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Originally Posted by sadykadie2
Ha, Sopas! you are telling the exact story of my childhood! Right down to the black and white in the parents room. I'm the same age
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Cool! Nice to know there's someone on here who is the same age as I---fellow Gen-Xer, and someone I assume also graduated high school in 1988.
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Originally Posted by HossC
Season 4 of M*A*S*H ended in February 1976 with an episode called 'The Interview'. It contained newsreel style interviews with the main characters in black and white. After the color opening credits, there's a voice-over stating "The following is in black and white." I guess the network didn't want millions of viewers trying to "fix" their color TVs.
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Yeah; in the mid-1980s, there was a "Moonlighting" episode that featured two of the main characters' dream sequences both shot in black-and-white, that were homages to 1940s film noir, one being done in the glossy MGM style (Maddie/Cybill Shepherd's dream sequence), the other being done in the grittier Warner Bros. style (David/Bruce Willis' dream sequence). The episode opened with an introduction by Orson Welles, saying that there was nothing wrong with your TV, or something. From what I learned later, the episode was expensive to produce, because by the mid-1980s, black-and-white film stock was rare, and it was even rarer to find a good black-and-white cinematographer. The network originally wanted to shoot the episode in color and just chroma down to black-and-white for broadcast, but the producers were afraid that in reruns, the whole episode would just be shown in color.
BTW "Moonlighting" was my favorite show when I was in high school.
Below is the episode, minus Orson Welles' intro:
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Hmm, it seems slightly sped up. Oh well.