Christmas, that joyous, religious holiday is again upon us. Christmas the season of good will, which seems all too rare these days. Christmas the season of giving... and Christmas, the family holiday enjoyed by all its members no matter how young, no matter how old. We would like to speak up at this season for television. It is proper that we do, for no medium has meant more to the American family. It has united the family in the home for hours of fun, inspiration, education and religion. Noted clergymen have taken advantage of its pulpit. Religious services have been telecast. Indeed, many are being telecast this week. During this family holiday it is pertinent that television the family medium, is an instrument for good will, too - for creating understanding by showing us the faces of our neighbors, by explaining, their problems, their dreams. It is an instrument of giving too, for it has given happiness to millions everyday of the year and think of how it dispels loneliness for the shut-in and the aged. We stress these contributions now because they are often overlooked by the medium's critics, who dwell upon its imperfections while ignoring its many virtues. So during the holidays when families gather for pleasure, for reflection, for prayer, for inspiration, we want to emphasize the beneficial influence that television has had upon the family. We also want to extend holiday greetings to those men and women who work in the many phases of this pervasive medium. To all of them, to all our readers, we wish a very Merry Christmas and a most Happy New Year.

Thank you for posting the page scans. I was looking for any shows marked "Color". The pages displayed are from too late in the evening probably, though, if such shows were marked. I know our TV magazine from the Sunday newspaper in Chicago called out color shows at least until the late 1960s.

Thank you for posting the page scans. I was looking for any shows marked "Color". The pages displayed are from too late in the evening probably, though, if such shows were marked. I know our TV magazine from the Sunday newspaper in Chicago called out color shows at least until the late 1960s.

Here are some shows that have the word "COLOR" in a box: Dinah Shore, Etc...
I didn't even notice that when I was thumbing through it.
So neat how young TV was; wish we had those same programs today!

Merry Christmas everyone!
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Here are some shows that have the word "COLOR" in a box: Dinah Shore, Etc...
I didn't even notice that when I was thumbing through it.
So neat how young TV was; wish we had those same programs today!

Merry Christmas everyone!
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I feel the same way. I've been building a collection of my own favorite TV series on DVD from the 1960s-'70s, so I can see those great old shows again. They certainly don't make TV shows like that anymore. :no:

I have several series now, one complete run (The Odd Couple, 1970-'75), and one almost complete run (Quincy, M. E., missing only season 8; I'm still looking for that final season on Amazon.com, and will purchase it as soon as it is released). The rest are various shows from the '60s-'70s; I have only the first or first and second seasons of those programs.

The point I'm trying to make is that, even though these programs no longer run on the networks or even in syndication (in fact, many of the '60s and even some '70s series no longer exist, since the tapes were erased and reused after the show's run ended), we can still see quite a few of these older shows on DVD. It's not quite the same as when the shows were new, since DVDs are often digitally remastered, some parts of the programs are edited, and, of course, there are no commercials, but personally, I don't mind. Just being able to see these old shows again more than makes up for the shortcomings of DVD releases of the programs.

BTW, some TV listings today have the small boxes after the program description denoting live or taped shows, but not color or b&w. My local newspaper's TV listings are printed in a small grid on the TV page, on the back side of the comics page most of the time. The paper ceased publishing a separate TV guide several years ago, citing lack of use due to today's cable program guides and the like. My cable provider, Time Warner, used to have the TV Guide listings on channel 13, but they later (when they finished their digital conversion) put them on digital channel 230, and still later dropped them altogether. I don't know if they are still available if you have HD digital cable (I don't anymore; used to, though, until the rates went through the ceiling some years ago), but I would imagine the channel listings are probably hiding away somewhere in the HD digital tiers of service (in the 1000s and up).

Happy holidays to all.

Muchos Gracious for posting the images!!!!!!

Thank you very much for the pictures!