Colour TV

The BBC tests NTSC colour on 405-lines for the benefit of MPs

An upgrade from 405-lines to 625-lines is not enough on its own to get people to buy or rent new sets, says the BBC’s DC Birkinshaw in 1959

Get ready for something new: HTV West is about to launch with local programmes for local people

Ten years of Grampian are celebrated by them going into colour in 1971

The future of black-and-white is here: subjective colour

It’s C-Day! The Controller of BBC-1 and an array of newspaper critics look at what colour will bring to the channel

Lord Bernstein thinks that colour is a waste of money. The Daily Telegraph in 1969 does not

David Attenborough looks back at a year of BBC-2 in colour

The Daily Express is outraged in 1966 when the government announces there will be no colour on BBC-1 and ITV

Colour comes to ITV, courtesy of tests done by ITA chief engineer Howard Steele

The changes the make-up artists at Thames, Yorkshire and ATV had to make for the introduction of colour TV

Sydney Bernstein argues against going colour in 1969

The BBC encourages us to tune our sets correctly for BBC-2 and colour in 1968

Watching BBC-1 change to 625 colour