who became our lifelong friends, and one couple had brought all their household goods with them, including their colour tv, only to discover it didn’t work here! They were back in black and white.

 

[IamJane]

I remember watching just one trial episode of "Upstairs Downstairs" on colour TV. All the others had been in black and white. It was quite memorable.

 

[Catherines]

Can’t remember the first colour show I watched on TV. Age has caught up with my memory!

 

[Catherines]

But, Shedguy, colour tv wasn’t available in Australia until 1975 (see article). We arrived here in June 1974, by ship. On the journey we met two couples who became our lifelong friends, and one couple had brought all their household goods with them, including their colour tv, only to discover it didn’t work here! They were back in black and white.

I’m assuming Shedguy was living in Somerset, England and not Somerset somewhere in Australia and colour may have been already available in the UK in 1967.

 

[Colette 3799]

I grew up n England and my school friend’s family was the first people we knew to get a colour TV. My dad used to pick me up from her house and he would get there just in time to watch the soccer on ’Match of the Day’ on a Saturday night. I worked for us as Myself and Diane had more time for playing our records etc lol

 

[Tricia56]

Remember it well as my father worked for Astor/Philips and we had a colour TV home on trial (like many appliances over the years). Happened to be around the time when Princess Anne married Captain Mark Phillips and when the wedding was televised we had half the neighbourhood in to watch the ceremony. Lounge room looked like a movie theatre with all the chairs. Ha Ha!!

 

[Bill MacL]

Would of been a damn commercial for sure.

 

[thomas]

I was in England when color television started over there, the first program to be shown in color just happened to be "The Black & White Minstrel Show" (because of all the colorful costumes and backdrops etc that they had)

 

[Ricki]

Coloured TV​

Who here remembers the arrival of coloured television in Australia? It was a game-changer on 1st March 1975 when all the TV stations officially made the switch. Some advertisers were sceptical, thinking most people were still watching in black and white. Boy, were they wrong! Aussies embraced coloured TV faster than anyone anticipated. By 1978, most households in Sydney and Melbourne had jumped on the coloured TV bandwagon. What was the very first thing you watched on your shiny new colour TV?

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We had b&w TV in 1955-56 (Canada) and colour 1956, except it was a sheet with coloured strip's on it. Very weird it was, but I thought it was special as a 6 yr old. I think it was a good many years before we actually got a real colour TV.

 

[Reet]

Coloured TV​

Who here remembers the arrival of coloured television in Australia? It was a game-changer on 1st March 1975 when all the TV stations officially made the switch. Some advertisers were sceptical, thinking most people were still watching in black and white. Boy, were they wrong! Aussies embraced coloured TV faster than anyone anticipated. By 1978, most households in Sydney and Melbourne had jumped on the coloured TV bandwagon. What was the very first thing you watched on your shiny new colour TV?

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I remember arriving in Australia from England with my husband and children and wondering why there wasn't colour TV. This was in December 1966. We h ad been so used to colour TV at home that we couldn't understand why people here in Australia didn't have it.

 

[thomas]

I remember arriving in Australia from England with my husband and children and wondering why there wasn't colour TV. This was in December 1966. We h ad been so used to colour TV at home that we couldn't understand why people here in Australia didn't have it.

we arrived in Australia in 1969, bought a television in Perth, moved to WA mid west and brought the television with us, it didn't work when we got it here and I thought I must have damaged it on the way, didn't realize at the time but there was no reception outside Perth, took about 3 years before we got tv here

 

[Gsr]

When we got married in 1974 we decided not to get a TV but to wait til colour came out in 1975. We used to listen to our radios, play records and cassettes for entertainment. Then when colour TV arrived we rented one for 12 months to make sure it really would work before we bought our first one. I’m guessing the first show we watched would have been a cartoon, we both enjoyed them and still do.

 

[Suzanne rose]

When I first moved out of home in 1978 and just 17 ...what was the first thing t I purchased ? Was it a bed ....was it a couch or even a fridge , no it was my first colour TV

 

[Rob.]

I suspect that among our first colour programmes there would have been cartoons, as I had 2 younger brothers, and I have always been a cartoon person too.