Very local news update:

We reached the first episode in “Dark Shadows” last night which was in colour. (The next episodes are in black-and-white; it was some time before they permanently went to colour.)

The show started when ABC was a new network and had not yet transitioned to colour. Additionally, the special effects cameras used by the show were used to tape ABC Evening News right afterward, because ABC only had two of them. The news division and the soap opera were in constant battle over winding up taping of “Dark Shadows” each day so the news could get the cameras. (Trivia from one of the documentary clips with the show.)