The Big Little Jesus (1953)

★★★★★ · THE FIRST COLOR FILM BROADCAST ON TV · movieprod · 2015-07-04

Broadcast on Dec. 23, 1953 this was the first commercial color film broadcast in history - RCA received approval of their system and the first color signal went out on Dec. 17th - Jack was way ahead of his time by filming in color - too bad we don't have a color print - surely there must be one somewhere.

★★★★ · A very special episode... · TheKnightRidesAtNight · 2007-07-25

A little known fact about this episode is that it originally aired in color! Of course, the original color print has most likely gone lost over the years, and we're left with the black and white print, presented here. Still a great episode nonetheless. The only episode written by the late Richard L. Breen (probably best known for writing the 1953 movie "Titanic"). A must for any classic TV fan...

★★★★ · this is the original · bookworm721 · 2009-04-10

This is the one made in 1953, but Jack Webb also made another one in the Dragnet of the late 1960's (1967-1970). They used some of the same actors in both,like the old guy playing chess and the padre