Let's Remember Together
For the visits when you run out of things to say.
Quick Quiz
Game 77
When the grass on the screen turned green
In front of the set
A video by Lost 1960s TV and Radio
The game's question
Bring back the picture first – the room, the set – then choose one of the three years.
For years, everything came into the living room in black and white. Then one summer, on BBC2, the picture changed: the grass of Wimbledon turned green, live, for four hours of tennis presented by David Vine. It was the first regular colour television in Europe, and it began on 1 July. Which year was it?
- 1957
- 1967
- 1977
Need a hint?
Six months later, on 1 January, the colour licence came in at £10. Who was the first family you knew with a colour set?
See the answer
Answer: 1967 – on BBC2, with four hours of tennis live from Wimbledon.
Why this game : Putting a year to the first colour pictures gives a date to hold on to – and a story about whose living room it was.
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