NBC Living Color Peacock

The Following Program is Brought to You In Living Color on NBC

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Entertainment

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• nbc
• living
• color
• colour
• tv
• peacock

[whattheheck1000]

I can imagine a scene from 1961. This is fictitious.

11-year-old Boy: Mom, can we get a color TV?

Mom: No, they're too expensive.

11-year-old Boy: Mom, this show's in living color!

Mom: We can't afford it.

11-year-old Boy: I want to see living color!

Mom: OK, you can have a color TV if you can clean out the garage, shovel the driveway and bring democracy to Cuba.

[ma55aracin9]

11-year-old Boy: Well,i can do some of the chores,but the latter will be impossible to realize

Mom: OK. seriously,if you help me with some of the chores,we'll get our FIRST color TV

Boy: Thanks,mom. you're the best!

[Juliaflo]

@amiaminot I distinctly remember this fanfare, even though I did not have a color set at that time. I suppose remembering this gives away my age---21-plus, LOLOLOLOL.

[EricandDish]

Bang the gong! As NBC makes history in 1955-56 with color...while it would be another decade before ABC and CBS would follow (circa 1965).

[angelpichu1]

@ma55aracin9 (many years later)

boy: mom can we get an hd tv?

*same pattern happens*

[Dudelover7995]

In '75 I turned 9,thats when NBC started used that 3D twirling crystal N. See graphic technology was already starting to get pretty good back then. It wasn't so "dark".

[Joe49er1964]

@whattheheck1000

I like that scenario. Great imagination

My Family already had a color tv  before I was born.

[malikscifi92]

this would look beautiful in hd

[jehobden]

@liddlepeep I do. My family didn't have a color tv until 1979, and that set was second-hand.

[MooseShady]

Haha! That's a good one.

[whattheheck1000]

TV store, October 6, 1961

TV salesman: One Westinghouse color TV, $595.

Mom: Michael, you know this will mean less Christmas presents this year?

11-year-old Boy (Michael): I'm okay with that.

(On their way home, the TV's loaded into the rear seat of the mom's 1957 Buick)

Home, October 6, 1961

NBC Announcer: The following program is brought to you in living color, on NBC.

Michael: Thank you very much, Mom! (hugs her)

[amiaminot]

By far, this was my favorite peacock intro...never liked the ones after that...