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Old 2nd Dec 2020, 8:13 pm   #1
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Default BBC Colour Promotion 1969/70

As we all know November 1969 saw BBC-1 and ITV finally bloom into (mostly) full colour. Here are some examples of the printed promotional material distributed by the BBC to television dealers at the time to help the sales of colour sets.

I wonder if anyone in the trade at the time remembers these?

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And a few more...!
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Default Re: BBC Colour Promotion 1969/70

Sorry to say I don’t remember them, mind there is so much I have forgotten so we may have had them in the shop. We sold CTV from the first transmission in 1967.
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Default Re: BBC Colour Promotion 1969/70

Dash it! I was expecting to have my memory jogged and gleefully recognise these things, as I was just entering the TV trade at this time. Sadly, although I spent some time 'front of house' in the shop I don't recall any of them.
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Default Re: BBC Colour Promotion 1969/70

My memories of the first years of "full" colour on ITV was the industrial dispute/strike/work to rule where everything on ITV was back to B&W only for several months - I'm guessing this would have been ~1970.
One episode of "Land of the Giants" in colour then B&W. As an "inquisitive" teenager (just) - I'd spend hours fiddling with the fine tuning and other knobs trying to get the colour back.
I think the dispute affected all ITV regions not just Yorkshire Television but could be wrong there.
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I think the dispute affected all ITV regions not just Yorkshire Television but could be wrong there.
Nov 1970 to Feb 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_Strike
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I think the dispute affected all ITV regions not just Yorkshire Television but could be wrong there.
Nov 1970 to Feb 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_Strike
Although it was before my time, I am reliably informed by my colleagues who were that that the sound staff also received the colour pay supplement when the 'dispute' was eventually settled. ITV never charged more for transmitting colour commercials than black and white ones.
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LWT were quite badly effected by the colour strike, with the early episodes of Budgie and Upstairs Downstairs being made in black and white, though the pilot of Upstairs Downstairs was later remade in colour.
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TPTV have been showing Upstairs, Downstairs from the start, including the episodes that were made in black & white due to a technicians strike, and haven't been repeated much if at all since the original run.
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