German phrases: How to Speak Oktoberfest. Some of the German phrases with translations that youâll hear at the Alpine Village Oktoberfest. If youâve visited Alpine Village in Torrance for our amazing Oktoberfest celebration, youâve probably picked up on some of the German words and phrases that we use here.
The FCC approved RCA color televisions toward the end of 1953, marking the start of major color TV sales in the United States. Sales of color televisions slowly overtook those of black-and-white sets. By the mid-1970s, more color televisions were being purchased than black-and-white TVs. By the 1980s, black-and-white television sales began to dry up for good.
1 Combined with it being filmed in color from first show to last (a rarity for a series which began in 1959), it must have cost NBC a fortune. Safe to say they've made their money back now, however.  Bonanza was actually the first television series both filmed and broadcast and color. Earlier shows had been filmed in color but broadcast in black and white (i.e. The Adventures of Superman]] or broadcast live in color but recorded on black and white film (one episode of The Burnsand Allen Show).