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trainman:
I just acquired a Philadelphia TV Guide from December 1956, back when \"Bandstand\" was still a local show...I was surprised to see that it was listed as being in color.

zachhoran:
Bandstand directors Kip Walton and Barry Glazer directed game shows, Walton Lange NTT and Kennedy SPlit Second  among others, and Glazer directed Crosswits 1986.

DjohnsonCB:
>>American Bandstand went to color in 1966, making it one of the last network shows to do so...

Actually, it was in the fall of 1967, about a week after Sioux City, IA's old CBS station went to ABC and their viewers had to get used to CBS being on a new UHF station.  It signed on the day after the final CBS broadcast of Gilligan's Island (they made up for it by buying the reruns), and they were only able to pick up the last three CBS Password eps before \"Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing\" took over that time slot the following week.  I don't think it was until then that Captain Kangaroo went to color as well.  ABC may have still had one b/w game by then, One In A Million.

uncamark:

--- Quote ---Bandstand directors Kip Walton and Barry Glazer directed game shows, Walton Lange NTT and Kennedy SPlit Second  among others, and Glazer directed Crosswits 1986.
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And it should be mentioned that before he stepped into the control room to direct, Kip Walton was organist on the obscure early 60s CBS game show \"Face the Facts.\"  Hosted by a gentleman named Red Rowe, who CBS loved and put in several different formats, even though my mother didn't (but she left the show on because it was on between \"Password\" and \"House Party\").  Me being a little kid, I don't remember that much about the show, except that it had a courtroom-type setting and flashier scoreboards than many game shows back then (of course, it was from Television City instead of New York).

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