Grumble, grumble

[bengland]

Talked myself out of the B&W to color answer. Why? Because I didn't think it was "unusual" enough. I started thinking about all of the other shows that could be on the list: Today, Tonight, Meet the Press, all the soap operas, probably Art Fleming's Jeopardy!, for crying out loud! Grumble...

[melissa]

Yep, I'm also my own worst enemy! I tend to think, "that's too easy!" and try to think of a more obscure answer.

Mr. Rogers would be so disappointed in me...

(Great guy - I got to meet him when I was in college!)

[malonetd]

I talked myself out of Sasquatch and for some reason thought "Chewbacca" was it. For some reason I was thinking Chewie was named after some word along these lines.

[Ken Jennings]

I keep trying to tell people that "unusual" for these purposes has to mean "vastly dwarfed by the number of items that *don't* qualify" and not "so rare and amazing you'll be calling all your friends."

It's hard to make the question solve-able if it's the latter.

[rick1013]

Talked myself out of the B&W to color answer. Why? Because I didn't think it was "unusual" enough. I started thinking about all of the other shows that could be on the list: Today

Ken, thanks for the spiff that I submitted a similar question during the last tiebreaker.

As to bengland's point above, note that I had included "Hogan's Heroes" and "Perry Mason" as the "unusual" shows in the list.......any guesses why? Anyone? Anyone?

[bwouns]

This is just a guess. Did they go from b&w to color and back to b&w again?

[rick1013]

This is just a guess. Did they go from b&w to color and back to b&w again?

nope.

that a head for you in Hangman.

[econgator]

All I can say is:



I FINALLY GOT ANOTHER #7 RIGHT!


That is all.

[Eoin]

It was common in the sixties to begin a show in b&w and wait to see if it would become successful enough to justify the expense of color. The Man From Uncle, The Lucy Show, Petticoat Junction, and from pre-sixties, Red Skelton, Ed Sullivan, Bonanza - the list does go on and on.
I can think of only one TV program where the episodes go from b&w to color to b&w.
Doctor Who
(Correction - for Bonanza read Gunsmoke - see Rick's post below)

[rick1013]

actually, Bonanza was always color as NBC, its network, was then owned by RCA which wanted to promote its color televisions.

the answer to the Hogan's Heroes/Perry Mason conundrum is

the first (pilot) episode of Hogan was b&w and all others were color while all 250+ episodes of Perry Mason were b&w with only (one of) the final episodes in color

[harpo55]

The show that came to my mind first was one of my
favorites as a kid, The Adventures of Superman. I may be
off but I recall them being about 50/50 B&W, color.

john

[ninjapirate]

Aack! I knew I was over-thinking it. I knew it couldn't be something about physical or chemical properties because of the inclusion of astatine, which is one of those pretend elements. It had to be something else. It was something else, and I got it WRONG!!!! Waaaaaa!

Good one, though, Ken. Sneaky. I like sneaky.

[econgator]

Aack! I knew I was over-thinking it. I knew it couldn't be something about physical or chemical properties because of the inclusion of astatine, which is one of those pretend elements. It had to be something else. It was something else, and I got it WRONG!!!! Waaaaaa!

Good one, though, Ken. Sneaky. I like sneaky.

Sad thing was, when I saw it, I thought, "Yes! Right up my alley. No obscure books/movies/rock groups/songs that I've never even heard of, much less read/saw/listened to."

Wouldn't have gotten it in a million years.


Dang. Just looked at the scoreboard. Only 7 perfects. Could this be the set we have a clear winner?

[JD]

Talked myself out of the B&W to color answer. Why? Because I didn't think it was "unusual" enough. I started thinking about all of the other shows that could be on the list: Today, Tonight, Meet the Press, all the soap operas, probably Art Fleming's Jeopardy!, for crying out loud! Grumble...

Same here. I thought "That's not unusual enough," too. Plus, I knew that Gilligan's Island also went from B&W to color, and it wasn't on the list.

[pi_master]

Dang. Just looked at the scoreboard. Only 7 perfects. Could this be the set we have a clear winner?

I doubt it. The top of the scoreboard looks the same as it has the last 2 seasons. Also, if those 8 people got a question that hard, theyre almost certain to get the rest of them. Know what I mean?

[Brad Williams]

I believe all prime-time shows on the three major networks were in color by the fall of 1966...which means some popular series might have done color episodes if they had lasted one more year. Those series include:

The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Patty Duke Show
The Addams Family
The Munsters

On the other hand, it took another full year for some daytime shows on the networks, such as soap operas, to be converted to color production.