The Colour Television Receiver

A beautifully overtly technical BBC trade test transmission film from the late 60s, demonstrating the new colour television receivers, and all the hard work involved in getting them to work. Guns and illuminant C and colour fringeing... no simple plug and play here!
I'm told that this film, narrated by a very plummy-voiced Michael Aspel, ran once or twice a day during the usual afternoon down time on BBC2 and, later, BBC1 as a guide for installers to calibrate the sets, and as a showcase for TV shops to have on in their windows.

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

Gordon Bennett, I remember seeing this in 1969/70!

[@AdeBamforth]

Either colour TV is here or a nuclear attack in imminent.

[@gailbostock]

Brillant it takes me back , i must have spent hours messing about at the back of an old colour TV playing around

[@MrCrispian]

does anyone remember the test transmissions films transmitted in the late 60's and early 70's?

[@rubbrhog]

Fantastic... This, and the film about PAINT I remember sitting and watching in the late sixties on my Mum and Dad's old Sobell B+W dual standard set. Was given a Murphy CTV25 some years later, so was able to use some of this trying to get the colour picture to converge (some hopes!!)

[@TIMBOWERMAN]

The picture quality reminded me of early colour TV receivers. I saw this on a 43 inch TV.

[@bonnie43uk]

Micheal Aspel came to our house once, he demanded £15 for our TV licence, and said if my father didn't pay, he would have us killed.

[@mbvideoselection]

I would love for somebody to find a better copy of this though!

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

Oh man this is really cool! If only there was a higher quality version.

[@gcbus]

Fantastic !! :-)

[@johneygd]

This is very interesting stuff.

[@mukatuna]

A very plummy sounding Michael Aspel.

[@oldjock1152]

Yeah, like that really happened!

[@peugteobike]

I like old tvs

[@Jonathansyoutube]

This is so complicated, I think I will stick with black and white instead. Who needs colour TV anyway?

[@johneymute]

since color can be bend of white color,i was thinking why they just dit,nt had try to just use a color prisma system wich just simply bends the white color into all colors,this should,ve make it much cheaper to produce color tv,s 'm mean instead of using 3 color guns,just using only a white color gun along with a color prisma system instead to see if it will work either..

[@johneymute]

@hawkturkeywooow that's very interesting, i wonder if they ever had tryed it and tested it out and demonstrated it, that would be very interesting from a technical stand point of view, THX alot.