It was Hawaii 5-0. I remember being disappointed that I didn't enjoy the programmes any more than I had before.
I'd forgotten all about that until your post brought it all back. It was about 1976/77 for me too.

The first thing I remember watching in colour and thinking "Wow" was Tom and Jerry. It was on my nan's new B&O telly, early 70's. Tom was blue?

Tales From The Riverbank but that was probably black and white. Or definately in colour Mary, Mungo and Midge.

so color tv was always around for me. The first few shows I remember seeing were Today's Special, Sesame Street and reruns of WKRP.

I was 3 and I was being babysat by a friend of my mother's. I distinctly remember watching Tony Orlando and Dawn singing "Tie A Yellow Ribbon..." in glorious technicolour.

I swear the first programme I watched in colour was The Black & White Minstrel Show! Honestly.

watching in colour at home. I think we got our first colour TV in 1975. We had lots of animation from behind the Iron Curtain in the 70's, and Professor Baltazar was my favourite. (This episode is in Swedish).

My dad bought our tiny Sony Trinitron expressly for the 1974 World Cup and as he tuned it in, the lovely Delia appeared in full colour.

Hours of fun ensued with the colour adjustment knob, making Michael Barratt and Frank Bough turn deep red and then deathly white.

This was the first time that I "got" the concept of black and white film. I assumed that the Marx Brothers and Laurel & Hardy were now going to be in colour. In my defence, I was seven years old.

in, I think, 1973. It was at a neighbour's house, and we'd all gone there because he had a colour TV.

Peter Shilton pulled off an amazing save from a Dalglish shot which we were already celebrating!

It was the wrestling, with Mick McManus : we picked up the TV from Granada on the Saturday afternoon and plugged it in and BAM!!

Yes, I can still picture the shock of it, and the surprise of seeing Dickie Davies in colour.

I went round to a friend's house to watch the Leeds v Sunderland FA Cup final. We didn't get a colour set until 1975 and I have no idea what the first program I saw was, possibly Blue Peter, possibly Magpie, may even have been Lift Off with Aysha, depends on what day it arrived!

as my Gran had colour. I remember agreeing with a schoolfriend about then that when people landed on Mars (in 1986 ...) I'd go round to his to watch it ;-)

I remember watching speedway on World of Sport on my Uncles's colour tv which was the first colour tv I'd seen. I also remember watching a series of test programmes on BBC 2 that ran in an afternoon. One was about Australia and another was set I believe in the South American jungle. They were quite interesting but repeated ad infinitum. Anybody remember these or any others in the series?

worked for a TV rentals company and got one early on for my granddad. I clearly remember going round to his house one Sunday afternoon to watch the Granada TV football programme and the main match was Blackpool v QPR, a veritable cornucopia of gaudy orange and electric blue/white hoops.

My first colourful memory was the Charlie George cup final

The Preacher and Ma kept telling me how bad it was, so one afternoon when they were out Testifying in Bagshot, I switched it on for the first and last time. It was bad, after all. Four hours and the Girl with the clown by the blackboard still hadn't done or said a thing. Haven't watched it since.

I remember it well. It was 1971, we had to go and play next door while the man installed it. Then, when we got home, this was on. All the little partridge cartoon characters in the opening titles were different colours. I've been glued ever since.

in Germany. Not sure who were playing but it was afternoon and the man from Radio Rentals bought the Baird branded telly round and set it up to the football. I would have been 6 at the time.

These were the days before daytime television. In fact, I think they had to change the law to allow programmes like Pebble Mill to be shown. The Government or the GPO controlled how many hours a day television programmes could be broadcast.

I remember one of those colour test films had endless shots of a beach. I also remember the first glimpse of the colour test card with the girl and the blackboard.

My gran got colour quite early. She loved anything modern - formica, the latest gas fires and tape recorders. She used to watch The Golden Shot with the colour and contrast turned right up and Bob Monkhouse who naturally was quite orange, looked like he was radio active. The film South Pacific on her 'set' would probably get a grant for modern art today.

Can anyone also remember when ITV used to fill its mornings with schools programmes, engineering information and playing out new commercials by length (20",30") - I never could work out why they did this? Was it for the other regions to record them? Or for the ad agencies to see the work on screen for the first time?

or Swap Shop. It was a rental TV anyway with a two button (up and down)channel changer. It was like living in the future!!

On holiday at my Uncle's on the Kent coast. He had a penchant for mod cons. (The opening ceremony was spectacular).

But my folks do go on about seeing the version of Dracula starring Louis Jourdan the first night they got colour TV. Neither would go to the kitchen alone to make a cup of coffee afterwards!

our b/w telly broke it was Saturday afternoon and we were watching a submarine film and then the telly was torpedoed! Then the following Thursday the new got delivered in time for us to watch Tomorrow's world and top of the pops. I remember seeing some one like T-REX and being blown away by the solarization effects and the colours.

AKA the only reason that people like Steve "Interesting" Davis ever became famous. Desperate for programming to demonstrate the amazingness of their new toy, the BBC plumped for the only sport (well, sort-of-sport) for which watching on a colour set was actually worth the bother.

The rest, as they say, is, er, next to the pink.

Where's me Embassy?

It used to be on Monday nights on BBC2. We had this massive Grundig tv, which was the size (and weight) of a washing machine, with touch sensitive, numbered panels for the channel buttons. The gorgeous Victoria Cannon in full lurid, day-glo splendour...... whimper.

Massive grey fronted Ferguson tv from visionhire. New antenna had to be installed as well, just in time to watch Mr Ben followed by Blue peter & Nationwide.

was "It's a Knock Out" the European version, when the denizens of somewhere like Kings Lynn took on the might of Western Europe in a riot of colour and foam costumes.
Saw it on holiday and parents were so taken by the visual improvement that a colour TV was soon on the agenda. Delivered one afternoon, first programme we managed to tune into was "Lost in Space" but after about 5 minutes the aerial was blown sideways off the roof. To stem the torrent of juvenile tears Dad was dispatched onto the roof to complete repairs, but whilst I was holding the ladder the extension part came slamming down. Managed to move my hands but my right foot was the victim of a guillotine like attack, requiring a day off school!!!
Seem to remember we had about 3 sets before we got one that actually worked properly, but we were very popular with our neighbours around the time of the 1972 F A Cup Final.

First programme I saw was Play School - they went through the round window and there was a garden with a vast green lawn. It seemed incredible. If you saw Electric Dreams on BBC4 last night you'll know why.