Quick Quiz
Game 77
The Day Color Came to the TV Set
Black and White, Then Color
A video by International Throwbacks
The game's question
Let the scene play out, then pick one of the three years together.
For years, everything came into the living room in black and white: the comedies, the westerns, the game shows. Then RCA put the first mass-produced color TV set into the stores. It cost $1,000—almost the price of a new car—and only 4,400 were made. Anyone who owned one could expect visitors. In which year did it reach the stores?
- 1954
- 1964
- 1974
Need a hint?
Color came much sooner than most people think—so few sets were made that hardly anyone owned one. Where did you first watch a show in color, and what was on?
See the answer
Answer: 1954—RCA’s first color set, at $1,000, with only 4,400 made.
Why this game : Placing the TV set on the timeline of your own life turns a date into a story: whose house, which show, who was watching.
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