October 13, 1947 –
Kids, back when the earth cooled and formed a hard crust, there was a very popular TV series featuring two puppets and a very polite lady that ad-libbed the entire show – Junior Jamboree – a version which ultimately became Kukla, Fran and Ollie premiered on this date.
(this is not the premiere episode, but it is from 1949!)
One episode of the show was broadcast in color in fall 1949, in Washington, D.C., as a demonstration to the FCC of RCA’s line-sequential color TV system. The same episode was performed live a second time the same afternoon, for network broadcast in black and white, but using the experimental color cameras.
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