The World is Yours (lost early television series; 1951)

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Status: Lost


The World is Yours was a short-lived color television program starring naturalist Ivan T. Sanderson and model Patricia Stinnette. It aired each weekday from June 26th to September 14th of 1951, making it the first regularly-airing color TV show.[1] While the content of most episodes is unknown, contemporary newspaper articles mention that the first episode displaying peacocks and tanagers along with an explanation of the way the human eye perceives color.[2] Sanderson mentions the program in his book Invisible Residents, and implies that most or all episodes featured educational content about the natural world.[3]

The program aired via CBS's field-sequential color-system, an early form of color television which saw little commercial success. Fewer than 200 televisions capable of displaying the field-sequential signal were produced at the time when The World is Yours aired. By the end of 1951, production halted entirely, ostensibly in an effort to conserve production materials during the Korean War. While the field-sequential color programs could be viewed on a standard black-and-white television, this required an adapter which few viewers would have had.[4]

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