The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961 - 1966)

[Chris2]

Sorry. duplicate post.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

TZ and TDVDS are very different shows. I agree a color Twilight Zone in the 60s would have seemed strange. For TDVDS, Carl Reiner said, “During the course of the show, it was suggested that we do it in color, and they said it would cost $6,000 an episode, and my partners said, “Well, there goes our profit.” So we decided to leave it in black and white. It really lends itself to color.”

Rose Marie felt the show had more life in it and wanted to go on. And it would have had to transition to color for a sixth season, since all US primetime shows were in color by fall of 1966. I’m glad they didn’t; I agree with the Andy Griffith analogy.

Gee, I wish somebody had said all that.

 

[Seaviewer]

In general I'm against colourising but there are a few cases - such as the already mentioned Gilligan's Island and I Dream of Jeannie - where one has the impression that they would have made them in colour if they could so in that sense it's like the correcting of an error.

 

[ClassyCo]

TZ and TDVDS are very different shows.

Very different shows.

I agree a color Twilight Zone in the 60s would have seemed strange.

A colorized TWILIGHT ZONE is practically inconceivable. I doubt I'd watch any colorized episodes if I even had the opportunity.

Rose Marie felt the show had more life in it and wanted to go on.

There are a lot of casts -- or partial casts -- that often want their shows to continue. When Bea Arthur pulled out of GOLDEN GIRLS in 1992, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty weren't quite ready to let go. The producers and writers morphed the other three women into a spin-off called GOLDEN PALACE, that lasted a single season. The heart of the show was lost without Bea on the ship. That's not to say GOLDEN PALACE wasn't a good show, it just means that what made the original so special just wasn't there anymore.​

GILLIGAN were the 64/65 season when the B&W still looked mysterious, soothing and almost hallowed.

You know, there is something special about that first B&W season of GILLIGAN that just makes it, as you say, quite soothing to watch. Perhaps if I had a good colorized version of those initial 36 episodes, I could have both copies in my collection; therefore leaving the option open to watch whichever print I want to.​

 

[Crimson]

But Season 1 of BEWITCHED and GILLIGAN were the 64/65 season when the B&W still looked mysterious, soothing and almost hallowed.

I would substitute "soothing" with "unsettling" for GI. That first season has a disconnected-from-reality vibe, both visually and audially, that I find vaguely creepy. From that starting point, the series could have gone in the total opposite direction in season two: revealing that the castaways weren't stuck on an island, but on some unworldly purgatory.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I would substitute "soothing" with "unsettling" for GI. That first season has a disconnected-from-reality vibe, both visually and audially, that I find vaguely creepy. From that starting point, the series could have gone in the total opposite direction in season two: revealing that the castaways weren't stuck on an island, but on some unworldly purgatory.

Indeed. And that's the charm of early-'60s B&W...

 

[DallasFanForever]

Indeed. And that's the charm of early-'60s B&W...

I’ll still take the color. But not with Twilight Zone. That would be unfathomable.

 

[ClassyCo]

I’ll still take the color.

And I'm the opposite. I love some classy-looking B&W.

But not with Twilight Zone. That would be unfathomable.

Having THE TWILIGHT ZONE in color would be disastrous. Outright disastrous. I flat refuse to even think about it.​

And that's the charm of early-'60s B&W...

There is something quite charming about early-'60s B&W that makes TV shows and movies from that period very distinctive.

 

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